A PRIMER 
OF 
Materia Medica 
FOR 
PRACTITIONERS OF HOMOEOPATHY, 
BY 
DR. TIMOTHY FIELD ALLEN. 
PHILADELPHIA: 
BOERICKE & TAPER. 
1892. Copyright, 1891, 
BY 
Boericke & Tafel. PREFACE. 
This Primer aims to present the characteristic fea- 
tures of the most important drugs used by Homoeopathic 
physicians. It may serve to refresh the mind of a phy- 
sician when away from his complete symptomatology, 
it will help him discriminate when studying an un- 
familiar pathogenesis. In its preparation comparisons 
are omitted; these must be looked for in Bcenning- 
hausen's Therapeutic Pocket-Book. A word of caution 
to the would-be therapeutist must be uttered, namely: 
Do not use this book, nor the "pocket-book," instead of 
a more complete symptomatology; these works are 
intended simply to be suggestive; especially is this 
caution needed as regards the use of the " pocket-book;" 
it is not to be used for isolated symptoms, only to aid 
when a full picture of the patient is taken. Then only 
can the conditions be "grouped and sifted, the sensations 
and localities taken into account, and the drugs which 
best cover all of these points, considered; even then a 
drug which fully agrees with all the general features of 
the case should be studied in its original records before 
it is prescribed, unless the prescriber be perfectly 
familiar with it, which is rarely the case. Homoeopath- 
ists are too ready to prescribe for single, prominent 
symptoms, selecting sometimes a different drug for each 
symptom, when, in reality, the patient's symptoms 
should all be taken as a unit and a single drug selected 
to cover the whole; if not every peculiar sensation or 
locality, yet to cover the peculiar genius of the case, 
ascertained by properly grouping all of the conditions 
of the patient. The hunting down of isolated symp- 
toms may be said to be unsatisfactory, for by so doing IV 
PREFACE. 
one avoids the general review of the whole case as an 
entity; and while it is now and then necessary to pre- 
scribe for some single distressing symptom, ignoring all 
the rest of the case, it must be confessed that thereby, 
as a rule, little progress is made toward a real cure. 
Let one always endeavor to take in the entire case and 
select the corresponding remedy. This Primer is de- 
signed to give the "gist" of each drug rather than its 
symptomatology. Abies. 
A PRIMER 
OF 
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ABIES. 
Both Abies Canadensis and A. niger present marked 
indications of disordered digestion; the provings of 
both are very incomplete, but so far as we are able to 
discriminate between them, A. Canadensis is more suit- 
able for a gnawing or burning in the stomach. A 
hungry, faint, weak feeling with craving for indigesti- 
ble or unsuitable articles of food. Distention of the 
epigastrium. The liver is sore and feels hard, and there 
is pain beneath the right scapula. Particularly useful 
for women with uterine displacement, associated with a 
faint sinking sensation in the pelvis, and the indiges- 
tion above noted. 
Abies nigra. Indigestion with a sensation of a hard- 
boiled egg in the stomach. Very gloomy and low- 
spirited. Head dull and heavy. Face hot. Loss of 
appetite in the morning. Constipation. Sharp pain in 
the cardiac region. Pains in the back and limbs. Alter- 
nations of heat and coldness. 
ABROTANUM. 
This drug, closely allied to Absinth, produces anaes- 
thesia and paralysis, as well as severe neuralgic pains, 
which cause great restlessness and are relieved by 
motion. 
Generalities: Tremblings. Numbness of the arms and 
hands. Darting pains in different places. Weakness 6 
A PRIMER OF 
[Absinthium. 
and, when disturbed, trembling. General malnutri- 
tion. 
Mind: Peevish or despondent, alternates with an ex- 
cited mood. Cannot control the mind nor apply it. 
Head: Weak, cannot hold it up. 
Ears: Noises, rushing wind, humming as of a bee, or 
sound of distant talking. 
Stomach: Gnawing hunger or total loss of appetite. 
Acidity with burning. 
Abdomen: Bloated. Sinking, weak feeling. 
Stool: Loose, copious, even with straining. Piles 
protrude and bleed. 
Extremities: Pains, ameliorated by motion. Lame- 
ness. Sore feelings, especially in the joints. Weak, 
paralytic feelings. Numbness of digital extremities 
(fingers). 
Sleep: Restless, with frightful dreams and trembling 
on waking. Sleepy all day. 
ABSINTHIUM. 
The most pronounced, remote effect of this terrible 
poison is the epilepsy which attacks those poisoned by 
its prolonged use. The convulsions are characterized 
by the large number and rapid succession; they are 
usually ushered in by screaming, and are followed by 
loss of mind and finally by idiocy. 
Generalities: Convulsions (as above). Anaesthesia 
and general paralysis. Tremblings. 
Mind: Delirium. Hallucinations, often frightful. 
Loquacity. Sudden stupor. Loss of memory. Idiocy. 
Kleptomania. 
Head: Confusion. Constriction, through the temples. 
Vertigo on rising; tendency to fall backward. 
Eyes: Injected. Whites become yellow. Pupils un- 
equal. Lids droop. 
Stomach: Loathing of food. Nausea or vomiting of 
bitter mucus. Liver larger. Bowels inactive. Acetic Acid.] 
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Urine: Deep orange colored, offensive, even albumi- 
nous. 
Heart: Irregular, tremulous, action violent, felt 
through the chest. 
Sleeplessness. 
ACETIC ACID. 
This acid, more positively than other organic acid, 
produces a profound anaemia followed by general mal- 
nutrition, emaciation, cough, night sweats, etc. It 
seems also to produce an immediate inflammation of 
some mucous membranes characterized by a mem- 
branous (or plastic) exudation (larynx, bronchi, uterus). 
Mouth and Stomach: Salivation; tongue pale and 
flabby. Vomiting of food. In the stomach gnawing 
and burning. General aggravation by cold drinks. 
Epigastrium sore. 
Stools: Watery, with colic, sore abdomen, e' c. Bloody. 
Respiratory Organs: Croup, membranous, with pros- 
tration, coldness, etc. (later stages). Membranous, 
bronchitis. Respiration difficult, hurried. 
Fever: Coldness. Hectic fever with emaciation, night 
sweats. 
ACONITUM 
In poisonous doses paralyzes the heart and respiration; 
its profound collapse may be associated with profuse 
alvine evacuations, cold sweat, feeble pulse and labored 
breathing, but always with terrible anguish. 
It causes peripheral anaesthesia and excites most in- 
tense neuralgia, particularly in the nerves of the face; 
pains are sharp, sticking; general hyperaesthesia, dry- 
ness of mucous membranes, bright haemorrhages. 
It produces and cures febrile conditions only with 
extreme anguish, restlessness and thirst, never with 
apathy; a high temperature is not by itself an indica- 
tion for Aconite. Rarely useful in any form of malarial 
fever, 8 
A PRIMER OF 
[Aconitum. 
In the earliest stage of inflammatory conditions, even 
daring the chill, it is invaluable, provided the character- 
istic deathly anxiety be pronounced. 
It is found valuable for the remote as well as recent 
effects of fright and other shocks to the nervous system. 
The special senses are all extremely acute. 
Inflammation of mucous membranes in earliest stage; 
they are dry, hot and exquisitely tender. It is par- 
ticularly valuable at the beginning of many inflamma- 
tory affections of the thoracic organs, anguish, difficult 
breathing, sharp pains, et cetera. 
These general indications may be applied to a variety 
of troubles, for its sphere of action is quite general. 
Generalities: Convulsions. Painful sensitiveness of 
the body. Intolerance of pain. Stinging or burning 
pains in various parts, as if close to the skin. Numb- 
ness, heat and sensation of swelling in the skin. Tear- 
ing-stinging pains in the joints. Extreme, agonized 
restlessness. Weakness. Faintness on rising up, with 
deathly paleness of the face. General amelioration on 
lying quiet in bed but extreme anguish at night. 
Results of fright or vexation. Consequence of taking- 
cold. 
Mind: Most extreme anxiety or apprehension. Im- 
patience. Frightened condition. Fear of ghosts, of 
dying, of impending evils, etc. Vivid imagination. 
Delirium, especially at night. 
Head: Fulness, like a surging of hot blood. Internal 
heat with external sweat (even with pale face). Pul- 
sating, shooting, burning. Feeling as if the brain 
swashed to and fro in boiling water. Scalp sensitive to 
touch and to the air. Hair seems to bristle and is sen- 
sitive. 
Eyes: Painful inflammation. Sensitiveness to air. 
Pain as if the eyes would be forced out. Pupils con- 
tracted (with the inflammation). Lids feel dry, the Aconitum.] 
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margins sore and dry. Violent pains about the eyes 
and through the balls into the temples or cheeks. 
Photophobia. 
Ears: Pains throngh external parts, involving the 
sides of the head. Extreme sensitiveness to noise. 
Nose: Dryness of nostrils; thin discharge of a clear 
fluid. Nose bleed. Sensitiveness to odors. 
Face: Swollen sensation, hot. Tingling, numbness. 
Sharp shooting or tearing pains, with sensitiveness or 
numbness. Face pale on rising up. Sweat on the side 
of the face on which one lies. Lips dry, peeling. 
Mouth: Teeth sensitive to the air. Gums dry and 
hot. Throbbing toothache from exposure. General 
mouth dry. Tongue feels swollen. Tongue numb, 
with neuralgic pains. Tongue white. Taste bitter. 
Throat: Dry, red, dry and hot. Feels swollen. 
Burning. Raw. Stinging pains on swallowing and 
coughing. Tonsils dark red; sticking pains as from an 
angular body. 
Stomach: Thirst for cold water. Vomiting after 
drinking. Vomiting bloody mucus. Burning, extend- 
ing to throat. Anxious pulsation in pit. Sensitive to 
touch. 
Abdomen: Sticking pains and tenderness in the liver. 
Constriction in hepatic region and across both hypo- 
chondria. Abdomen swollen, sensitive, hot. Cutting 
pains. Flatulent colic after taking cold. 
Rectum, Anus and Stool: Shooting pains. Painful con- 
tractions. Tenesmus. Bleeding hsemorrhoids. Con- 
stipation. White stools. Green diarrhoea like chopped 
herbs. 
Urinary Organs: Micturition painful with great anx- 
iety. Tenesmus and burning at neck of the bladder. 
Burning in urethra on urinating. Urine dark and hot, 
scanty. Urine suppressed. Urine bloody. 
A* 10 
A PRIMER OF 
[Actaea Spicata. 
Sexual Organs, Male: Testicles swollen, sore, hot, with 
bruised pain. 
Sexual Organs, Female: Menses suppressed, with an- 
guish. Menorrhagia. Vagina dry and hot. Ovaries 
inflamed. 
Respiratory Organs: Larynx sensitive to inspired air. 
Tickling provokes cough. Hoarseness. Dry, short 
cough, distressing. Bloody expectoration. Shooting 
pains in chest on coughing. Respiration suffocative, 
short, very anxious. Constant anxiety to breathe 
deeply. 
Chest: Stitches on coughing or breathing. Oppres- 
sion with sense of fulness and suffocation. Heat with 
burning in chest. 
Heart: Anxiety about heart. Tumultuous action of. 
Compression in region of. Rapid action, full, hard 
pulse; or extremely feeble, fluttering action, with 
threatening collapse; deathly anxiety. 
Back: Stiffness from the nape of the neck downward. 
Bruised, lame feeling. Numbness extends to legs. 
Extremities: General trembling. Numbness. Stitches 
in inflamed joints. 
Skin: Dry, burning hot. Rash of various sorts, nettle- 
like, measles or scarlet-like. Formication. 
Sleep: Great sleeplessness with agonized tossing 
about. Dreams anxious, frightening, wakes with a 
start. 
Fever: Chilliness, even with heat of head and face 
and thirst, always with anguish. Partial coldness (one 
cheek). Heat predominates, particularly in head and 
face. Hot sweat, with general relief, especially of the 
anxiety. Sweat predominates on the covered parts. 
Like its nearest relative, Cimicifuga, produces tearing 
rheumatoid pains, which, associated with its decided 
gastric derangement (sour vomiting, etc.), have led to 
ACT2EA SPICATA, 2Esc. Hip.] 
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its use in rheumatic gout, particularly of the finger 
joints. (Imperfectly known.) 
2ESCULUS HIPPOCASTANUM & 
Is chiefly associated in our minds with severe hsemor- 
rhoidal symptoms. Large purple piles protrude with 
soreness, a feeling of sticks in the anus; the piles 
rarely bleed; with this condition we find severe pain 
in the sacral region and hips aggravated by motion, 
also soreness and fulness over the liver and gastric 
disturbances. 
The throat symptoms are numerous and point to- 
ward a follicular inflammation similar to that com- 
monly associated with gastric and hepatic derange- 
ments. 
The head is dull, the mind dull and distrait, w ith gen- 
eral sick feeling. 
The backache has led to its successful administration 
in engorgement of the female organs with leucorrhoea 
(compare especially Aloes). 
Generalities: Malaise. Soreness of the flesh. Ful- 
ness of various parts as if engorged with blood. 
Mind: Dullness. Unable to fix the attention. De- 
pressed and gloomy. Irritable. 
Head: Confusion. Pressure in forehead with nausea. 
Eyes: Feel heavy and hot with lachrymation. 
Nose: Fulness at root. Sneezing and some symp- 
toms of acute coryza. 
Face: Pale and sickly looking. 
Mouth: General scalded feeling. Taste metallic. 
Salivation. Tongue thickly coated, yellowish. 
Throat: Dryness. Burning. Contraction. Raw, 
w ith difficult swallowing and stiffness. 
Stomach: Nausea, retching and vomiting. Burning. 
Eructations. Pain extending to the liver. Pressure 
as from a stone. 
Abdomen: Soreness, fulness and distress in the region 12 
A PRIMER OF 
[JEthusa. 
of the liver. Whole abdomen sore to the touch. Flat- 
ulence, fetid. 
Rectum and Anus: Burning after stool. Dryness, 
heat. Mucous membrane seems swollen and obstructs 
the passage. Anus feels full of small sticks. Fulness, 
burning, itching, soreness, pressure and a prolapsed 
feeling in the anus. 
Stool: Generally large and hard, followed by feeling 
of prolapsus of rectum. 
Micturition: Frequent; urine hot, scanty. 
Sexi-al Organs, Female: Leucorrhoea (compare symp- 
toms of sacrum and back). 
Respiratory Organs: Cough (dry), tickling, from the 
larynx or fauces. Expectoration sweetish, ropy. Chest 
feels raw. Pain in right lung on breathing. Tight- 
ness. 
Back: Pain from nape to sacrum. Lameness in small 
of back, involving sacrum and hips, aggravated by mo- 
tion, and especially on stooping; can scarcely get up 
after sitting. Tearing in small of back and hips on 
walking. 
Extremities: General aching, stretching and soreness 
of the flesh. 
Sleep: Constant yawning and sleepiness. 
2ETHUSA 
(Supposed by some to be a virulent poison like Cicuta, 
Conium and other allied plants, by others to be in- 
nocent of such properties), has vindicated its useful- 
ness in indigestion, especially of children, charac- 
terized by wmi7in</ curdled milk, and in diarrhoea, thin, 
yellow, or green and slimy, preceded by cramps, and 
often followed by tenesmus. Some desperate cases of 
gastro-intestinal catarrh have been cured. 
AGARICUS, 
With its active principle, Muscarine, presents a very 
complex physiological stndy. Agaricus.] 
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Poisonous doses produce violent vomiting and diar- 
rhoea with numerous nervous phenomena; tonic con- 
tractions of smooth muscle fibre everywhere, increased 
glandular and mucous secretions, persistent aneemia of 
nerve centres from spasm of arterioles, et cetera. 
Its symptomatology offers a large field; most useful 
are the chorea-like spasms; vertigo and general in- 
tolerance of the sun; a heavy weight in occiput; a 
very irritable and sensitive spine; asthenopia with 
bickerings, twitching of eyes and lids; (especially valu- 
able for near-sighted people); gastro-enteric inflam- 
mation with excessive flatulence, inodorous; irritable 
bladder; a host of neuralgic pains everywhere, mostly 
splinter-like, burning and shooting. Particularly valu- 
able in burning of the skin as from a frost-bite, espe- 
cially on the ears and feet. 
Generalities: Chorea-like twitchingsof various fibrilla) 
and even groups of muscles. Tremblings, external and 
internal. Flesh feels bruised, or as if frost-bitten, sensi- 
tive to touch, and to cold air. General aggravation 
from walking in the open air, ameliorated when warm 
in bed. Pains in the limbs may disappear on motion, 
and return during rest. Symptoms often appear cross- 
wise, as in right arm and left leg, etc. Shooting, 
splinter-like pains everywhere. 
Mind: Delirium; attempts to escape. Incoherent 
talking. Aversion to mental work. 
Head: Confusion and vertigo, aggravated by heat of 
sun. Drawing in bones of forehead, to the root of the 
nose. Shooting pains, mostly in the sides of the head 
or in small spots. Feeling of icy coldness on the head. 
Eyes: Twitching of lids and eye-balls. Margins of 
lids red, agglutinating. Vision dim on attempting to 
use the eyes. Flickering. Type wavers with itching 
and burning. 
Ears: External ear burns and itches, as if it had been 14 
A PRIMER OF 
[Agaricus. 
frozen. Twitchings of the auricular muscles. Numer- 
ous ringing and other noises within the ear. 
Nose: Clear water runs from the nose, without inflam- 
matory symptoms. 
Face: Pale. Twitching of the muscles. Pains lan- 
cinating, tearing in the cheek. 
Lips: Upper lip chapped, smarting; dry, with burn- 
ing vesicles. Lips twitch. Splinter-like pains through 
the jaws. 
Mouth: Dryness on salivation. Taste sweet. Tooth- 
ache, neuralgic, aggravated by open air. Splinter-like 
pains in the tongue. 
Throat: Stitches extend through right Eustachian 
tube to ear. General dryness. Contractions. Feels 
swollen externally, hands feel tight. 
Stomach: Unnatural hunger, evenings. Eructations, 
empty. Numerous sensations (pain, gnawings, boring, 
cramp, fulness, etc.), with spasmodic contractions, irri- 
table spine, etc. 
Abdomen: Flatulent distention, rumblings, cutting, 
griping, stitches, tension, etc. 
Rectum and Anus: Burning. Piles. 
Stool: Emission of much inodorous gas. Watery 
diarrhoea. Constipation. 
Urinary Organs: Irritable bladder. Burning on urin- 
ating. Stitches. Discharge of sticky mucus. Urine 
lemon colored. Not profuse (as a rule). 
Sexual Organs: Sexual desire without erections. In 
women, violent pressing-tearing pains in back and 
abdomen with the menses. Pruritus pudendi. 
Respiratory Organs: Constriction of larynx. Convul- 
sive paroxysms of cough, sudden, end with repeated 
sneezing. Expectoration (rare) of balls of mucus. 
Respiration difficult as if chest were full; deep and 
sighing; noisy at night. 
Chest: Numerous pains, tearing, pinching, tensive, Agnus Castus.] 
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stinging, burning. Constriction. Oppression. Heav- 
iness. Rawness. (Compare back.) 
Heart: Palpitation. Tumultuous action. Irregular, 
intermittent pulse. Ameliorated by coffee. 
Keck and Back: Stiffness of nape. Bruised and 
strained feelings. Deep stitches, burning, itching 
along spine and limbs. Spine sore to the touch and 
on stooping. Extreme pain and soreness in lower 
dorsal regions, becoming a. pulsating on motion. Nu- 
merous and severe pains in the spine, boring, stitching, 
drawing, soreness, etc. Mostly in lower dorsal region. 
These sensations extend to nape and into the limbs. 
Aggravated by walking in open air. 
Extremities: Trembling. Twitching. Shooting pains, 
shifting. Limbs weary and heavy. (Pains often amel- 
iorated by motion.) 
Skin: Jaundice. Redness, stinging, burning as if 
frost-bitten. Itching. White nodular elevations, with 
intense itching and burning. 
Sleep: General sleepiness, especially after eating. 
Fever: Chilliness on motion, in the air, or on lifting 
the clothes. Burning heat on different spots (mostly 
local). Profuse inodorous sweat, often localized; chest. 
Sweat oily. 
AGNUS CASTUS 
Is chiefly indicated for complaints arising from or as- 
sociated with loss of sexual power or desire. 
Mind: Distracted, with loss of memory. Inability to 
fix the attention. Sadness; thinks to die soon. (Puer- 
peral mania.) 
Head: Contractive pain on reading. Tearing in the 
temples and forehead < motion. 
Ears: Roaring. 
Sexual: Male organs relaxed and cold. Discharge 
from the urethra gleet-like or yellowish. Involuntary 
emissions in sleep, even after coition. Loss of desire. 16 
A PRIMER OF 
[Ailanthus. 
Vagina relaxed; leucorrhoea; abhorrence of coition; 
menstruation ceases; milk diminishes in nursing 
women. 
Extremities: Arthritic nodes develop, especially on 
the toes; legs heavy. General internal coldness, with 
trembling. Cold hands; cold knees, even in bed. 
AILANTHUS 
Produces diarrhoea and dysentery; a low type of fever, 
a rash closely resembling scarlatina and great weakness. 
It is allied to Rhus tox. 
Mind: Muttering delirium; unconsciousness, even 
stupor. 
Eyes: Suffused, photophobia. 
Hose: Excoriated by an ichorous and bloody dis- 
charge. 
Face: Purplish or dusky. 
Mouth and Throat: Teeth covered with sordes. 
Tongue dry, brown. Throat, externally swollen, inter- 
nally swollen and ulcerated, oedematous, livid; tries to 
hawk up mucus; pain on swallowing extends to ears. 
Stool: Thin, offensive; bloody (complicating scarla- 
tina). 
Respiration and Cough: Respiration irregular, rapid; 
cough violent, paroxysmal, on lying down, and on 
rising, painful. 
Skin: Miliary rash, in spots, almost livid, color returns 
slowly when pressd, with stupor, cold skin; rapid, 
small pulse, excoriating discharges from mouth and 
nose. 
"A bitter uterine tonic." Prolapsus uteri with gen- 
eral anaemia, leucorrhoea, constipation, distress in 
rectum. Tired all the time. 
ALETRIS. 
Violent, acute catarrh, particularly of the eyes, nose, 
ALLIUM CEPA. - Aloe.] 
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and larynx; neuralgic pains; general aggravation from 
warm air. 
Head: Dull pain in forehead and temples (with the 
acute coryza), >• in open air. 
Eyes: Acute inflammation with profuse burning lach- 
rymation (which is not very excoriating). Pain as if 
the eyes hung loose on a string. Photophobia. 
Nose: Acute coryza with violent sneezing (particularly 
on deep breathing), profuse, excoriating, watery dis- 
charge, with lachrymation and headache, > open air. 
Throat: Catarrhal inflammation, with a sensation of 
constriction in the region of the epiglottis. Pain, 
sometimes extending to the ear. 
Abdomen: Flatulence; pain in hypogastric region, 
like a fme thread extending inward and upward. 
Urinary Organs: Urine profuse, red; micturition fre- 
quent with burning. 
Respiratory Organs: Acute laryngitis with great 
hoarseness and pain on coughing as if the "lining" of 
the larynx would be torn out, or as if the larynx would 
split, with sudden lachrymation. Hacking cough <( 
cold air. 
Extremities: Fine, thread-like pains, shooting (fol- 
lowing amputations or injuries). Ulcers on the heel. 
Fever: Flitting heat at intervals, irregular (associ- 
ated with the acute catarrhal symptoms). 
In large doses, Aloes produce a determination of 
blood to the pelvic organs, which occasions haemor- 
rhoids, uterine engorgement with increased menstrual 
flow, sexual orgasm in men, etc. It increases the peris- 
talsis of colon; and increases the secretion of bile. 
General: Relief from open air. Disinclination tomen- 
ta! or physical effort. 
Head: Frontal headache, dull, heavy, pressing down- 
ward into eyes and nose; must close the eyes. 
ALOE. 18 
A PRIMER OF 
[Alstonia. 
Nose: Bleeding in the morning. 
Mouth: Taste metallic, bitter. 
Stomach: Nausea, with the frontal headache; flatu- 
lent distention and eructations. 
Abdomen: Flatulence; weak, as if diarrhoea would 
ensue. Soreness in sides. Over the liver, heat and 
pressure. Feeling of a plug in pelvis, between symphysis 
and coccyx, with urging. General feeling of fulness 
and heaviness. 
Rectum: Heaviness. Dragging as if to stool. Sudden 
impulse to evacuate feces. 
Anus: Haemorrhoids; swollen and sore. Sphincter 
uncertain; permits escape of thin feces with gas. 
Stool: Diarrhoea; yellow, pasty or thin, sudden in 
morning on waking and rising; cannot evacuate blad- 
der without feces escaping. Dysentery; bloody, jelly- 
like evacuations, followed by pain and soreness in the 
rectum. 
Urinary Organs: Urine scanty, hot, dark, or even 
bloody, with burning. Much mealy sediment. 
Sexual Organs, Women: Uterus feels heavy, with a 
sensation of a plug in pelvis. Uterine haemorrhage; 
menstrual flow increased, dark and clotted. 
Back: Sacral pain (alternates with headache). Heavi- 
ness in sacrum > motion. 
Skin: Jaundice; much crawling and itching (as in 
jaundice). Furuncles with disordered liver. 
ALSTONIA. 
The bark of this tree enjoys great repute in India for 
the cure of malarial diseases, diarrhoea and dysentery 
with debility. Recently it has been found valuable for 
malarial anaemia, loss of appetite, feeble digestion, an 
empty "gone" sensation in the stomach, and sinking 
in the abdomen (Dr. Dietz). 
ALUMINA. 
Very little can be said of the physiological action of Alumina.] 
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Alumina, but particular attention should be directed to 
a quite general catarrhal inflammation, characterized 
by scanty secretions or dryness, and also to the para- 
lytic symptoms, particularly of the lower extremities. 
General: Weariness (especially from talking), uncon- 
querable disposition to lie down. Tremulousness. In- 
voluntary movements like palsy; portions of the body 
feel larger than normal; general feeling of constriction 
of internal organs. General aggravation in the after- 
noon while sitting. General relief during moderate 
motion, in the evening and in the open air. 
Mind: Connected thought difficult. Memory weak. 
Changing moods; depressed or peevish as soon as one 
opens the eyes mornings. 
Head: Vertigo on opening eyes in the morning. Con- 
strictive headache. 
Eyes: Squinting (both eyes), (paralytic?). Lids ag- 
glutinated mornings; burning, itching and dryness of 
inner surface of lids; upper lids difficult to raise as if 
powerless; feeling of adhesion of lids to eyeball. Photo- 
phobia mornings on waking. 
Ears: Purulent discharge; crackling in ears on chew- 
ing; stitches in the ears; one ear red and hot in the 
evening. 
Nose; Nostrils sore, even ulcerated, with scabs. Tip 
of nose swollen, with internal soreness and scabs. N asal 
catarrh with scanty secretion and obstructed nostrils; 
diminished smell. 
Face: Tension of the skin of the face as if white of 
egg had dried on it. Nodules or boils on the face and 
nose. 
Mouth: Teeth feel elongated. Toothache on chew- 
ing. Aphthous sore mouth, with increased saliva, 
though the mouth feels dry. 
Throat: Constriction on swallowing. Dryness. Feel- 
ing of something sharp sticking in the throat. Difficult 20 
A PRIMER OF 
[Alumina. 
swallowing of food. General relief from warm food 
and drink. Throat worse evenings and nights; frequent 
clearing; dryness; rawness; feeling of a lump. The 
oesophagus feels contracted; pain as from a lump in the 
middle of the chest after swallowing food. 
Stomach: Appetite variable; aversion to meat; dis- 
tress after eating potatoes. Craving for chalk and 
other indigestible substances. Nausea; faint-like 
mornings, while talking. Heartburn and acid eructa- 
tions. Vomiting, with a hacking cough. Constriction 
extending to chest and throat. 
Abdomen: Seems to hang down, heavy, when walk- 
ing < afternoon. Sticking pains from below upward. 
Cutting pains )> warmth. Lead colic. Soreness over 
the liver, extends to pit of stomach on stooping. 
Stitches in the region of inguinal ring (has relieved 
strangulated hernia); the pains extend up to the chest. 
Stool: Scanty, dry in small bits. The rectum seems 
dry, inactive and constricted. Excoriations and bleed- 
ing after a hard, dry stool. Strains to evacuate the 
bowels and bladder. 
Urine: Cannot urinate without straining at stool. Urine 
usually copious and pale, evacuated with burning. 
Sexual Organs, Men: Increased sexual desire, followed 
by loss of power. Emissions while straining at stool. 
Numerous troubles after emissions. 
Sexual Organs, Women: Menstruation early, short, 
scanty; preceded and accompanied by colic. Leucor- 
rhcea, before and after the menses, corrosive, trans- 
parent, albuminous, profuse. 
Respiratory Organs: Dry hacking cough, from tickling 
in the throat (elongated uvula) or irritability of the 
larynx < early morning (sometimes sudden in the 
evening) < using the voice. Cough sometimes loosens, 
and there may be expectoration after coughing morn- 
ings. Cough at times associated with dyspnoea, vomit- Ambia.] 
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ing or even involuntary escape of urine. Sudden 
hoarseness, not relieved by clearing the larynx, es- 
pecially afternoons and evenings. Constriction of chest 
(see under stomach also). 
Back: Pain as of a hot iron thrust through the lower 
vertebra). Bruised pain in the small of the back while 
at rest. 
Upper Extremities: Paralytic heaviness of the arms. 
Pains tearing, or as of a hot iron, from shoulder to 
fingers. Gnawing beneath the finger nails, which are 
brittle. 
Lower Extremities: Heaviness with rigidity and numb- 
ness, staggering. Insensibility of the nates, of the sole 
of the foot, of the heel. Tearings extending through 
the whole leg to the toes. Tension. 
Skin: Tension. Rhagedes. Itching in the evening. 
Nails brittle. 
Sleep: Sleeplessness fore part of night. Sleep unre- 
freshing with anxious dreams. 
Fever: Chilliness even by the stove, internal. 
This substance formerly had considerable reputation 
as a remedy for various "nervous" complaints, but of 
late it has been used very little. The provings seem to 
show that its old reputation was well founded. 
Generalities: Tearing pains, especially in the joints, 
mostly one-sided. Cramps and twitchings of muscles. 
Feeling of numbness all over in the morning. Useful 
for old persons, or for sickly-looking people. The 
symptoms arise during sleep and are )> by rising. Relief 
on slowly moving in the open air and on lying on the 
painful part. 
Mind: Difficult to think or understand. Vivid fancies 
which cannot be got rid of. Melancholia. Especially 
nervous in the presence of strangers. 
Head: Rush of blood to the head. Vertigo in the 
AMBRA. 22 
A PRIMER OF 
[Ambra. 
open air, with weakness. Tearing pains. Dread of 
becoming crazy from headache ("every other day," 
Boenninghausen). The hair falls out and the scalp is 
sensitive on touching the hair. 
Eyes: Pains as if the eyes had been too tightly closed. 
Ears: Roaring and whistling; one-sided deafness. 
Nose: Epistaxis, mornings in bed, or during the 
menses. ■ 
Face: Jaundiced hue. Flushes of heat. Spasmodic 
tremblings and twichings of the muscles of the face 
and lips. 
Teeth: Tearing toothache (probably neuralgic), shift- 
ing about, aggravated by warmth, ameliorated by cold 
(compare coffea). Bleeding of the gums. 
Mouth: Great dryness and insensibility, especially in 
the morning on waking. Fetor from the mouth. 
(Painful swellings under the tongue. Ranula, B.) 
Throat: Secretion and hawking of gray mucus, with 
a sensation of scraping, and also at times retching and 
vomiting. Sore throat after a draft, with shooting into 
the right ear. Tickling causes a cough. 
Stomach: Convulsive eructations, sometimes sour, 
usually tasteless and gaseous. (Aggravated from milk.) 
Violent hiccough from emotional causes. 
Abdomen: Internal coldness, especially one-sided. 
Flatulent distention after every meal. Pain in the 
hepatic region, ameliorated by lying on it. 
Anus and Stool: Itching and crawling in the anus and 
rectum. Ineffectual urging to stool, aggravated by 
presence of people. Constipation. Blood with a stool, 
that may not be hard. 
Urinary Organs: Frequent micturition at night, urine 
copious. Urine turbid, sediment brown, odor sour. 
Sexual Organs: Excessive itching and even burning 
of external parts, particularly of women. Erections 
with numbness. Heat and soreness of vagina; labia Ammon. Carbon.] 
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swollen. Menses too early and profuse, with labor- 
like pains. Disposition to haemorrhage between the 
periods from slight causes, mental or physical. Dur- 
ing pregnancy numerous nervous reflexes; hiccough, 
bloated abdomen, pruritus vulvae, cough, etc. 
Respiratory: Spasmodic, dry cough, accompanied by 
violent eructations or hiccough. Cough at night from 
tickling in the throat. Hoarseness, caused by an ac- 
cumulation of gray mucus in the larynx. Respiratory 
oppression in chest and back. Asthma, in nervous 
women or old men, wheezing, palpitation and pre- 
cardial oppression. 
Extremities: The arms feel heavy, as if paralyzed, 
they " fall asleep " easily, especially when lying on them; 
articles drop from the hands. The legs also get numb 
and heavy. Pains through the arms like hot irons. 
(The tips of the fingers shrivel.) Cramps in the calves. 
Burning in the soles. 
Skin; Skin (and mucous membranes) inclined to be 
dry. Itching and burning, without evident cause 
(nervous). 
Sleep: Restless, disturbed by dreams, by twitchings ; 
nervous chills. 
Chill and Fever: Frequent chilliness. Febrile flushes 
or simple flushes of heat, without rise of temperature. 
Sweat of one side (the one affected). Sweat on abdo- 
men, on thighs. Sweat after midnight. 
AMMONIUM CARBONICUM. < 
Spirits of Ammonia and Carbonate of Ammonia are 
powerful but transient cardiac stimulants, very similar 
in action to Alcohol; they also increase the reflex 
activity of the spinal cord and even induce convul- 
sions. 
(The Muriate of Ammonia has, however, quite a 
different action). 
.When the secondary effects of Ammonium carb, are 24 
A PRIMER OF 
[Ammon. Carbon. 
studied it will be observed that there is a well-defined 
tendency to disorganization of the blood and numerous 
indications of defective nutrition, similar to scurvy, 
dark fluid haemorrhages, wasting of muscles, ulceration 
of the gums, looseness of the teeth and finally a low 
type of recurrent fever. 
Generalities: General emaciation with a haemorrhagic 
tendency. Haemorrhages thin, dark. A general scor- 
butic state. Restlessness. Weakness. Extreme sensi- 
tiveness to cold. Constant desire to stretch. Bruised 
feeling of the flesh. General right-sided character of 
symptoms. Aggravated in evening at 3 A. M. (Urae- 
mic convulsions). 
Mind: Listless, difficult to think. Stupor (in scarla- 
tina, diphtheria, etc.). 
Head: Fulness or throbbing, bursting headaches, 
especially in forehead and vertex. The brain feels 
loose. Chronic headache with nausea, aggravated by 
walking in the open air. (In low types of meningitis, 
especially in eruptive diseases, with cyanosis; of tem- 
porary use). 
Eyes: Burning. Vision dim, with flickerings. Pho- 
tophobia. Muscular weakness. Yellow spots before 
vision. 
Ears: Hearing difficult but painfully sensitive. Paro- 
tid gland swollen. 
Nose: Tip seems full of blood on stooping. Nose 
bleed, dark, thin. Stoppage at night. Sneezing. 
Coryza dry, then fluent, with acrid liquid from nose, 
burning. Nostrils raw. 
Face: Deathly pale; sometimes puffy. Freckles eas- 
ily. Tetter around the mouth. Lips cracked in the 
corners. 
Mouth: Gums swollen, bleeding easily. Teeth loose, 
elongated. Toothache, aggravated by biting on teeth, 
worse evening on first going to bed. Swelling of in- Ammon. Carbon.] materia medica. 
25 
side of cheeks. Blisters on mouth and tongue. In- 
creased saliva, sour, salt or foul tasting. 
Throat: Sore throat, (right side worse), swelling dark 
and bluish, feeling of a foreign substance, tonsils 
swollen, sub-maxillary glands swollen. (Frequently 
needed in low types of scarlatina, diphtheria, etc.) 
Stomach: Great desire for sugar. Appetite quickly 
satiated. Must drink while eating. Constant thirst. 
Heartburn after eating, with scraping. Nausea and 
vomiting of food. Stomach oppressed after eating, 
with tenderness of pit of stomach. Cannot bear pres- 
sure of clothes after eating. 
Abdomen: Symptoms accompanying the flatulent and 
acid dyspepsia, as above. Cramps, contractive, cutting, 
tearing, largely from gas, accompanied by nausea, 
waterbrash, followed by loose stool. 
Stool: Constipation, hard nodular stool, with bleed- 
ing. Diarrhoea, preceded and followed by cutting in 
the abdomen. 
Anus and Rectum: Haemorrhoids, bleeding with a hard 
stool. Itching piles. 
Urinary Organs: Urine copious, depositing a red sedi- 
ment. Micturition frequent, especially at night, even 
involuntary during sleep. 
Sexual Organs: Sexual desire increased; involuntary 
emissions at night. 
Sexual Organs, Female : Pruritus vulva;, with swelling 
and burning. Leucorrhoea watery, excoriating. Menses 
too frequent, profuse, preceded by colic (often by diar- 
rhoea); blood dark or black, acrid, clotted, causes burn- 
ing on the thighs. Menses followed by bowel troubles, 
especially straining at stool, colic, constipation. 
Respiratory Organs: Laryngitis, with collection of 
mucus. Hoarseness. Dyspnoea, especially on ascending 
or in a warm room. Dyspnoea at night, with palpita- 
B 26 
A PRIMER OK 
[Ammon. Carbon. 
tion, with dropsical symptoms, bloody expectoration, 
etc. (Emphysema.) Cough dry, as from a feather in 
the throat, aggravated at 3 A. M., with asthmatic 
constriction in the chest; expectoration bloody or taste 
of blood in the mouth. Cough from cardiac diseases; 
especially valuable in pneumonia with a weak heart. 
Chest: Internal oppression, as if filled with blood. 
Stitches in left side, aggravated by lying on it. 
Heart: Weak, pulse quick. Palpitation, with cough 
and dyspnoea. (Angina pectoris.) 
Neck and Back: Drawing pains from sacrum -to nape. 
Pain in back during menses. 
Extremities: Tearing in the joints, ameliorated by 
warmth of the bed. Inclined to stretch. "Falling 
asleep" when sitting. 
Upper Extremities: Right arm very heavy and power- 
less, veins swollen, aggravated by washing in cold 
water. (The skin of the palms peels off.) (Pains in 
old sprains of the wrist.) 
Lower Extremities: Bruised pain in the hip joint and 
thighs. Jerkings in the knees. Restless legs. The 
big toe is swollen and painful, aggravated in evening in 
bed with swelling of foot. (Compare symptoms of acid 
dyspepsia!) 
Skin: A scarlatina-like rash over upper half of the 
body (see throat and glands!). Itching and burning 
vesicles. 
Sleep: General tendency to sleep and even stupor, 
with febrile conditions as well as gastric disturbances. 
Night-sleep restless from dreams and startings. 
Fever: Chilliness, in evening, when going to bed. 
Heat general with stupor; local inface, in great toe. 
(Low type of exanthemata, coldness with a cyanotic 
hue, fever with stupor, etc.) Study Magnesia carb, 
and Apis. Ammon. Mur.] 
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AMMON. MUR. 
Ammon, mur. is extremely unlike Ammon, carb, (the 
Muriatic acid seems to have overpowered the Ammonia 
so far as pathogenetic effects go). 
We find no stimulus, but prostration, a low typhoid 
state; pronounced action on mucous membranes, par- 
ticularly of the respiratory organs; neuralgia. 
As compared with Ammon, carb., Ammon, m. affects 
more the left side, Amnion, c. the right side; though 
Amm. mur. affects both sides. 
Generalities: General weakness. Neuralgic pains, 
tearing, burning, ulcerative. Tense feeling of muscles. 
Increased mucous secretions. 
(The head and chest symptoms are worse mornings, 
the abdominal in the afternoon, the pains in the limbs, 
the skin and febrile symptoms in the evening.-Boen- 
ninghausen.') 
Mind: Irritable, especially in the morning. 
Head: Vertigo, ameliorated in open air. Heaviness 
and fulness in the forehead mornings. 
Eyes: Burning in the canthi, ameliorated by washing. 
Vision weak, vanishing by candle-light. Floating 
opacities. 
Ears: Sharp, neuralgic pains, outward, especially in 
the open air. Symptoms of catarrhal deafness. 
Nose: Sneezing. Discharge of clear water from the 
nose, scalding hot. Obstruction. Smell impaired or 
lost. 
Face: Tearing pains in the malar regions. Burning 
heat of the face in the house. Lips dry, cracked, with 
raw places; corners ulcerated. Sub-maxillary glands 
swollen, pulsating. 
Mouth: Burning vesicles on the tip of the tongue. 
Throat: Sticking on swallowing. Sore throat, 
swollen tonsils, glairy mucus. 28 
A PRIMER OF 
[Ammon. Mur. 
Stomach: Thirst, especially evenings. Bitter taste; 
bitter regurgitations. 
Abdomen: Colic; pains about the navel, in the hypo- 
chondria, drawings in the groins, etc. 
Stool: Hard, crumbling, covered with glairy mucus or 
green, slimy diarrhoea, preceded by colic. 
Anus and Rectum: Burning in anus; itching soreness 
in rectum. 
Urinary Organs: Frequent micturition at night, but 
urine usually diminished in quantity. 
Sexual Organs : (Enlarged prostate.) 
Sexual Organs, Female: Menses early and profuse, with 
pains in abdomen and small of back. Flow often more 
profuse at night, at times black and clotted. Leucor- 
rhoea follows a pain around the navel. Leucorrhoea 
albuminous. Menstruation and leucorrhoea generally 
accompanied by abdominal symptoms, jaundice, con- 
stipation, sore liver, flatulence, etc. 
Respiratory Organs: Hoarseness, with burning in the 
larynx.' Cough, dry, in the morning, caused by tickling 
in the throat (pharynx). Cough, dry, at night prevent- 
ing sleep. Cough aggravated on lying on the back. 
Cough very fatiguing, seeming to start from low down 
in the chest. Cough becomes loose, with free expector- 
ation, especially in the afternoon. Cough, with mucous 
rales in the chest, in old people. With the cough, sore, 
burning spots in the chest, or between the shoulders; 
great prostration, suffocation (but none of the heart 
weakness and cold sweat of Tartar Emetic). 
Neck and Back: Tearing pains in the sides of the 
neck, extending to the clavicles. Stiffness, painful. 
Pain in the small of the back, as if beaten, at night. 
Bruised pain in the coccyx, at night. 
Extremities: Tearings in the tips of the fingers. 
Contraction of the tendons under the knee. Tearings Amyl Nitrite.] 
MATERIA MEDICA. 
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and ulcerative-pains in the heels. Tips of toes painful. 
Offensive perspiration of feet. 
(Sciatica, pains aggravated by sitting, ameliorated 
by lying. Various rheumatoid pains aggravated at 
night in bed.) 
Skin: Vesicular eruptions, becoming scaly. 
Fever: Chilliness evenings at six and on waking in 
fore part of night. Coldness between scapulae. 
Flushes of heat, with red, puffy face. Sweat after mid- 
night. 
AMYL NITRITE. 
A volatile liquid producing, when inhaled, speedy 
dilatation of the capillaries in the upper part of the 
body-flushing of the face, heat and throbbing in the 
head, rapid and tumultuous action of the heart-very 
similar to glonoine (nitro-glycerine). 
Generalities: Great desire for open air, which affords 
relief. General trembling and weakness follows the 
flushing of the head and face. 
Mind: Anxiety as of impending danger. 
Head: Throbbing and heat, a surging of blood. Feel- 
ing of a band, tightly bound. 
Eyes: Glassy, rolling (extremely protruded, as in 
exophthalmic goitre, which has been relieved and even 
cured by this drug). 
Ears: Throbbing. As if the drum were forced out- 
ward. 
Face: Flushed and turgid. Feeling as if the blood 
would start through the skin. 
Throat: Constricted sensations; collar seems too tight. 
Sexual Organs, Female: Promotes menstrual flow and 
is often beneficial for the results of suppression (or ces- 
sation at the climacteric). 
Respiratory Organs: Chest oppressed, suffocated sen- 
sation. 
Heart: Precardial anxiety. Tumultuous action. 30 
A PRIMER OF 
[Anacardium. 
ANACARDIUM. 
The chief characteristics of this drug are found in the 
mental and skin symptoms. The prevailing sensation 
is that of "a plug." Botanically, chemically and 
symptomatically allied to Rhus tox. and Ailanthus. 
Generalities: Weakness or faintness with restlessness. 
Paralyses. Pain as from a plug in various parts. 
11 Symptoms disappear during the mid-day meal." 
Mind: Memory feeble or lost. Mental work is ex- 
tremely difficult; can scarcely comprehend ordinary 
conversation. Suspicious. Seems to be pursued. Mel- 
ancholia. Hypochondria. Hysteria. Seems isolated 
from the whole world. Mental dullness and gloom 
after sexual indulgence. Extraordinary desire to swear. 
Head: Violent pain, as from a plug in left side, near 
vertex. Pressure in temples. Pain in the occiput from 
a false step or noises. Headaches, often ameliorated 
by eating, but always aggravated by mental effort. 
Eyes: Dull pressure, as with a plug on the eye-ball. 
Vision dim, as if looking through mist. 
Ears: Dull pressure on the tympanum. Canal seems 
plugged up, aggravated by biting teeth together. Deaf- 
ness, especially with defective memory. 
Nose: The posterior nares seem plugged up. Soreness 
in the nostrils. Illusions of smell or loss of smell. 
Smells (illusion) burning tinder or dung. 
Face: Pale, with sunken eyes. Tetter around the 
mouth. 
Mouth: Foul odor, not noticed by the patient. Gums 
bleed very easily. Vesicles in the mouth. Speech 
difficult, on account of stiffness and swelling of the 
tongue. Taste lost. 
Throat: Tough mucus,obstructing the posterior nares. 
Catarrh of the Eustachian tubes, with a feeling of blunt 
plugs. 
Stomach: Feeble digestion; melancholy after eating. Antim. Crudum.] 
MATERIA MEDICA. 
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A shattering sensation in the pit of the stomach on 
every step after eating. 
Abdomen: Flatulence. Thrusts. Asif a blunt plug 
were squeezed into the intestines. 
Stool: Urging, with inability to expel the feces; "the 
rectum seems plugged up." Painful internal piles. 
Sexual Organs: Discharge of prostatic (or seminal 
fluid) at stool, or after urinating. 
Respiratory Organs: Cough at night, shattering, spas- 
modic, arresting the breath. 
Chest: Pressing pain as from a plug in the chest. 
Stitches in the region of the heart, extending to the 
small of the back. 
Back: Feeling of a heavy weight on sides of neck and 
back. Nape stiff. Feeling of a plug in the spine. 
Lumbago with painful stiffness. 
Extremities: Dull pressing inward pains. Cramp-like 
pains in wrist and finger j oints. Legs stiff as if bandaged, 
restless. Trembling. Paralytic weakness. Ankles 
feel sprained. 
Skin: Eczema with intense itching, mental depres- 
sion, etc. 
Fever: Chilliness, even in a warm room; chilliness 
internal with external heat. "Night sweats." 
ANTIMONIUM CRUDUM. 
The chief manifestations of this one are seen on the 
digestive organs, with numerous general indications of 
sulphur. The disposition is most characteristic. 
Mind: Extremely fretful and impatient. The child 
is cross if even looked at. 
Head: Rush of blood. Bursting pains. Headache 
from bathing (or after smoking). General tendency to 
take cold from wetting the head. Headaches, associated 
with disordered stomach. 
Eyes: General redness, with sore margins of lids. 32 
A PRIMER OF 
[Antim. Crudum. 
Sticking pains. Dried mucus in the corners. Photo- 
phobia. 
Ears: Dull hearing. 
Nose: Nostrils sore, cracked, crusty. Pain on inhal- 
ing cold air. 
Face: Vesicles, forming yellow crusts. Corners of 
lips and nostrils cracked and sore. Sub-maxillary 
glands swollen. 
Mouth: Pain in decayed teeth at night, aggravated 
by cold drinks, aggravated by touching with tongue. 
Gums retract and bleed easily. Tongue white. Saliva 
increased, salty. Taste bitter. 
Stomach: General disorder. Eructations, tasting of 
the food. Burning at pit of stomach. Fulness, as if 
overloaded. Nausea, retching and vomiting. Pit of 
stomach sore; distended. Distress after eating sweets. 
Abdomen: Distention, after eating. Rumblings. 
Rectum: Haemorrhoids. Sore, as from an open ulcer, 
during stool. Itching. Discharge of mucus. 
Stool: Constipation; large, hard stool. Constipation 
alternates with diarrhoea. 
Urinary Organs: Urine profuse, micturition frequent. 
Burning in the urethra. Micturition involuntary when 
coughing. Gritty sediment in the urine. 
Sexual Organs, Female: Pressure outward. (Menses 
suppressed by cold bathing.) 
Respiratory Organs: Loss of voice on becoming over- 
heated. Heat in the larynx in the open air. 
Chest: Burning pains with a dry cough. 
Extremities, Upper: Rheumatoid pains. The finger 
nails grow slowly, become sore and horny. 
Extremities, Lower: The soles of the feet become sore, 
new corns develop. The heels get red and sore. 
Skin: Eruptions like insect bites. Small vesicles 
become pustular. Ulcers become fistulous. Freckles 
become numerous. Ant. et Pot. Tart.] 
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Sleep: Dull and sleepy day time. Frequent waking 
in fright at night. 
Tartar emetic produces increased secretions from 
mucous membranes in general, especially of respiratory 
and gastro-intestinal tracts. It causes nausea and 
vomiting, free alvine discharges, but it is a dangerous 
drug, chiefly on account of the alarming reduction of 
temperature and of the force and frequency of the 
heart's action. It favors the elimination of waste pro- 
ducts. When applied to the skin it causes pustulation. 
Generalities: Prostration; faintness; trembling. Con- 
vulsions. General sensitiveness to touch. Symptoms 
generally worse in the evening and while sitting. 
Mind: Stupid confusion. Whining if even touched. 
Anxiety with the nausea. Delirium. 
Head: Frontal pain, dull, with inclination to close 
the eyes. General heaviness with sleepiness. Chronic' 
trembling of the head. 
Eyes: Weakness, inclination to close the eyes as if 
weary with sleep. Flickering, especially on rising up. 
Nose: Fluent coryza, with a feeling of tightness 
across the root of the nose. Loss of smell and taste. 
Face: Pale and sunken. Twitchings. Lips become 
dry and scaly. 
Mouth: Tongue becomes dry, with great weakness. 
Loss of taste. 
Stomach: Desire for fruit and acids and cold drinks. 
Aversion to milk. No thirst. Nausea, with deathly 
anxiety. Violent retching, with cold sweat on the 
forehead. Vomiting of food, with great effort, followed 
by exhaustion, trembling, coldness and sleepiness. 
Vomiting of mucus, with diarrhoea. Great sensitive- 
ness of region of stomach, throbbing or pressure. 
Abdomen: Throbbing and trembling in abdomen,with 
great restlessness. Pressure, as from a stone, or as if 
B* 
ANTIMON. ET POTASS. TARTARICUM. - 34 
A PRIMER OF 
[Ant. et Pot. Tart; 
full of stones. Cutting colic, aggravated by bending 
over, preceding the diarrhoea. 
Stools: Watery diarrhoea. Slimy stools, with vomit- 
ing, weakness, etc. Bloody, slimy stools. 
Urinary Organs: Painful desire to urinate, with burn- 
ing in the urethra. Urine scanty, the last drops bloody. 
Urine dark brown. Burning in urethra after urinat- 
ing. 
Respiratory Organs: Respiration suffocative; cannot 
get air. Suffocation at 3 A. M.; must sit up to get air. 
Rattling of mucus in the small bronchi. Cough, with 
paroxysms of suffocation, with vomiting of food and 
sweat on the forehead. Cough rattling, sounding as 
though it would end in easy expectoration, but it seems 
impossible to raise the mucus, though this seems to 
cause the suffocation. Whooping-like cough after eat- 
ing or after getting angry. 
Heart: Heart's action feeble, rapid and tremulous. 
Violent pulsation that is visible, with or without anx- 
iety. Pulse feeble, either rapid or slow. Pulse soft, 
tremulous. 
Neck and Back: Muscles of neck very' weak. Back 
tired. 
• Extremities: General weakness; limbs tremulous. 
Fibrillar twitchings of muscles. Tips of fingers seem 
cold and dead. Tension of hamstrings on waking 
evenings. Feet "go to sleep" on sitting. 
Skin: Pustular eruptions. Vesicular' eruptions, dis- 
creet, becoming pustular with red areola, general ady- 
namia, etc. 
Sleep: Generally sleepy, with heavy stupefying sleep. 
Involuntary closing of eyes and dropping asleep. 
Shocks and jerks during sleep. 
Fever: General coldness, especially cold wet hands 
and feet. Chilliness with trembling, aggravated on 
going into open air. Chill from within outward. Vio- Apis.] 
MATERIA MEDICA. 
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lent general pulsation. Adynamic, intermittent fever 
with no thirst, with sleepiness. Cold clammy sweat on 
face and extremities. 
APIS. 
The poison of the honey-bee produces varying 
degrees of cellulitis, not only under the skin, but in 
various parts of the body. 
It also produces inflammations of serous membranes, 
particularly in the head, and parenchymatous inflam- 
mations of various organs, especially of the kidneys; 
in this latter property it exhibits many points of 
analogy with other insect poisons, Cantharis, Dory- 
phora, etc. General oedema usually accompanies the 
nephritis of Apis. 
Generalities: The characteristic features of the Apis- 
disease are general drowsiness, even with high tem- 
perature, fever without thirst, afternoon aggravation, 
more or less profound apathy; and quick, stinging 
pains, which sometimes make the patient cry out. 
Weakness. Dropsical swellings. Inflammatory swell- 
ings. erysipelas-like, bright red, puffy, with stinging 
pains. Prostration. Bruised sensations. Pricking 
over the whole body. Rarely paralysis; rarely convul- 
sions. Symptoms extend from right to left. General 
aggravation about four to five P. M. General intol- 
erance of heat. 
Mind : Stupor, sometimes amounting to unconscious- 
ness. Muttering delirium. Stupor, interrupted by 
sudden sharp cries and startings. 
Head: Vertigo with confused headache, somewhat 
ameliorated by walking. Head feels hot and heavy, 
ameliorated by external pressure. Hot sweat of the 
head. 
Eyes: Stinging pains. Lids swollen, red,hot, everted 
like a mass of red flesh. Upper lids hang down like 
sacs. Margins of lids inflamed, burning. Conjunctiva 36 
A PRIMER OF 
[Apis. 
bright red, puffy. Lachrymation with burning, and 
stinging. Sharp pains on attempting to use the eyes. 
Photophobia. Pain around the orbits, ameliorated by 
pressure. 
Ears: Swollen, red and hot. 
Nose: Externally swollen, red and hot. Tip of nose 
cold (preceding a sore throat). 
Face: Swollen, oedematous, red with piercing pains. 
(Edematous, pale with dropsical troubles. 
Mouth: Gums swollen, bleed easily. Tongue swollen. 
Tongue raw on margins, with scalding. Tongue dry 
and sore. Vesicles on tip and margins of tongue. 
Whole mouth sensitive as if scalded. 
Throat: Swollen and puffy, bright red. Constriction, 
difficult swallowing. Hot and dry with stinging pains. 
Uvula elongated, swollen like a sac. Tonsils swollen, 
intensely inflamed. Throat so swollen, internally and 
externally, that breathing is difficult. 
Stomach: No appetite. No thirst (as a rule, though 
Apis patients are sometimes thirsty). Vomiting of 
food, retching (associated with other symptoms). 
Soreness. Burning. 
Abdomen: General soreness, aggravated by touch. 
Distention. Sharp, stinging pains, mostly extending 
upward. 
Rectum and Anus: Anus raw, during diarrhoea. Seem 
relaxed, anus feels constantly open. Piles protrude. 
Stool: Diarrhoea, yellow, watery painless, cannot be 
retained while urinating. Olive-green stools. Mucus, 
jelly-like stools, streaked with blood. 
Urinary Organs: Urine scanty or suppressed. Urine 
high colored. Micturition frequent. Burning and 
soreness when urinating. 
Acute nephritis, urine scanty or suppressed, with general oedema, 
sleepiness, lack of thirst, dry, irritable skin, suffocation on lying 
down, etc. 
Sexual Organs: Male organs swollen, oedematous. Apocyn. Cannab.] 
MATERIA MEDICA. 
37 
Swollen and inflamed (diffuse cellulitis). Labia swoll- 
en, (edematous. Inflamed. Cutting pains in the 
ovarian region (left or right). Ovary inflamed, great 
tenderness of abdomen. Violent, sharp pains in ovarian 
region (not inflammatory). Uterine haemorrhage dur- 
ing pregnancy. Heaviness in uterus, with faintness, 
etc. Soreness over uterine region. Dysmenorrhoea, 
with tenderness, ovarian pains, puffy face. 
Respiratory Organs: Hoarseness, rawness in larynx. 
Cough aggravated after lying and sleeping. ((Edema 
of epiglottis and larynx). Expectorations bloody, 
frothy. Dyspnoea, as if could not breathe again. 
Sense of suffocation on lying down. Bruised pain and 
soreness over the chest. Occasional sharp stitches 
through the chest. 
Heart and Pulse: Distress in heart. Heart's action 
feeble. (Pericardial effusion.) Pulse feeble, rarely 
full and strong. 
Neck and Back: Cervical glands swollen. Neck stiff, 
lame. Back lame. Dragging in small of back (with 
ovarian and uterine diseases). Soreness or bruised 
feeling over the region of the kidneys. Neuralgia in 
coccyx and sacrum. 
Extremities: General oedema. Inflammation of knee 
joint. 
Skin: Urticaria. Erysipelas. Always great sensi- 
tiveness, stinging pains. General anasarca, pale swell- 
ings. Veins inflamed. 
Sleep: Sleepiness. Startings in terror. 
Fever: Chilliness (periodic at 3 P. M.). Heat pre- 
dominates, without thirst (usually), with drowsiness. 
Heat of head with throbbing, ameliorated by pressure. 
Sweat not marked, skin usually dry. 
APOCYNUM CANNAB. 
This drug, in common with most of the Apocynacete, 
is a cardiac poison, powerfully depressing the heart (in 38 
A PRIMER OF 
[Aralia Racemosa. 
large doses) and causing a weak and irregular pulse. 
It increases the intestinal secretions and the urine, 
weakens the sphincters and causes luemorrhoidal en- 
gorgement. 
Generalities: The general indications for its adminis- 
tration are dropsies of various sorts, particularly 
hepatic or cardiac, with an irritable stomach, thirst, 
though drinking causes distress in the stomach and 
even vomiting. 
Head: Vertigo on suddenly rising after stooping. 
Stomach: Thirst. Stomach irritable; a little food or 
drink causes distress, nausea and vomiting. Epigastric 
oppression impedes breathing. 
Abdomen: Distention. 
Rectum and Anus: Tenesmus. Protruding piles. 
Sphincter weak. Soreness in anus. 
Stools: Loose, undigested, frothy, involuntary. 
Urine: Scanty. Often dribbles involuntarily. 
Respiratory Organs: Cough short, dry. Respiration 
short, at times sighing. 
Heart: Action feeble, intermittent. Sensation of 
sinking at heart. 
This root has been used for Asthma and spasmodic 
cough aggravated by lying down, especially after the 
first sleep at night. Constriction of the chest. Relief 
from expectoration of tough mucus. 
ARALIA RACEMOSA. 
ARANEA. 
Generalities: This spider has cured various troubles 
characterized by an exact periodicity and marked ag- 
gravation from dampness. Extreme sensitiveness and 
nervous excitability. 
Clinical: Toothaches, haemorrhages (uterine, pul- 
monary). Neuralgia. Asthma. Intermittent fever 
(marked) consisting mostly of coldness, particularly 
useful for old people. Argentum.] 
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ARGENTUM. 
The general action of metallic silver is imperfectly 
known. It causes catarrh (pharyngeal, gastro-intes- 
tinal and bronchial), and produces a general nervous 
irritability amounting to convulsions (?). 
Generalities: Weakness. Emaciation. Sudden, elec- 
tric-like shocks through the whole body. Symptoms 
recur every noon. 
Head: Sudden vertigo with misty vision. The head 
feels hollow, and the whole brain seems to ache. 
Aching or pinching in the temples. 
Eyes: The margins of the lids are red and thickened. 
Ears: Gnawing. Itching in the meatus. 
Nose: Crawling in the nose followed by bleeding. 
Fluent coryza, frequent sneezing. 
Face: Tearing pains in the bones. Swelling of the 
upper lip. 
Throat: Throat raw, hawking gray, jelly-like, tough 
mucus. Swelling internally and of the glands exter- 
nally. More soreness on coughing than on swallowing. 
Stomach: Great appetite or aversion to food, even to 
the thought of it. 
Abdomen: Distention. Cutting pains. Croaking like 
frogs, from flatulence. 
Stool: Frequent small stools, soft. Evacuation like 
dry sand. 
Urine: Urine profuse. Micturition frequent. (Dia- 
betes insipidus and mellitus.) 
Sexual Organs: Seminal emissions involuntary. Pain 
as if crushed in one testicle, aggravated by pressure 
of clothes. Urethral discharges, catarrhal (?). 
In women, clinical, prolapsus uteri; pain in left ovary. Ulcera- 
tion of cervix uteri, ichorous discharges, fetid, with articular pains. 
Cervix uteri swollen, infiltrated, indurated, etc. 
Respiratory Organs: Rawness in the larynx. Cough 
on laughing. Expectoration easy of gelatinous mucus 40 
A PRIMER OF 
[Argen. Nit. 
looking like boiled starch. General aggravation after 
singing or using the voice. 
Chest: Stitches in right side, from within outward, 
arresting breathing. 
Heart and Pulse: Twitching and trembling sensations 
in the heart. Palpitation. 
Extremities: General bruised feeling. In the arms 
tension and tearing, especially in the bones of hands 
and fingers. In the hips stitches on walking. Lower 
extremities weak and tremulous. Pain in knees while 
sitting. Tearing in the bones of feet and toes. 
Skin: Sore, burning, itching here and there. 
Sleep: Restless nights. 
Fever: Chill in bed from the slightest lifting the 
covers. General heat, except of the head. Sweat on 
the abdomen (and chest). 
ARGENTUM NITRICUM. r 
This caustic produces destruction of tissue wherever 
applied. Taken internally, it produces a profound 
anaemia and general malnutrition, ecchymosis espe- 
cially. Its action on the liver and kidneys is marked, 
increasing at first the flow of bile, and finally causing 
degeneration of the liver, albuminuria, etc. It pro- 
duces violent tetaniform or epileptiform convulsions, 
followed sometimes by paralysis. Dilute solutions pro- 
duce a violent inflammation of mucous membranes, 
characterized by a profuse muco-purulent secretion. . 
Generalities: Tremblings, twitchin gs, convulsions. 
General restlessness. Weakness; paralytic symptoms. 
General stinging pains. 
Mind: Irresolute. Apprehensive. Nervous faintness. 
Imbecility ; loss of memory. 
Head: In general, dull, aching fulness of head, amel- 
iorated by tight binding. Full, throbbing, congested 
feeling. Dull, stupefying ache. Vertigo, with buzzing- 
in ears, weakness and trembling. Boring in left frontal Argen. Nit.] 
MATERIA MEDICA. 
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eminence. One side of head feels enlarged. The roots 
of the hair feel polled; scalp tender. 
Eyes: Violent ophthalmia; conjunctiva swollen; eye- 
ball congested; very profuse purulent discharge. Car- 
uncula lachrymalis intensely red, swollen. Eyeballs 
unsteady from lack of muscular tone. Asthenopia 
from muscular paresis, especially from lack of power 
of accommodation. Photophobia. Vision dim. Vision 
distorted. Floating opacities, like filaments or ser- 
pents. Illusions of vision; seems to see serpents (mental). 
Ears: Deafness. Whizzing or ringing in ears. 
Nose: Catarrh (like Arg. met.). Coryza, with stupe- 
fying headache. Loss of smell. 
Face: Sickly looking, pale or even cyanotic. Facial 
neuralgia, left side; boring pain (usually). 
Mouth: General sensitiveness to cold things. Tooth- 
ache from sour or cold things, aggravated by chewing. 
Gums loose, tender, bleed easily. Tongue red at tip, 
dry, papillae enlarged. Saliva increased, thin, fetid. 
Throat: Dark red. Inflamed, with sensation of a 
splinter or a stick when swallowing. Throat raw and 
sore. Rough. Much tenacious mucus, with much 
hawking. Dryness and burning. 
Stomach: Craving for sugar. Nausea. Retching; 
vomiting; ejecta become black. Flatulent distention 
of stomach, extreme. Pit of stomach painfully swollen. 
Bursting sensation in pit, ameliorated by eructations. 
Eructations difficult, as if oesophagus were spasmodi- 
cally closed. Vomiting of glairy mucus. Pain in pit, 
extends around sides or into the chest. 
Abdomen: Flatulent distention. Flatulent pains, 
often sharp, followed by evacuations of gas and 
green, fetid mucus. Pain around hypochondria. 
Rectum and Anus: Itching. Burning. Haemorrhoids. 
Stool: Green, fetid mucus. Watery, with flatulence. 
Mucus in shreds, white or green, sour or fetid. Bloody 42 
A PRIMER OF 
[Arnica. 
mucus. Diarrhoea, chronic, resulting from emotional 
disturbances. 
Urinary Organs: Urine usually clear and copious. 
Urethra inflamed; violent, acute inflammation, great 
swelling, burning; profuse purulent discharge; urine 
bloody. Priapismus, with shooting pains, severe in- 
flammation, etc. 
Sexual Organs: Inflammation of prepuce, ulceration. 
Female (Vagina sensitive, bleeding. Ulcerations, pur- 
ulent leucorrhoea, etc.-C7tn.)-Sexual dreams and or- 
gasms at night (in an epileptic). 
Respiratory Organs: Hoarseness. Cough, suffocative, 
aggravated by tobacco smoke. Larynx sore, raw. 
Suffocative dyspnoea. 
Chest: Burning. Heaviness. Tension in muscles as 
if a clamp were around the chest. 
Heart: Anxiety. Palpitation. Pulse irregular, in- 
termitting. 
Neck and Back: Backache, ameliorated by standing 
or walking. Heaviness in sacrum, as before menses. 
Paralytic sensations; must stretch and walk. 
Extremities: Tremblings. Twitchings. Paralysis. 
Upper: Various pains; tremblings. Lower: Weakness; 
paralytic heaviness. 
Sleep: Sleepless, or restless sleep. Dreams of snakes 
or of strange figures; wakes in fright. 
Fever: Chilly; feverish; no thirst. Sweat in morn- 
ing, or at night. 
ARNICA. 
The most pronounced action of Arnica appears to be 
on the blood, causing anaemia, haemorrhages, ecchy- 
moses, and general malnutrition. It produces a low, 
typhoid type of fever, a general rheumatoid diathesis 
and cutaneous manifestations. 
Generalities: Bruised feeling of the flesh everywhere. 
Stitches in various parts. General weakness with Arnica.] 
MATERIA MEDICA. 
43 
sluggishness. General aggravation from touch or mo- 
tion; ameliorated in clear, cold, stimulating weather. 
General aggravation evenings and nights. 
Mind: Morose mood but easily startled; over-sensi- 
tive. Great anguish. Fear of every person approach- 
ing him. (Fear on account of sensitive flesh.) De- 
spondency and hopelessness. Indifference. (Delirium 
during low types of fever.) 
Head: Vertigo on rising and on moving. Confusion. 
Heaviness. Feeling as if brain were shattered. Head 
hot, rest of body cool. Pressing pain in the forehead, 
aggravated after eating. Aching, aggravated by walk- 
ing. Sensation as if brains were rolled up into a 
lump, aggravated near stove. Stitching and tearing 
in the temples. (After a strain, pain over one eye, 
with vomiting of green water. - Bcenninghamsen.') 
(Scalp adherent to the skull.-7k) 
Eyes: Inflammation of conjunctiva, dryness and sore- 
ness between ball and lid on moving eyes. Lachryma- 
tion burning. 
Ears: Stitches in and behind ears. Deafness and 
roaring in the ears. 
Nose: Pain as from a bruise, from above downward. 
Epistaxis of dark, thin blood. • 
Face: Pale, sunken. One-sided heat and redness 
or heat of face and head; rest of body cool. Lips 
chapped, burning. Trembling of lower lip. 
Mouth: Foul odor from mouth. Toothache, as if 
roots were scraped (after filling). Foul, putrid taste. 
Throat: Swallowing prevented by a kind of nausea. 
Swallowing noisy. 
Stomach: Repugnance to food. Craving for vinegar. 
Thirst. Eructations, fetid, like bad eggs, of bitter 
mucus. Nausea. Empty retching. Vomiting of food, 
mixed with blood, of dark, clotted blood. Cramps in 44 
A PRIMER OF 
[Arnica. 
the stomach, pinching, stitches, pressure extending to 
the spine. Constriction extending into the chest. 
Abdomen: Distention, hard. Stitches in the region 
of the spleen, taking away the breath. Pains (after 
lifting). Colic, with retention of urine. Bruised 
pains in the sides of the abdomen. Flatulence, ex- 
tremely foul. 
Rectum and Stool: Tenesmus. Stool loose, diarrhoea 
very putrid, like brown yeast; involuntary, especially 
at night during sleep. Undigested evacuations. 
Urinary Organs: Tenesmus, with ineffectual strain- 
ing. Tenesmus associated with a diarrhoea. Reten- 
tion of urine with dull pain in the bladder. Involun- 
tary micturition nights in bed or or when running 
during the day. Urine brownish-red, with brick-dust 
sediment. Bloody urine. 
Sexual Organs, Male: Swelling of penis and scrotum, 
bluish-red. Hot swelling of the scrotum (after injur- 
ies). 
Sexual Organs, Female: Inflammation of vagina and 
uterus after a severe labor. Prolonged after-pains. 
Inflammation of the mammae from sore nipples. 
Respiratory Organs: Tickling in the trachea causes a 
dry cough, with stitches in the head. Paroxysms of 
spasmodic cough caused by crying. Cannot expector- 
ate, but must swallow whatever is loosened by cough- 
ing. Bloody expectoration, blackish, in clots, even 
without cough. Dyspnoea. 
Chest: A general sore, bruised feeling. Stitches, 
aggravated by cough and motion; ameliorated by ex- 
ternal pressure. Chest feels sprained on coughing. 
Stitches in the right ribs, extending to the axilla on 
breathing. 
Heart: Stitches or bruised feelings about the heart. 
Pulse feeble, sometimes irregular. 
Neck and Back: Pains in the cervical vertebrae, with Arsen. Album.] 
MATERIA MEDICA. 
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tension on bending the head. Pains in the back as 
from long stooping. Feeling as if the spine were too 
weak to support the body. 
Extremities: General bruised, paralytic feeling. The 
arms feel strained or wrenched. The veins on the 
hands are distended. The hips feel sprained. Weari- 
ness and tension in the thighs. Arthritic pains in the 
toe joints; the feet become hot and inflamed. Cannot 
bear to have one approach for fear of being hurt. 
Skin: Numerous boils. Small, hot, tense swellings. 
Ecchymoses. Soreness of parts on which one lies. 
(Decubitus.) Inflammations of a dark, bluish color. 
Erysipelas. 
Fever: Shivering, as if dashed with cold water. 
Chill on the slightest exposure. Heat evenings, with 
pains in the back and limbs. Heat of head and upper 
parts, with coldness of lower parts. Sweat at night, 
sour. 
ARSENICUM ALBUM. * 
An irritant poison, affecting all organs and tissues; 
particularly destructive to the blood. 
Generalities: General irritability, with extreme weak- 
ness. Emaciation. Dropsical swellings. Startings, 
tremblings, spasms. Pains, mostly of a fine, burning 
sort; seem intolerable. The pains return at regular 
intervals, aggravated soon after midnight; amelior- 
ated by general warmth. Great restlessness. General 
aggravation during rest (especially following exercise), 
after eating, after lying down, after midnight; amel- 
iorated by external warmth and moderate motion. 
Extreme prostration of mind and body. 
Mind: Anxiety permits no rest, especially at night; 
complains of the distress, dreads the future, afraid of 
ghosts or thieves. Inclined to complain of those about 
her. Suicidal mania. 
Head: General confusion and heaviness in the house; 46 
A PRIMER OF 
[Arsen. Album. 
amelioration in open air. Pulsating in the forehead, 
with nausea. Brain seems to be loose on moving the 
head. Hair falls out. White dandruff forms, with 
burning. (Neuralgic headaches, recur periodically.) 
Eyes: General inflammation, with burning; either 
with dryness or with corrosive lachrymation. (Edema 
of the lids and adjacent parts, not inflammatory. The 
inner surface of the lids dry and burning; seem to rub 
against the ball. Pains beneath the left eye, stitching. 
Photophobia. 
Ears: Otalgia; sticking pains, from within outward; 
aggravated evening and night. Hearing difficult (for 
the human voice only). 
Nose: Swollen, externally and internally, with burn- 
ing. Ulceration. Acute fluent coryza, with acrid, 
burning, watery discharge; ameliorated in open air. 
Sneezing. Smell very sensitive. 
Face: Swollen, especially about the eyes. Face seems 
sunken, pinched (with the abdominal symptoms). Un- 
natural redness. Tearing, burning, fine pains. Lips 
sore, cracked or ulcerated, with burning pains. For- 
mications on lips. 
Mouth: Grinding of the teeth, in sleep. The teeth 
become loose and painful. Toothache at night, amel- 
iorated by external warmth. Gums bleed and are 
swollen. Whole mouth aphthous. Tongue brown and 
dry, cracked, tip red, edges red, sore, blistered. Neu- 
ralgia of tongue, burning pain. Taste bitter. 
Throat: Inflamed. Ulcerated (diphtheritic), with 
swollen sub-maxillary glands. Sense of constriction. 
Pharynx paralyzed; swallowing difficult or impossible. 
Burning extending to the stomach. Spasmodic stric- 
ture in oesophagus. 
Stomach: Craving for acids and brandy. Constant 
desire to drink, but takes very little at a time. Eruc- 
tations. Hiccough. Nausea. Vomiting of food and Arsen. Album.] 
MATERIA MEDICA. 
47 
drink as soon as they reach the stomach. The distress 
in the stomach is not relieved by vomiting, but the 
extreme irritability, burning and indescribable distress 
continue. Inflammation and ulceration, with terrible 
distress. In the pit of stomach, anxiety, soreness, 
burning or internal chilliness. 
Abdomen: Inflammation of the abdominal viscera, 
enteritis, etc. Swelling; soreness; burning pains. 
The region of the liver is sore. The spleen is en- 
larged. 
Rectum and Anus: Burning. Tenesmus. Profusion. 
Haemorrhage. Piles, with burning pain like fire, amel- 
iorated by heat. 
Stool: Diarrhoea, thin, watery, generally scanty, 
acrid, burning, with vomiting, coldness, prostration. 
Evacuations frequent, small, preceded by intestinal 
pains. Stools may be blackish and putrid, often in- 
odorous, rarely dysentery-like. Stool rarely involun- 
tary. 
Urinary Organs: Burning when urinating, during 
micturition; micturition rarely involuntary. Urine, 
as a rule, scanty and hot, sometimes copious. Hsema- 
turia. Glycosuria. (Inflammation of the kidneys, 
with scanty urine, burning micturition, dropsy, and 
many associated symptoms of arsenic.) 
Sexual Organs, Male: Painful swelling of the sexual 
organs, erysipelatous. Inflammation of the scrotum. 
Sexual Organs, Female: Menstruation too early and 
too profuse, rarely scanty and suppressed. Dark haem- 
orrhages between the menses. Leucorrhoea copious, 
yellowish, thick and corrosive. (Neuralgia of the 
right ovary, with burning pains.) 
Respiratory Organs: Attacks of suffocation after lying 
down. Oppressed breathing from going up stairs, and 
also in cold air. Dyspnoea when walking, or even after 
turning over in bed. In the larynx a feeling of dry- 48 
A PRIMER OF 
[Arsen. Album. 
ness. Voice tremulous, uneven; at times strong, at 
others weak. Cough usually dry, < in evening after 
lying down; has to sit up, with contractive pain in the 
region, of the stomach and perspiration. Cough in the 
evening caused by sensation of smoke or sulphur fumes 
in the larynx, < at night, has to sit up. Paroxysms 
of coughing in the night, with suffocation. Cough on 
going into the open air, particularly tickling in the 
larynx, as of suffocative fumes, < by drinking. Dry, 
short cough in the evening, especially worse soon after 
midnight. Haemoptysis. Asthma soon after midnight. 
Must spring up out Of bed, with very short, difficult 
breathing, anguish, moaning. Cough generally < by 
lying on back. 
Heart and Pulse: Palpitation worse at night, with 
great anguish, tremulous weakness. Palpitation after 
a stool; must lie down. Heart's action irregular, irri- 
table; pulse rapid, irregular and weak. 
Neck and Back: Nape of the neck feels bruised or 
sprained. The whole back is weak. Burning in the 
back. Tearing pains, worse at night. Drawing pains 
from the nape of the neck to the sacrum. 
Extremities: Extreme weariness, or complete loss of 
power. Twitching, convulsions of muscles, starting 
on falling asleep. Contractions of muscles, both upper 
and lower extremities. Tremblings. The pains in the 
extremities are usually >> by motion. The weakness, 
by lying down. Tingling and numbness of the hands 
and feet. 
Lower Extremities: Unsteadiness when walking. Un- 
easiness; cannot keep the legs still. Must move all the 
time to get relief. Tearing pains at night, especially 
towards morning. Stiffness, numbness, paralysis. 
Cramps in the calves, worse at night in bed. (Edema 
of the feet, with general exhaustion. The balls of the 
toes are painful when walking. Swollen veins in lower 
extremities, with oedema. Arsen. lodat.J 
MATERIA MEDICA. 
49 
Skin: Eruptions of arsenic are generally dry, white 
and scaly, painful with burning. Itching < by scratch- 
ing. Ulcers, painful and burning; the scanty secretion 
is generally offensive. A general tendency to pick at 
roughened places in the skin until they bleed. 
Sleep: Sleeplessness till 3 A. M., afterwards a dis- 
turbed sleep, with dreams and startings in fright. 
When lying awake at night, great restlessness and 
tossing about. When asleep, frequent jerking and 
starting up. When waking out of sleep finds it diffi- 
cult for a long time to fall asleep again. 
Fever: The febrile paroxysm is generally character- 
ized by a short chilly stage, prolonged fever, and very 
little or no perspiration. Shivering without thirst. 
Wants to hover over the fire. Coldness of the surface, 
with cold, clammy sweat. Shivering in the evening, 
with tearing pains in the limbs and great restlessness. 
Fever at night, as if dashed with hot water, with burn- 
ing through blood vessels. With the fever, extreme 
restlessness. Frequent drinking of small quantities of 
water. Weakness. Persistent internal heat, worse 
after midnight, with restlessness and anxiety; skin 
hot and dry. Sweat, especially of the lower extremi- 
ties, often cold. Cold sweat on the face. Sweat some- 
times offensive. 
ARSENICUM IODATUM. 
Nose: Clinical. Dryness. Valuable for violent, acute coryza, 
with profuse, acrid discharge which is watery; associated with sore- 
ness in the nostrils, heat and burning, extending into the eyes, 
headache and all the symptoms of violent, acute influenza. (A com- 
bination and aggravation of the symptoms of iodine and arsenic.) 
Chest: Clinical. Pulmonary tuberculosis, with cavities in lungs, 
hectic fever, etc. Chronic catarrhal pneumonia, with muco-purulent 
expectoration, dyspnoea, night sweat, etc. Chronic pneumonia, with 
abscess in the lung, hectic fever. Acute catarrhal pneumonia, with 
caseous degeneration and fibrosis. Fibroid degeneration of the lung, 
with inflammation and haemorrhage ; commencing cavity. In gen- 
eral, many cases of pulmonary disease, pneumonia, subacute and 
chronic, and various forms of phthisis pulmonaris have been cured, 
c 50 
A PRIMER OF 
[Arum Triphylluifi. 
the special indications being great debility, night sweats, either after 
the cavity is formed or when a cavity threatens to form, with a de- 
cidedly cachectic condition of the patient. It seems probable that in 
the Iodide of Arsenic we have found a remedy most closely allied to 
manifestations of tuberculosis. It will be indicated by a profound 
prostration, rapid, irritable pulse, recurring fever and sweats, ema- 
ciation, tendency to diarrhoea, etc. It is especially valuable in non- 
tubercular phthisis. 
ARUM TRIPHYLLUM. 
An irritant poison, producing inflammation and irri- 
tability of mucuous surface; a low type of fever. 
Mind: Delirium, with picking at the lips or nose. 
Head: Dull aching in the forehead or through the 
head, with heaviness. 
Nose: Soreness of the nostrils, which even become 
ulcerated. The nose and lips feel as though chapped 
by cold wind. The nostrils obstructed. Fluent 
coryza; constant discharge from left nostril; discharge 
thin, acrid, sometimes bloody, with great soreness of 
the nostrils. Constant picking at the nose makes it 
more sore; Pain at the root of the nose. 
Face: The lips burn, are swollen and chapped. The 
left articulation of the jaw is painful on swallowing. 
Mouth: Tongue cracked, burning, with rawness at 
the root and in the throat. All of the soft parts of the 
mouth and palate are sore and burning, painful when 
eating or drinking. Salivation. 
Throat: Swelling of the left submaxillary glands. 
Pain on swallowing, burning soreness, constriction. 
The whole throat feels swollen and raw. (The throat 
and nose symptoms are frequently associated, in vio- 
lent influenzas or in diphtheria. The patient is con- 
stantly inclined to pick at the nose and lips until they 
bleed. The discharges become bloody and offensive.) 
Stool: Watery, brown diarrhoea, with eructations of 
food. 
Urinary Organs: Urine copious and pale. 
Respiratory Organs: Hoarseness. Expectoration of Asafoetida.] 
MATERIA MEDICA. 
51 
much mucus. Constant inclination to clear the voice. 
Chest: The lungs feel sore. Burning pain and sore- 
ness, particularly in t£ie left lung. 
Skin: Eruption like scarlatina, with itching, followed 
by desquamation. 
Fever: Creeping chills. Flushes of heat, particularly 
of the face. (Particularly adapted to low types of 
fever, especially of the eruptive varieties.) 
General Action: Pronounced on the nervous system, 
producing symptoms like hysteria and chorea (globus 
hystericus, flatulence, etc.). Experiments on healthy 
persons, with large doses, have proved very uncertain. 
Generalities: Twitchings and tremblings of muscles 
in various parts of the body. Intermittent shooting 
pains from within outward, relieved by touch, but not 
affected by changes of position. General heaviness of 
the body. Adapted to hysterical, nervous people, par- 
ticularly with symptoms of chorea. It has been found 
useful for various forms of syphilitic destruction of 
bones, particularly of the tibia, characterized by 
throbbing pains at night and some sensitiveness of 
the inflamed part. In general, there is extreme sensi- 
tiveness to external impression. 
Mind: Great excitability and sensitiveness, yet with 
complete indifference to everything. Hypochondriac 
or hysterical restlessness and anxiety. Changeable 
mood. 
Head: General rush of blood to the head and throb- 
bing. Pressing down in the sides of the head from 
within outward. Similar pains in the temples and 
forehead. Pains in the sides of the head, as from a 
penetrating plug. 
Eyes: Dryness. Burning in the eyeballs and pain 
pressing outward. Pressure on the margin of the left 
orbit. Dragging pains in the bones and supra-orbital 
ASAFffiTIDA. 52 
A PRIMER OF 
[Asafoetida. 
region. (Boring pains through the orbits, or throbbing 
pains at night > by pressure and by rest, indicate this 
a remedy for neuralgia and al«o for syphilitic iritis 
and other inflammations within the eyeball.) 
Nose: Pressure as though the nose would burst. 
(Bones swollen and inflamed. Offensive purulent dis- 
charge from the nose.) 
Face: A tense, numb feeling in the malar bonesand 
bones of the face. Oppressive, numb feeling in the 
chin. 
Mouth: Extreme dryness of the mouth, and burning, 
extending into the throat. 
Throat: A hysterical rising, as if a ball or somebody 
rose up the oesophagus to the throat, constantly 
obliging one to swallow, which affords temporary re- 
lief. Spasmodic contractions of the oesophagus; a feel- 
ing as if peristaltic motions were reversed. 
Stomach: A feeling of pressure after eating. A feel- 
ing of distention. Pulsating in the pit of the stomach. 
Indigestion caused by fat food. 
Abdomen: Distention of the abdomen. Griping and 
great flatulence. Pressing pains in the region of the 
liver. Sticking pains from within outward in the 
sides of the abdomen. Abdominal muscles contracted 
into a ball. Flatulent colic. 
Rectum and Stool: Pain in rectum like a dull press- 
ing outward. Ineffectual urging to stool. Diarrhoea 
watery, brown, offensive, with a great deal of gas, af- 
fording general relief. 
Urinary Organs: Urine brown, of a pungent odor. 
Spasmodic contraction of the bladder during and after 
urinating. 
Sexual Organs, Female: Bearing down pains in the 
uterus. Swelling of the external genitals. 
Respiratory Organs: A spasmodic tightness of the 
chest, as though the lungs could not be expanded. 
Respiration oppressed, rapid, with small pulse. Asarum.] 
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Heart and Pulse: Palpitation like a trembling. Pulse 
small, quick and irregular. 
Neck and Back: Stitches in the scapulae, muscles of 
the back and loins. 
Extremities: Twitchings. Painful throbbing in the 
great toes. (Caries of the tibia.) 
Fever: Creeping chills over the body. Flushes of 
heat in the face, without thirst, but with anxiety and 
sleepiness. 
General Action: Nervous erethism; pains, muscular 
spasms; prostration. 
Generalities: Extreme sensitiveness of all the nerves. 
Scratching on linen, or even thinking about it (he feels 
himself constantly obliged to). Causes disagreeable 
thrills and seems to be intolerable. A general feeling 
of lightness of the limbs; when walking one seems to 
be floating in the air. (Many troubles seem to be 
relieved by washing the face in cold water.) 
Mind: Inability to think; thoughts vanish as though 
one were going to sleep. Ill humor. Sadness, with 
weeping. 
Head: Pressing outward, pain in the forehead, with 
nausea, excited by every effort of the mind. Attacks 
of one-sided pain at 5 every afternoon. 
Eyes: Painful dryness and burning of the inner sur- 
face of the lids. A feeling of coldness in the eyes. 
Clinical. Conjunctivitis, with stitches in the corners of the eyes. 
Inflamed, watery eyes. Burning as if from brandy in the eyes in the 
evening in the house, with constant lachrymation. The inflammation 
of the eyes feels better in cold air, but sunlight and wind cannot be 
tolerated. The eyes feel stiff. 
Ears: Pressive tension at the opening of the auditory 
canal. Hearing diminished. 
Stomach: Eructations, disagreeable. Heartburn, with 
sour eructations; seem to set the teeth on edge. Vio- 
lent, empty retchings, which < all troubles. Vomit- 
ing, with anxiety, and great nervous tension. 
ASARUM. 54 
A PRIMER OF 
[Asclepias Cornuti. 
Abdomen: Griping pain in the left side, extending to 
the back. Sore pain over the region of the spleen. 
Violent colic, with vomiting. 
Stool: Soft evacuations, with strings of reddish 
mucus. Slimy diarrhoea, tenacious, with blood. 
Clinical: Evacuations thick; black blood during stool. Diarrhoea 
of undigested food, especially of potatoes. Cutting colic precedes 
the stool. Prolapsus of the rectum during stool. Stool followed by 
pressure, with discharge of white, tenacious, bloody mucus. 
Sexual Organs, Female: Clinical. Menstruation too early and last- 
ing too long, consisting of black blood. Menses ushered in by vio- 
lent pain in the lumbar vertebrae, so that she can scarcely breathe. 
Respiratory Organs: Difficult breathing, with stitches 
in the lungs, or with a feeling as if one were breathing 
in a sack. (Cough from irritation in the trachea, with 
free expectoration of mucus. A sensation of con- 
striction of the trachea, with short breathing.) 
Neck and Back: Cramp in the neck. A feeling as 
though the neckband were too tight. The muscles of 
the nape of the neck feel bruised. Bruised pain along 
the back when standing or sitting, > by lying. 
Extremities: Drawing pain in the joints, wrists and 
fingers. Persistent pressing down in the hip < by 
stepping. Cramps in the thighs. Weakness in the 
knees. 
Sleep: Falls asleep late in the evening on account of 
surging of blood. 
Fever: Chilliness and shivering, without thirst. Al- 
ternations of flushes of burning heat and cold. Sweat 
of sour odor, especially in the axillse. 
ASCLEPIAS CORNUTI (SYRIAIA). 
Generalities: It seems to increase the secretion of 
urine, of mucus from the bronchi, and also perspira- 
tion. It has been found useful in a few cases of 
dropsy, consequent upon disordered kidneys or heart. Asclep. Tuber.] 
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It has also been prescribed for the intermitting press- 
ing-down of the uterus, especially during pregnancy. 
ASCLEPIAS TUBEROSA. 
General Action: Cathartic. Myalgia, particularly of 
the intercostal muscles; perhaps also inflammation of 
the pleura. 
Head: Dull headache,forehead and vertex < by mo- 
tion, )> by lying. Convulsion and vertigo, general 
debility and dim vision. 
Stomach: Nausea. Pains, heavy pressure, burning. 
Abdomen: Much rumbling and flatulent colic. 
Stool: Evacuations thin, extremely fetid, preceded 
by rumbling in the bowels. Evacuations containing 
flakes of mucus, as though the intestines had been 
scraped. 
Respiratory Organs: Dry cough, with constriction in 
the throat; cough causes pain in the forehead and ab- 
domen. Respiration painful at the base of the left 
lung. Pain is extremely sharp and shooting down- 
ward, becomes cutting > by breathing and coughing 
>■ by bending forward. The intercostal spaces tender 
to pressure, with darting pain, close to the sternum; 
the pain shoots over to the right side. Sharp cutting 
pain behind the sternum < by breating and by moving 
the arms. 
Extremities: Rheumatic pains in the joints, espe- 
cially in the large joints; shooting pains in the shoul- 
ders and thighs and knees (particularly left knee). 
Skin: Eruptions, papular, vesicular, pustular, on 
various parts of the body. 
ASPARAGUS. 
General Action: Diuretic, sometimes emetic. It de- 
presses the heart and increases the nasal and bronchial 
secretions. (Compare Convallaria and Squills.) 56 
A PRIMER OF 
[Aurum. 
Nose: Coryza, with profuse discharge, thin, whitish, 
foul, frequent sneezings. 
Urinary Organs: Frequent micturition, with fine 
stitches in the orifice of the urethra. The urine, at 
first, increased in quantity, afterwards, diminished. 
Inflammation of the bladder, with discharge of pus 
and mucus. Expulsive power of the bladder weak, 
retained urine almost ammoniacal. 
Heart and Pulse: Palpitation of the heart, with op- 
pression of the chest. Irregular, weak pulse, acceler- 
ated. 
General Action: At the present time there is great 
diversity of opinion concerning the physiological 
action of gold and its salts. It is, however, safe to say 
that connective tissue generally is affected. Its action 
on the mind is decided and peculiar. 
Generalities: General over-sensitiveness to pain and 
cold. Need fresh air. General orgasm of blood, with 
violent palpitations. Bruised pain in the head and 
limbs. Paralytic, tearing pains in the joints, especially 
in the morning on waking, or if the parts become cold. 
Pain < by lying, > by rising. 
Mind: General disgust at life; suicidal tendency. 
Anguish, increasing to attempts at self-destruction. 
Becomes violent on the least contradiction. Quarrel- 
some; irritable; melancholy. Longs 'for death. Im- 
agines he cannot succeed in anything; wishes to be 
alone. Weeping mood; thinks his friends have for- 
saken him. Apprehensive, caused by a noise, fear of 
persons intruding. Alternations of laughing and 
weeping. Religious melancholy. 
Head: Violent rush of blood to the head, with heat. 
General bruised pain < by mental effort. Vertigo on 
stooping as of whirling around, or as if one would fall 
to the left; must lie down, < on the slightest motion. 
AURUM. Aurum.] 
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Pain in the bones of the skull. (Bony tumor on the 
vertex, with boring pain.) 
Eyes: Tensive pain in the eyes, so that vision is diffi- 
cult, > by closing the eyes. Eyes feel weak, with 
pressure; feeling of sand. Lachrymation. Pain press- 
ing from above downward in the right eye. Burning- 
heat in the inner canthi, with sticking and drawing. 
Double vision. Half vision. The upper half seems 
covered with a dark cloud. Only sees the lower half 
of objects. 
Clinical: Most violent inflammation (ulcerated cornea); extreme 
photophobia, with violent pain in the bones, extending down into 
the face. 
Ears: Roaring. (Offensive discharge from the ears.) 
Caries of the mastoid process. 
Nose: Nostrils ulcerated, agglutinated, painful. The 
nose internally is sore, the nasal bones and adjoining 
parts painful to touch. Foul odor from the nose. 
Discharge of offensive matter. Smell very acute. 
Mouth: Toothache from drawing air into the mouth. 
Flceration of the gum, with toothache and heat in the 
head. Foul odor from the mouth. Taste putrid or 
bitter. (Caries of the hard palate.) 
Throat: Stitches on swallowing. Submaxillary 
glands swollen, painful as if bruised. 
Stomach: Immoderate hunger or thirst. Heavy 
pressure in the stomach at noon. 
Abdomen: Rumbling. Flatulent colic. Burning in 
the right hypochondrium, with cutting. Incarcerated 
flatulence in the left ribs, with lancinating pain. 
Stool: Constipation, evacuations hard, nodular. 
(Nightly diarrhoea.) 
Urinary Organs: Urine increased, pale. Urine some- 
times turbid, like buttermilk. (Painful retention, 
with dragging pressure on the bladder.) 
Sexual Organs, Male; Swelling of the right testicle, 
c* 58 
A PRIMER OF 
[Aurum Mur. 
with tensive pain, as if bruised. Increased sexual 
desire. Nocturnal erections and emissions. 
Sexual Organs, Female: Symptoms of inflammation of 
internal organs. Chronic inflammation of the uterus, 
which is enlarged and prolapsed. Sensitiveness of the 
vagina. Sterility, with depression of spirits. Vagi- 
nismus, with hysterical symptoms. 
Respiratory Organs: Dyspnoea at night. Attacks of 
suffocation, with constrictive oppression of the chest. 
Need to take deep breaths. 
Heart: Attacks of anguish in the region of the heart. 
Drives one from place to place. Anxious; palpitation, 
with a rush of blood to the chest. 
Back and. Limbs: Violent backache. Tearing in the 
different joints. Paralytic weakness in the knees. 
Sleep: Sleepiness at night, but restless sleep and anx- 
ious dreams. Sleepiness after midday meal. 
Fever: Sensitiveness to cold. General febrile shiver- 
ings in the evening in bed, without thirst and without 
subsequent heat. Coldness of the whole body, with 
qualmishness. Orgasm of blood as if it were boiling 
in the veins. Morning sweat. 
General Observations: This soluble salt of gold is 
sometimes preferred, though the indications are in a 
general way similar to those of Aurum metallicum. 
The nasal symptoms are similar and pronounced. 
Note, in addition, haemorrhoids, with bleeding during 
stool. Note the marked symptoms of the female 
organs, heat, burning and yellow, acrid leucorrhoea. 
AURUM MURIATICUM. 
AURUM MURIATICUM NATRONATUM. 
General Observations: This preparation has been used 
particularly for diseases of the female organs, as 
follows: 
Obstinate leucorrhcea, with spasmodic contractions of muscles of 
vagina. Chronic mtritis and prolapsus. Induration of vaginal por- Badiaga.] 
MATERIA MEDICA. 
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tion of uterus. Enlargement of uterus for fourteen years, twice its 
natural size, entirely cured, uterus replaced itself. Induration of 
ovaries, reaching as far as umbilicus. Cases of ovarian dropsy. 
Ulcerations of neck of womb and vagina, resulting from inflamma- 
tions and indurations. Cases of subinvolution, anteversion and pro- 
lapsus, with greenish-yellow discharge. All these cases were cured 
by internal use of the remedy, generally 3d trit. It usually caused.in- 
crease of appetite. 
BADIAGA. 
Generalities: Soreness in the muscles and integu- 
ments, as if beaten. 
Clinical. This drug has been found useful in some cases of indur- 
ated and lymphatic glands, with a sluggish form of inflammation. 
The parts become bluish or purplish, with great soreness of the flesh. 
Head: Pain behind the eyeballs and temples, espe- 
cially in the afternoon. Pain in the forehead, extend- 
ing to behind the left eyeball, worse in the afternoon. 
Eyes: Intermittent pain in the posterior portion of 
the right eyeball in the afternoon. Pain in the eyeballs 
which extends to the temples, is worse on turning the 
eyes in either direction. The left eyeball becomes 
sore, even on closing it tightly. The margins of the 
lids become bluish, and there is blueness under the 
eyes. 
Nose: Clinical. This drug has occasionally been found useful dur- 
ing paroxysms of hay fever, with asthmatic breathing, associated 
witli paroxysms of suffocative cough. See Respiratory Organs. 
Respiratory Organs: Spasmodic cough from tickling- 
in the larynx, resulting in the forceful ejection of 
viscid mucus from the bronchial tubes, which some- 
times flies forcefully out of the mouth; worse in the 
afternoon, sometimes associated with sneezing and 
symptoms of hay fever. 
Neck and Back: Stitches in the nape of the neck 
< bending back and forward, with soreness and lame- 
ness. Stitches below the right scapula, worse on 
throwing the shoulders forward, or on twisting the 
body. 60 
A PRIMER OF 
[Baptisia. 
BAPTISIA. 
Generalities: Great depression, with tendency to dis- 
organization of the blood. A low type of fever, similar 
to types of malarial fever. General intolerance of 
pressure everywhere. Cannot continue leaning against 
a chair; the feet even become painful when resting on 
the floor; obliged to change position often. A sensa- 
tion, when lying some time at night, as though bed- 
sores would form on the hips, so that he shifts his 
position, and even lies on his face to relieve the sensa- 
tion. An indescribable, sore feeling everywhere. Gen- 
eral restlessness; cannot sleep quietly. Weakness, 
especially of the lower extremities; the knees give 
way, sometimes with vertigo, or with a tremulous feel- 
ing, as though recovering from illness. Incapable of 
physical or mental effort. Paralytic symptoms of the 
whole left side. 
Mind: Mental confusion; a wild, wandering feeling. 
Inability to think connectedly. 
Clinical. During a low type of fever, delirium, with confused 
ideas and incoherent muttering; especially possessed with an idea 
that he is trying to collect the several parts of his body. Also useful 
in brain fag, with a heaviness of the head. Aversion to mental effort 
and inability to think. 
Head: General soreness of the brain stooping. 
Vertigo, with weakness, especially of the lower ex- 
tremities, and weak knees. Aching at the root of the 
nose, with pressure. (The head feels heavy and numb, 
and the skin seems to be drawn over.) 
Eyes: Eyeballs sore; feel lame on attempting to move 
them. Partial paralysis of the upper lids. 
Mouth: Tongue yellow, especially in the centre, or 
yellowish-brown, with red shining edges. Tongue dry 
on waking, feels burnt. Ulceration of the mouth. 
Salivation; saliva viscid and bad tasting. Taste flat, 
bitter. 
Throat: The whole throat becomes red, frequent in- Baptisia.] 
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clination to swallow, with pain at the root of the 
tongue. General sore throat with a constrictive sen- 
sation; frequent efforts to swallow. (Occasionally 
indicated in diphtheria with a low type of delirium, ul- 
ceration of the mouth, etc.) 
Stomach: General loss of appetite. Nausea. More 
or less pain in the region of the stomach, distention 
and rumbling in the abdomen. 
Abdomen: Pain in the region of the gall bladder and 
liver. 
Clinical. The provings and clinical experience both seem to show a 
marked affinity for the right side of the abdomen from the region of 
the liver down to the caput coli. 
Stool: Diarrhoea, generally in the morning, evacu- 
ations extremely fetid, thin, usually dark colored. 
Dysentery with bloody discharges. Constipation, with 
distention of the abdomen. 
Urinary Organs: Burning when urinating. Urine 
dark red, not copious. 
Respiratory Organs: Breathing difficult, the lungs feel 
compressed: feels obliged to rise on account of fear of 
going to sleep, lest he shall suffocate. Soreness of the 
right lung, with increased bronchial secretion. 
Neck and Back: Stiffness of the muscles and lame- 
ness. Pain in the sacrum, as from pressure, and fatigue 
after long stooping, extending around the hips and 
down the right leg. 
Extremities: General aching in the limbs; a kind of 
drawing. Numbness of the left knee or left foot, with 
a prickling. 
Skin: Livid spots over the whole body. 
Sleep: Restless after 2 A. M. Frightful dreams. 
Fevar: ChmcaZ. (Type of fever [typhoid], with great sensitive- 
ness of the right iliac region, with general soreness of the abdomen, 
with restlessness, muttering delirium, offensive odor from the mouth 
and body.) Malarial fevers, sometimes chill about 11 A. M., or a 
continued, low type of fever, particularly with diarrhoea and other 
characteristics. 62 
A PRIMER OF 
[Baryta Carb. 
BARYTA CARB. 
Generalities: General loss of power and of steadi- 
ness, with inclination to lie down. General physical 
and mental weakness, simulating old age. Easy 
taking cold, followed by sore throat and stiff neck, or 
even diarrhoea. The left side is more particularly 
affected. Most symptoms are relieved by moving 
about in the open air. Paralytic symptoms, extend- 
ing from below upwards. 
Clinical. This drug has been found particularly useful in chronic 
lymphatic indurations. It is also particularly indicated in the fatty 
degenerations of the coats of arteries, and may frequently be found 
useful in a condition of general fibrosis, which precedes fatty degen- 
eration. It is thus especially suitable to the so-called scrofulous 
cachexia, and to the diseases of old people. 
Mind: General want of self-reliance, dread of people, 
especially strangers. Becomes easily vexed. Exces- 
sively busy, without any aim. Loss of memory; for- 
gets what has just been spoken. 
Head: Vertigo, with nausea on stooping. Pressing 
headache just over the eyes. A feeling of tightness in 
the occiput. Shooting pains in the head, by a warm 
stove. Unsteadiness of the head. Dry eruptions like 
dandruff of the scalp. 
Eyes: Burning and pressure in the eyes after exert- 
ing vision. Inflamed eyes, with a feeling of dryness. 
Photophobia. Agglutination of the lids. Blinding of 
the eyes in the light, and in the dark, vision of sparks. 
Ears: Difficult hearing; reverberation, especially on 
blowing the nose. Sounds like buzzing, or ringing 
bells, or wind blowing in the evening. Crack on 
swallowing, sneezing or walking rapidly. Eruption on 
and behind the ears. Swelling of the parotid gland, 
which becomes very painful. 
Nose: Dryness. Coryza, with discharge of thick, 
yellow mucus. Nose-bleed after blowing the nose. 
Smell sensitive. 
Face: Generally pale. At times dark redness of the Baryta Carb.] 
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face, like a rush of blood. A feeling of tightness, as if 
covered with cobwebs. Face swollen, with a feeling of 
tension (eczema of nursing children). Swelling of the 
submaxillary glands. 
Mouth: Jerking toothache, which extends into ear 
and temples. Toothache, with swelling of the gums, 
precedes the menses. Frequent and profuse bleeding 
of the gums. The teeth decay rapidly. Smarting, burn- 
ing pain in the tip of the tongue. Mouth filled with 
inflamed vesicles, especially on the sides of the teeth. 
Bad odor from the mouth. Dryness of the mouth. 
Throat: Inflammation and swelling of the tonsils and 
palate, with threatening suppuration. Smarting pain 
on swallowing, especially when swallowing nothing, 
with external soreness. Rawness worse during empty 
swallowing, with smarting. Constriction and feeling 
as if a plug were in the region of the larynx when 
swallowing. A choking feeling, recurring after dinner, 
a feeling as though the thyroid gland were pressed in- 
ward, impeding respiration. 
Stomach: Loss of appetite, though food has natural 
taste. Thirst. Bitter taste in the mouth. Food has a 
sour taste. Very weak digestion. Pressure after eating. 
A feeling of soreness in the stomach, with a feeling as 
though food had to be forced down over sore places. 
Abdomen: Hardness and tension. Cutting pains as 
though diarrhoea would occur (after taking cold). 
Stool: Frequent urging to stool. Anxious aching in 
the lumbar region, followed by diarrhoea. Urgent 
desire for stool which cannot be restrained. Diar- 
rhoea, with bloody mucus. Constipation caused by 
hard, knotty stools. The anus is sore and moist. 
Shooting pains in the haemorrhoids. 
Urinary Organs: Frequent desire which cannot be 
restrained. Urine is passed frequently and copiously. 
Sexual Organs: Moisture and soreness between the 64 
A PRIMER OF 
[Belladonna. 
scrotum and thighs. Weak sexual power. Dimin- 
ished sexual desire. 
Respiratory Organs: Sensation of breathing smoke in 
the larynx. Suffocative feeling, threatening paralysis 
of the lungs in old people. Dry cough in the evening. 
Cough at night, with oppression of the chest. Hoarse- 
ness and loss of voice, caused by tough mucus in the 
larynx and trachea. 
Chest: A feeling of fulness in the chest. Violent 
palpitation brought on especially by lying on the left 
side, or even by thinking of it. Soreness in the chest 
on coughing. A feeling of fulness, with bruised pain 
in the left side, with short breath or stitches, worse on 
breathing or going up stairs. 
Neck and Back: Stiffness in the neck. Hard swelling 
of the glands in the nape of the neck and around the 
throat. Pulsatings in the back. Tensive stiffness in 
the small of the back in the evening, especially when 
sitting-is not relieved by standing or by bending 
backward. 
Extremities: Pain in the axillary glands, which are 
swollen. Swelling of the arm. Veins on the hands are 
swollen. The skin of the hands is dry. Pain as if 
strained in the hip. Tension in the thigh as though 
the muscles were shortened. Drawing and tearing in 
the legs, as if in the bones. Feet perspire too much, 
and become offensive. Corns form on the balls of the 
toes, with burning stitches. 
Sleep: General sleepiness day and night. Almost 
constant dreaming, causing anxiety at night. 
Fever: Chilliness and dry pains in the limbs. Sweat 
at night, particularly on the feet. Heat at night, with 
anxiety. 
BELLADONNA. 
General Action: Action on the heart is complex, 
stimulating the accelerator centres and paralyzing the Belladonna.] 
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pneumogastric; heart's action rapid, pulse full, periph- 
eral vessels dilated; wild delirium, ending in stupor; 
convulsions, with dilated pupils. Suppresses secretion 
of glands, of mucous membrane and skin. Intense 
scarlet redness of skin. Urine first increased, then 
suppressed. Fever. 
Generalities: General irritability and acuteness of 
the special senses; generally associated with increased 
activity of the mind. Convulsions, particularly of the 
flexor muscles; epileptiform, followed by an apoplectic 
condition. Pulsation of all the vessels, with rush of 
blood to various parts of the body. Extreme sensi- 
tiveness to all external impressions; the slightest 
touch aggravates or renews pains or convulsions. 
General aggravation of all the symptoms in the after- 
noon and at night. General tendency to take cold 
easily from slight draft. Acute inflammation of glands. 
Loss of sensation and motion of the lower half of the 
body, or of isolated portions. Sensation in muscles as 
of something creeping, like a mouse. 
Mind: Delirium; > after a meal; > after sleep, with 
quick movements; with heat; with springing out of 
bed, laughing and constant talking; violent delirium, 
with livid face, injected and protruding eyes, dilated 
pupils, strong pulsation in carotids; full, hard, frequent 
pulse and inability to swallow. Fury; pulling at the 
hair of bystanders. Inclination to tear everything to 
pieces. Attempted to bite and strike, broke into fits 
of laughter and gnashed her teeth; head hot, face red, 
look wild and fierce. Fury, with heat of body, staring 
eyes and continually spitting at those about her. Ab- 
horrence of liquids. Garrulity. Anxiety, with desire 
to flee. Complete loss of consciousness. Tremulous, 
anxious mood. Fright, with weeping. Sadness, with 
indifference. Mistrust. Hypochondriac depression. 
Head: Intense, stupefying headache, particularly in 
the forehead, with rush of blood to the head, even loss 66 
A PRIMER OF 
[Belladonna. 
of consciousness. The headache is generally pulsating 
or jerking, with great heat < every noise or jar, asso- 
ciated with intolerance of noise or light, often >> hard 
pressure. Various acute pains in the head; shootings 
as from a knife. In the forehead, pain as if the brain 
rose and fell with every step. Through the temples, 
stabbing pains. Vertigo, with rush of blood to the 
head, roaring in the ears, dim vision, etc., <C motion. 
The scalp becomes very sensitive; even pressure of 
the hair causes pain. During unconsciousness the 
patient bores the head into the pillow, with symptoms 
of meningitis. 
Eyes: The eyes generally appear staring, with dilated 
pupils. Squinting. Spasms of the muscles of the 
eyes. Violent inflammation, with dryness. Heat and 
sensitiveness. Conjunctivitis, with great inflammation, 
so great that the eyelids are rolled outward. Lids in- 
flamed and bleeding. Photophobia. Obscuration of 
vision. Sparks before vision. Appearance of halo of 
colored rays around candlelight. Flashes before the 
eyes. 
Ears: Tearing pains through the middle ear. Ex- 
treme sensitiveness to noise. Ringing. Roaring. 
Swelling of the parotid gland, with great sensitiveness. 
Nose: The nose externally is inflamed, hot, swollen, 
with swelling of the upper lip. Nostrils, internally, 
dry. Bleeding. Smell very acute. 
Face: Face red, hot, swollen. With heat. Pains in 
the face cutting, tearing, particularly on the right side. 
The upper lip swollen; feels stiff' on opening the mouth. 
Tearing pains in the jaws. Worse swallowing, par- 
ticularly in the left lower jaw. T etan tic closing of the 
jaws on attempting to take food or drink. 
Mouth: General swelling and dryness of the lips, 
mouth and fauces. Drawing pains in the upper teeth. 
Toothache from taking cold < eating, becomes intol- 
erable. Grinding of the teeth. Soft palate becomes Belladonna.] 
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bright red and swollen. The tongue very red and dry, 
interferes with speech. 
Throat: Extreme redness and inflammation, with 
dryness of the whole throat; with shooting pains on 
swallowing, or even breathing; also, on turning the 
head, on touching the neck externally. The throat 
feels constricted on attempting to swallow. The throat 
becomes closed by a spasm on attempting to swallow 
liquids. 
Stomach: Aversion to food. Burning thirst, with 
dryness in the throat, but with dread of drinking. 
Drinks hastily, with trembling. 
Though thirst is certainly associated with many con- 
ditions calling for this drug, there is no doubt that the 
absence of thirst may equally indicate belladonna. 
(The dread of drinking, partly due to the spasm in the 
throat, partly to a mental aversion to liquids, doubt- 
less deters many thirsty patients from taking water; 
and we have come to look upon the absence of thirst, 
with dryness and inflammation of the mouth and 
throat particularly, as marked indications for this 
drug.- T. F. A.) 
Nausea; vomiting after eating and drinking. Heat, 
with burning, cutting pain in the region of the stom- 
ach. Extreme sensitiveness of the stomach to touch. 
Abdomen: Distention, with tenderness to touch. 
Pain, as from clawing, or constriction, or from heat; 
cutting; pressure outwards, downwards; internal ful- 
ness and heat in the lower abdomen, with pressure 
downward. Flatulent colic in the region of the trans- 
verse colon, > by external pressure. 
Rectum and Stool: Tenesmus; constant straining, 
alternating with painful contractions of anus. Con- 
stipation. Diarrhoea, greenish, sometimes involun- 
tary. Stool sometimes bloody. 
Urinary Organs: Pressure and tension in the region 
of the bladder. Urine retained; passed only by drops. 68 
A PRIMER OF 
[Belladonna. 
Micturition involuntary, during sleep, even daytimes. 
Urine sometimes very profuse; usually scanty; some- 
times yellow and turbid. 
Sexual Organs, Female: Violent pressing and urging, 
as if the interna] organs would be pressed out, >> lying 
and sitting erect. Dryness of the vagina, with burn- 
ing heat. Menstruation too early. Menstrual flow 
very offensive, with clots. 
Respiratory Organs: Larynx painful and dry, a feel- 
ing of constriction. Hoarseness, with dryness in the 
larynx, cough. Loss of voice. Cough dry, barking, 
sometimes spasmodic, worse after 10 P. M., caused by 
scraping, or pain in the larynx. Dry, short cough in 
the evening in bed, from tickling in the back of the 
larynx. Cough caused by the slightest motion. Cough 
paroxysmal, like whooping cough, preceded by crying. 
Cough followed by sneezing. When coughing, violent 
stitching pain in the lumbar region. Respiration dif- 
ficult; rapid; oppressive. 
Chest: A feeling of tightness or tension through the 
chest, extending to abdomen. Burning pain in the 
right side of the chest. A feeling of rush of blood to 
the chest, with throbbing. Mammary glands inflamed. 
Extremely sensitive and hot. Discharge of milk from 
women not pregnant. Heat. Violent palpitation, with 
oppression of the chest, and rush of blood to the head. 
Pulse full, hard. 
Neck and Back: Painful glandular swellings in the 
sides of the neck. Stiffness of the nape of the neck. 
Clinical: Spinal irritability; pressure upon the dorsal vertebrae 
causes screams and distress in stomach, or violent cough and flushed 
face. Hyperaemia of spine, 'with difficulty in walking, loss of co- 
ordination when walking. Lumbago, with pain in hips and thighs, 
cramps in legs, etc. 
Extremities: Paralytic heaviness of the arms. Tear- 
ing pains in the shoulders. Shooting pressure on the 
top of the left shoulder. Paralytic pains in the left 
arm. Cutting, shooting pains in the thighs, above the Benzoic Acid.] 
MATERIA MEDICA. 
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knee. Stitches in the hip joints, worse at night, and 
on touch. Shooting of knee, and pains in the bones of 
lower extremities; must constantly move the feet, 
> walking. Sciatic nerves extremely sensitive, in- 
tolerant of pressure. 
Skin: Skin generally dry and burning hot. Skin 
scarlet red, dry and burning hot. The scarlet-redness 
of the skin, followed by desquamation, is exactly 
similar to scarlet fever. Alternate redness and pale- 
ness of the skin. Pustular eruptions, surrounded by 
inflammation, very sensitive to touch. Erythema very 
sensitive. 
Sleep: Sleep heavy, stupefying. As a rule, the sleep 
is extremely restless, interrupted by talking, startings, 
spasmodic muscular motions. Constantly wakened with 
frightful dreams and twitchings. Frightful images 
appear as soon as he closes his eyes, and he dreads 
sleep. Can sleep only while sitting upright. 
Fever: Persistent, dry, and burning hot (with thirst), 
followed by sweat only on the head. Chill alternates 
with heat, internal heat, with anxiety; internal chill 
with external burning heat. Heat of the head, with 
coldness of the extremities. 
BENZOIC ACID. 
General Action: Produces symptoms of a uric acid 
diathesis; pains in joints and tendons; great change 
in the quality of the urine. 
Generalities: Tearing, stitching pains, especially in 
the great toe joints. Pains, shifting from place to 
place. General weariness. 
Stool: Diarrhoea, offensive, light colored, of a pun- 
gent, urinous odor; stools like soapsuds, very copious, 
odor is similar to that of the urine, which is dark and 
of very strong odor. 
Urinary Organs: Urine brownish, extremely offen- 
sive. 70 
A PRIMER OF 
[Berberis. 
Respiratory Organs: Asthma, especially in rheumatic 
persons. Inflammation of bronchi and lungs, with 
great tenderness of the chest, cough <( night, lying on 
right side. 
Heart and Pulse: Constriction in the region of the 
heart. Intermittent action of the heart. 
Extremities: Gout and rheumatism, with swelling of 
joints, with the peculiar urinary symptoms. Valuable 
in rheumatic gout of the fingers; nodes very painful, 
with the urinary symptoms. Gouty deposits in wrists. 
Swellings of the wrist (ganglion). Gout of great toe. 
BERBERIS. 
General Action: The most numerous and decided ef- 
fects are the shooting pains in almost every part of the 
body. The pains in the region of the kidneys are most 
marked, and have been frequently verified clinically. 
It also exerts a marked action on the liver, promoting 
the flow of bile. 
Generalities: Tearing, shooting pains. In general, 
> in the open air. 
Eyes: Neuralgic pains; burning, with dryness of the 
eyes. Pain on reading, with burning and dryness. 
Nose: Nostrils dry. 
Face: Pale. Eyes surrounded by dark circles. 
Mouth: Dry. Neuralgic pains in the jaws. Saliva 
sticky, like cotton. 
Stomach: Eructations inodorous. 
Abdomen: A sharp, sticking pain in the region of the 
gall bladder < pressure. Sharp pains in the region 
of the liver, extending towards the stomach, < pres- 
sure. Sharp pains in the region of the umbilicus. 
Severe pains in the inguinal region. Stitching pains 
from the lumbar regions, extending down towards the 
bladder, or towards the kidneys. Tearing pains in 
the crest of the ilium, extending into the gluteal 
muscles and into the bones of the leg. Berberis.j 
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Rectum and Stool: Burning pain in the urethra and 
anus, soreness. Tearing pains in the anus. Smarting. 
Diarrhoea, clay colored, with burning and smarting in 
anus. Pains over the liver, etc. 
Urinary Organs: Cutting pains from the region of 
the kidney to the bladder (left side). Burning pains 
in the region of the bladder. Sensation as if urine 
remained in the bladder after urinating. Stitching 
pains in the urethra; cuttings, burnings. Urine blood- 
red, soon becoming turbid, and depositing a mealy 
sediment. Urine generally turbid, sometimes very 
dark, as if containing bile. 
Sexual Organs, Male: Pains in the spermatic cord. 
Burning, smarting or tearing, extending into the tes- 
ticles, especially into epididymis. Pains in the sper- 
matic cord, extending into testicles or into abdominal 
ring. 
Sexual Organs, Female: Burning and soreness in the 
vagina, extending into the labia. Smarting pain in 
the vagina, with burning, pain, and soreness in the 
anus. Menstruation scanty. Dysmenorrhoea, with 
pains radiating in every direction. 
Back: Sticking, now in a small spot, now in a larger 
place, when it is chiefly pressing, either exactly in 
region of kidneys or extending above or below, but 
especially outward, so that it extends around abdo- 
men in front, or to region of hips; sometimes in spine 
and extending to small of back and region of bladder 
and groins. The sticking at times extends from region 
of kidneys straight forward into abdomen, at times 
with numb, paralyzed, bruised sensation. Stitches 
from kidneys into bladder (Coc. c.), < severe pressure; 
burning in kidney region; inward in one or other, at 
times as from a nail and arresting breathing; tearing 
sticking, usually more on one side, often as if crushed 
or bruised, with stiffness, making it difficult to rise from 72 
A PRIMER OF 
[Bismuth. 
a seat, so that the hands must assist rising, sometimes 
involving hip, nates and upper and posterior part of 
limbs, at times with numbness. Tearing in morning 
immediately after rising, extending sideways, forward, 
upward and downward, affecting whole back between 
thorax and pelves, with stiffness in lower part of back 
if she stooped and difficulty on standing up on account 
of the stiffness; the tearing when sitting, more severe 
than when standing, >> afternoon. Tearing, pulsating 
pain in kidney. Pressive or tensive pain, sometimes 
on one, •sometimes on both, or often across small of 
back, at times extending into posterior part of pelvis, 
of thighs, and even to calves, with stiffness and lame- 
ness or swelling of back and lower limbs. Tensive or 
pressing sensation deep internally, when severe, with a 
feeling as if bones would be pressed asunder, often 
with heaviness, warmth, numbness or tingling, 
<C morning on waking and when sitting and lying, at 
times )> stool or passage of flatus, sometimes only on 
one side, < stooping. Sticking in one or other, or 
digging tearing, as if suppurating, < deep pressure. 
Extremities: Numerous pains, mostly tearing and 
sticking, in all parts of the extremities, both sides. 
Sometimes with swelling of the small joints. Generally 
<Z motion and pressure. 
BISMUTH. 
Mind: Morose, discontented and complaining. 
Head: Confusion. Pressing and drawing here and 
there. Attacks of vertigo, as if the anterior half of 
the brain were turning in a circle. Cutting pains 
above right eye, extending to occiput. Pressure in 
the occiput < motion, with heaviness. (The head- 
aches sometimes seem to alternate with the pains in 
the stomach.) 
Mouth: Tongue coated white, without heat or thirst. 
Taste nauseous and metallic, or sweetish-sour or bitter. Borax.] 
MATERIA MEDICA. 
73 
Stomach: Eructations of gas, with discomfort in the 
stomach. Nausea worse after eating, with pressure. 
Burning pains after eating. 
Clinical. Gastric catarrh, with terrible gastralgia, the pain extend- 
ing from the stomach through the body to the spine. The gastric 
disorders requiring Bismuth vary, but usually are burning, with a 
feeling of a load or hard lump in stomach (compare with Abies); 
vomiting of food and of mucus; gastric symptoms relieved by cold 
drinks (Puls.). Very valuable for inflammation of the stomach 
occurring during the progress of chronic diseases; for instance, scir- 
rhus. A marked indication for Bismuth is that while taking cold 
drinks there is relief, yet when the stomach becomes full there is 
vomiting of enormous quantities. 
Abdomen: Flatulence. Rumbling and grumbling in 
the abdomen. (Painless diarrhoea, with white-coated 
tongue, vomiting, etc.) 
Urinary Organs: Frequent micturition, with copious, 
watery urine. 
Respiratory Organs: Tightness of breath, caused by 
burning constriction in the chest. Cough, with free 
expectoration, day and night. 
Chest: Pinching in the region of the diaphragm, ex- 
tending transversely through the chest. Boring and 
burning pains in the chest. Violent palpitation. 
Back: Boring and burning pains in the back. 
Extremities: General weariness. Tearing pains > mo- 
tion. 
Sleep: Sleepiness in the forenoon, but cannot sleep 
as usual after eating. Night sleep restless on account 
of vivid dreams, or waking in fright. 
BORAX. 
Generalities: Weakness and emaciation. General 
malnutrition. A child becomes pale and soft, cries 
and refuses to nurse, and screams out in sleep. 
Mind: Great inclination to start, especially fear of 
falling. Anxiety during a downward motion. A child 
starts in fright on attempting to lay it down, or on 
carrying it downstairs. Fright at every noise, and 
starting in every limb. Fretfulness; much anxiety. 
D 74 
A PRIMER OF 
[Borax. 
Head: Confused aching, with nausea and trembling 
of the whole body. The hair becomes tangled at the 
tip, so that it cannot be combed out; and if the tangles 
are cut off, they readily form again. 
Eyes: The eyelashes turn inward and inflame the 
eye. The margins of the lids become very sore near 
the outer corner. Agglutination at night. 
Ears: Stitches in the ears. Roaring in the ears. 
Nose: Ulceration in the left nostril toward the tip, 
with sore pain and swelling. Dry crusts constantly 
form in the nose. 
Face: Face pale, earthy, with suffering expression. 
Mouth: Hollow teeth become painful, particularly in 
wet weather. The gums become painful, boils form, 
with swelling of the cheek and side of the face. The 
tongue becomes aphthous. Red blisters on tongue. 
Pain on every motion or touch. Palate wrinkled. 
Palate shriveled, as if burnt, with pain on eating. 
Aphthae.on the side of the cheek. Bleeding with eat- 
ing. Infant's mouth becomes very hot; child cries 
when nursing. Taste bitter or lost. 
Throat: Tough, white mucus collects in the throat, 
which it is difficult to expectorate. 
Stomach: Distention after eating, with ill humor and 
general sick feeling. Pain after lifting; extends to the 
small of the back. 
Abdomen: Flatulent distention after each meal. 
Pains, as if diarrhoea would ensue. 
Stool: Diarrhoea soft, light yellow. Diarrhoea morn- 
ing. Evacuations, preceded by crying from colic. 
Urinary Organs: Frequent urging to urinate, ineffect- 
ual. A child cries before urinating, and holds the 
urine as long as possible, seeming to dread it. Urine 
hot; smarting after urinating. Urine of pungent odor. 
Sexual Organs, Female: Menstruation too early, and 
profuse, with griping and nausea; pain extending to 
small of back. Leucorrhoea like the white of an egg, Bovista.] 
MATERIA MEDICA. 
75 
with sensation as of warm water flowing. (Membran- 
ous dysmenorrhoea. Leucorrhoea precedes and follows 
the menses, albuminous and acrid.) 
Respiratory Organs: Cough, hacking and violent, and 
with every paroxysm expectoration, having a mouldy 
taste and smell. Expectoration sometimes streaked 
with blood. Stiching pains in the chest, caused by a 
deep breath, which the patient must take frequently. 
Arrest of breath when lying down; must jump up and 
catch the breath, which causes a stitch in the right 
side. The stitching pain in the right side of the chest 
> washing the chest in cold water, worse from taking 
wine. 
Chest: Contractive pains in the left breast when the 
child is nursing the right 
Extremities: Stitching pains, particularly in the soles 
of the feet, and in old corns. 
Sleep: Cannot sleep after 3 A. M. on account of heat, 
especially of the head. The infant cries out of sleep, 
and anxiously grasps its mother, as if frightened. 
Worse especially after 4 A. M. 
BOVISTA. 
General Action: This fungus, like Ergot and other 
allied fungi, predisposes to haemorrhages, and has a 
marked action upon the uterus. 
Generalities: General weakness and powerlessness in 
the joints. Awkwardness; everything falls from his 
hands. A condition of the flesh in which instruments 
make creases or indentations, as, for example, the 
shears on the fingers. Sudden faint-like attacks. Gen- 
eral sensation of parts of the body being too large, as 
for example, the heart, uterus, head, hands, etc. 
Mind: A general sensitiveness. Dullness, with rest- 
lessness. Distraction. Weak memory. 
Head: Deep-seated pains in the brain, with a feel- 
ing as if the head were too large. Headache at night 76 
A PRIMER OF 
[Bovista. 
< rising up. Sudden attacks of vertigo in the morn- 
ing, following a headache, with a feeling of stupidity 
and unconsciousness. Soreness of the scalp. Itching 
of the scalp, extending to the nape of the neck, aggra- 
vated on becoming warm; not > scratching; must 
scratch until sore. 
Eyes: Pressure in the orbits. Objects seem too near 
to the eyes. Eyes look weak and dim. 
Ears: Hearing indistinct and false, so that mistakes 
are made. (An offensive, purulent discharge from the 
ears.) 
Nose: Bleeding in the morning. A few drops of blood 
always after blowing the nose. The nostrils become 
scabby, with burning pain, as if sore. 
Face: Frequent, violent alternations of color. Very 
pale in the morning after rising. The cheeks feel 
swollen and very large, with heat. The upper lip, 
nose and cheeks feel swollen. Cracked lips. Eruption 
and ulcers at the corners of the mouth. 
Mouth: Drawing toothache in the evening and at 
night, < during warmth, > when walking in the open 
air. The gums bleed easily on sucking them. Stam- 
mering. Salivation. Offensive odor from the mouth. 
A numbness of the interior of the mouth. 
Throat: Burning in the throat. 
Stomach: Excessive hunger. Thirst after cold drinks 
afternoons and evenings. Eructations of gas. Nausea 
in the morning, )> after breakfast with vomiting of 
water. Nausea, with chilliness the whole forenoon. 
Abdomen: Ulceration in the bowels. Cutting colic, 
worse during rest, > bending double, flatulent colic, 
with chilliness, especially after jstool. -Discharge of 
extremely offensive gas. 
Stool: Constipation. Diarrhoea, with colic. Diar- 
rhoea precedes and accompanies menstruation. Diar- 
rhoea, with tension and burning. 
Sexual Organs, Male: Excessive sexual desire. Ere- Bovista.] 
MATERIA MEDICA. 
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quent emissions. Vertigo and confusion of the head 
after coition. 
Sexual Organs, Female: Leucorrhoea follows men- 
struation, profuse, acrid, yellowish-green, tenacious, 
like the white of an egg, worse when walking. Men- 
struation too early and too profuse. Menstruation 
flows only at night, or early in the morning. Uterine 
haemorrhages between the menses. 
Respiratory Organs: Shortness of breath from any 
exertion. Oppression of the chest, as from constriction. 
Dry cough, caused by tickling in the throat and in the 
chest. Hoarseness in the morning, with scraping in 
the throat. 
Heart and Pulse: Heart feels enormously large. Pal- 
pitation with restlessness, nausea and headache. Pal- 
pitation during menstruation; also worse after eating. 
Back and Extremities: Pain and stiffness of the back 
after stooping. General weariness of the extremities. 
A feeling of paralytic pain, as if strained, in the joints 
of the arm and hand. Loss of power of the hands; 
they permit the slightest objects to fall. A moist 
tetter on the back of the hand. A feeling of tightness 
of the legs and calves, as if the muscles were too 
short. 
Skin: Skin easily indented with instruments. Itching 
of various parts, not > scratching, worse in warmth. 
Itching over coccyx, not >> scratching. Moist tetter. 
Urticaria. Itching < warmth. 
Sleep: Sleepiness early in the evening and after 
eating. 
Fever: Chill predominates; becomes chilly even with 
the pains. Chill with thirst. Chill beginning in the 
evening after 7 o'clock, with shivering in the back. 
Heat with thirst, anxiety and restlessness. Strong 
rushes of blood, with thirst, Sweat in the morning, 
most profuse on the chest. 78 
A PRIMER OF 
[Bromium. 
BROMIUM. 
General Action: One of the most marked general 
indications for Bromium is its tendency to spasms or 
spasmodic attacks of various sorts. This is especially 
noticed in symptoms occurring in the throat and 
larynx. Unlike Iodine, its symptoms are rarely ac- 
companied by fever. 
Generalities: Weakness; aggravation in a warm 
room. Tearing or cutting pains. 
Mind: Apathy. Indisposition to any mental work. 
Loss of ideas. Forgetfulness. 
Head: Vertigo, < seeing running water, or by rapid 
motion. Vertigo > nose-bleed. Neuralgic pains, 
especially of the left side, <Z stooping. Headache 
< the heat of the sun. 
Eyes: Sharp pains through the eyes. Burning pains, 
with spasmodic closure of the eyes. 
Ears: Roaring in the ears. 
Nose: Obstinate coryza, with soreness of the margins 
of the nose and of the upper lip; with a stoppage and 
soreness of the right nostril. Fluent coryza, with 
violent sneezing and corrosive discharge. Coryza, 
with pressure at the root of the nose, excoriating dis- 
charge and internal soreness; the nose seems stopped. 
Throat: Inflammation, with irritation, caused by 
spasmodic cough. Tonsils inflamed, swollen, covered 
with mucus. Uvula elongated, causing a spasmodic 
cough. 
Abdomen: Tympanitic distention; discharge of much 
gas. Flatulent distention, with pain in abdomen and 
small of back. 
Anus: Haemorrhoids, very painful. 
Sexual Organs, Female: Loud emissions of flatus from 
the vagina, with dysmenorrhoea. (Membranous dys- 
menorrhoea); spasmodic contractions. 
Respiratory Organs: Scraping in the larynx, pro- Bryonia.] 
MATERIA MEDICA. 
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voking a dry cough. Rawness in the larynx, causing 
hawking. A feeling of coldness during inspiration. 
Constriction. Spasmodic closure of the glottis. A 
feeling as if the pit of the throat were pressed against 
the trachea. Hoarseness and loss of voice. Cough in 
suffocative paroxysms, suddenly on swallowing. Cough 
on deep inspiration. Cough hollow, dry. Respiration 
oppressed, difficult; cannot inspire sufficient air 
>> walking. Respiration short; must catch for breath. 
Need of taking deep, forcible inspirations. 
Croup, diphtheritic: croup idiopathic. In croup, Brom, is rarely 
indicated in the early stage ; but when the febrile symptoms have 
subsided, the patient is weak, perspiring, has a hard, tight cough, 
which is spasmodic, with suffocative attacks and sometimes rattling 
of mucus in larynx; the element of spasm generally indicates the 
drug. It follows well after Iodine. Spasmodic croup symptoms, 
starting up as if choked, greater when drinking; every inspiration pro- 
vokes cough. Asthma in suffocative attacks; it seems as if the 
breathing were hindered by spasmodic constriction. In pneumonia, 
for suffocative attacks; cannot expectorate. Asthma greater at sea. 
Chest: A feeling of anxiety in chest, with difficult 
breathing. Sharp pains in the chest, extending in- 
ward, or toward the axilla. 
Heart: Palpitation, with oppression. (Hypertrophy 
of the heart.) 
Sleep: Yawning all day, with difficult breathing. 
Sleepiness. 
Fever: General tendency to coolness; shivering, with 
yawning and stretching. Cold feet. Cold, moist 
hands. 
BRYONIA. 
General Action: In large doses a violent hydragogue 
cathartic. It also (like its botanical ally, Colocynth) 
produces sharp pains. It causes inflammation of 
various organs, particularly of serous membranes and 
lungs, and gives rise to a fever of a rather low type. 
Its marked peculiarity is a disinclination to make any 
effort; great aggravation from motion of any sort. 
Generalities: Sharp pains, often with a feeling of 80 
A PRIMER OF 
[Bryonia. 
tension, < motion and touch. The pains, as a rule, 
while motion, are > continued moderate pressure, 
but < sudden, hard pressure or jerking: there is also 
general relief from warmth, or warm applications. 
Pains nearly always sharp, sticking or tearing, some- 
times bruised, or like suppurating, or like a stiffness. 
General weariness, especially in the morning, also on 
rising; < in the forenoon while, walking, can scarcely 
drag himself about. Faintness on rising from bed, 
with cold perspiration. The weakness is generally 
accompanied by easy perspiration from a little effort. 
Symptoms are usually > rest in bed; are frequently 
worse in the evening. 
Mind: Mental weakness, difficult holding a continu- 
ous train of thought. General ill humor; very easily 
put out of humor, with needless anxiety. Quarrel- 
some. Despondent, especially about his recovery. 
Restless mood, with dread of the future, and of ap- 
proaching death. Nightly delirium, especially about 
business. 
Head: Pressing headache; a feeling of fulness and 
heaviness, particularly in the forehead, as if every- 
thing would press out, beginning in the morning on 
opening or moving the eyes, < rising. Splitting head- 
ache, < by raising the eyes, inability to rise from 
stooping. Sharp pains through the head from before 
backward, < stepping hard or coughing. General 
confusion of the head, especially in the morning on 
walking, < rising from bed. General stupefaction 
and heaviness; a sort of rush of blood to the head. 
Headache inclined to extend from the forehead to the 
occiput, where it becomes seated, with drawing, ex- 
tending down into the neck. The frontal headaches 
tend to extend downward into the face, especially 
drawing in the zygoma. Vertigo, < in the morning- 
on rising, as if the head were turning in a circle; even 
on rising from a chair, somewhat > after walking; Bryonia.] 
MATERIA MEDICA. 
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sometimes associated with a feeling of nausea in the 
middle of the chest, as if faintness would ensue; some- 
times with tendency to fall backward, > after walking, 
by sitting down and by lying down. The hair of the 
head becomes unnatural oily. 
Eyes: Burning in the eyes, inflammation, <( warmth. 
Tearing stitches in the eyes. A. feeling of sand. A 
feeling as though the eyes were being pressed out of 
the head. Swelling of the lids, especially of the upper. 
Lachrymation. Intermittent pain in the left eye, 
< on moving it, with a feeling as if the eye became 
smaller, and were retracted within orbit. Weakness, 
even with lachrymation, in bright sunlight, better in a 
dim light, and in twilight. 
Ears: Roaring in the ears. Intolerance of noise. 
Nose: Painful swelling of the nose, with inflamma- 
tion in the nostrils. Frequent nose-bleed, especially 
if the menses are suppressed. Nose-bleed every morn- 
ing after rising (in suppressed menstruation). 
Face: Red, hot, puffy, especially over the malar 
bones. Yellowish paleness. (Small nodules and in- 
durations, like abortive boils, on the face.) Upper 
lips swollen, cracked, like erysipelas, bleeding. Crack- 
ing of the lower lip, and an eruption upon it. 
Mouth: Jerking toothache, )> warmth, also > lying 
on the painful side. The toothache is a sticking, tear- 
ing, sometimes temporarily > cold water, or on walk- 
ing in the open air. The gums are sore about the 
painful teeth. Tongue sometimes dry during fever, 
usually with a thick, white coat. Aphthae on the tip 
of the tongue. A general bitter taste. Salivation; at 
times soapy, frothy, rarely bloody. 
Throat: Sticking pains on swallowing. Soreness 
temporarily >> drinking, but returning, with dryness, 
rawness on empty swallowing. 
Stomach: Excessive thirst; he does not drink fre- 
quently, but much at a time. Frequent pain or empty 
d* 82 
A PRIMER OF 
[Bryonia. 
eructations after taking food. Regurgitation of food, 
without any effort to vomit. At times, an unnatural 
hunger, but does not wish food when brought. Nausea 
in the morning on waking, with vomiting. Vomiting 
of the food, but not drink. Bitter vomiting of liquids 
after eating. Vomiting of blood. Vomiting; first bile, 
then food. 
Stomach: Sensation as if a stone lay in the stomach 
after eating, causing ill humor. Soreness and pain on 
pressure, or on coughing. Contractive pain > drawing 
up the legs, and by warm applications. Gastric symp- 
toms particularly < eating bread. Sharp pains, 
arresting breathing on motion, especially on making a 
false step. Great sensitiveness in the pit of the stom- 
ach to touch and pressure. 
Abdomen: Sticking pains in the region of the liver on 
touch, coughing or breathing. Symptoms of inflamma- 
tion of the liver and of the diaphragm. Abdomen 
distended. A feeling of something heavy lying in the 
abdomen. Movements, loud rumbling or a gurgling 
and soreness and dragging downward. 
Rectum and Stool: Burning during evacuations. Stools 
large and dry. Stools becoming pasty and loose. Diar- 
rhoea, putrid, followed by burning in the anus and cut- 
ting in the abdomen. Diarrhoea generally of a brown 
color and very disagreeable. In obstinate constipa- 
tion, evacuations are generally dry and passed with 
difficulty. 
Urinary Organs: Urine diminished in quantity, red 
and hot, or brown. Urine whitish, turbid. Some- 
times the urine is increased in quantity and retained 
with difficulty. 
Sexual Organs, Female: Menstruation too early and 
too profuse, dark red. 
Suppression of menses, with the characteristic gastric derange- 
ments, or with periodical discharge of blood elsewhere, nose, throat, 
etc. Inflamed ovaries. Puerperal fever in the early stage, with 
headache, pains in limbs, weakness. Suppressed lochia. Pelvic Bryonia.] 
MATERIA MEDICA. 
83 
peritonitis. Inflammation of mammary glands, breasts much swollen, 
hot, sharp pains. 
Respiratory Organs: Cough generally dry, from tick- 
ling in the pit of the stomach, or from the throat; 
finally, with some expectoration of mucus. Cough on 
coming into a warm room, caused by sensation of a 
suffocating vapor, or as if he could not breathe enough 
air. Cough < talking or smoking, followed by a sore- 
ness in the trachea. Spasmodic cough after eating and 
drinking, followed by vomiting of food. Cough causes 
bursting headache, and stitches in the sides of the chest. 
Bloody expectoration, blood clotted or of a brown color. 
Dyspnoea, so that he could not talk. Dyspnoea as if 
he could not expand the chest, with rapid breathing. 
Severe stitches in the sternum and sides of the chest 
when coughing, must hold with the hands. Sticking 
pains in the chest, < deep breathing or motion, or 
coughing, > pressure, or lying upon the painful side. 
A general feeling of constriction through the chest; 
needs to breathe deeply, but on attempting to breathe 
deeply a sensation as if the chest could not be dis- 
tended. Internal heat in the chest. 
Clinical. Laryngitis and bronchitis (the cough in these diseases is 
generally dry, hacking, with soreness of abdominal muscles, aggrava- 
ted at night and on motion, aggravated on coming into a warm room, 
aggravated after eating or drinking, ameliorated by heat). Pneumo- 
nia in the early stage; Bryonia follows immediately after Aconite, 
high fever, sharp pains, ameliorated by lying on the affected side, 
thirst, profuse sweat, headache, etc. In pleurisy it is most frequently 
required (the Bryonia patient sweats easily and freely), extremely 
sharp pain, ameliorated by pressure and warmth, cannot tolerate the 
slightest motion. Sometimes useful in pleuritic exudation, when 
the sharp pains continue. 
Heart and Pulse: Palpitation, with dyspnoea. Stitches. 
Pulse full, hard and rapid. 
External Chest: Indurations in the mammary glands. 
(Mammary glands of nursing women over-distended 
and inflamed.) 
Neck and Back: Pain in the nape of the neck, as if 
taking cold. Drawing in the muscles on the right side 84 
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[Bryonia. 
of the neck, with stiffness. Stiffness involves the right 
shoulder. Stitches in the small of the back, and in 
the shoulder blades. Painful sensation in the small 
of the back, so that one must walk bent over. The 
sharp sticking or tearing pains in the small of the back 
are apt to extend forward, either upward to the chest, 
or around through the abdomen; < sitting up, moving 
the legs, >> at rest when bent forward. 
Extremities, Upper: A feeling of tension and sticking; 
drawing pains in the shoulder joints and upper arms. 
Swelling of the elbow joints and hands, especially of 
the back of the hand. In the right elbow a feeling as 
though the arm wrere broken, with drawing pains, ex- 
tending upward; similar pain in the wrist on motion. 
Sticking pains in the fingers and finger joints, which 
are swollen. 
Extremities, Lower: Sticking pains and cracking in 
the hip joints when walking. Pains in the hip, ex- 
tending along the anterior surface of the thigh to the 
knee. Weakness of the knees when walking. Tension 
in the bend of the knee, the pain extending along the 
tibia. Painful stiffness in the knee. Tearing pains in 
the calf; during rest this changes to a sensation of 
numbness. Hot swelling of the foot, with bruised pain 
on stretching the foot. Stitching pains in the foot. 
Pain as from sprains, specially in periosteum and liga- 
ments, always < motion. Acute inflammation of the 
joints of the toes. Sudden pain in the balls of the 
great toes. 
Skin: An elevated, red rash over the whole body. 
Itching eruption over the whole body. Itching 
stitches, > scratching, < walking rapidly. Hard 
nodes in various parts of the body. Acute swelling 
and inflammation, with shining redness, especially 
over the joints. 
Sleep: Much yawning, and sleepiness during the day. 
Sleeps with eyes half open. Sleeplessness before mid- Bufo.] 
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night, on account of frequent shivering over one arm 
and leg, followed by perspiration, warmth and anxiety 
in the blood. Sleeplessness on account of orgasm of 
blood, heat and thirst. Sleep restless, busy with the 
occupations of the previous day. Starting up in fright 
before falling asleep, with anxious dreams and scream- 
ing out. Talks irrationally when he first wakes out of 
sleep. Vivid, fatiguing dreams about the business of 
the day. 
Fever: Chilliness after the midday nap, with con- 
fusion of the head. Chilliness in the evening, with 
thirst and hot cheeks. Chilliness, with heat of the 
head and thirst. Internal heat; the blood seems on 
fire, with thirst for cold drinks. (Rarely without 
thirst.) Heat in the head, and face particularly, which 
is red, with thirst. Sweat from the slightest exertion, 
even when walking in the cold air. Sweat, especially 
early in the morning. Sweat oily; of a sour odor. 
BUFO. 
Generalities: (Epilepsy,ushered in by a cry, livid face. 
Epilepsy, the result of sexual excitement. Epilepsy 
coming on at the time of menses.) 
Clinical. Indurations in the mammary gland. 
Skin: Vesicles, large bullae, which rupture and leave 
a raw surface, from which oozes an ichorous fluid. 
CACTUS. 
General Action: Imperfectly known; its action on the 
circulation is very decided, causing great disturbance 
in the heart's action, predisposing to haemorrhages, 
but, so far as we know, not producing fever; its simi- 
larity to some forms of malarial fever, however, is 
pronounced, and has proved useful clinically. 
Generalities: Weakness; pains, as from constriction 
by an iron band, or tight cord, generally > fresh, open 
air. 
Mind: Sadness; hypochondriac mood. Wishes to be 86 
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[Cactus. 
alone, and not to speak to any one. Fear of death ; 
thinks he will not get well. 
Head: Pain, like a weight, on the vertex, > pressure, 
and < talking and noise. Pulsating pain in the right 
side of the head, with a feeling of weight. Pain, as if 
the head were in. a vise, or as if it would burst open. 
Threatening apoplexy. 
Eyes: Photophobia (with headache). Vision dim. 
Circles of red light before the eyes. 
Nose: Profuse nose-bleed, even with pale face. 
Face: Sometimes pale, death-like, sometimes bloody. 
(Pains in the right side, < slightest exertion, > lying 
still.) 
Throat: Constriction of the throat, suffocative. 
Stomach: Vomiting blood. Gastro-enteritis, with 
violent pain; sensation of constriction. Palpitation in 
the pit of the stomach. 
Anus and Stool: Sensation of great weight, and urging 
to evacuate, as though a large stool would follow, but 
without result. Profuse haemorrhage from the bowels, 
or from haemorrhoids. Diarrhoea irregular, with heart 
complications. 
Urinary Organs: Frequent urging at night, with a 
copious flow each day. Irritation in the urethra, as if 
necessary to urinate constantly. Urine reddish, turbid, 
profuse. Urine bloody. 
Sexual Organs, Female: Painful menstruation. Men- 
struation too early. Menstruation too scanty; ceases 
while lying down. Inflammation of the ovaries, with 
constriction. Vaginismus. Dysmenorrhoea; pains oc- 
cur periodically; menses cease on lying down, with 
heart symptoms. 
Respiratory Organs: Cough, with much viscid expec- 
toration; spasmodic; worse at night. Cough irritable, 
hacking, seeming to come from the trachea; worse at 
night, dry. Expectoration free, yellow or jelly-like; 
like boiled starch. Expectoration of blood. Breath- Calc. Acetica.] 
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ing difficult; a feeling as if the chest were constricted 
by an iron band. Periodical suffocation, with fainting, 
cold sweat and loss of pulse. Oppressed breathing, as 
from a weight on the chest. Feeling as if the chest 
were bound by a tight cord, or as if bound by an iron 
band. . Congestion of the chest. 
Heart and Pulse: A feeling of constriction at the 
heart, as from an iron hand. Acute pain in the heart, 
with stitches, causing loud cries, with difficult breath- 
ing. Heart's action rapid, short, irregular, especially 
on rapid motion. Heart's action irregular, with feeling 
of pressure and heaviness. Palpitation; worse from 
walking and at night, when lying on the left side. 
Palpitation from the least excitement, or from think- 
ing, with need of deep breathing. 
Neck and Back: Pain under left scapula. Coldness 
of the back, with icy-cold hands. 
Extremities: Tearing pains in the various joints. 
Numbness of the left arm at night, with prickling in 
the little finger. (Edema of the hands, especially of 
the left hand. (Edema of the lower extremities. 
Sleep: Sleeplessness, or restless sleep. 
Fever: Intermittent. Febrile attacks daily at same 
hour, generally about the middle of the day, from 11 
to 1. Coldness in the back, with icy-cold hands; the 
febrile stage not marked; chill may be followed by cold 
sweat, without intermediate fever. (Malaria parox- 
ysms accompanied by haemorrhage, especially from the 
bowels, rarely by convulsions in children.) 
CALCAREA ACETICA. 
General Action: The clinical uses of this drug have 
been based chiefly upon the well-known power of Acetic 
acid to produce inflammations of the mucous mem- 
branes, characterized by membranous exudation; 
when these conditions appear in persons presenting a 
strongly marked Calcarea cachexia. 88 
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[Calcarea Carb. 
Urinary and Sexual Organs : Clinical. Membranous dysmenorrhoea 
in persons of Calcarea habit. 
Respiratory Organs: Clinical. A most brilliant cure was made of an 
obstinate case of membranous bronchitis, which for months had re- 
sisted all other treatment; the paroxysms recurred every two or 
three weeks ; each time it seemed as if the patient would die, until 
extensive casts of the membrane of the bronchi were expectorated; 
entirely cured by this drug. 
General Action: A general nutrition (tissue) remedy. 
It seems to produce a well-marked cachexia which may 
develop tuberculosis, epilepsy or other chronic dis- 
orders. The functions of various organs are disturbed, 
but the lymphatics are most prominently affected. 
Generalities: General loss of power, especially in- 
ability to go upstairs. Weakness, particularly of the 
limbs, on walking, with exhaustive sweat; from talk- 
ing ; after coition; general relief in the fresh, open air. 
Patients are inclined to be too fat (especially young 
people). General emaciation, with large abdomen, 
and good appetite. Easy taking cold, and special 
sensitiveness to cold, damp air. Easily sprained. 
Clinical. Very frequently indicated in affections caused by work- 
ing in water. In chronic inflammations of joints; swellings, without 
inflammations. Pains relieved by change of weather, especially in 
damp weather. Muscular rheumatism. Glandular enlargement, with 
suppuration, with fistulous ulcers. Various phases of scrofula. It is 
generally indicated in persons of a fair complexion, who are very 
sluggish and inclined to-be fat (fair, fat and flabby). The child is 
not able to walk, is very backward. Epilepsy; very frequently 
indicated in the cachexia, which leads to the development of epilep- 
tiform spasms, and it will sometimes radically cure the disease. 
Marasmus. A general condition of malnutrition; the patient is 
flabby, weak, sluggish, has profuse sweats, profuse discharges gen- 
erally, and cold extremities. 
Mind: Very nervous, anxious, lachrymose mood. 
Anxiety, particularly during twilight. Is frightened 
easily. Solicitude about the future, with dread. Gen- 
eral anxiety, with palpitation. Fear that she will lose 
her reason, or that some misfortune will overtake her 
or her friends. Disinclined to make any mental 
CALC ARE A CARB. Calcarea Carb.] 
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89 
effort. Children become very obstinate. Intellect 
dull. 
Head: General confusion, as if a board were before 
the head. Tendency to rush of blood to the head, with 
heat, sometimes even with throbbing in the middle of 
the brain. Vertigo on suddenly turning the head, or 
on going upstairs; also, in the morning before break- 
fast. Heaviness in the forehead; a painful pressure, 
extending into the nose; < reading and writing. Icy 
coldness on the right side of the head. Pulsation in 
the middle of the brain, coming on every morning and 
lasting all day. General headache, < muscular strain 
or from mental effort. Much scurf on the scalp. Itch- 
ing, especially at night on waking. Sweat over the 
head, especially in the evening while asleep (in chil- 
dren). (The fontanelles remain open in children, and 
the cranial bones are not well developed, with enlarged 
glands, etc.) Falling of the hair. 
Eyes: A feeling of sand under the lids. Lachryma- 
tion. Eyes agglutinated in the morning. Itching of 
the margins of the lids. General burning and cutting 
pains in the eyes, especially in the evening by the light. 
Tendency to ulcers and spots on the cornea. Photo- 
phobia, especially in the evening, or in the morning. 
Dim vision when trying to look intently, like a mist 
before the eyes. (Obstruction of the lachrymal ducts.) 
Ears: Throbbing in the ears. Heat within the ears. 
Cracking noises when chewing. Boaring. 
Clinical. Deafness from working in water. Scrofulous inflamma- 
tions of the ear, with muco-purulent otorrhoea, enlarged glands, etc. 
Chronic inflammation of the ear; thickening of the drum. Polypi, 
which bleed easily. 
Nose: Offensive dryness of the nose. Inflammation, 
redness, swelling of the nose. Sore, ulcerated nostrils. 
Offensive smell in the nose. 
Clinical. Coryza, clear, watery secretion or chronic ozaena, with a 
thick, purulent, fetid discharge, with swelling at root of nose and 
ulceration. Nasal polypi. Inclination to nose-bleed in fat children. 90 
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[Calcarea Carb. 
Face: Pale, puffy. Yellow. Eyes sunken,surrounded 
by dark rings. Upper lip swollen, Tearing pains in 
the bones of the face. Moist eruption on the forehead 
and cheeks. 
Mouth: Drawing, stinging toothache, < cold or draft 
of air, especially by taking cold water or air into the 
mouth. Toothache after menstruation. Gums spongy 
and bleeding. Tongue, coated white. Pain beneath 
the tongue on swallowing. Burning pain at tip of 
tongue, anything warm taken into the mouth. 
Tongue dry in the morning. Speech indistinct. Sour 
taste, not only of food, but also when not eating. 
Throat: Spasmodic contraction of pharynx. Stitches 
when swallowing. Pain as from internal swelling, ex- 
tending to the ears. A feeling as if food stuck in the 
throat, with nausea. On swallowing, cracking noises 
in the ear. Externally, the submaxillary glands are 
swollen and hard, with pain when chewing, and sting- 
ing when touched. 
Stomach: Frequent, ravenous hunger, especially in 
the morning. Thirst great. At times complete loss of 
appetite, but with constant and great thirst; after be- 
ginning to eat, food relishes. Extreme thirst at night. 
General aversion to meat. Aversion to customary to- 
bacco. Longing for eggs. Desire for sweets and pastry; 
also, for indigestible things, such as chalk, coal, etc. 
Eructations of food; tasting of food; of tasteless fluid 
in the evening. Nausea in the morning; after drink- 
ing milk; in the morning, fasting. Vomiting sour 
water at night; of food which has a sour taste. Swell- 
ing of the epigastric region. This region is sore to 
touch. Pressing pain as from a lump. Burning, ex- 
tending from the stomach to the throat after eating. 
Abdomen: Distention; with hardness. Cutting colic 
in the upper abdomen. Distention about the hypo- 
chondria; cannot endure tight clothes. Swelling of 
the inguinal glands, Calcarea Carb.] 
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Clinical. Enlargement of liver, which is sore, with jaundice. Gall- 
stone colic, terrible darting pain, profuse sweat, intolerance of 
garments about the waist. Tendency to great increase of fat in the 
abdomen and flatulent distention, enlarged mesenteric glands; ab- 
dominal dropsy. Umbilical hernia. 
Rectum and Stool: Protrusion. Pressure and heavi- 
ness. Crawling as from worms. Haemorrhoids pro- 
trude and become painful. Burning in the anus dur- 
ing a stool. 
Clinical. Diarrhoea of undigested stools; of sour odor, large in 
quantity, sometimes fetid. Ascarides and chronic diarrhoea, with 
great appetite and distention of stomach, which is sore to touch. 
Cholera infantum, with vomiting of sour food or curdled lumps, 
ravenous appetite. 
Urinary Organs: Frequent micturition; at night. 
Urine dark colored, offensive, with a white sediment; 
sour smelling at night. Burning in the urethra during 
and after micturition. 
Sexual Organs, Male: Increased sexual desire. Dimin- 
ished sexual power. Emissions too quick, followed by 
weakness, irritability, etc. Impotency. 
Sexual Organs, Female: Unnatural sexual desire. 
Great prostration after coition. Menstruation too 
early, and too long continued. Leucorrhoea milk-like. 
Clinical. Hydrocele in children. Profuse menstruation is the rule 
in women who require Calcarea. General weakness of women, with 
exaggerated desires. Membranous dysmenorrhoea, with cold, sweaty 
extremities and sensitiveness to cold air (see Calc. acet.). Endocerv- 
itis. Often indicated in girls whose menses do not come on, but, in- 
stead, congestion of the head, dyspnoea, palpitation, haemorrhage 
from the lungs, night cough, general anaemia, unnatural appetite, etc. 
Constant aching in vagina. Leucorrhoea like milk, very profuse, 
with general Calcarea symptoms. Excessive flow of milk in nursing 
women; it is thin and does not satisfy the child; with itching of 
vulva, with swollen veins or sometimes glandular swellings. The 
milk of a nursing woman is disagreeable to the child, who refuses it 
and does not thrive on it, though the secretion be very great. 
Respiratory Organs: Whistling in the larynx in the 
evening after lying down. Painless hoarseness; could 
not speak; worse in the morning. Violent, dry cough 
at night, < on inspiration; caused by a sensation 
of a plug in the throat, and moved up and down; or 92 
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[Calcarea Carb. 
by tickling, as of a feather in the throat; at times, a 
feeling as if something were torn loose from the larynx. 
Cough in the morning, with profuse, yellow expectora- 
tion, which is sometimes purulent, sometimes offensive. 
Expectoration of blood, which leaves a sore, rough 
feeling in the chest. Respiration very short on going 
up the slightest ascent. Need to breathe deeply, which 
causes stitches in the sides of the chest or hypo- 
chondrium. Chest, internally, sore; sometimes, also, 
sore externally under the clavicles. Lancinating pains 
through the chest, frequently from before backward, 
more rarely, from side to side. 
Clinical. Chronic inflammation of larynx and bronchi, and hoarse- 
ness, chronic cough. Extreme dyspnoea on going up the slightest 
ascent (one of the most marked indications for the drug). Chronic 
inflammation of the larynx, especially in the upper part. Asthmatic 
attacks in children, from suppressed eruptions. Ulcers m the lungs, 
with purulent expectoration. Haemorrhage from the lungs. Calcarea 
is very generally indicated in the general cachexia leading to various 
forms of consumption. The cough is usually troublesome at night 
and dry, with free expectoration in the morning. The patient per- 
spires easily, and frequently has enormous appetite, though the ema- 
ciation is rapid. 
Heart and Pulse: Palpitation after eating, or from the 
slightest effort. Palpitation at night, with cough, with 
anxiety. 
Neck and Back: Swelling of the glands of the neck; 
painful. Stiffness and cracking in the nape of the neck 
from straining the muscles. Pain in the back, so that 
he could scarcely rise. Backache from strains. 
Extremities, Upper: Bruised, paralytic-like pains in 
the long bones on motion, and in various joints. The 
muscles of the extremities become sore to the touch. 
General weariness. Rheumatic pains in the shoulders, 
sometimes shooting. Weakness, paralytic, of the arm; 
a sudden weariness. Muscles of the arms feel bruised. 
Pain as from a sprain in the wrist. Trembling of the 
hands. Nodes form on the fingers. Fingers feel numb 
and dead. Tips of the fingers thick, swollen. Calcarea Phos.] 
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Extremities, Lower: Weariness of the legs, with 
trembling, especially of the thighs. Weariness of the 
muscles on the front of the thighs on beginning to 
walk, with stiffness. Swelling of the knees. Stitching 
pain. Cramps in the calves at night on stretchingout 
the legs, and in the hollows of the knees. Cramp in 
the sole of the foot. Feet feel cold and dead at night. 
Skin: Nettlerash, with itching and burning after 
rubbing. Eruptions sometimes moist. Development 
of warts. Skin unhealthy, ulcerating easily. Itching 
pain in the cold air. 
Sleep: Sleeplessness at night from nervous excite- 
ment. Falls asleep very late on going to bed. Very 
anxious, frightful dreams. Heavy snoring during 
sleep, can scarcely be wakened. 
Fever: Chilliness, largely internal; at times alter- 
nating with heat. Heat, also internal, in the head, in 
the hands and feet, sometimes with dry tongue. Heat 
at night during menstruation, with restless sleep. 
Sweat in the morning; during the day on slight effort; 
on the hands and feet; particularly over the head in 
children, so that the pillow becomes wet. 
CALCAREA PHOSPHORICA. 
Generalities: General tendency to emaciation. Anae- 
mia. Rheumatic pains in various parts and joints, 
mostly in small spots. Aggravation in morning; even- 
ing; after taking cold; rheumatic pains and displaced 
uterus; in changeable weather, especially when snow 
melts, with east winds; when thinking about the symp- 
toms; of some symptoms when sitting or lying; of 
head, chest, abdomen, limbs on pressure; pains after 
great exertions, when lying; during motion of single 
limbs. Amelioration by lying; on abdomen during 
restless night. 
Clinical. Naluable in diseases of malnutrition, especially with pre- 
disposition to diseases of the bones. In children the osseous tissue 94 
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[Calcarea Phos. 
is badly developed; the child grows slowly, does not learn to walk 
rapidly, is emaciated, has symptoms of indigestion, colic, vomiting of 
undigested food, green, mucous stools, fetid flatulence, etc. General 
lack of vital heat. General symptoms of Calcarea, particularly the 
aggravation from wet, the tendency to perspiration, glandular en- 
largement, etc., but there is less enlargement of the abdomen and 
perhaps less obstinate disposition; the child is rather stupid. Gener- 
ally valuable in promoting the development and healing of bones. 
Mind: Ill humor. Forgetfulness. 
Head: Sensations mostly on the vertex. Pain. At 
times a feeling as though ice were on the head, though 
the head may be hot. 
Clinical. Valuable for the headaches of school children, especially 
of girls who are maturing and who are anaemic. Headaches on the 
top of the head particularly. Chronic hydrocephalus; pain in head, 
extending down spine; weakness, vomiting; very large head, separated 
bones. In chronic irritation of the brain resembling hydrocephalus, 
following exhausting diseases, like cholera infantum. Bald spots on 
the head. 
Eyes: Sensitiveness, especially when thinking about 
the eyes, with a feeling as though something were in 
them. Photophobia, especially to candle-light. 
Nose: Nose swollen, with sore nostrils or ulcers. 
Point of the nose cold. Bleeding of the nose after- 
noons. 
Face: Pains, especially in the upper jaw, and in the 
zygoma. Upper lip swollen, painful, hard, burning. 
Mouth: Teeth sensitive to cold air. Tip of the tongue 
sore, burning; little blisters. Bitter taste in the morn- 
ing, with a headache. (Slow dentition, with emacia- 
tion.) 
Throat: Sore aching in the throat, < swallowing. 
Pain and burning. Sensation of weakness in the 
throat. 
Stomach: Unusual appetite. Burning in the stom- 
ach and eructations of water. Burning after belching. 
A feeling of distention. A sinking sensation. 
Clinical. Dyspepsia after eating; thirst, pain, ameliorated for a 
short time by raising wind; when fasting the pain goes to the spine. 
Feeling as if one ought to raise gas and could not. Dyspepsia, with Calcarea Phos.] 
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indescribable distress in region of stomach, only temporarily aggra- 
vated by eating. 
Abdomen: Cutting, pinching pains precede the diar- 
rhoea. Pain always on attempting to eat. Soreness 
and pain around the umbilicus. Flatulent colic. 
Rectum and Stool: A feeling of soreness about the 
anus, with burning, throbbing, stinging. Itching in 
anus, especially in the evening. Diarrhoea, especially 
after fruit, or during teething, with much flatulence. 
Diarrhoea after emotional excitement, very offensive, 
undigested. 
Urinary Organs: Copious urine, with weakness. 
Sexual Organs, Female: Weakness in the region of the 
uterus, <Z during stool and micturition, with distress 
and uterine displacement. Menstruation too early, 
bright, or too late and dark; or first bright, then dark 
and at last fetid. Leucorrhoea like the white of an 
egg, worse in the morning. Increased sexual desire 
before the menses, followed by free menstruation. 
Clinical. It has been used for nymphomania, with heat and weight 
on vertex, melancholia, flushed face, etc., the symptoms always worse 
before menses. Uterine spasms, sometimes after stool or micturition, 
ameliorated by change of weather. Menstruation too early, with faint 
feeling in stomach, etc. Dysmenorrhoea. Leucorrhoea. After pro- 
longed nursing, cough, weakness of voice, pain beneath shoulders, 
etc. 
Respiratory Organs: Hoarseness. Frequent, short and 
difficult breathing. Sighing respiration. Dry, short 
cough, with soreness and dryness in the throat and 
hoarseness. Suffocating attacks in children after nurs- 
ing, < after crying, etc. 
Chest: Contraction in the chest until 10 P. M.; better 
when lying down, worse getting up, with difficult 
breathing. Sharp pain through the sternum. 
Neck and Back: Rheumatic pain in the neck from a 
draft of air, with stiffness and dullness of the head. 
Cramp-like pain one side, then the other, of the neck. 
Muscles hurt up into the occiput, first right, then left. 96 
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[Calendula. 
Pain in the lumbar region when lifting, or on blowing 
the nose. Backache; cutting, jerking, shooting, throb- 
bing. A feeling of soreness in the sacro-iliac union, as 
if the bones were separated. 
Extremities: Pains, with soreness, flying about in all 
parts after getting wet. Ulcerative pains in the root 
of the right finger nails, especially in the middle finger. 
The lower extremities seem asleep, which extends to 
the abdomen and sacrum; cannot rise, with anxious 
feeling. Cramp in the calves when walking. Weak, 
restless feelings in the legs. 
Sleep: Irresistible drowsiness all the forenoon, with 
yawning. Inability to get awake in the morning. 
Fever: Creeping and shivering. Chill on going into 
the cold air. Sweat on various parts at night, waking 
out of sleep. 
CALENDULA. 
Generalities: Clinical. Useful for open wounds, with great sore- 
ness and pain; the parts will not heal, tend to inflame and suppurate. 
In phlegmonous erysipelas it seems to be a valuable topical applica- 
tion ; it is also useful as a local application in bad ulcers of os uteri, 
offensive leucorrhoea. 
CAMPHOR. 
General Action: It produces violent convulsions, hys- 
terical and epileptiform; delirium and various phases 
of nervous excitement. It also produces coldness of 
the body and profound collapse, with feeble pulse. 
Generalities: Clonic spasm, with loss of consciousness. 
Convulsive rotation of the arms. Subsultus tendinum. 
Rapid sinking of strength. Opisthotonos. Restless. 
Easily startled, with throbbing. Weakness, with rapid 
sinking of strength. Great sensitiveness to cold, to 
cold air, which increases all the troubles. The patient 
is only partially conscious of most of his pains. 
Mind: Extreme anxiety; dread of being alone in the 
dark. Agitation; haste. Attacks of violent rage. 
Head: Vertigo, < stooping. Heaviness of the head, Camphor.] 
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sometimes with vertigo. Rush of blood to the head. 
The brain feels constricted, especially in the occiput, 
better when thinking of it. The head seems drawn 
sideways or backwards spasmodically. (The effects 
of sunstroke, with throbbing pain in the occiput, cold- 
ness, etc.) 
Eyes: Eyes sunken, distorted. Pupils dilated. Ob- 
jects seem to glitter, and to be too bright. A vision 
of bright colors, alternating with dimness. 
Ears: Lobules of the ears hot and red. Ulcers in 
the external meatus. 
Nose: Nose cold. Air breathed through the nose 
seems colder than natural. Sneezing. Various symp- 
toms of coryza, without discharge, with coldness. 
Face: Face pale and anxious. Distorted, sunken 
and livid. Icy cold and bluish. Tetanic cramps of 
the masseter muscles. 
Mouth: Burning in the mouth and throat, even down 
to the stomach. Froth from the mouth. Tongue 
cold, speech feeble, hoarseness. Increase of tenacious 
mucus. Taste acute. 
Throat: Burning heat in the throat, extending down 
the oesophagus. 
Stomach: Lack of thirst; (usual). Insatiable thirst; 
(rare). Food has a bitter taste, or the taste may be 
unnaturally acute. Burning in the stomach. Great 
sensitiveness at the pit of the stomach to touch. 
Coldness in the pit of the stomach. Nausea, vomit- 
ing, with coldness (not always present with Camphor 
symptoms). 
Abdomen: Burning heat over the whole abdomen. 
Coldness in the abdomen. Constrictive pain below the 
ribs, extending to the back. 
Stool: Constipation. Constipation from inactivity of 
the bowels, or from a feeling of contraction of the 
rectum. 
Clinical. In cholera infantum, vomiting and diarrhoea suddenly; 
E 98 
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[Camphor. 
pains, with coldness of body, etc. In Asiatic cholera, in the early 
stage, when the stools are loose and contain fecal matter; in a later 
stage, with coldness, but, as a rule, with dryness of the surface of 
the body, with sudden suppression of the discharges and collapse. 
(The remedy should be stopped when the patient perspires.) 
Urinary Organs: Tenesmus of the bladder, with re- 
tention of the urine. Painful micturition. Micturi- 
tion involuntary. Urine often scanty, yellowish-green, 
of a pungent odor. Urine, when not retained, may 
pass in a very thin stream. 
Sexual Organs: Loss of sexual desire; impotency. 
Clinical. Chordee; effects of sudden suppression of gonorrhoeal 
discharge, coldness, strangury, etc. Sexual excitement in women. 
Puerperal mania, with suppressed discharges, dryness of the surface, 
etc. Nocturnal emissions, without dreams. 
Respiratory Organs: Suffocative dyspnoea from oppres- 
sion of the chest or pit of the stomach. Suffocation, 
with a feeling of constriction of the larynx, something 
like suffocation from fumes of sulphur. 
Clinical. Asthmatic attacks, with great suffocation. Violent, dry 
cough, especially in measles, with suppressed eruption, with conges- 
tion of lungs, etc. In pleuro-pneumonia, emphysema of lungs. 
Heart and Pulse: Distress in the region of the heart; 
feels the throbbing of the heart against the ribs, es- 
pecially after eating. Palpitation after eating. Trem- 
bling of the heart. Pulse usually very slow and weak, 
or imperceptible. 
Back: Drawing stitches through and between scapu- 
lae on moving arm, extending into chest. 
Extremities: Cold, with numbness and tingling. 
Hands icy cold, pale, bluish. Lower extremities very 
weak; a staggering, as if intoxicated. Cramp-like 
pains in the calves and feet. 
Skin: Skin dry, cold, rarely moist. (Inflammation, 
as from erysipelas.) 
Sleep: Sleepiness, with stupefaction, with irrational 
talking. Sleeplessness at night, as from nervous irri- 
tability. 
Fever: General icy coldness of the whole body and 
deathly paleness. Sensitive to cold air. Takes cold Cannab. Ind.] 
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easily. Chilliness, with chattering of the teeth, sensi- 
tiveness of the skin and to the slightest touch. In- 
ternal coldness. Internal coldness through the limbs, 
as from a cold wind. General sweat at times (not 
common). 
General Action: The chief effect is on the mind; an ab- 
normal exhilaration and excitation of thought. Ideas 
crowd npon each other with extreme rapidity, so that 
time seems infinite, space immense. The sense of 
duality is also pronounced. Convulsions are some- 
times induced. 
Generalities: Convulsions. Weakness from a short 
walk ; could hardly speak, soon followed by a deep 
sleep. 
Mind: Imagines that he hears music, shuts his eyes 
and is lost in delicious thought. Exaltation of spirits. 
Loquacity. Incoherent talk. Uncontrollable laugh- 
ter, until the face is purple and back aches. Anguish, 
better in the open air, with oppression. Fear that he 
will become insane. Fixed ideas. Absent minded. 
Forgetful, cannot finish a sentence. Unconsciousness 
every few minutes. 
Head: Frequent involuntary shaking. Sudden 
shocks through the brain on regaining consciousness. 
Vertigo on rising; on rising, with stunning pain in 
occiput; falls down. Sticking, jerking pains through 
the head, or a feeling as though the head were open- 
ing and shutting. 
Eyes: Fixed. Injected. Letters run together when 
reading. Glimmering before the eyes. 
Ears: Throbbing and fulness. Buzzing and ringing. 
Face: Expression drowsy and stupid. Lips glued 
together. 
Mouth: Mouth and lips dry. Saliva white, thick, 
frothy and sticky. 
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[Cannab. Ind. 
Throat: Dryness; with thirst for cold water. 
Stomach: Appetite increased, even ravenous. Pain 
at cardiac orifice, > pressure. The stomach feels 
swollen when eating, with oppression, as if he would 
suffocate. 
Rectum and. Stool: Sensation in anus as if he were 
sitting on a ball; as if anus and part of urethra were 
filled with a hard ball. Painful, yellow diarrhoea. 
Urinary Organs: Straining, even after micturition, 
ineffectual. Dribbling after urinating. Frequent mic- 
turition, with burning pain. Stitches in the urethra 
during and after micturition. Urine copious, colorless. 
Genital Organs: Oozing of white, glairy mucus from 
the urethra. Satyriasis. Menstruation profuse, last- 
ing too long. 
Respiratory Organs: Rough cough, scratching in the 
sternum. Oppression of the chest; feels suffocated 
and has to be fanned. 
. Heart: Oppression about the heart, with stitches, 
> deep breathing. Palpitation; wakes out of sleep. 
Pulse slow. 
Back: Stitching pain in the kidneys, keeping him 
awake at night, or when laughing. 
Extremities: Paralysis of the lower extremities. Par- 
alysis of the right arm. Pain across the shoulder and 
spine, forcing him to stoop. Thrillings through the 
arm and knees. Stiffness and tired aching in the 
knees. Pains in the soles of the feet, as if treading 
on spikes, extending to hips on attempting to walk, 
with drawing pains in the calves. Numb feeling in 
the sole and foot, extending to the whole limb. 
Sleep: Sleepiness. Sound sleep. Talking in sleep. 
Starting of the limbs in sleep, which woke him. 
Nightmare every night on falling asleep. Numerous 
dreams of all sorts. 
Fever: Coldness, especially of the face, nose and Cannab. Sat.] 
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hands after dinner. Sticky perspiration in drops on 
the forehead. 
CANNABIS SATIVA. 
General Action: Xs compared with Cannabis indica, 
we see much less mental disturbance (less of the pecul- 
iar gum "Hashish" in the plant used), and more effects 
due to the other constituents of the plant, etherial oil 
and Nitrate of Potash. (The latter is found in an un- 
usual amount in the plant.) 
Head: Rush of blood to the head, with throbbing 
and warmth that is not unpleasant. Headache, as if 
a stone were lying on the vertex. A feeling as if cold 
water were dropping on the head. 
Eyes: Pressure from behind forward. Sensation of 
spasmodic drawing of the eyes. Vision weak and in- 
distinct. (Opacities of the cornea?) 
Nose: Nose dry, bleeding. Swelling of the nose, 
with a coppery redness. Nose dry and hot. 
Stomach: Eructations of a bitter, sour, scraping fluid. 
Vomiting green bile. Pain as from ulceraton of the 
stomach when touched, > after eating. 
Abdomen: Painful shocks, as from something living 
and moving. General bruised pain. Beating in the 
upper abdomen, as from within outward. 
Urinary Organs: Retention of urine. Urine passes 
by drops, is scanty, bloody and burning. 
Sexual Organs: Inflammation of the urethra, with 
soreness and tensive pain during erections. Burning, 
biting pain, extending backward while urinating. 
Burning when urinating, worse just after urinating. 
Burning pain, compelling him to urinate almost con- 
stantly. 
Clinical. In urethritis, with burning, biting pain extending back- 
ward towards bladder when urinating, with frequent urging to uri- 
nate, the urine is scalding, with spasmodic closure of the sphincter 
of the bladder, cystitis in consequence of gonorrhoea, with bloody 
urine; gonorrhoea, great swelling of prepuce, etc. This drug is use- 
ful in gonorrhoea immediately following Aconite, provided Aconite 102 
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[Cannab. Sat. 
has been indicated in the first few hours of the disease ; cases which 
require Cannab. have less profuse discharges than those requiring Arg. 
nit., and usually there is much less swelling and inflammation about 
the glans penis, though the excessive swelling of the prepuce has 
proved a valuable indication in some cases. Many physicians are in 
the habit of using Cannab. sat. through the whole course of gonor- 
rhoea, claiming that by its use the disease usually does not last more 
than ten days. 
Respiratory Organs: Attacks of asthma; suffocation; 
can breathe only when upright. Dyspnoea and suffo- 
cation as from a weight on the chest. Tough mucus 
in the lower part of the trachea in the morning, with 
ability to loosen only a little, which must be swal- 
lowed, after hawking and coughing; scraping in tra- 
chea as if raw and sore; finally the mucus loosens 
itself, and he is obliged to hawk it up repeatedly. 
Breathing oppressed from tensive-pressure pains in 
the middle of the sternum, which was sore to touch, 
with sleepiness. Cough; hacking from the pit of the 
throat, from which a cold salt fluid is felt deep in the 
throat. 
. Heart and Pulse: Beating of the heart as if it would 
fall out on moving and on stooping, with a feeling of 
warmth. 
Back: Drawing pain in the region of the kidneys, 
extending into the inguinal glands, with anxious nau- 
sea in the pit of the stomach. Pain in the back takes 
away his breath. 
Extremities: Bruised pain in the arms on motion. 
Pain in the lower extremities as from great fatigue. 
Weakness and tottering when walking, with dull pain 
in the knees as from great weariness. 
Sleep: Irresistible sleepiness during the day. Unre- 
freshing sleep at night. Sleeplessness at night on 
account of heat and anxiety, as if dashed with hot 
water. Wakes from frightful dreams. 
Fever: Shivering, with violent thirst. External 
coldness, with heat, and heat with thirst. Heat at 
night. Cantharis.] 
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CANTHARIS. 
General Action: Spanish flies applied to the skin pro- 
duce blisters (vesication, with inflammation and even 
sloughing.) It produces (taken internally) the most 
violent inflammation of the whole gastro-intestinal 
canal, especially of the lower bowel. It is eliminated 
by the kidneys, and causes acute inflammation of that 
organ, and of the entire urinary tract. In some cases 
it produces sexual excitement. Delirium and convul- 
sions occasionally result from large doses. 
Generalities: Emaciation. Convulsions like epilepsy. 
Convulsions, with howling, like a dog, ending in stu- 
por. General burning pains, associated with soreness 
of all parts of the body. Tearing pains in the limbs, 
> rubbing. A feeling of dryness in the joints. Ex- 
treme weakness and faintness. Extreme sensitiveness 
of all parts. General aggravation on the right side, 
<( coughing, > lying down, )> warmth. 
Mind: Anxiety and restlessness. Furious delirium. 
Insolent, contradictory mood. 
Clinical. Acute mania, generally of a sexual type; amorous frenzy, 
fiery desire for sexual intercourse, with persistent, painful erections, 
paroxysms of rage, crying and barking, even convulsions. Acute 
mania after erysipelas. (Mania in a woman, with occasional spasms, 
attempts to bite, with strangury, which seemed to have resulted from 
applying turpentine to the feet, immediately ameliorated by Can- 
thar.) Delirium, with dread. 
Head: General feeling of burning, deep-seated in the 
brain, with soreness. Tearing pains in the head. 
Headache seeming to come from the nape of the neck, 
extending to the forehead. 
Eyes: Inflammation, with soreness and burning. In- 
voluntary spasmodic motions of the eyes. All objects 
seem yellow. Eyes look yellow. 
Nose: Swelling, with redness and soreness and burn- 
ing of the nose. Sneezing. 
Face: Burning redness and swelling of the face. 
Face becomes deathly pale during and after the pains. 
Jaws become tightly closed, like trismus, 104 
A PRIMER OF 
[Cantharis. 
Mouth: .Gums spongy and swollen; suppurated. 
(Dental fistula.) Mucous membrane of the mouth in- 
flamed, with burning, or covered with blisters, < tak- 
ing water. Foul, frothy saliva, streaked with blood. 
Tongue swollen, thickly furred, red at the edges; cov- 
ered with blisters. General burning, extending into 
the throat and stomach. 
Throat: Internally swollen, inflamed, covered with 
plastic lymph, or with ulcers. A feeling of constric- 
tion, with difficult swallowing. 
Stomach: Aversion to, and dread of food. Thirst, 
with dread of drinking. Burning pains in the stomach. 
Heartburn, < drinking. Eructations like a hiccough, 
which seem to go downward again towards the stomach. 
Inflammation, with violent, burning pain. Anxiety 
and uneasiness in the stomach, with great sensitive- 
ness. 
Abdomen: Distended and tympanitic. Tenderness. 
Cutting pains towards evening during a stool; after 
the stool shivering. Burning along the whole ali- 
mentary canal. Incarceration of flatus under the 
short ribs. Burning pains here and there, especially 
in the upper part of the abdomen. Pains in the hypo- 
chondria, as from incarceration of flatus. 
Rectum and Stool: Tenesmus. Evacuation of pure 
blood from bowels and from bladder. After the stool, 
burning. Loose stools, with burning in the anus. 
Stools of blood and mucus. Stools red and slimy. 
Mucus with the stools like scrapings from intestines, 
with streaks of blood. 
Clinical. Diarrhoea like scrapings of intestines; reddish, mucous or 
bloody, flaky; during stool extreme burning at anus, dysenteric, 
bloody stools, with intolerable burning tenesmus, with chill as if 
water were poured over one (Caps.). Acute dysentery, with un- 
quenchable thirst; even the lips, mouth ami throat feel raw and 
burning, with canker, tendency to collapse, cold hands and feet. 
Urinary Organs: Pains in the region of both kidneys, 
with tenesmus of the bladder. Paroxysmal burning Cantharis.] 
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pains in the kidneys; the region becomes sensitive to 
the slightest touch; evacuation of bloody urine. Cut- 
ting pain in the urethra from the kidneys towards the 
penis. Acute inflammation of the kidneys, with tenes- 
mus of the bladder; bloody urine. Pain in the bladder, 
with frequent and intolerable tenesmus. Intense burn- 
ing in the bladder, < before urinating. Burning, cut- 
ting pain in the neck of the bladder, extending for- 
ward. Extreme tenesmus, with constant urging and 
burning. Intense burning in the urethra, < motion, 
> lying on the back. Constant urging to urinate; 
micturition painful, in drops; urging, and always but 
one spoonful; also in morning, with passage of a few 
drops, causing smarting and burning along urethra, 
especially near fossa navicularis; finally, after long 
straining, a few drops of bloody and albuminous urine; 
a convulsive tremor of all limbs, cold sweat on fore- 
head and chest, sinking back in bed half-exhausted ; 
no rest on account of immediate return of these suf- 
ferings. Ineffectual urging, then several drops, with 
bloody streaks and pain. Urethra inflamed, with 
burning, cutting, smarting, pains before, during and 
after micturition. The urine scalds as it is passed 
drop by drop. Urine bloody, turbid, albuminous, de- 
positing a white, mealy sediment. 
Clinical. Most violent cystitis, with intense tenesmus; constant de- 
sire to urinate; the urine is bloody, scanty, etc. The cystitis calling for 
Cantharis is of a most highly inflammatory character; it may be asso- 
ciated with general fever, chill, always with most terrible distress in 
the neck of the bladder. Acute nephritis, with extreme distress in 
the bladder, urine scanty, bloody, albuminous, etc. (Compare Tereb.) 
In renal calculi, with the acute bladder symptoms of the drug, hsema- 
turia, etc. Gravel in children, constant pulling at the penis. In 
gonorrhoea, with most intense suffering, sexual excitement, chordee, 
with constant distress in bladder, discharge of blood. 
Sexual Organs, Male: Inflammation of the sexual or- 
gans, increasing even to gangrene of the penis. Swell- 
ing and pain even to external pressure. Priapism. 
Severe, painful erections at night, with contraction 106 
A PRIMER OF 
[Cantharis. 
and sore pain in the whole of urethra. Erections per- 
sistent, without any voluptuous sensation. Violent 
sexual desire, with incessant painful erections. 
Sexual Organs, Female: Inflammation and swelling of 
the external genitals, with irritation. Menstruation 
too early and too profuse, of black blood. 
Clinical. Constant discharge from uterus, aggravated by false 
step, 'with discharge from bladder. Inflammation of the ovaries, with 
burning pain, especially worse during menstruation, ovaries ex- 
tremely sensitive. Puerperal metritis, especially mania of a sexual 
character, with inflamed bladder, etc. Pruritus of vagina. Men- 
struation too early and dark, with great soreness of breasts, etc. 
Respiratory Organs: A feeling of great weakness of 
all the vocal organs. Breathing oppressed on account 
of constriction of the larynx. Larynx inflamed, with 
internal heat and burning. 
Chest: Sticking pains in the sides of the chest, from 
side to side, and from before backward. Burning pains 
in the chest. 
Heart and Pulse: Pulse hard, generally small, rapid, 
sometimes intermittent; rarely hard and full, as in 
inflammation. 
Neck and Back: Tearing pains in the back. Spas- 
modic pains in the muscles on bending forward and 
backward. Violent, burning pains in the region of 
the kidneys, with sensitiveness to the slightest touch, 
with urinary symptoms. Pains in the lumbar region, 
with urinary symptoms, or with dysenteric symptoms. 
Stitching, tearing pains in the coccyx. 
Extremities: Tearing pains through the limbs. 
Skin: Vesicular eruptions; itching and burning when 
touched. Inflammation like erysipelas. 
Sleep: Great sleepiness in the afternoon and sleep- 
lessness at night. 
Fever: Cold stage predominates; thirst after the 
chill. Sweat of an urinous odor. Capsicum.] 
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CAPSICUM. 
General Action: It produces inflammation of mucous 
membranes, with bloody, mucous discharges (bowels, 
bladder, throat, etc.). It produces well-marked chill 
and fever, neuralgias and phlegmonous inflammations, 
with threatening, deep-seated abscesses (lungs, ear). 
Generalities: Great sensitiveness to cold air, espe- 
cially to drafts of air. General creaking and cracking 
in the joints. Stiffness and painfulness of all the joints 
when beginning to walk. Dread of all motion. A gen- 
eral relaxed and phlegmatic temperament. Most of 
the symptoms are < after eating and drinking, most 
violent on beginning to move, and > continued mo- 
tion. 
Clinical. Most useful in older persons who»have become debilitated 
by disease and who react badly; not so useful in young people. Often 
adapted to people who have exhausted their vitality, especially by 
mental work, and whose vital heat is diminished, who do not react, 
especially from chill; muscles are weary and painful; fear of the 
slightest draft of either warm or cold air; sometimes indicated in 
persons who abstain from their accustomed alcoholic stimulants. The 
pains in general are burning in character and are accompanied by 
chilliness. Many of the sensations are those of constriction, about 
the throat, chest, bladder, rectum, etc. 
Mind: Taciturn, and absorbed in himself. Irritated 
by the slightest causes. Unusual alteration of mood. 
(Homesickness, with chilliness, hot and red cheeks and 
sleeplessness.) 
Head: Headache, generally throbbing, in the fore- 
head or temples. Violent headache, as though the 
skull would burst, on coughing. A feeling as though 
the head were too full. Drawing tearing in the bones 
of the forehead, worse on the right side. Aching above 
the root of the nose. One-sided neuralgia of the head, 
a pressing pain, < moving the head or eyes, nausea, 
even to vomiting. 
Eyes: Pain as from a foreign body in the eyes. Burn- 
ing. Pupils dilated. Dimness of vision. 108 
A PRIMER OF 
[Capsicum. 
Ears: Pressing pain deep in the ears, as if an abscess 
would form. Painful swelling behind the ears. 
Clinical. Valuable remedy in chronic suppuration of the ears, with 
bursting headache, chilliness, etc.; suppuration of the middle ear, 
with perforation of the drum and discharge of yellow pus. Particu- 
larly in mastoid disease, with great tenderness over the petrous 
bone, threatening to involve the meninges of the brain. 
Nose: Tickling, with sneezing, in the nose. Dimin- 
ished smell. Nose-bleed in the morning in bed. 
Face: Pain, fine, as if in the nerves or in the 
bones, < external touch, tormenting when falling 
asleep, especially about the malar bone. Redness of 
face, frequently alternating with paleness. Lips swollen 
and cracked; smarting and burning. 
Mouth: Vesicles in the mouth, with burning. Fetid 
odor. Viscid, offensive saliva. Tough mucus in the 
mouth. 
Throat: Spasmodic contraction of the throat. Sore 
throat, even when not swallowing; on swallowing, 
feels inflamed. 
Clinical. Sore throat of smokers and drinkers, with inflammation, 
burning, relaxed uvula, sometimes dry, in other cases with tough 
mucus, difficult to dislodge. Diphtheria, witli gangrenous sloughs 
extending to roof of mouth, with excessive burning, spasmodic con- 
striction, chilliness, etc. (Compare Canth.) 
Stomach: Unnatural appetite, alternating with aver- 
sion to food. Loss of thirst. (When drinking, chills.) 
Food has a sour taste; after eating, burning in the 
stomach. Great flatulence from vegetables. Swelling 
of the pit of the stomach. 
Abdomen: Distended; feels as though it would burst; 
takes away the breath. Flatulent colic. Colic, with 
cutting twisting about navel and passage of tough 
mucus, like diarrhoea, at times mixed with black blood; 
aftei' every stool thirst, and after every drink shiver- 
ing. Tension, especially in epigastric region, between 
pit of stomach and navel, < motion, with tension in 
lower part of back. Tensive pain, extending to chest, 
as from distention of abdomen. Capsicum.] 
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Rectum and Stool: Tenesmus. Urging to stool after 
drinking, but only a little mucus passed. Feeling as 
if he would have diarrhoea as soon as he drank any- 
thing (Crot. tig.), but only a little passed every time. 
Haemorrhoids. Burning in the anus; burning pain. 
Biting-stinging in anus, with diarrhoea-like stools. 
Small, frequent passages, consisting of mucus, at times 
mingled with blood and causing tenesmus (Merc, c., 
Canth.), preceded by flatulent colic in hypogastrium. 
Diarrhoea, then empty tenesmus; mucus diarrhoea, 
with tenesmus. Small stool, consisting of only mucus. 
Clinical. Dysentery, stools bloody, tenacious mucus, with exces- 
sive burning and tenesmus; also associated with tenesmus of the 
bladder (Canth. and Merc, cor.); also particularly characterized by 
excessive thirst, with shivering from drinking (Arsen.) and by severe 
pain in back after the stool. 
Urinary Organs: Tenesmus; strangury; frequent, al- 
most ineffectual, urging to urinate. Pressure towards 
bladder while coughing and afterwards, with stitches 
extending outward in region of bladder. Burning 
pain in urethra during and after micturition. 
Sexual Organs, Male : Loss of sexual power. Coldness 
of the scrotum in the morning on waking. 
Respiratory Organs: Hoarseness. Tickling in the 
larynx, in the evening after lying down, causing dry, 
hacking cough. Dry cough, worse in the evening and 
at night; cough is generally associated with concomi- 
tant symptoms, especially pains in other portions of 
the body, ears, throat, etc. The cough expels an ex- 
tremely offensive breath from the lungs. Dyspnoea. 
Constriction of the chest, arresting breathing, < mo- 
tion. Pain as if the chest were too full, or as if it 
would fly to pieces. 
Neck and Back: Drawing tearing and jerking pains 
in the neck, in the right cervical glands, or up and 
down the spine. 
Extremities, Lower: Pain, sticking, tearing or draw- 110 
A PRIMER OF 
[Carbo Animalis. 
iug from the hips to the feet, < coughing, touch, or 
bending trunk backward. Tensive pain in the knee. 
Sleep: Sleeplessness after midnight; cannot fall 
asleep. Sleep full of dreams. 
Fever: General coldness. Coldness in the evening. 
Shivering and chilliness after every drink. Heat 
localized, of the ears towards evening, of the tip of 
the nose, of the hands, < in the morning by washing 
in cold water. 
Clinical. Intermittent fever; chill begins in the back, ameliorated 
by heat; thirst, bnt chill after drinking; with the chill excruciating 
pain in back and limbs, heat and sweat often comingled; generally 
less thirst during the fever and sweat than during the chill; the 
thirst begins even before the chill. In scarlet fever, with corrosive 
discharge from nose, great fetor of breath, general tendency to cold- 
ness. Ssmetimes indicated in typhoid fever. Ocasionally in pyaemia, 
with high temperature and profuse sweat, easily chilled, aggravated 
by drinking. 
CARBO ANIMALIS. 
Generalities: General lack of energy ; also, after the 
appearance of the menses, so that she can scarcely 
speak, with yawning and stretching. The pains are 
generally burning. Great sensitiveness to open, cold, 
dry air. 
Mind: Desires to be alone, feels sad and avoids con- 
versation. Anxiety in the evening, with dread of 
being in the dark. Homesickness, with weeping. Al- 
ternations of mood and over-excitabillity, alternating 
with fretful sadness. 
Head: General heaviness, particularly in the occi- 
put, with confusion; at night, with weariness in the 
feet, which she can scarcely lift. Pressive headaches, 
worse in the cold air. A feeling of tension of the 
skin of the forehead and vertex; a sensation as if 
something lay above the eyes, so that she could not 
look up. Pain in the vertex as if the skull had been 
split open, so that she holds it with her hands. 
Eyes: A feeling as if the eyes lay loose in their Carbo Animalis.] 
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orbits. Very far-sighted, with dilated pupils. A net 
seems to swim before the eyes. 
Ears: Roaring in the ears. Difficult hearing; sounds 
become confused, and one cannot tell the direction 
from which they come. (Discharge from the ears.) 
Nose: Redness of the tip of the nose, which is pain- 
ful when touched. The nasal bones become painful. 
A catarrh, with scraping in the throat, worse in the 
evening and at night and on swallowing. Nose-bleed 
in the morning follows vertigo, preceded by pressure 
and confusion in the head. 
Face: Copper-like eruption on the face. Smooth, 
elevated spots like erysipelas. Cracks and blisters on 
the lips. 
Mouth: Teeth become loose. The gums swollen, red, 
painful. Blisters on the gums, which become ulcers. 
Burning on the tip of the tongue, with rawness in the 
mouth. Burning blisters on the tongue and mouth. 
Throat: Frequent hawking and raising of much 
mucus in the throat. Rawness of the throat nearly 
every morning, extending to the pit of the stomach. 
Burning in the throat. Swallowing painful, as from 
blisters. 
Stomach: At times a ravenous hunger, at times aver- 
sion to food, especially to fat food and to tobacco. 
Bitter taste in the morning. Taste of the food which 
had long been eaten. Ineffectual eructations. Nau- 
sea at night, or after eating meat, or from the custom- 
ary tobacco. Qualmishness, with faintness. Heart- 
burn which rises from the stomach. Digestion very 
feeble. Every sort of food causes distress. Violent 
pressure in the stomach, even when fasting and in 
the evening in bed. Griping and clawing in the stom- 
ach. Constriction, like a cramp, in the stomach. Au- 
dible rumbling in the stomach. 
Abdomen: Distention, flatulent. Many symptoms 
from flatulence. Tearing transversely across pubes 112 
A PRIMER OF 
[Carbo Animalis. 
and then through pudenda as far as anus. Sticking- 
pains in the groins. A sensation after sitting down 
as if a large heavy body were in the groins, better 
after the passage of gas from the bowels. 
Clinical. Inflamed and enlarged inguinal glands, very hard or sup- 
purated, with hard, elevated margins and offensive discharges. Pains 
extending from buboes to the thighs, with chilliness, etc. 
Rectum and. Stool: Swollen haemorrhoids, with burn- 
ing pain on waking. Burning in the rectum and anus. 
Oozing of sticky moisture from the anus. Sticking 
pains, with soreness; soreness in the evening, with 
moisture. A sticky moisture oozes on the perineum, 
behind the scrotum. Stool scanty and delayed. Pas- 
sage of blood with the stool. 
Urinary Organs: Burning in the urethra when uri- 
nating. Urging to urinate, with increased flow. In- 
voluntary discharge of offensive urine. 
Sexual Organs, Female: Menses scanty the first day, 
afterwards more copious; discharge dark colored. 
Menstruation accompanied by pains in the sacrum, 
groins, labia and thighs. Extreme prostration from 
menstruation; can hardly speak. Leucorrhcea, stain- 
ing yellow; offensive and corrosive; worse when walk- 
ing or standing. 
Clinical. Chronic metritis, with induration of the neck of the 
uterus. True scirrhus of the uterus; painful induration in the 
mammary gland, with stinging pain. Induration of right ovary, 
which feels like a heavy ball. Sometimes indicated in disorders fol- 
lowing suppression of the menses, with feeling of goneness, desire 
to be alone, etc. (Compare Sepia.) The pains in the sexual organs 
are generally burning or sometimes tearing, with heaviness and pres- 
sure. Sometimes indicated in syphilis, with copper-colored erup- 
tiens or with buboes, which have a blue look. Old buboes which 
will not heal, but which secrete an offensive ichor. Scirrhous nodule 
in mammary gland; skin looks bluish and mottled; axillary glands in- 
volved, with burning, drawing pains. 
Respiratory Organs: Hoarseness in the morning after 
rising, with rawness and dry cough. Hoarseness 
worse in the evening, loss of voice during the night. 
Cough from tickling and constriction in the larynx Carbo Animalis.] 
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and chest. Cough dry, worse in the morning on ris- 
ing, lasting all day; shaking abdomen as if everything 
would fall out; she is obliged to hold the bowels with 
the hands and sit down; loose rales in chest until some- 
thing is coughed up; in evening from tickling in the 
larynx; only at night when lying on right side. Suf- 
focative cough in the evening after falling asleep. 
Cough dry at night, but with a grayish, purulent ex- 
pectoration in the morning. Burning pains in the 
chest. Tightness of the chest, especially in the morn- 
ing and after eating. 
Neck and Back: Painful indurations in the neck. 
Pressing, drawing pains in the small of the back, or a 
feeling as if it were broken. Dragging, bruised pain 
in the coccyx. Pain in the coccyx; on touch it be- 
comes a burning. 
Extremities: Numbness of all the limbs. A gouty 
stiffness of the joints. All the joints are powerless, 
and easily give out, and one gets sprains easily. 
Bruised pains in the joints, < motion. Indurated 
glands in the axilla. Burrowing bone pains in the 
arms. Gouty-like stiffness of the joints. The hands 
fall asleep. Trembling of the hands. Stitches in the 
left hip when sitting. Tension in the groins and hol- 
lows of the knees. The ankles become sprained easily. 
The legs, far up as the calves, fall asleep during the 
day. Numerous corns appear and become very pain- 
ful to the touch. Inflammation and burning pains 
like chilblains on feet and toes. 
Sleep: Sleepiness the whole forenoon, with frequent 
yawning. Unable to sleep in the evening on account 
of restlessness, anxiety and frightful images. Anxious 
sleep, with weeping, groaning and talking. 
Fever: Chilliness during the day, waking at night, 
cold feet. Chilliness in the evening in bed, with cold 
hands and feet, followed by sweat during sleep. 
Sweats easily on the slightest exertion. Offensive 114 
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[Carbo Veg. 
sweat at night. Night sweats very exhaustive. Per- 
spiration colors the linen yellow. 
CARBO VEGETABILIS. 
Generalities: Weakness in the morning, and stretch- 
ing of the limbs; after a short walk in the open air; 
mostly in arms when writing; < walking, > sitting. 
Sudden attacks of faint-like weakness. General ex- 
haustion towards noon. Tearing pains in various 
parts of the body. Rheumatic drawing pains, with 
coldness in the hands and feet. Paralytic tearings in 
limbs, with flatulent symptoms. Burning pains in the 
limbs, bones and in ulcers. The limbs feel bruised in 
the morning after rising from bed. 
Clinical. Tendency to haemorrhage in low types of disease, as in 
pernicious anaemia, purpura, typhoid fever, etc. Tendency to putrid 
decomposition. Sometimes indicated after excesses. Sequelae of 
strains and of becoming cold. Faints readily, especially as the result 
of debilitating diseases. In the collapsed stage of various diseases 
the patient wants to be fanned constantly, with general fetid odors, 
bluish appearance of the skin. Senile gangrene, humid leg; varicose 
ulcers burn at night; offensive discharge, purple all around. The 
veins are swollen and livid. 
Mind: Anxiety in the evening; could scarcely remain 
lying still. Irritable mood. Easily excited to anger 
and violence. Fear of ghosts in the night. Ideas flow 
slowly; periodic weakness of memory. 
Head: Stitches through the head on coughing. The 
hat presses on the head like a heavy weight, and the 
sensation continues even after taking it off, as if the 
head were bound up with a cloth. Heaviness;, con- 
fusion in the morning after rising, > lying down, with 
inability to think easily and necessity to make a great 
exertion, as if rousing from a dream. Rush of blood 
to the head. A feeling of cramp-like tension in the 
brain. Drawing pains in the head, coming up from 
the nape of the neck, with nausea. Vertigo, so that 
he is obliged to hold on to something; when stooping, Carbo Veg.] 
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as if the head reeled. Painful sensitiveness of the 
external head to pressure. Hair falls out. 
Eyes: Pain, as from over-strain. Pressing and burn- 
ing in the eyes. A heavy weight seems to lie upon the 
eyes; has to make great effort when reading and writ- 
ing. The lids are agglutinated at night. Muscles 
painful when looking up. Black floating spots before 
vision. Short-sighted. 
Ears: Heat and redness of the external ear every 
evening. Offensive, flesh-colored discharge from the 
right ear. Ears seem stopped, as from something 
heavy lying in front of them. Roaring and ringing- 
in the ears. 
Clinical. Offensive otorrhcea. Usually in ma J secretion of cerumen, 
with exfoliation of epidermoid cells. Deafness after exanthematous 
diseases. 
Nose: Tip of the nose red and scabby. Ineffectual 
attempts to sneeze, with crawling in the nose. Violent, 
persistent nose-bleed, especially in the morning, pre- 
ceded and followed by pallor of the face. 
Clinical. Recurring nose-bleed in persons who have been over- 
taxed with anxiety, especially in elderly people. Varicose veins on 
nose. 
Face: Face pale, greenish-yellow. Swelling of the 
face and lips. Lips cracked. Drawing pains in both 
sides of the face and jaws. Soreness of the jawbones. 
Mouth: Drawing, tearing toothache, <Z salt food. 
Persistent looseness of the teeth. Gums loose and re- 
tracted from the incisors. Gums bleed easily and fre- 
quently. Gums sensitive when chewing. Tongue 
coated white, coated yellowish-brown. Tongue sensi- 
tive and raw. 
Throat: A feeling of constriction in the throat, which 
hinders swallowing. Much mucus in the throat, which 
is easily brought up on hawking. 
Stomach: Immoderate hunger or thirst. Persistent 
aversion to meat and fat. Aversion to milk, which 
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[Carbo Veg. 
taste. Food tastes of salt. The mouth is sore after 
eating. Eructations of food, especially of fat food, for 
a long time. Nausea in the morning, vomiting, even of 
blood. Constriction of the stomach at night, extending 
into the chest, with distention of the abdomen. Cramp 
in the stomach, with sensation of a burning pressure. 
Great sensitiveness of the pit of the stomach. Much 
flatulence in the stomach. The slightest food dis- 
tresses. Acidity of the stomach when lying on the 
back and when walking. 
Clinical,. Flatulent dyspepsia, with sour eructations; stomach is 
swollen like a drum; the distress comes on half an hour or an hour 
after eating; every sort of food disagrees, the stomach seems to be 
suffering from inertia, is unable to digest the simplest article. Acid 
dyspepsia, with heartburn, coldness of the surface of the body, feeble 
pulse, etc. Gastralgia of nursing women, with excessive flatulence, 
sour and rancid belching, vomiting of food. The sensitiveness in the 
stomach or burning sometimes extends into the small of the back, 
with excessive distention by gas. 
Abdomen: Distention after dinner; with rumbling; 
griping; much motion in the abdomen of flatulence. 
Bruised pain in the hypochondria, especially in the 
region of the liver. Intolerant of tight clothing 
around the hypochondrium. Stitches in the ribs, es- 
pecially in the region of the liver. Griping in the 
abdomen below the navel, extending from the left 
towards the right side, with a paralyzed feeling in the 
right leg. Flatulent colic and great moving about of 
flatulence; a discharge of excessive amounts of foul 
flatulence. (Colic from riding in the cars or carriage.) 
Rectum and Stool: Gnawing, stitches, crawling in the 
rectum. Stitches during stool. Tenesmus. Pressure 
and ineffectual urging, but only evacuation of gas. 
Bleeding during stool. Itching and burning of the 
anus. Soreness and moisture of the perineum. Stool 
enveloped in yellowish mucus, at last bloody. 
Clinical. Diarrhoea brown, yellow or slimy, of a putrid odor, often 
involuntary. The diarrhoea is generally the accompaniment of low 
types of fever, associated with tendency to coldness in the extremi- Carbo Veg.] 
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ties, cold tongue, lips, etc., tendency to collapse, desire to be fanned, 
pulse weak, voice lost. 
Urinary Organs: Frequent, anxious desire to urinate, 
day and night. Incontinence of urine at night. Urine 
red, dark-colored, turbid; deposits a red sediment. 
Sexual Organs, Female: Aphthae on the pudenda. 
Itching, burning and soreness of the pudenda. Vari- 
cose veins of the pudenda. Menstruation too early 
and too profuse, pale; preceded by cramp-like pains 
in the abdomen. Acrid leucorrhoea, milky; worse in 
the morning on rising, causing soreness and rawness 
of the labia. Menses too thick and of strong odor. 
Respiratory Organs: Roughness of the larynx, with a 
deep, rough voice, which fails on exertion, without 
pain. Rawness in the larynx from frequent clearing 
of the throat, with soreness. Pain in the larynx, as if 
ulcerated when coughing. Hoarseness, so that speak- 
ing aloud was difficult. Hoarseness, worse in the 
morning and evening, < continued talking. Cough 
in the evening in bed; also in the morning after 
rising, from itching in the larynx. Expectoration; 
tenacious, salt. Spasmodic cough three to four times 
a day. Expectoration of green mucus; expectoration 
of blood. Dyspnoea, with a fulness of the chest, and 
palpitation on the slightest motion. 
Clinical. Aphonia from relaxation of vocal cords. Chronic laryn- 
geal catarrh, with rawness and soreness in larynx, particularly in old 
people. Has been prescribed in the last stage of membranous croup. 
Chronic bronchial catarrh of old people; burning in the chest, chok- 
ing when coughing, ameliorated by heat. Cough, generally spas- 
modic, suffocative. Asthma, particularly in old people who are 
debilitated, with flatulence, etc., especially with blue color of the 
skin. Haemorrhage from the lungs, with burning pain in chest, op- 
pression, desire to be fanned all the time; cold skin. Sometimes 
useful in a late stage of pneumonia, with excessive dyspnoea and 
tendency to collapse. 
Chest: Oppression of the chest on waking, with 
weakness of it; after disappearance of coryza, with 
wheezing and rattling, inability to remain in bed on 
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vomiting and was difficult to loosen. Burning pains 
in the chest, as from glowing coal. Weariness of the 
chest on waking. 
Heart and Pulse: Palpitation. Weak pulse. 
Clinical. Useful in weak heart with fatty degeneration with cold 
sweat, desire to be fanned, tendency to haemorrhages. 
Neck and Back: Tearing pains in the muscles. Cer- 
vical glands swollen. Drawing pains in the nape, ex- 
tending up into the neck, with nausea and rush of water 
from the mouth. Drawing pains in the back, < sitting 
or stooping. Pinching pain near the lowest part of 
the spine. Pain across the loins, as from a plug; can 
not sit, must put pillow under it. Sore pain beneath 
the coccyx. 
Extremities: Drawing pains. Extremities go to sleep, 
especially the one on which one lies. Tearing pains in 
the forearms and wrists. Heat in the hands. Paralytic 
weakness of the fingers when grasping anything. 
Paralytic tearings in the lower extremities. Drawing 
pains in the hips, extending down the thighs, < 
when walking. Heaviness of the lower extremities; 
stiffness after evening nap, so that the gait was un- 
steady until he had walked a little. Paralyzed sensa- 
tion. Cramp in the soles, numbness of feet. Feet 
sweaty. Toes red and swollen, with stinging pains, as 
if they had been frozen. 
Skin: Burning pains in various places. Burning in 
ulcers, with offensive discharge, which is corrosive. 
Itching, worse in the evening when warm in bed. 
Sleep: Sleepiness during the day, > moving about. 
Falls asleep late. Loss of sleep at night on account of 
restlessness. Frequent waking at night, with cold 
knees and limbs. 
Fever: General chilliness and coldness; thirst only 
during the coldness. Flushes of heat and burning in 
various places in the skin. Perspiration on eating; of 
a sour odor in the early morning hours. Carbolic Acid.] 
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CARBOLIC ACID. 
General Action: A powerful protoplasmic poison. It 
destroys life by producing paralysis of the heart and 
respiration; preceded by vertigo, roaring in the ears, 
profuse sweat, contracted pupils and collapse. It some- 
times produces convulsions. The blood is disorgan- 
ized, ahd hemoglobinuria results (black urine). It 
produces an inflammation of mucous membrane, char- 
acterized by hard, shrivelled membranous patches of 
exudation. Applied to the skin, anethesia results. 
The stomach is sometimes paralyzed, so that one can 
not vomit. 
Generalities: Prostration. Faintness, with sweat; the 
heart seems almost to stop. Symptoms extend from 
above downward. Aggravation by reading, especially 
of the occipital headache, so that he cannot study. 
Pricking, like needles, all over the body. Soreness 
and stiffness of all the muscles. 
Mind: Unfitted for mental or physical labor. Un- 
consciousness. 
Head: Tight headache, as from a rubber band across 
the forehead, or as if a rubber band were stretched 
from one temple to the other. Pain in right side of the 
head. 
Eyes: Neuralgia over the right eye. Anaesthesia of 
conjunctiva. Loss of vision, with indistinct outline of 
optic papilla. 
Face: Face pale, pinched, with cold sweat. Face 
cyanotic. Lips covered with a white membrane. 
Mouth: Mouth covered with false membrane. Mu- 
cous membrane livid, corroded, exuding a bloody 
mucus. Burning pain in the mouth down to the 
stomach. 
Throat: Red and covered with mucous exudation. 
Soft palate white and shrivelled. Burning dryness on 
attempting to swallow, which is almost impossible. 120 
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[Carbolic Acid. 
Clinical. In diphtheria, especially with tendency to involve the 
nose and inside of mouth; extremely fetid breath; regurgitation on 
swallowing liquids, urine highly albuminous, face dusky red, white 
about the mouth and nose; rapid sinking of vital forces. 
Stomach: Craves stimulants. Nausea while eating; 
frequent spitting. 
Clinical. Vomiting of drunkards; vomiting of pregnant women, 
with violent frontal headache. Has been found useful in cancer of 
the stomach. 
Abdomen: Distention, rumbling and rolling of gas. 
Pain in the right hypochondrium and in both iliac 
regions. 
Stool: Clinical. Dysentery, of bloody mucus, like scrapings of the 
intestines; often involuntary diarrhoea, putrid, dark, with vomiting 
of dark green substances. 
Urine: Urine almost black, alkaline. Contains glu- 
cose. 
Sexual Organs, Female: Pain in the region of the left 
ovary when walking in the open air. 
Clinical. Ulcers of the cervix uteri, with fetid, acrid discharge 
from the vagina. It nearly cured epitheloma which involved the 
labia and extended to other organs. It was prescribed from the indi- 
cation of the eruption on the skin of vesicles and pustules which 
contained a bloody matter, with offensive discharge. Leucorrhoea in 
children. 
Respiratory Organs: Hacking cough, with tickling in 
the throat. Respiration stertorous. (Expectoration 
purulent, offensive.) 
Chest: Feels narrowed, as if the diaphragm oppressed 
the lungs. Circumscribed pneumonia. 
Heart: Palpitation, or violent action at night. Pulse 
rapid, weak or intermittent, irregular. 
Back: Soreness in the muscles in the back and limbs. 
Pain in the loins, < straightening up, or jolting when 
riding, )> pressure. 
Extremities, Upper: Soreness of the muscles of the 
right arm. Tired, heavy feeling in the left arm. Pain 
in the left forearm. 
Extremities, Lower: Pain on the right patella. Ach- 
ing soreness beneath the left patella, feels as it would 
be stiff and sore if moved, but better during motion. Carboneum Sulf.] 
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Skin: Livid. Vesicles on the hands and all over the 
body, with itching, > rubbing, but leaving a burning 
pain. Vesicles become bloody. 
Fever: General chilliness and coldness of the surface. 
Chills run from the head downward. Heat of the 
head. Clammy sweat of the head, face and hands. 
CARBONEUM SULFURATUM. 
General Action: It produces paralysis, with symp- 
toms of intense congestion of nerve centres. Cerebral 
excitement followed by depression. General hyperes- 
thesia, then anesthesia, etc. 
Generalities: Tremblings of muscles and of fibrille. 
Darting pains in almost every part of the body. The 
whole body seems swollen. Anesthesia preceded by 
hyperesthesia, these followed by tremblings. Great 
weakness and fainting, or partial syncope, with con- 
vulsive movements of limbs. Progressive multiple 
neuritis; hemiplegia of the right side ; agravation from 
tobacco, wine and beer. 
Mind: Great excitement at night; has to be confined. 
Delirium, with incoherent talking. Hallucinations of 
sight and hearing, especially magnificent objects. 
Changeable mood; extravagant gaiety or destructive 
anger; idiocy and childishness. Memory lost. Does 
not know what to do with things in the hands. Head- 
ache, as from a tight cap; worse towards evening and 
on moving the head. Confusion. 
Eyes: Sunken, fixed, without expression. Inflam- 
mation, followed by atrophy of the optic nerve. 
Ears: Deafness, as if ears were obstructed by a fixed 
substance. 
Nose: Bleeding, smell lost. 
Face: Face pale, with clammy sweat. Lips blue, 
moist, with convulsive movements. 
Mouth: Toothache drawing, < cold at night and 
better after midnight. Tongue cold, burning, stiff. 
F 122 
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[Carboneum Sulf. 
Anaesthesia of mucous membrane of mouth and 
throat. 
Stomach: Ravenous appetite, coming irregularly, 
lost. Eructations sour after coughing; burning; 
nausea on coming in or going out, > eructations or 
vomiting. Vomiting of food, with glairy mucus. Dis- 
tention, > noisy eructations. Heartburn, < pressure. 
Warmth in the pit of the stomach, extending from the 
chest to head and down to abdomen. 
Abdomen: Flatulence, > stool. Numerous symptoms 
caused by flatulence. Diarrhoea; fetid diarrhoea alter- 
nating with constipation; of yellow, frothy, sour- 
smelling fluid,nights, with retraction of umbilicus and 
tenesmus. 
Urinary Organs: Urging to urinate; passes but few 
drops at a time, with burning in the urethra, and 
tenesmus in the neck of the bladder. Cannot retain 
the urine long. Micturition painful and slow, with 
tenesmus, even bloody urine. During micturition cut- 
ting, smarting and burning. Urine albuminous, turbid. 
Sexual Organs: At first sexual desire increased, then 
lost. Penis shriveled. Testicles atrophy. Impotency. 
Frequent profuse emissions at night. 
Respiratory Organs: Cough from irritability of the 
larynx. Voice feeble, of a deep tone. Cough after 
lying down from tickling in the posterior part of the 
palate, straining the chest and making it sore. Op- 
pressed respiration. Emphysema of the lungs. Op- 
pression and fulness in the chest, or constriction, as 
if expiration were impeded, deep respirations in 
open air, ascending steps. 
Heart and Pulse: Anaemic murmur. Murmur of first 
sound extended along the great vessels. 
Extremities: Emaciation. Paralysis. Trembling. 
Lightning-like pains, with cramps, with rigidity. 
Formication, tingling as from electric currents. Weak- 
ness, especially of the legs, with numbness and cold- Card. Mar.] 
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ness. Stiffness. (Edema. Trembling of the upper ex- 
tremities. Diminished sensibility of the arms and 
hands. Cannot grasp anything with the fingers. Fin- 
gers swollen, insensible. Fingers rigid and stiff. An 
awkward gait, unsteady and tottering, worse in the 
dark, or closing the eyes. Insensibility of the lower 
extremities, muscular pains. Contraction of the mus- 
cles of the calves, painful. Pains in the joints of the 
feet, as if dislocated. Insensibility of the feet, does 
not know when they touch the ground. 
Skin: Eruptions on the face, red, elevated, as if after 
beer; face feels bloated. Itching in various parts. 
Formication of the skin. 
CARDUUS MARIANUS. 
General Action: Its chief (and only prominent) action 
is on the liver, causing soreness, pain, jaundice, etc. 
Generalities: Clinical. Diseases of miners associated with asthma, 
despondency, sallow skin, orange mine, yellow stools (disturbed 
function of liver). Numerous cases of varicose veins have been 
cured. 
Head: Dull headache; in the forehead, over the eyes; 
the whole forepart of the head, > eating. Contractive 
feeling above the eyebrows. 
Mouth: Salivation. Tongue coated white, with red 
tip and edges. Taste bitter, astringent, metallic. 
Aversion to salt meat. 
Throat: Roughness in the fauces, with dryness and 
scraping, causing cough. 
Stomach: Appetite lost. Nausea. Retching and 
vomiting of acid, green fluid. Burning pain in the 
stomach. 
Abdomen: A feeling of distention. Pain in hepatic 
region on pressure. Shooting in hepatic region, with 
moist skin. Pain in right hypochondrium; between 
right ribs and hip when driving; in hepatic and gas- 
tric regions, < pressure; tensive pain in right hypo- 
chondrium. Full feeling in hypochondrium, after 124 
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stool. Tension in liver when lying on left side, with 
pressure. 
Clinical. Hyperjemia of the liver, with sluggish action of that 
organ, with jaundice, constipation, heavy, stupid head, foul tongue, 
fulness and soreness over the region of the liver, sometimes with 
cough (CheL, etc.); the tongue is usually furred; there are usually 
nausea and vomiting of green fluid. 
Stool: Stool hard, brown, knotty. (Constipation 
alternates with diarrhoea.) 
Urinary Organs: Urine cloudy, golden-colored, acrid. 
Chest: Stitching pains in the lower right ribs when 
stooping; afterwards the pains spread all over front 
of chest, and make movement of arms, walking and 
stooping almost impossible. 
Extremities: Drawing pains; cramp-like pains; bruis- 
ed pains; stiff feelings, etc. 
CAULOPHYLLUM. 
General Action: Two general effects are prominent: 
(1) On the uterus, causing labor-like pains; (2) On 
the small joints, causing pain, soreness and swelling. 
Head: Dull headache. Drawing pains over the left 
eye. Sharp pains in the forehead, as if needles were 
sticking in, with contraction of the skin. Headache 
< on stooping, from light, in the afternoon. 
Stomach and Abdomen: Eructations sour, bitter. 
Burning pains. Rumblings in abdomen; waking at 
1 A. M., with urging to stool, then copious, painless 
stool, watery. Flatulent symptoms. Stool white. 
Stool hard, then soft. 
Extremities: Pains in fingers, ankles, feet and toes, 
causing restlessness. Flying pains in the arms and 
legs. Drawing pains, especially in the toes. Aching 
in wrists and joints of fingers. Stiffness of the fingers. 
Clinical. Labor pains are weak, do not press downward, but pass 
off with a kind of shivering. Inefficient labor pains which do not 
press downward, but fly in all directions. Useful in false, annoying 
pains a few weeks before the time for labor. Rigid os during labor, 
pains sharp, pricking. Threatening miscarriage, with uterine cramp, Causticum.] 
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haemorrhage. Prolapsus of uterus. Retroversion of uterus, with 
dysmenorrhoea, profuse leucorrhoea, etc. Subinvolution of uterus after 
child-birth, with general debility and loss of power in lower extremi- 
ties. Aphthae in vagina, with dysmenorrhoea. Dysmenorrhoea. Leu- 
corrhoea in a child. Hysterical convulsions during dysmenorrhoea, 
with pain shooting to various parts of body; great debility. Whoop- 
ing cough, with vomiting and nose-bleed. Rheumatism in small 
joints, especially of the hands, with cutting pains on closing hands, 
especially in women with suppressed menses. 
CAUSTICUM. 
General Effects: The general key to the action of 
Causticuni is the same as that to all the Potashes, 
namely, paralysis, slow pulse, low temperature, etc. 
Diuresis is a general concomitant. 
Generalities: Rheumatic, tearing pains in the limbs, 
better in bed and in warmth. Soreness, as if bruised 
or pressed in the side, hip and thigh on which he lies 
at night, with frequent necessity to turn over. Bruised 
pains in the parts when touched. Inability to lie still 
a moment at night. Uneasiness of body while sitting, 
with anxiety about heart. Flexor muscles generally 
seem to be shortened. Tremulous weakness, almost 
like paralysis, of the limbs, out of bed. General sensi- 
tiveness to cold, and to a draft of air. General aggra- 
vation in the evening, and in the open air, as well as 
from drinking coffee. 
Clinical. Childen are slow in learning to walk. Cracking in joints. 
The pains, neuralgic or rheumatic, make the patient very restless, 
but are not ameliorated by motion. Chorea, especially affecting the 
muscles of the right side and eyeballs. Epileptiform spasms or 
chorea-like spasms, especially at the time of puberty. Patients re- 
quiring Caust. are weak and anaemic, have no desire and scarcely the 
ability to make an effort. General tendency to paralytic affections 
(like all the Potashes). Paralysis resulting from rheumatism, after 
diarrhoea, etc. 
Mind: Morose, silent. Melancholy; before menstrua- 
tion ; with weakness. Anxiety and apprehension, easily 
frightened. Anxiety in the evening; is afraid to go to 
bed, at night with uneasiness, preventing sleep; as if 
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any mental work. Absent-minded. Distraction of 
mind. Weakness of memory. , 
Head: Vertigo at night on rising in bed, when lying 
down again; during micturition,worse stooping, better 
in the afternoon ; on fixing vision. Vertigo, with fall- 
ing forward and sideways. The headaches generally 
consist of stitching or drawing pains. Rarely throb- 
bing; worse in the evening, better during warmth. 
The scalp feels tense over the skull. 
Eyes: A feeling as if sand were in the eyes, with in- 
flammation. Burning in the eyes, with dryness, as 
from sand. Dryness of the eyes, with photophobia. 
Lachrymation, worse in the open air. Biting and itch- 
ing in the eyes, especially in the lids, which are red. 
Involuntary closure of the lids. Heaviness of the upper 
lids, as if he could not raise them, or as if stuck to 
the lower. Lids seem to close from weakness. Photo- 
phobia, with constant desire to wink. Vision dim; as 
from swarms of insects; vision of sparks on winking. 
Clinical. Blepharitis, ameliorated by open air. Paralysis of muscles 
of the eye, especially of upper lid. Weakness of the muscles of the 
eyeball, causing asthenopia, amounting even to paralysis, especially 
with feeling of sand in the eyes. Has arrested cataract in some cases. 
Frequent sudden loss of sight, as from a mist (muscular asthenopia). 
Double vision from paralysis of the ocular muscles; vision worse on 
turning eyes to the right. Ptosis after catching cold. 
Ears: Earache, like a forcing outward. Painful swell- 
ing of the external ear. Roaring and rushing in the 
ears, as if in the head. Re-echoing of one's own words 
and steps. 
Nose: Symptoms of coryza; nose feels stopped, with 
very yellow discharge. Frequent sneezing, especially 
in the morning. Eruption on the tip of the nose. 
Face: Yellow color, especially on the temples. 
Eruption, especially on the cheeks, like acne rosacea. 
Burning pain in the right cheek and ear. Tension and 
pain in the jaws, so that they are difficult to open, 
with difficulty in eating because a tooth seemed too Causticum.] 
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long. Difficulty in opening the jaws. Rheumatic pains 
in the articulation of the lower jaw. (Paralysis of the 
face from taking cold, one-sided.) 
Mouth: Tearing in the teeth, extending through the 
upper and lower jaws, extending to the nose and eyes. 
Sticking pain in the teeth on biting, extending up- 
ward and downward. Teeth very painful; they seem 
to be pushed out of their sockets. Swelling and sup- 
puration of the gums; fistula. Tongue painful at the 
tip; coated white on the sides, red in the middle. 
Painful vesicles on the tip of the tongue. (Paralysis 
of the tongue.) General dryness of the mouth. Sore, 
painful, abraded spots in the mouth on the hard pal- 
ate. Taste greasy, bitter, sour, putrid. 
Throat: A feeling of swelling in the throat, with in- 
clination to swallow. Secretion of much mucus, which 
cannot be expectorated; must swallow it. Constant 
disposition to swallow, as if the throat were too nar- 
row. Rawness and tickling, with a dry cough; expec- 
torates only after long coughing. Scraping down the 
back part of the throat, with dryness. (Paralysis of 
the muscles of the pharynx and oesophagus.) Aversion 
to sweet things. Thirst for cold drinks. Great aver- 
sion, with little appetite. Eructations of air; hot in 
the afternoon and evening; of food; as if undigested 
food remained in the stomach. Nausea during and 
after eating. Vomiting sour water, followed by sour 
eructations. 
Stomach: Pains in the stomach, with heat in the head 
and pressure over the whole body, > lying down. 
Pinching pains in the pit of the stomach on deep 
breathing. Cramp in the stomach. Pressing pain in 
the stomach after eating bread. 
Abdomen: Sharp pains, sticking or cutting, through 
the abdomen, in the region of the liver, < motion, 
especially during menstruation, or with diarrhoea. 
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[Causticum. 
ful distention of the abdomen, especially in children. 
Painful swelling about the umbilicus. Deep-seated 
pain above the left hip as if it would, burst on cough- 
ing. 
Rectum and Anus: Sudden piercing pains; persistent 
pressure; ineffectual efforts to stool. Painful spasms 
of the rectum which prevent evacuation of the bowels. 
Haemorrhoids, with sore pain, intolerable on walking, 
or on thinking of it. Swollen haemorrhoids, with itch- 
ing, sticking pain, and much moisture. Hard, painful 
haemorrhoids, with stinging and burning. Haemor- 
rhoids impede evacuation. Pain in the perineum. 
Clinical. Haemorrhoids, intolerably painful, aggravated by walk- 
ing. Partial paralysis of rectum; stool passed better when standing. 
Pruritus of anus and fistula. 
Stool: Obstinate constipation. Painful, ineffectual 
straining, with anxiety and redness of the face. Stool 
very small in form. After stool, anxiety. 
Urinary Organs: Insensibility of the urethra; is un- 
conscious of the passage of urine. Involuntary mic- 
turition when coughing or blowing the nose; at night 
in sleep. Intermittent micturition in the evening; 
last drops are delayed. Urging to urinate, but waits a 
long time before the urine passes. Frequent ineffectual 
efforts to urinate; afterwards, while sitting, it is invol- 
untary. After passing a few drops of urine, pain in 
the bladder, and (after walking in order to relieve it) 
cramps in the rectum. Urine often dark brown; turbid 
on standing. 
Clinical. Weakness of bladder. Paralysis of bladder; the urine is 
expelled very slowly and sometimes is even retained. Weakness of 
the sphincter of bladder, especially in children; the urine passes in- 
voluntarily, especially during the first sleep at night; also, involun- 
tarily, from the slightest excitement during the day. Paralysis of 
bladder after labor; the urine is retained. 
Sexual Organs, Male: Pressing pains in the testicles. 
Increase of smegma about the glans. Itching of the 
scrotum. 
Sexual Organs, Female: Biting, as from salt, of the Causticum.] 
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pudenda after micturition. Menstruation delayed or 
too early and profuse. Menses do not flow at night; 
offensive and cause itching. Leucorrhcea like the 
menses, especially worse at night, with great weak- 
ness. 
Clinical. Uterine inertia during labor. Postpartum haemorrhage 
from inertia of uterus. Leucorrhcea, especially aggravated at night, 
with great weakness. Menstruation is delayed in its appearance in 
girls. Menses late, but profuse. The flow is clotted. 
Respiratory Organs: Larynx dry; painful on blowing 
the nose. Frequent need of clearing the larynx. 
Muscles do not perform their function, hence one is 
unable to speak aloud. Hoarseness, worse in the morn- 
ing, also in the evening, with scraping in the throat. 
Cough short, dry; deep, hollow and dry, with pain in 
the chest, especially down the trachea and under the 
sternum. Cough hollow from adherent mucus in the 
chest, in which there is sticking, soreness and feeling 
of ulceration. Cough wakes in the evening and in 
the morning, but is better during the day. Cough 
always caused by talking, from a feeling of crawling- 
in the larynx. Cough caused by stooping. Cough 
causes pains in the hips. Arrest of breathing while 
talking or walking rapidly; must suddenly catch for 
breath. Rattling in the chest when coughing. Stitches 
in the chest when walking in the open air. Stitches 
and rawness in the sternum on deep breathing, 
and on lifting and on coughing. Sore pain in the 
chest, generally when coughing. Tightness, as if the 
clothes were too tight; must frequently take a deep 
breath. 
Clinical. Acute laryngitis, loss of voice and rawness and soreness 
in larynx and trachea (Bell, and Benzoin). Sudden aphonia after 
taking cold. Paralysis of vocal cords. Loss of voice in singers and 
speakers. Cough, aggravated by warmth of bed, ameliorated by sips 
of cold water. Cough, with sensation as if he " could not get under 
the mucus" to raise it. Constant, hacking cough, with involuntary 
micturition. Expectoration, as a rule, scanty; must be swallowed; 
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[Causticum. 
Neck and Back: Stiffness of the neck, cannot move 
the head. Stiffness of the neck and throat, with pain 
in the occiput; the muscles feel bound, cannot move 
the head. Painful stiffness in the neck and back, worse 
when rising from seat. Pains in the back during men- 
struation. Stitches in the left side of the back, by the 
last false ribs. Cramp-like pains in the back while sit- 
ting. Bruised pain in the coccyx. 
Extremities: Tearing pains here and there, worse in 
the joints, extending into the long bones. General 
uneasiness in the morning in bed. Weakness and 
trembling. Paralytic weakness. 
Clinical. Rheumatic paralysis of arm, aggravated by rest. Un- 
steadiness of the muscles of forearm and hand. Numbness, loss of 
sensation in hands. Contracted tendons in palms of hands. Sciatica ; 
on right side, aggravated by motion, especially aggravated by easterly 
storms. Rheumatoid arthritis, especially in persons who suffer great 
weakness of the limbs, aggravated by east wind ; limbs become dis- 
torted. The hamstrings under the knee seem too short, in chronic 
rheumatism. Weakness of ankles. 
Extremities, Upper: Tearing and drawings in the 
arms and hands. A feeling of stiffness in the hand 
when grasping anything. A shortening and harden- 
ing of the tendons in the fingers. 
Extremities, Lower: Pain as if sprained in the hip 
joints when stepping. Gait is unsteady; easy falling- 
down of children. Cracking of the knees when walk- 
ing. Tension in the hollows of the knee when walking, 
with stiffness. Cramp in the calves in the morning in 
bed. Cramp in the feet. Burning in the ball of the 
great toe. 
Skin: The skin becomes sore easily. Pimples form 
on the tip of the nose, moist eruption on the cheeks. 
Itching over the whole body, worse at night in bed; 
usually not >> scratching. Warts form on the fingers 
which are horny. Horny growths, especially on the 
forehead or nose. 
Sleep: Yawning and stretching, especially at night, Ceanothus.] 
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usually without thirst; sleeplessness with anxiety and 
fright, heat and frequent starting up in fright. Anx- 
ious dreams. Constant motion of the arms and legs 
during sleep, then great sleepiness during the day. 
Fever: Predominating chilliness. Profuse perspira- 
tion when walking in the open air. 
Clinical. Enlarged spleen, with pain in the whole left side. Chronic 
hypertrophy and inflammation of spleen, painful at times, with ex- 
treme dyspnoea ; has to fight for breath. Persistent pain in left hypo- 
chondrium, profuse menses and yellow leucorrhcea. Leucorrhcea, 
associated with malarial anaemia. 
CEANOTHUS. 
CEDRON. 
General Action: It produces an increased excretion 
of urea, neuralgic pains, particularly about the eye 
and head, which tend to recur periodically. 
Generalities: Periodicity, clock-like. 
Clinical. It is often found curative in acute malarial poisoning, with 
enlarged spleen and liver, general amemia and dropsy. It has cured 
puerperal convulsions recurring at regular intervals, beginning with 
severe pains in left temple, with albuminuria. Hysterical spasms re- 
curring regularly night and morning. Recurring attacks of chorea 
in a woman after coition. 
Head: Shooting pains over left eye. Swollen feeling, 
especially on the right side. Neuralgic pains through 
the temples, across the eyes. 
Eyes: Clinical. Ciliary neuralgia. Neuralgia of the supraorbital 
nerve and also of the whole right side of the face, coming on every 
day, generally about 9 A. M., and lasting a few hours. Numerous 
cases of chills and fever, characterized by the regular recurrence of 
supraorbital neuralgia, are reported cured; also many cases of supra- 
orbital neuralgia without malarial symptoms. Severe pain in eyeball, 
with radiating pains all around eye, shooting into nose, causing flow 
of scalding water from eyes and nose; the pain in the head across 
forehead caused a crazy feeling, coming suddenly after working on 
black. 
Extremities: (Sudden acute pain in the ball of the 
right thumb, extending up the arm to the shoulder. 
Similar pain in the ball of the right foot, extending 
above the knee.) 132 
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[Cereum. Oxalate. 
Fever: Chilliness about 6 P. M., followed by a frontal 
headache. Fever, with tearing pains in the limbs. 
Profuse perspiration. 
Clinical. Recurring chills, with left-sided headache, numbness of 
the limbs, etc. In chills and fever the whole body feels numb with 
the headache. 
CEREUM OXALATE. 
Clinical. Vomiting of pregnancy. Whooping cough, with nose- 
bleed and vomiting. Nervous, reflex vomiting from intestinal or 
cerebral irritation, almost always spasmodic. Dysmenorrhcea in 
fleshy, robust women, with scanty discharge, ameliorated by thorough 
establishment of the menses. 
CHAMOMILLA. 
General Action: It belongs to the catarrhal group, 
affecting all mucous membranes. Its rheumatoid or 
neuralgic pains are noteworthy (compare its botanical 
relatives, Arnica and Gnaphalium). Its action on the 
emotional sphere is, however, most characteristic, and 
serves to indicate the remedy in a greater number of 
complaints than its general symptomatology might 
suggest. 
Generalities: Sharp, mostly sticking pains which 
change from place to place when in the bones and 
muscles, but particularly in the joints; generally > 
motion. Tearing pains at night, with a feeling of 
numbness. Extreme sensibility to pain; seems as 
though it could not be borne. Pains cause even de- 
spair. Over-sensibility of all the organs of special 
sense (such as follows drinking coffee or the use of 
palative narcotics). The pains are most violent at 
night, and accompanied by heat and thirst. During 
the pain there is also weakness, even to sinking down. 
Uneasiness, anxiety, agonizing tossing about, with 
tearing in abdomen. Faintness and sickness, sinking 
about the heart, sudden paralyzed feeling in legs, pain 
in all the limbs as if beaten. Twitchings; threaten- 
ing convulsions; one leg or the other is moved up and Chamomilla.] 
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down; the child becomes stiff, bends backward, screams 
and throws everything off. 
Mind: Whining restlessness; the child wants this 
and that, bnt when given it he will not have it or 
pushes it away ; piteous moaning of a child because he 
cannot have what he wants; the child can only be 
quiet when carried on the arm; moans on account of 
trifling, even imaginary insults; moans with heat of 
face. Peevishness about everything, with dyspnoea; 
about pains; on appearance of menses, with obstinacy 
even to quarreling. Impatience; everything goes too 
slowly. Intolerance of being spoken to or interrupted, 
< after rising from sleep, with sluggish pupils. Anx- 
iety ; with ineffectual urging to urinate, without much 
urine in bladder; dissatisfaction with everything that 
she undertakes, irresolution, with flushes of heat in 
face and cool sweat in palms; with uneasiness. Excite- 
ment and confusion. Omission of words when writing 
or speaking. Unconsciousness in a child; frequent 
changes in face, distortion of eyes, contraction of facial 
muscles, rattling in chest, cough, yawning and stretch- 
ing. 
Clinical. The great indication for the use of Chamomilla is to be 
found in the mental condition of the patient; children are extremely 
restless and impatient; they want to be petted constantly and carried 
about, and they cry piteously if they cannot have everything they 
want; older people are peevish and impatient, extremely sensitive 
to pain; even the slightest twinge is intolerable; they are always 
complaining. It is not infrequently indicated in people who have 
been in the habit of taking opium, bromide of potash, etc. ■ These 
mental symptoms will call for the drug in a great variety of neuralgias, 
painful diseases, hysterical symptoms, etc., even if indications other 
than the preceding are wanting; it, at least, changes the aspect of 
the case and makes it more amenable to treatment. 
Head: Inclination to bend backward. Pressure in- 
creasing and decreasing in half of forehead and in 
right temple, where there are stitches which sometimes 
extend to occiput like electric sparks. General con- 
fusion in the afternoon, with pressure on the eyes. 
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[Chamomilla. 
rising; in attacks, with tendency to faint. Drawing, 
tearing headache on one side, extending down into the 
chest. Throbbing headaches in one-half of the brain. 
Rush of blood, with throbbing in the head. Headache 
follows suppressed perspiration. Pains in the head 
always worse when thinking of them. 
Eyes: Burning heat in the eyes. Eyes inflamed. 
Margins of the lower lids inflamed and swollen. Dis- 
tortion of the eyes; twitching of the lids. Spasmodic 
closure of the lids. Eyes are swollen and agglutinated 
in the morning. Photophobia. 
Ears: Stitching, tearing pain, worse stooping, with 
ill humor about trifles. Hearing extremely sensitive. 
Nose: Ulceration of the nostrils. Nose-bleed. Coryza, 
with loss of smell. Irritation to sneeze, with crawling, 
dry heat, stopped sensation, feeling as if coryza would 
appear; also with pressure in forehead. Sensitiveness 
to smell. 
Face: One cheek red, the other pale. Face puffy 
and red. Heat of the face, with cold body. One-sided 
swelling of the cheeks. Twitching of the muscles of 
the face and lips. Hot, sticky sweat on forehead. 
Deep cracks in the lower lip. 
Mouth: Toothache after warm drinks, after coffee, 
after eating and drinking, especially after warm food; 
pain drives one to distraction. Drawing toothache 
after eating and drinking, worse at night; teeth feel 
too long. Teeth sensitive to air, especially the hollow 
back teeth. The gums are swollen and burning hot 
with the toothache. (Very valuable for troubles of 
children when teething.) Tongue coated yellow; dirty 
white, with blisters on and beneath it, with stinging. 
Bitter taste. Salivation, of sweetish, metallic taste; 
taste like rancid fat. The whole mouth seems hot. 
Throat: Inflammation of the soft palate and tonsils. 
Pain in the left side when swallowing. Constriction 
of pharynx, spasmodic; food remains sticking in the Chamomilla.] 
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tip of the throat; impossible to swallow solid food 
when lying down. 
Stomach: Thirst. Loss of appetite, even aversion to 
food. Sour eructations; of gas, like spoiled eggs. 
Nausea after drinking coffee in the morning, with at- 
tacks of suffocation. Sour vomiting. Pressure on the 
stomach after eating a little, as from a stone. Cramps 
in the stomach after being angry. A feeling of fulness, 
with anxiety. 
Abdomen: Distention after eating. Collection of 
flatulence in the hypochondria. Cutting, burning and 
tearing pains in the upper part of the abdomen, with 
short breath. Cutting pains before menstruation, with 
darting pains in the thighs. Intermittent pains, with 
flatulence and stitches in the chest. 
Rectum: Haemorrhoids, blind. Bleeding. Itching 
pain in the anus. 
Stool: Diarrhoea; nightly, with colic so that she must 
bend double; hot, smelling like rotten eggs; green, 
watery, painless,consisting of feces and mucus; white, 
slimy, with colic. 
Clinical. Diarrhoea; green, slimy mucus; chopped, white and yel- 
low mucus; often of a changeable color; often undigested; often 
like chopped eggs and spinach; nearly always of foul odor, especially 
in children during teething or after taking cold; associated with colic, 
often with soreness of the anus. 
Urinary Organs: Anxious urging to urinate. Burn- 
ing in the neck of the bladder when urinating. Fre- 
quent need to urinate; urine pale, copious. 
Sexual Organs, Female: Drawing pains from the small 
of the back, griping and pinching in uterus, then dis- 
charge of large clots of blood. Dragging towards 
uterus like labor pains, with frequent urging to urinate. 
Profuse discharge of clotted blood, with labor-like 
pains in uterus and tearing in veins of legs. Acrid, 
watery discharge after dinner ; yellow, biting leucor- 
rhoea. 
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[Chamomilla. 
flow is irregular, dark and clotted; sometimes there is constant oozing 
of dark, foul blood, with occasional bright gushes (Bell.). Membran- 
ous dysmenorrhoea. Menstrual colic, especially the result of anger. 
Severe pains follow labor, especially if they extend down thighs, with 
great nervous excitement. Threatening miscarriage from fits of anger. 
During labor the patient is intolerant of the pain, the os is rigid and 
the pains extend into the thighs. Puerperal convulsions after anger, 
one cheek hot, the other pale. Suppression of milk from anger. In- 
flamed breasts. 
Respiratory Organs: Larynx raw, scraping. Hoarse- 
ness, caused by a collection of tough mucus in the 
larynx, which is only detached by violent hawking. 
Whistling, wheezing and rattling when breathing. 
Rawness in the upper part of the trachea; pressure 
and irritation to cough. Cough at night caused by 
irritation low in trachea; in a paroxysm at night, with 
which something seems to rise into the throat, as if 
she would suffocate. Dry cough in sleep at night. 
Dry, tickling cough, seeming to come from the pit of 
the throat. Constriction of the upper part of the 
chest; soreness on coughing. Suffocative tightness, 
constriction of larynx, in region of pit of throat, irri- 
tation to cough. Irritation beneath the upper part of 
sternum, with or without cough. 
Extremities: Drawing, tearing pains, worse at night, 
sometimes > constant tossing about. Cracking of the 
joints, with bruised pain. Soreness of all the joints, 
as if bruised and tired. No power in hands and feet. 
The arms seem to fall asleep easily; seem stiff when 
grasping anything. Convulsions of the arms; thumb 
drawn into the hand. Cold sweat in the hollows of 
the hands. Cramps in the calves. 
Skin: A red rash on the cheeks; tendency to ulcera- 
tion, with burning, biting pain and crawling. Injuries 
suppurate easily. Itching at night with the eruption. 
The whole skin becomes yellow. 
Sleep: Sleep during the day, but cannot sleep at 
night if he lies down. Sleeplessness until 2 A. M., on 
account of painful weakness in limbs, heat and rest- Chelidonium.] 
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137 
lessness. Starting up, crying out, tossing about and 
talking. Moaning in sleep. 
Fever: Shivering, with internal heat; with heat, 
which comes out of the face like fire. Chill on anter- 
ior part of the body. Chill in various parts, alter- 
nating with heat; at one time cold, at another warm, 
etc. Cold limbs, with heat of face and eyes and hot 
breath. In general, coldness or chilliness in isolated 
parts of the body, with heat of other parts, or with 
alternating heat. Heat in the morning after coffee, 
with sweat, vomiting of bitter mucus, then bitter 
taste, weakness in head and nausea. Heat, even in 
lightly covered parts, with coldness of others. Flushes 
of heat over the head and face. Heat of the face, 
especially after eating and drinking, with sweat. Heat 
of the cheeks in the evening, with flying shivering. 
Burning in soles at night. Sweat on covered parts. 
The sweat is of a sour, pungent odor. 
General Action: The most prominent action of Chel- 
idonium is upon the liver. Symptoms of inflammation, 
of jaundice, of disturbed function of the bowels and 
kidneys, and sympathetic affections of the right lung 
are numerous and well marked. See also the symp- 
toms in joints, skin, etc. 
Generalities: A general feeling of indolence, prostra- 
tion and sleepiness, > in the open air. General dis- 
comfort; without knowing really what is the matter, 
wants to lie down and sleep. A feeling of numbness 
in the muscles of the hepatic region, and in the right 
side of neck, face and head. 
Mind: Depression; despondent mood. Apathy. Mind 
is generally heavy, lethargic; one is disinclined to 
make any mental effort. 
Head: Confused, dull heaviness, sometimes with ver- 
tigo, but the vertigo is usually associated with dis- 
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A PRIMER OF 
[Chelidonium. 
ordered stomach. Neuralgic pains in the forehead 
over the eye, chiefly in the right side, > walking in 
the open air; sometimes extending to the orbits, mak- 
ing the eyes painful on moving them. Pain as from a 
band across forehead, > closing the eyes. Drawing 
pains in the temples, especially of the right side. 
Pressing-asunder headache. A feeling of soreness in 
the occiput; heaviness in the occiput, with drawing 
pains, extending downward to the nape of the neck, as 
if it could not be raised from the pillow. 
Eyes: The whites of the eyes a dusky yellow. Eye- 
balls painful on moving eyes. Eyeballs feel sore on 
looking up. A feeling of pressing downward on the 
upper lid. Obscuration of vision; blinding spots before 
the eyes. 
Ears: A feeling as if wind were blowing out of the 
ears. Hearing seems to vanish when coughing. 
Face: Face red, without heat. General color of the 
face is yellow, rather dark, especially about the fore- 
head, nose and cheeks. Tearing pains extend from the 
right cheek bone to and around ears, to upper part of 
occiput. The right cheek bones seem swollen. Itch- 
ing of the whole face and forehead. The neuralgic 
pains in the face are mostly upon the right side, usually 
associated with similar pains in the forehead and side 
of the head, frequently with lachrymation. 
Mouth: Drawing or tearing pains, mostly in the right 
teeth, sometimes in the left, >> warmth; worse at night 
in bed. Gums pale and bleed easily. Tongue yellow 
with red margins, showing imprint of the teeth. 
Tongue dry. Salivation, collection of bitter water, 
obliging constant spitting. 
Throat: Choking, as from trying to swallow too large 
a morsel. A feeling of constriction, with difficult swal- 
lowing. 
Stomach: Thirst, especially for milk. Appetite di- 
minished or lost. Eructations, tasting like juniper Chelidonium.] 
MATERIA MEDICA. 
139 
berries. Nausea and vomiting, with a feeling of 
warmth in the stomach, spreading over the whole 
body. Sticking pains in the pit of the stomach, ex- 
tending through to the back. A feeling of oppression 
and anxiety in the stomach. (Gastric symptoms are 
generally > for a time by eating, sometimes by hot 
drinks or food.) 
Abdomen: General distention and hardness. Cutting 
pains in the intestines immediately after eating. 
Cramp-like colic, with drawing inward of the navel, 
and nausea. Sticking pains in the region of the liver, 
extending through to the back and lower angle of the 
scapula. Pain in the region of the liver, extending 
downward into the intestines. The hepatic pains 
sometimes > eating. The region of the liver painful 
on pressure. The left hypochondrium sometimes sen- 
sitive to pressure. Spasmodic retraction in the um- 
bilical region, with nausea. Constriction transversely 
across below the navel, as by a string. Cramplike 
pain above the pubis in the afternoon, with frequent 
urging to urinate. 
Clinical. Enlargement of the liver, pain under angle of right 
shoulder blade, or with jaundice, yellow tongue, bitter taste, etc. In 
jaundice, sometimes with clear urine, tongue white, stools dark, urine 
offensive. Distention of abdomen, enlarged liver. In all the hepatic 
and intestinal affections the pains are worse on the right side, and 
generally are seated under the angle of right scapula. 
Rectum aad Stool: Burning and cutting in the rec- 
tum, with constriction of anus, alternating with itch- 
ing. Constrictive feeling in the anus during stool. 
Stool thin, bright yellow, copious, sometimes white. 
Pasty; sometimes alternations of diarrhoea and con- 
stipation; generally associated with jaundice, pain in 
the region of the liver or in the right scapula, or with* 
general soreness of the intestines. 
Urinary Organs: Pains in the right kidney and liver, 
spasmodic. Pains from the kidneys towards the blad- 
der, followed by evacuation of turbid urine. The 140 
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[Chelidonium. 
urine dark yellow, turbid when passed, or dark 
browish-red, like brown beer; causes reddish-brown 
stains or is lemon-yellow and turbid, or is whitish 
and frothy ; generally copious. 
Sexual Organs: Menstruation delayed, but lasting 
too long. Acrid leucorrhoea. 
Respiratory Organs: A feeling as if the larynx were 
pressed backwards against the oesophagus, impeding 
swallowing. Hoarseness. Cough; after waking and on 
rising, with sensation of dust under sternum. A rack- 
ing cough, worse in the morning, with much expectora- 
tion from deep in the lungs, which is difficult to loosen. 
Rattling in the chest, < changing position after waking. 
Breath short and difficult, with oppression and anxiety 
in the chest. Cough, with painful contraction of the ab- 
domen. Stitches here and there in the chest, especially 
beneath the right ribs; or in the lower part of the right 
side on inspiration, < motion and coughing; or'on the 
anterior part of the chest, extending into the intestines 
below umbilicus. Pain in the lower right ribs, < bend- 
ing towards the left side. Pain behind the sternum, < in- 
spiration; deep-seated in the right chest and right 
shoulder, especially at axilla and beneath the scapula, 
at times with throbbing in the chest. Pain in lower 
part of right wall, extending into the side, < inspiration. 
Oppression of the chest as if the clothes were too tight. 
Oppression on inspiration after dinner; spasmodic, in a 
spot behind sternum, waking at night, extending into 
bronchi, with constriction. 
Clinical. Cough loose and rattling, the expectoration raised with 
difficulty. Frequently useful in the bronchitis of children, with 
dusky red face, oppressed breathing, etc. Cough, with pain in right 
side of thorax, either with severe bronchitis or with pneumonia. 
Numerous cases of pneumonia in right lung have been cured when 
associated with symptoms of hepatic derangement, distressing pain 
under right scapula. 
Neck and Back: Drawing tearing pains in the neck and 
back on bending backward and forward, as if the lumbai' Chimaphila.] 
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vertebrae were broken. Stiffness between the shoulders. 
Sticking pain beneath the right shoulder blade. Pain 
beneath the right scapula, << inspiration and motion 
of the right arm, extending around right side of chest 
and causing oppression. Spasmodic pain in right kid- 
ney and liver. 
Extremities: General rheumatic, drawing pains. 
Clinical. Rheumatic symptoms in upper limbs; pain in shoulders, 
arms, tips of fingers, the whole flesh is sore to touch; sweat without 
relief; all symptoms associated with hepatic derangements. Rheu- 
matic pains in hips, thighs, etc., aggravated on right side and right 
knee, and oedema of ankles, with stiffness, feeling as if right leg were 
paralyzed. Rheumatic and neuralgic pain in lower extremities. 
(Compare Caulophyllum). 
Skin: Skin yellow. Tip of the fingers yellow and 
cold, or with nails blue. Veins swollen. Itching as in 
jaundice. 
Sleep: Much yawning and sleepiness, even when walk- 
ing in the open air. Sleepy, without being able to fall 
asleep. 
Fever: General lack of vital heat, coldness of the ex- 
tremities. Shaking chill, even when walking in the 
open air. Heat in the evening after lying down, with- 
out thirst. Sweat during the morning sleep. 
CHIMAPHILA. 
Urinary Organs: Urging to urinate, wakes constantly. 
Urine increased, greenish. Fluttering sensation in the 
region of the kidney, sometimes one side, sometimes the 
other, without pain or uneasiness. 
Clinical. Catarrh of the bladder, both acute and chronic, especially 
indicated when the urine is offensive, turbid, containing ropy or 
bloody mucus and depositing a copious sediment, with burning and 
scalding during micturition, and straining afterwards ; it is very diffi- 
cult to begin to urinate, the patient strains a great deal, urine some- 
times fetid; concomitants of chronic cystitis. Sometimes useful in 
suppression of urine in infants. Urine very scanty. Acute prosta- 
titis, with retention of urine and a feeling of a ball in perineum when 
sitting. 142 
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[China. 
CHINA. 
General Action: Quinine is, above all, a protoplasmic 
poison, devitalizing the blood and tissues; it particularly 
retards the elimination of nitrogenous waste (urea and 
uric acid), and causes the retention and accumulation of 
effete products in the system (though for a time the di- 
minished waste gives a sense of "tone" to the system, 
the ultimate result is deplorable). It causes congestion 
of the brain, and, in large doses, abolishes the cerebral 
functions. It is an irritant to serous membranes and to 
the skin; it causes deafness and serous inflammation of 
the internal ear; blindness, ischaemia of the retina and 
optic neuritis; it produces stupor, delirium and even 
convulsions. (Epilepsy is intensely aggravated by it.) 
Quinine, however, arrests the development of low forms 
of vegetable life, and especially of the poison of marsh 
malaria, but it rarely antidotes the effects of the poison 
on the system. 
Generalities: Pains in various parts of the body, para- 
lytic tearings, especially in the extremities, joints, bones 
and periosteum, sometimes worse in the spine and 
small of the back. Pain, as after fatigue, or like ex- 
haustion from bleeding or profuse loss of semen. Pain 
in joints when sitting and lying, with restlessness. Ten- 
sive drawing pains in almost all the bones, now one, now 
another, > momentarily by lying, then more violent 
than ever. Attacks of pain excited even by light touch 
of the part, and then frequently increasing to a fright- 
ful severity. Parts upon which he lies fall asleep. Weak- 
ness, as after loss of the various fluids of the body, with 
oversensitiveness of all the senses and nerves; an in- 
clination to perspire. Most extreme powerlessness and 
exhaustion. Nausea; emaciation. Oppression of all 
parts, as if the clothes were too tight, especially after a 
walk in the open air. Joints feel heavy in the morning 
in bed, )> rising. Aversion to all mental and physical China.J 
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effort. The slightest draft of air brings on the troubles. 
General aggravation at night. Dropsical swellings. 
Clinical. Anaemia, with extreme debility from nursing or from loss 
of blood. Rapid emaciation, with indigestion, voracious appetite, 
undigested stools, copious night-sweats. Purpura luemorrhagica-after 
nursing, with roaring in ears, cold, clammy skin, painless diarrhoea, 
which may be bloody. Leucocythemia. 
Mind: Excitability, with intolerance of noise. Sud- 
den screaming and tossing about. Solicitude about 
trifles. Discontented mood. Anxiety in the morning- 
on waking. Ill humored and easily offended; quarrel- 
some. Gloominess alternating with cheerfulness. Gen- 
eral disinclination to mental labor; with sleepiness. 
Unable to arrange his thoughts; makes mistakes when 
writing or speaking, reverses his words easily; disturbed 
by the talking of others. Ideas flow slowly. 
Head: Genera] sensation of confusion and fulness, as 
though the blood rushed to the head. Pressing head- 
ache, as if the skull would burst. The brain seems to 
beat in waves against the skull. A feeling as though 
the brain were pressing together from both sides and 
out at the forehead, < walking in the open air. Pain 
deep in the brain, < walking, with a feeling of con- 
striction, worse in the right side of the forehead and in 
the occiput. Forehead is hot, with cold limbs. Frontal 
headache worse on turning the eyes, with heat and jerk- 
ing pain in the temples. Vertigo on waking at night; 
cannot sit upright; head inclines to sink backward, <Z 
motion and walking, > lying. Pressing headache in 
the temples, worse at night. Pulsation in the temples, 
>> hard pressure, < movement. Jerking pains in the 
temples, extending to the upper jaw. General bruised 
pain over the whole head, < mental effort. Scalp sen- 
sitive to touch. 
Eyes: Sensation of foreign body in the eye, with in- 
flammation and heat, worse in the evening. Whites of 
the eyes are yellow. Pupils dilated (sometimes con- 144 
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[China. 
tracted). Transient blindness, with flickering before 
the eyes. 
Clinical. Retinal asthenopia, with transient blindness or with flick- 
ering before tlie eyes (after sexual excesses). Hemeralopia. Neu- 
ralgia above the eyes; ciliary neuralgia, supraorbital neuralgia 
(Ced.); the neuralgia aggravated by slightest touch. The weakness 
of vision and the neuralgia above the eyes are frequently associated 
with spinal irritation and great soreness of the spine, extending into 
the occiput and even into the eyes; the pains frequently aggravated 
at night when lying down, but not always. 
Ears: Ringing in the ears, with pain in the temples. 
Roaring. Ticking as of a watch. Deafness as if ears 
were stopped. Tearing pains, < least touch. 
Clinical. Ringing and roaring in the ears, loss of hearing. Fre- 
quent neuralgic pains in ears, aggravated by touch. Hearing ex- 
tremely sensitive to noise. External ear very sensitive to touch, 
sometimes inflamed. Haemorrhage from the ears, sometimes with 
purulent discharge, even offensive. 
Nose: Pain in the root of the nose, extending to the 
side after the heat of the cheek had disappeared. Sneez- 
ing. Fluent coryza, with sneezing and lachrymation; 
watery discharge, with stoppage. Bleeding of the nose 
after excesses, relieving the headache. 
Face: Pale and sunken. Yellowish, earthy-colored. 
Facial neuralgia, < slight touch. Face sometimes red, 
inflamed, like erysipelas. Lips dry, cracked, even black- 
ish. 
Mouth: Teeth loose; painful on chewing. Toothache, 
jerking tearing in upper back teeth, > biting the teeth 
together and pressure for a moment, < cold air, in a 
draft. Mouth disagreeable in the morning; much mucus 
collects; tongue is yellow, dirty-white, somewhat swollen. 
Burning stitches in the tongue. Dryness in the mouth. 
Salivation. Taste bitter; better for a while after eating. 
Bread tastes bitter when swallowing, though not when 
chewing. Slimy taste, so that he has a disgust for butter. 
Taste sweet, then sour. In general, salivation and more 
or less nausea. 
Stomach: Unnatural appetite. Desire for all sorts of 
things, he hardly knows what. Desire for sour fruit, China.] 
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then indifference to eating and drinking. Aversion to 
coffee. Extreme thirst, but drinks little. Thirst, drink- 
ing followed by coldness and rambling in the abdomen; 
especially after the chill. Thirst during the sweating- 
stage. Eructations of gas; sour. Soreness in the pit of the 
stomach ip the morning, with pain as from pressure on 
a sore place. Pressure after eating a little. Flatulence 
in the stomach for a long time after a meal, as though 
he had just eaten. Gastric derangements caused by 
milk. 
Clinical. Dyspepsia; constant satiety, with coldness in stomach, 
craving for pungent spices and sour things and stimulants; digestion 
extremely slow ; after eating he feels full, drowsy ; taste of the food 
rises, with dyspnoea, etc. Dyspepsia, with painful pressure and dis- 
tention in region of stomach after eating and drinking a little. Appe- 
tite entirely lost, and after eating a little loud belching and inability 
to work. Acid dyspepsia, heartburn even after milk, constant satiety, 
no relief from belching gas. After haemorrhage from the stomach, 
with great sensitiveness of the stomach and great prostration, etc.; 
the abdomen sensitive over the region of the liver, which is sometimes 
swollen (compare gastric symptoms with Lyc.). 
Abdomen: Distention after eating. Fermentation from 
fruit. Painfulness over the region of the liver, especi- 
ally to light touch. Swelling and induration of the 
liver. Sticking pains in the region of the spine. Colic 
in the abdomen before a stool, with thirst. Colic in the 
abdomen, with shivering. Flatulent colic, with tension 
and anxiety in the upper abdomen, and with a feeling 
as if the lowest intestines were constricted. 
Stool: Diarrhoea of undigested feces. Diarrhoea, with 
biting, burning pain in the anus, preceded and followed 
by colic. 
Clinical. Painless diarrhoea, with bloated abdomen, stools contain- 
ing undigested food; aggravated at night, with great fermentation in 
bowels, general desire for acids and relishes of various sorts. Stools 
sometimes involuntary, of cadaverous odor. Diarrhoea from eating 
fruit. Diarrhoea recurring after meals. Diarrhoea occurring in the 
course of debilitating diseases. Dysentery, rarely. 
Urinary Organs: Pressure in the bladder follows fre- 
quent and perhaps ineffectual efforts to urinate. Urine 
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[China. 
dark, with brick-red sediment. Urine rather copious. 
Burning in the orifice of the urethra. 
Sexual Organs, Male: Generally excited sexual desires. 
Seminal emissions frequent, but ejaculations too easy, 
followed by extreme weakness. 
Sexual Organs, Female: A feeling of rush of blood to 
the uterus, with painful heaviness in the pelvis. 
Clinical. Impotency resulting from sexual excesses; nocturnal 
emissions, very debilitating; in general, frequently useful for symp- 
toms resulting from sexual excesses. Uterine haemorrhages, especially 
after labor, with atony of uterus, discharge of large quantities of 
blood, cold skin, fainting, convulsive jerks, etc. Menstruation too 
early and profuse, with dark clots, distention of abdomen, etc. Leu- 
corrhoea that comes on instead of the menses; bloody, fetid, purulent, 
great weakness, etc. Metritis. Ovaritis from sexual excesses or follow- 
ing haemorrhages; all the parts are very sensitive to the slightest touch. 
General anaemia, resulting from prolonged nursing. Haemorrhage 
from the lungs while nursng. Painful indurations in the vagina, in 
consequence of excessive sexual gratification. 
Respiratory Organs: Whistling and wheezing in trachea 
on breathing. Voice deep and rough, with hoarseness, 
as from something adhering to the larynx. Cough 
caused by laughing; after eating; as from sulphur fumes. 
Suffocative attacks, as if the larynx were full of mucus, 
worse towards evening and at night on waking. Op- 
pression of the chest, as though from fulness in the 
stomach, or caused by long talking. 
Chest: Sticking pains in the cartilages of third and 
fourth false ribs. A feeling of fulness like a rush of 
blood to the chest, with violent palpitation. 
Heart: Palpitation, with a rush of blood to the face, 
which was hot and red, with cold hands; with intermit- 
ting pulse. 
Neck and Back: Pain in the nape of the neck, as from 
swelling, < touch. Pressure, as from a stone between 
the scapulae. Pain in the small of the back at night 
when lying on back. Tensive pain in the sacrum, as 
from a heavy load or after long stooping. Tensive pain 
in the small of the back as from cramp or as if bruised 
and crushed, with sudden crying out on motion. China.] 
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Extremities: Jerking tearing pains, < touch. Trem- 
bling. Laxity of all the extremities and trembling of 
the hands; tremulous weakness. Heaviness as if lead 
were hanging to them. Paralytic stiffness in all the 
joints on rising in the morning, or after midday nap, 
with depressed spirits. Falling asleep of the limbs on 
which he lies. Sensation of a band tied tightly around 
different parts. 
Upper Extremities: Paralytic jerking-tearing in long- 
bones, < touch. Paralytic jerking-tearing on top of 
shoulder, with sensitiveness to touch, the pain renewed 
by touch, even of coat. Paralytic jerking-tearing ex- 
tending from head of humerus along muscles and bones 
to phalanges, where it is painless, the pain < touch, 
with weakness of whole arm. Paralytic pain in head 
of right humerus, extending to the hand, like a tearing. 
Trembling of the hands when writing. Tearing in 
bones of right distal phalanges, especially of the joints. 
Lower Extremities: Drawing pains in bones, as if 
periosteum had been scraped. Hot swelling of right 
knee. Weakness in the knees. Swelling of the feet. 
Sensation as if garters were too tight, and leg would 
go to sleep or were numb. Jerking-tearing in meta- 
tarsal bones and in toes, < touch. Weakness of the 
feet as if bruised. 
Skin: Sensitiveness of the whole skin, even of the 
palms. Yellowness of the skin. 
Sleep: Overpowering sleepiness during the day, when 
sitting and after eating. Restless sleep at night, with 
anxious dreams. Falls asleep late on account of excita- 
bility ; rush of ideas. Dreamy kind of reverie as soon as 
he falls asleep. Stertorious respiration in sleep. Sleep 
restless, unrefreshing. 
Fever: Coldness at intervals during the day, with cold 
sweat. Thirst after the coldness; in the evening in bed 
he cannot get warm. Chill increased after drinking, 
and yet he is obliged to drink constantly. Heat, with 148 
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[Cicuta Virosa. 
inclination to uncover. Heat long continued, even with 
delirium. Sweat during sleep, all over the body, as soon 
as it is covered. Sweat after waking at 3 A. M., witli 
thirst ; without sweat on feet or head, except where he 
lies upon cheek. Sweat on the face and hands. 
Clinical. Intermittent fever, without constitutional cachexia, ex- 
cept general weakness and amemia; the paroxysm is fully developed, 
the three stages of chill, fever and sweat are fully marked; preced- 
ing the chill there is violent thirst, often violent temporal headache; 
there is an interval between the chill and fever, but rarely any gastric 
disturbance; during the fever there is generally thirst, sometimes un- 
natural hunger; an interval between the fever and sweat; the sweat is 
profuse, debilitating, with thirst; during the apyrexia great debility, 
ringing in the ears, feeling of emptiness in stomach, soreness over the 
spleen and liver, with many symptoms characteristic of the drug. 
CICUTA VIROSA. 
Generalities: Convulsions, with distortions of the 
limbs; body bent as in opisthotonos; frightful distor- 
tions, with unconsciousness; with dark redness of face, 
blue lips and bloody froth from mouth; spasmodic hic- 
cough, with screaming and redness of the face, uncon- 
sciousness and distorted limbs. General weariness. 
Pain in various places as from a blow. 
Clinical. Convulsions from various causes, injuries, after opium, 
chorea-like, epileptiform, tetanic, puerperal, from worms, from indi- 
gestion, with insensibility, staring eyes, with jerking of eyeball, 
muscles of the face and whole body, face red, hot, sweaty; or with 
the convulsions violent opisthotonos, tetanic rigidity of the whole 
body, eyes fixed at one point, and frothing at the mouth, with spas- 
modic breathing; spasms brought on by the slightest jar, etc. 
Mind: Delirium; singing, dancing grotesquely, shout- 
ing, weeping, moaning and howling. Solicitude for the 
future. Sadness, with weeping and howling. Misan- 
thropy: mistrusts people. Hallucinations, with heat of 
the body and desire for wine. It seemed as though he 
was a child, seven years of age. Confuses the present 
with the past. 
Head: Vertigo, with reeling and falling to the ground. 
Stupefying pain in the forehead, < at rest. One-sided Cicuta Virosa.] 
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stupefying headache as from a rush o»f blood, >> sitting 
upright. 
Clinical. Vertigo, with gastralgia; vomiting, with muscular spasms 
and tendency to convulsions. Sudden violent shocks through head 
and whole body, with jerking, premonitory of spasms. Suppurating 
eruptions and pustules, larger than the head of a pin, which became 
confluent, with infiltration, etc. Basilar meningitis. Cerebro-spinal 
menigitis, with convulsions; many cases. Effects of concussion of 
the brain, especially convulsions. 
Eyes: Pupils dilated and insensible; sometimes con- 
tracted, then dilated. A staring look, as though at one 
object, which however, is not distinctly seen. While 
attempting to stand objects seem to approach and 
recede. While staring at one point the head gradually 
sinks forward, so that the eyes become directed upward. 
Objects seem double and black. 
Clinical. Commencing strabismus, periodic, spasmodic, or after 
convulsions. 
Ears: Deafness. 
Clinical. Haemorrhage from the ears in cerebral troubles. Deafness 
of old people, with sudden detonation in ears, especially on swallow- 
ing. Suppurating burning eruption on and about the ears. 
Nose: Nostrils seem stopped. Yellow discharge from 
the nose. (Nostrils ulcerated, with a yellow, purulent 
discharge.) 
Face: Clinical. Eruptions about corners of the mouth, beginning 
like honey-colored crusts, with burning and itching; the crusts ex- 
tended to the chin, became thick and "fat," sometimes with swollen 
glands. 
• Mouth: Sore on margin of tongue, painful to touch. 
Tongue swollen and white, with painful, burning ulcers 
on the margins. Speech difficult; when talking there 
frequently conies a jerk of the head with which he 
seems to swallow' the syllables. 
Throat: Inability to swallow, as though the throat 
were internally grown together. Throat dry. 
Clinical. Spasms of oesophagus from worms; the child cannot 
swallow, strangling on attemping to swallow. 
Stomach: Desire for coal. Extreme thirst (with con- 
vulsions). Hiccough. Burning in the pit of the stom- 
ach. Throbbing. Contraction, so that there was a 150 
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[Cicuta Virosa. 
ball the size of the fist in the region of the stomach. 
Nausea in the morning after eating. Vomiting of 
blood. 
Abdomen: Rumbling and roaring in the bowels. Heat 
and burning in the abdomen. Colic, with convulsions. 
Stool: Diarrhoea, with irrestible urging to urinate. 
Urinary Organs: Frequent desire to urinate; profuse 
urine. Involuntary micturition. Spurting of urine. 
Respiratory Organs: Loss of breath on account of 
spasms in the pectoral muscles. A feeling of tightness 
in the chest, so that she could scarcely breathe. Burn- 
ing in the chest. A bruised or sore pain at lower end 
of the sternum. 
Neck and Back: Cramplike tension in the muscles of 
the neck on turning the head; is difficult to turn the 
head back again. Back bent backward, like an arch. 
Pain on the inner surface of scapulae. Tearing jerking 
in the coccyx. 
Extremities: Spasmodic distortion. Sudden cramps 
that throw the patient some distance. Cramplike draw- 
ing in the arms and hands. Spasmodic closure of the 
hand. Jerking in the fingers. Hands become weak, so 
that he cannot hold anything. Jerking of the lower 
extremities. Spasmodic stretching out and jerking of 
the legs. . 
Skin: Eruptions, especially about the face, mouth and 
hands, become purulent and form thick, yellow crusts, 
with burning pain when touched. A red vesicle forms 
on the right scapula, which is painful to touch. 
Sleep: Frequent waking, with general perspiration 
always, from which, however, he is refreshed. Vivid, 
unremembered dreams, or of the events of the previous 
day. 
Fever: Chilliness; constant desire to be near a warm 
stove. Sweat at night, particularly on the abdomen. Cimicifuga.] 
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CIMICIFUGA. 
Generalities: Tremors over whole body. Nervous- 
shuddering through upper and back part of body. 
Jerkings after going to bed, obliging change of posi- 
tion. Bruised feeling. Soreness of whole body, with 
stiffness. Restlessness; nervous, in the afternoon, with 
indisposition to fix the attention on any subject. Gen- 
eral aggravation on left side. 
Clinical Reflex neuralgias in various parts of the body, especially 
in women, dependent on ovarian and uterine troubles. Muscular 
rheumatism affecting the fleshy parts of the muscles, aggravated by 
motion, but great restlessness. Chorea, especially in muscles of left 
side. 
Mind: Troubled, sighing mood. Miserable, dejected 
feeling. 
Clinical. Delirium, with excessive restlessness, twitching of ten- 
dons, starting up suddenly. Delirium, wild imaginings of rats, etc. 
(Stram.), with crazy feeling about head; talking continually, chang- 
ing the subject and moving about. Puerperal mania; she is very sus- 
picious, talking of a great variety of things, constantly changing the 
subject; sometimes sees vermin; speech is often disconnected. In- 
sanity in the form of melancholia; is very apprehensive, talks of be- 
coming crazy; she is suspicious or talks incessantly, constantly 
changing the subject. Delirium tremens, is frightened, trembles, 
cannot remain in one place. Puerperal melancholia, with sleepless- 
ness, sighing and moaning all the while. The two marked character- 
istics of the delirium or insanity of this drug are the mental and 
physical restlessness; the patient cannot remain in one place, and, 
when talking, constant change of the subject. 
Head: Pain, especially in the occiput, extending to 
the vertex, always > in the open air, sometimes > bend- 
ing the head backward. Vertigo, as with fulness and 
aching in the vertex and impaired vision. Pressure out- 
ward in the forehead and upward in the upper part of 
cerebrum, as if there were not room enough. Pain on 
the vertex paroxysmal, often extending to the occiput, 
with pain through the whole brain, <Z motion. 
Clinical. In general the headaches affect the base of the occiput, 
or the headaches begin at that point; frequently they are extremely 
violent and shoot up to vertex or down spine, and bending the head 
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[Cimicifuga. 
would be driven from the neck to the vertex with every beat of the 
heart; sometimes the whole neck is very lame from distress on mov- 
ing the head. These headaches of Cimicifuga may be neuralgic, asso- 
ciated in women with uterine disturbances, or they may be associated 
with symptoms of inflammation of the meninges of the brain and 
spine. Neuralgic headaches, feeling as if the top of the head would 
fly off. 
Eyes: Pain in the eyeballs, in the centre, or between 
the ball and frontal bone, sometimes extending to the 
occiput. Eyes feel congested with the headache. Pains 
in the eyes extending to the vertex. Eyeballs feel en- 
larged. Photophobia. Vision of black specks. 
Face: Pains in the face < during the day, > at night. 
Mouth: Offensive breath. 
Throat: Soreness, especially on the left side, with dry- 
ness ; a feeling of fulness. 
Stomach: Nausea. Faintness. Vomiting. 
Clinical. Nausea and efforts to vomit, in uterine affections or with 
spinal irritation. Nausea and vomiting, caused by pressure on the 
spine and cervical region, with palpitation; suppression of menses. 
Stool: Constipation alternating with diarrhoea. 
Urinary Organs: Urine usually increased (with fever, 
high-colored and scanty). 
Sexual Organs: Bearing-down pain during menstrua- 
tion. Suppressed menses. 
Clinical. Neuralgia of the ovaries and uterus, with great tender- 
ness and bearing down, the pains shooting up the sides and across the 
lower part of the abdomen. Menstruation painful, irregular or sup- 
pressed, with hysterical symptoms or epileptiform spasms at the 
period. Menorrhagia; menses too profuse and early, dark, clotted, 
with severe pain in back, extending through hips and down thighs. 
Endocervicitis, with general nervous hysterical symptoms, uterus en- 
gorged, cervix hypertrophied, all the organs very sensitive, especially 
the ovaries. During parturition the pains do not force downward, 
but extend across the abdomen and upward into the sides (false 
pains). Threatening miscarriage, the pains fly about, with fain ting- 
spells. After-pains, with great sensitiveness, the patient feels that 
she cannot tolerate the pain. During parturition the os is rigid. 
Ovarian neuralgia, especially of left ovary; pains extend up and 
down left side, with great tenderness. 
Respiratory Organs: Tickling in the larynx causes a 
dry cough, especially in the evening; < talking. Cina.] 
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Chest: Sharp pains through the sides of the chest 
along the false ribs, < long inspiration. 
Heart and Pulse: Pain in the region of the heart, and 
palpitation. Catching pain on bending forward; or when 
at dinner and after dinner. Pulse irregular, tremulous. 
Neck and Back: Pains like paralysis in the muscles of 
the neck and back, with stiffness and contraction. 
Pains > pressure in the back and around the hips. 
Drawing-tensive pain at points of spinous processes of 
three upper dorsal vertebrae, in morning on bending 
neck forward. Heavy weight in the lumbar and sacral 
region; the pains extend around the body. 
Extremities: Twitchings and tremblings, especially of 
the fingers and toes, scarcely able to walk. Pains and 
restlessness in the extremities. Pain in the muscles 
from shoulders to wrists. Trembling of the fingers 
when writing. Pain in tendo Achillis, which feels short- 
ened, especially when walking in the open air. Soreness 
in the region of the tendo Achillis, < on walking. Pain 
in right great toe. Burning pain in second joint of 
right great toe, extending up limb. 
Sleep : Restlessness, troubled dreams. 
CINA. 
General Action: From our present knowledge this 
drug acts similarly to Absinth, and other allied plants, 
producing increased reflex irritability and spasms. Its 
symptoms particularly simulate worm affections or 
peculiar forms of indigestion. 
Generalities: The child raises herself suddenly before 
coughing, looks wildly about, becomes stiff, loses con- 
sciousness, as if she would have epilepsy, then coughs. 
Convulsions; epileptic-like, with consciousness. Trem- 
bling, with shivering and tossing about, even when 
awake. Convulsions, epileptiform, at night. Convul- 
sions, epileptiform; lying on the back, violent screams 
and motions of the hands and feet. Sensitiveness of 
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[Cina. 
the whole body to touch and motion. External pres- 
sure renews or aggravates the symptoms. Dull, stick- 
ing pains here and there throughout the body. Jerkings 
and distortions of the limbs. Stiff stretching out of the 
body. Paralytic pains in the arms and legs. 
Clinical. Frequently useful for symptoms of spasms in children 
suffering from worms. Sometimes useful in true epilepsy. 
Mind: Child cannot be quieted by any persuasions; 
proof against all caresses. Piteous cries if one at- 
tempted to touch or lead him. Lachrymose and com- 
plaining. Earnest and sensitive; offended at the slight- 
est joke. Unconscious and frothing at the mouth. 
Head: Headache in the morning, with pains in the 
eyes. Pressive, stupefying headache, < walking in the 
open air and mental effort; pains in the forepart of the 
head and then in the occiput. Sticking pains above the 
eyes in the forehead, extending deep into the brain. 
Drawing pains from the left frontal eminence to the 
root of the nose, causing confusion, as if the brain were 
pressed down, < pressure. Head is jerked backward. 
Eyes: Eyes sunken, with pale face. Pupils dilated. 
Pain in the eyes in the evening when using them by a 
light. Vision becomes dim when reading, > tempor- 
arily by wiping the eyes. Photophobia. A kind of 
spasm in the superciliary muscles, like a convulsion. 
Vision of colors is altered; blue seems green; red, fawn 
color; white, yellow, etc. 
Nose: The child bores into the nose until it bleeds. 
Violent sneezing. 
Face: Face is pale and cold, with cold sweat. Patient 
is white and bluish about the mouth. Face puffy. Tear- 
ing pains in the malar bones, < touch and pressure. 
Pains as if pinched and pressed together, < pressure. 
Mouth: Sensitiveness of the teeth to cold air and to 
cold drinks. Dryness and rawness of the mouth. 
Stomach: Great hunger soon after eating. Inordinate Cina.] 
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desires for different things. Thirst. Nausea and vom- 
iting mucus or food, followed by chill, heat and thirst. 
Abdomen: Pinching colic as from worms, transversely 
across the pit of the stomach, after eating. Twisting 
pains about the navel. Abdomen distended, especially 
in children. 
Stool: Constipation. Evacuation of round worms 
and thread worms. A whitish, involuntary diarrhoea, 
watery. 
Urinary Organs: Frequent urging to urinate. Mictu- 
rition involuntary, especially at night in bed. Urine 
turbid, profuse. 
Sexual Organs: Menstruation too early and profuse. 
Uterine haemorrhage. 
Respiratory Organs: Mucus collects in the larynx in 
the morning after rising, and soon again after expector- 
ation. Spasmodic, suffocative cough, with a kind of 
gurgling; the patient catches the breath. A hoarse, 
hacking cough in the morning after rising, renewed by 
inspiration; or hoarse and hacking in the evening; 
violent paroxysmal. Anxious, oppressed breathing. 
Breath short and interrupted, as from spasms in the 
chest. Respiration catching and painful. 
Clinical. Capillary bronchitis in children; screams when approached 
(Arn.); swallows after coughing, screams and talks in sleep, with 
rigidity and great paleness of the face; sometimes with jerkings of 
the limbs and loss of breath. 
Neck and Back: Tearing, sticking pain in the middle 
of the spine. Drawing tearing pains, extending down 
the spine. Bruised pain in the small of the back. A 
feeling of constriction around the loins. 
Extremities: Twitchings, jerkings and spasms. Cramp- 
like tearing pains in the arms and hands. Spasmodic 
closure of the hands. Jerking of the fingers. 
Sleep: Tosses about in sleep, with cries and lamenta- 
tions. 
Fever: Chill daily at the same hour, followed by heat, 156 
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[Cinnabaris. 
without thirst. Shivering over the whole body, with 
hot cheeks, without thirst. Heat daily at the same 
hour, with short breath. Heat rises to the face and 
head, with yellow color of the face and blue rings about 
the eyes, especially after sleep, without thirst; some- 
times with thirst for cold drinks. Cold sweat on the 
forehead, nose and hands. 
CINNABARIS. 
Eyes: Clinical. Inflammatory affections of the eyes, blepharitis, 
kerato-iritis, ulcers of the cornea, etc.; inflammations, mostly super- 
ficial or characterized by severe pain in the bones of the orbit, es- 
pecially by a pain running from the inner to the outer canthus, in the 
bone. 
Nose: Clinical. Nasal catarrh, subacute and chronic, with pain 
about the root of the nose, extending into the bones on each side. 
Throat: Clinical. Angina faucium, with accumulation of stringy 
mucus passing through posterior nares into throat. 
Sexual Organs: Clinical. Indurated buboes, condylomata on pre- 
puce, which bleed easily. Enlarged testicle, resulting from gonor- 
rhoea ; chronic gonorrhoea. 
CINNAMOMUM. 
General tendency to haemorrhages; frequent attacks 
of nose-bleed. Bright-colored haemorrhage from the 
bowels after physical effort. Menstruation too early, 
profuse and prolonged, lasting nearly the whole month. 
Bearing down in genital organs of women. 
Clinical. Has been used for swollen glands in general, which be- 
come inflamed, indurated or ulcerated. Herpetic eruptions, scrofulous 
ophthalmia, offensive discharges. All the cases are extremely sensi- 
tive to cold. It has been used for sore throat, mostly subacute, with 
intolerable dryness, aggravated by cold air, ameliorated by swallow- 
ing liquids; great swelling of uvula and tonsils. Sore throat, with a 
small, dry spot; has to rise at night to sip water; feeling as if he were 
glazed with strips of tough mucus. Diarrhoea from coffee, thin, yel- 
low, urgent, aggravated early in morning. Dysentery. The wind- 
pipe feels narrow; has to open the window to breathe fresh air; aggra- 
vated on lying down, a kind of asthmatic attack. Induration of the 
mammary gland. Has cured white swelling of the knee. 
CISTUS. Clematis.] 
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CLEMATIS. 
General Action; A remedy full of pains; swelling ot 
glands, inflammations, etc.; remarkably similar to some 
of its botanical allies. Allies: Puls., Aconit., Cimicif., 
Ran. b., Berb., Rhod. 
Generalities: General emaciation; muscles all relaxed. 
General twitchings and jerkings of muscles. General 
aggravation on walking; after taking coffee, >> open 
air. 
Clinical. It is a very valuable remedy for a rheumatic constitution, 
especially in a patient who occasionally suffers from herpetic erup- 
tions ; whose herpetic eruptions sometimes become pustular, especi- 
ally about the occiput; eczema impetiginoides. 
Mind: General sadness and dread of misfortune. Dis- 
contented and morose. Mind confused. Memory weak. 
Head: Boring pain in the temples. 
Clinical. Eruption on the occiput, at the base of the hair; moist, 
sensitive to the touch, becoming pustular. The itching worse when 
warm in bed. 
Eyes: Inflamed, with ulceration and heat; with burn- 
ing as of fire; or with biting, burning pain. Heat in 
the eyes and sensitiveness to the air; must close them. 
Pupils contracted. Pressure in the orbits on fiioving 
the eyes. Vision becomes indistinct. 
Clinical. Especially useful in inflammation of the iris from cold, 
with pressing pain; great photophobia, lachrymation and heat in 
eyes and great sensitiveness to cold air; also useful in pustular con- 
junctivitis. Chronic syphilitic iritis; aggravation at night, with ad- 
hesions. 
Ears: Burning pain in external ear. Heat in the 
ears. 
Face: Pale, sickly look. Neuralgia of the face, <Z 
lying upon that side; becomes painful to touch. Vesic- 
ular eruption across the nose and cheeks or about the 
lips, tender to touch. 
Mouth: Toothache, sticking and drawing, < night 
when lying down, driving him to despair; < smoking 
tobacco or chewing bread; for a time > cold water and 158 
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[Clematis. 
by expiration; with the toothache, the teeth feel too 
long, the gums are sore and there is often free saliva- 
tion. 
Abdomen: Swelling and induration of the inguinal 
glands, with jerking pains, with sensitiveness on walk- 
ing, involving especially the right side. The whole 
right inguinal region becomes sore, feels swollen; espe- 
cially < walking and at night. 
Urinary Organs: Increased secretion of urine. The 
urine becomes purulent. Unable to evacuate the 
bladder completely. Micturition slow and thin, as 
from constriction of the urethra. Constriction of the 
urethra, with burning on urinating; < when beginning 
to urinate, also with biting and stinging. 
Sexual Organs: Painful swelling and induration of the 
testicles. Swelling of the right half of scrotum, which 
is thickened and enlarged, together with the right tes- 
ticle. Sensitiveness of the right spermatic cord, with 
drawing up of right testicle. Testicles swollen, very 
sensitive, with pain, extending along the spermatic 
cord; bruised pain, with drawing and tension. 
Clinical. Inflammation of testicles; pain greatly aggravated at 
night by warmth of bed; with the swollen testicles there are numer- 
ous symptoms of distress in urinating. (See above.) Orchitis from 
suppressed gonorrhoea. Corrosive leucorrhoea and shooting pains in 
the breasts, aggravated when urinating. Indurations and tumors in 
mammary glands (scirrhus ?), very painful to touch. 
Neck and Back: Bruised pain in the small of the 
back, as if it were broken, < stooping. 
Extremities: Swelling of the axillary glands. Rheu- 
matic pains in the hands and fingers. Swelling and 
thickening of the finger joints. Boring pains in the 
tibise. 
Skin: Clinical. Eczema on various parts, said to be worse during 
the increasing moon, with corrosive secretion; itching always aggra- 
vated by warmth of bed at night. The eczema is prone to appear on 
the occiput, sometimes moist "during the increasing moon," some- 
times dry " during the waning moon." Eczematous eruption follow- 
ing suppressed gonorrhoea. Chronic eczema of hands. Crawling, Cocculus.] 
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throbbing and burning in the ulcers when touched. Painful tetter 
over the whole body; does not itch, " but becomes red and moist, with 
the increasing moon, but pale and dry with the waning moon." 
Fever: Profuse sweat at night, with aversion to 
being uncovered. 
COCCULUS. 
General Action: It produces violent convulsions and 
loss of control over muscles; excessive vertigo and 
nausea. Paralysis of muscles. 
Generalities: Paralytic immobility of the limbs, with 
drawing pains in the bones. One-sided paralysis, with 
numbness of the limbs. Paralytic attack, with pain in 
the back, so that it is difficult to stand steadily. Sen- 
sation of emptiness and constriciion of internal parts. 
Tendency to tremble. Great weariness from the 
slightest effort, amounting even to faintness. Intoler- 
ance of the open air, both warm and cold. General 
aggravation from eating, drinking, sleeping, talking, 
driving and smoking. 
Clinical. General tendency to paralysis; heaviness and sluggish- 
ness of the whole body, numbness; sometimes trembling and jerking 
of various groups of muscles; at times unconquerable drowsiness. 
Spasmodic affections; epilepsy characterized by cold extremities and 
numbness; chorea, the patient is exhausted; hysteria, especially 
menstrual; complains of numbness and weakness of the extremities; 
particularly useful in complaints resulting from loss of sleep. Gen- 
eral hypersesthesia of all senses; intolerance of the least excitement. 
Symptoms of emptiness and hollowness in the thoracic or abdominal 
cavities are frequently associated with the symptoms of weakness or 
paralysis. General bad effect of prolonged insomnia. Nervous ex- 
haustion, with profound weakness of extremities, aching in thighs, 
falling asleep of limbs; weak, empty feeling in chest or abdomen. 
Mind: Sadness. Sensitive; everything offends him. 
Great anxiety. Intolerance of noise. Easily startled. 
Memory lost. Sits in deep thought. 
Clinical. It is especially adapted to cases which present a mental 
condition of stupidity; slow of comprehension or cannot think of 
words with which to express themselves; the mind feels benumbed, 
especially with vertigo, nausea, etc. Mental derangements resulting 
from suppression of menses. Melancholy; is wrapped in profound 160 
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[Cocculus. 
sadness, with apprehension, desire to escape, etc., the consequences 
of vexation, with grief. 
Head: Convulsive trembling of the head. Aching, 
with nausea. Headache < cold air. Head seems tied 
up; brain feels rolled up into a small ball. General 
confusion or vertigo, < eating and drinking; < rising 
up in bed, with nausea, and with dullness in the fore- 
head as if a board were bound across the forehead. 
Pain in the forehead as if eyes would be torn out. 
Clinical. Vertigo as if intoxicated is an almost constant concomi- 
tant of Cocculus symptoms, generally associated with a feeling of 
stupefaction of head and numbness and unsteadiness of extremities. 
Sick headaches, pain especially seated in occiput, extending down 
spine; extremely sensitive to external impressions, with constant 
nausea and vertigo. Sick headaches, especially brought on by read- 
ing in cars and carriages; seasickness. 
Eyes: Bruised pain in the eyes, with inability to 
open them at night. Pain in the eyes as if they 
would be torn out of the head. Pupils contracted. 
Vision dim, with black spots before the eyes. 
Ears: Sound of rushing water in the ears, with diffi- 
cult hearing. 
Face: The lines of the face are deepened; it seems 
drawn. Earthy color, with a painful expression. 
Heat of the face, with red cheeks, even in a cold 
room. 
Clinical. Paralysis of facial nerve, involving the lids of one eye 
and side of the face. Attacks of prosopalgia, recurring regularly, 
preceded by irritable disposition, prostration, yawning, chilliness, 
coldness of feet; pains are boring and crushing, and extend even as 
far as the fingers. Tearing pains in the whole left side of the head 
and face, followed by paralysis. 
Mouth: Tongue dry, or dry at the edges, without 
thirst. Tongue coated white or yellow. A metallic 
taste, with loss of appetite. General dryness of the 
mouth and throat. 
Throat: Swallowing difficult, particularly on account 
of choking contraction in the upper part of pharynx, 
which even impedes breathing and causes cough, par- 
ticularly on account of loss of power of the faucial Cocculus.] 
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muscles. Speech difficult on account of paralysis of 
the tongue and other muscles. 
Stomach: Loss of appetite; even aversion to food. 
Hunger, but the smell of food causes aversion. Thirst, 
especially when eating. Aversion to all acids. Eructa- 
tions, empty; bitter; efforts to eructate which are in- 
effectual, and instead of which there is hiccough. 
Nausea in the morning, so that she can scarcely 
rise; especially when riding in a wagon or the cars. 
Nausea, with salivation and headache and bruised 
feeling in the abdomen. Nausea, associated with faint- 
ness. Griping, pinching, constrictive pains in the 
stomach. Pain beneath the stomach after eating. A 
feeling as if a worm were moving about in the stomach. 
Cramps in the stomach while eating and immediately 
afterward, with violent pinching and clawing. A feel- 
ing of fulnesss and griping in the stomach, with op- 
pressed breathing. 
Abdomen: Pinching and griping in the upper part of 
the abdomen, and oppression of breath. Great flatu- 
lent distention; gas seems to collect in small masses; 
the gas seems to be confined by spasmodic constriction 
of the bowels, sometimes > lying on one side. A feel- 
ing of emptiness in the abdomen. Ulcerative pain in 
the abdomen. The inguinal hernia is apt to protrude 
and become incarcerated, especially on rising from a 
seat. An internal feeling in the groin as if stuffed, 
and as if the bowels would fall out. A weak pain in 
the right inguinal ring as if something would be forced 
out, while sitting, > rising. 
Clinical. Flatulent colic only slightly ameliorated by evacuating 
gas; attacks come on at night, associated with feeling of emptiness, 
nausea, vertigo, etc. Gastralgia from suppression of menses. Ex- 
cessive flatulent distention of abdomen and dysmenorrhoea. A valu- 
able remedy in hernias, both umbilical and inguinal; is particularly 
indicated when the abdominal muscles are weak and it seems as if a 
hernia would easily take place. Flatulent colic in pregnancy, etc. 
The flatulent colic ameliorated by eructating gas, aggravated by 
coughing. 162 
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[Cocculus. 
Stool: Diarrhoea; thin, whitish-yellow water* Con- 
stipation, with ineffectual urging to stool on account 
of lack of peristaltic motion. 
Clinical. Diarrhoea brought on by riding in cars or carriage, aggra- 
vated by drinking cold water, with flatulent distention; colic; feeling 
as if sharp stones rubbing together in abdomen; numbness of legs, 
vertigo, nausea, etc. 
Urinary Organs: Urine watery. Frequent urging to 
urinate, with scanty discharge. 
Sexual Organs, Female: Menstruation too early, with 
distention of abdomen and cutting-contractive pain in 
abdomen on every motion and every breath, with con- 
traction of rectum. Menstruation too early, with dis- 
tention of abdomen and pain in upper abdomen on 
every motion and when sitting, as from sharp pressure 
of a stone, with pain on touch as from an internal ulcer. 
Clinical. Menses too profuse, gushing, very exhausting, with men- 
strual colic, as from sharp stones rubbing together; flatulent disten- 
tion and dysmenorrhoea and suppressed menstruation, with numbness, 
remote symptoms, vertigo, nausea, flatulent colic, numbness of ex- 
tremities, etc. Suppression of menses, with purulent gushing leucor- 
rhoea and flatulent abdomen. 
Respiratory Organs: Dyspnoea, as from constriction in 
the throat. Short-breathed, on account of tension in 
the abdomen and oppression of the chest. Fatiguing 
cough, with oppression of the chest. Cough seemed to 
be caused by a constriction of the air passages. 
Heart and Pulse: Palpitation. 
Neck and Back: Weakness in the muscles of the neck, 
with heaviness of head; can scarcely hold it up, > lean- 
ing head backward. Stiff pain in the muscles on mov- 
ing the head, or on yawning. Stiffness in the cervical 
muscles, with great weakness. Cracking in the cervical 
vertebrae. Paralytic pain in the small of the back, with 
spasmodic drawing across the hips, preventing walking, 
with anxiety and fear. 
Clinical. Great weakness of cervical and dorsal muscles, then 
paralysis; in spinal irritation, with great hypenesthesia of all senses. 
Constant pain in back, shooting through body to both sides and along 
spine to occiput, and even to temples at times, aggravated by walk- Coccus Cactus.] 
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ing and stooping; tenderness from pressure-on vertebral spines from 
last dorsal vertebra to sacrum; frequent giddiness; does not fall 
asleep until late on account of pain. 
Extremities: General trembling, especially in the 
evening, with chilliness. Paralytic drawing pains in 
the limbs; can scarcely rise, with loss of appetite. Stiff- 
ness of all the joints; painful. The feet and hands fall 
asleep. Sticking pain in the shoulder joint and muscles 
of the arm, during rest. Bone pain in the arms, as if 
beaten, on raising them. The arms fall asleep. Trem- 
bling of the hand when eating, < on raising it. One 
hand, and then the other becomes insensible and asleep. 
Paralytic immobility and paralysis of the lower ex- 
tremities from the small of the back downward. A 
bruised pain in the thighs. The knees crack on motion; 
sometimes become inflamed and swollen, with stinging 
pains. The knees knock-under from weakness; he tot- 
ters when walking and threatens to fall to one side. 
Burning in the feet. Feet fall asleep when sitting; 
swelling of the feet. 
Sleep: Constant yawning and stretching after lying 
down in bed. Loss of sleep on account of anxiety and 
physical restlessness. Anxious dreams. 
Fever: Constant chilliness, with hot skin. Chill in 
the evening and shivering, especially in the back. Ex- 
hausting sweat on motion. 
Clinical. Intermittent fever; chill, associated with flatulent colic, 
nausea, disgust at the smell of food, vertigo, etc.; chill, frequently 
partial, with coldness of lower extremities and heat of head; the chill 
mingles with the heat and the febrile stage seems to be imperfectly 
developed; the sweat is general, cold only on the face; the attack 
followed by extreme debility and by numerous Cocculus symptoms. 
Low types of malarial fevers, typhoid, rheumatic, relapsing, etc., 
with intense headache at base of occiput; vertigo, nausea, extreme 
faintness, numbness; great difficulty in collecting ideas. 
Head: A general feeling of rush of blood to the 
head; a dull aching, < moving it, or by sudden jar. 
Confusion, with vertigo, especially on the vertex, > in 
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[Coccus Cactus. 
the open air. Pain in the temples, extending toward 
vertex, < washing with cold water. 
Ears: Roaring in the ears, evening and night. Im- 
paired hearing. 
Nose: Catarrhal symptoms. A discharge of thick, 
yellow mucus. 
Mouth: The whole mouth and fauces sensitive, so 
that even rinsing the mouth causes cough and vomit- 
ing of thick mucus. Taste metallic, with salivation. 
Throat: The palate irritable, so that even brushing 
the teeth causes vomiting and choking. Scraping, 
with expectoration of mucus; also causing paroxysms 
of cough, with expectoration of tough mucus. The 
uvula feels elongated, which causes constant hawking. 
Secretion of much tough mucus in the throat, with 
constant efforts to expectorate. This mucus seems to 
cause the cough, which continues until thick, viscid 
masses of mucus are expectorated, with relief. 
Stomach: Nausea, retching and vomiting, apparently 
caused by thick, tough mucus in the throat, and by a 
spasmodic cough. 
Abdomen: Pain in the left hypochondrium, as from 
incarcerated flatus, extending to left side of back 
and lumbar vertebrae. Burning drawing in region of 
spleen. Waking at night, > holding with a warm 
hand. 
Urinary Organs: Great urging to urinate. Frequent 
micturition. Copious urine. 
Clinical. Urinary calculi, with violent colic; luematuria; large de- 
posits of uric acid and of urates; pains lancinating, extending from 
kidneys into bladder. Acute inflammation of the kidney, with back- 
ache, etc. 
Sexual Organs: Clinical. Menorrhagia; discharge of large dark 
clots, with dysuria. Intermittent menstruation; flows only in the 
evening or night when lying down. 
Respiratory Organs: Tickling in the larynx, waking 
early in the night, causing cough, with expectoration 
of much tenacious mucus. Scraping in the larynx, Coffea Cruda.] 
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which causes paroxysms of cough and expectoration 
of balls of mucus. Rawness in the trachea, obliging 
him to cough. Sensation as if a crumb stuck behind 
the larynx, obliging constant swallowing and hawk- 
ing. The vocal organs become fatigued easily, with 
hoarseness and labored breathing. Violent parox- 
ysms of coughing caused by brushing the teeth, by 
rinsing the mouth, by endeavoring to clear the throat 
of viscid mucus. Cough clear and dry for a time; 
afterwards expectoration of tough mucus and hawk- 
ing, which provokes vomiting; cough in the hot 
room. Expectoration of much tenacious mucus, pro- 
voking vomiting, which gives temporary relief. Par- 
oxysm of tickling cough, ending with expectoration of 
tenacious mucus. Breathing difficult. 
Clinical. Laryngitis, with most violent cough; difficult expectora- 
tion of very tenacious mucus. Suffocative catarrh of the bronchi, 
with tough, white mucus, which strangles; cough aggravated on first 
waking. Whooping cough, with vomiting of ropy, albuminous mucus; 
aggravated in morning, the attacks ending with vomiting of this ropy 
mucus. 
Heart: Rapid, irregular beating of the heart after 
eating, causing anxiety. 
Back: Aching through the small of the back. The 
region of the kidneys painful to pressure. Pain across 
the loins as if broken. 
COFFEA CRUDA. 
Mind: Great mental excitement. Over-sensibility. 
Unusual activity of mind and body. Excessive haste. 
Immoderate weeping and crying about trifles. Full 
of fancies and active flow of ideas. Memory becomes 
very acute. All the muscles seem very mobile. 
Twitching in the limbs. Increased sensitiveness to 
pain, driving one to despair. Immoderate activity 
and vigor; an unusually increased feeling of health. 
General aversion to open air, which seems to aggra- 
vate the symptoms. Mental and physical exhaustion. 166 
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[Coffea Cruda. 
Clinical Delirium tremens, with trembling of hands; fears; thinks 
that he is not at home, restlessness, etc. Extreme activity of mind; 
the patient is sleepless; great flow of thought, with great acuteness 
of all senses. Mental excitability resulting from pleasurable emo- 
tions. Recurring attacks of weeping, with hysterical excitability, 
tremulousness, etc. 
Head: Headache, < eating, > open air, returning 
in the house. Rush of blood to the head, particularly 
after exhausting joy. Pain in one side of the head as 
if a nail were driven into it. A feeling of tearing in 
the brain. 
Ears: Hearing very acute; sensitive, especially to 
music. Sounds seem shrill. 
Nose: Nose-bleed in the morning, with heaviness of 
the head. Smell very sensitive. 
Face: General dry heat of the face, with red cheeks. 
Clinical. Prosopalgia, extending to molar teeth of right side; she 
is very irritable, sensitive and moaning from distressing pain; painful 
teeth, ameliorated by contact with ice. 
Mouth: Jerking and tearing toothache, with rest- 
lessness, anxiety and weeping; intolerant of the pain; 
> only by holding ice water in the mouth. 
Stomach: Excessive hunger; eats hastily and greed- 
ily. Thirst increased, especially at night. Cramp in 
the stomach as from overloading it, with intolerance 
of tight clothing. 
Clinical. Sometimes required after the bad effects of wine and 
liquor. Neuralgic headache, with nausea and vomiting. 
Abdomen: Colic, which seems to be unendurable; 
intestines feel cut to pieces; abdomen painful; cannot 
tolerate the clothes. 
Urinary Organs: Urine usually greatly increased, es- 
pecially at night. 
Sexual Organs, Male: Greatly excited sexual desire, 
with dry heat of the body. 
Sexual Organs, Female: Clinical. Uterine haemorrhage; extreme 
sensitiveness of genitals, flow dark, clotted (Plat.). Useful in after- 
pains, which are extremely difficult to tolerate. 
Respiratory Organs: Roughness in the larynx in the 
morning on waking, with hoarseness. Larynx seems Colchicum.] 
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covered with dry mucus. Short, dry, hacking cough, 
as from constriction of the larynx. An irritable, nerv- 
ous cough at night, with anxiety and sleeplessness. 
Oppressed breathing, short, with great motion of the 
chest. 
Heart and Pulse: Palpitation, violent, irregular. 
Neck and Back: Pain, like a lameness in the back. 
Extremities: Pains extend through the arms to the 
ends of the fingers. Trembling of the hands on trying 
to hold anything. Neuralgic-like pains in the lower 
extremities, > pressure on the nerve, < motion and 
at night. 
Skin: Skin very sensitive; eruptions become ex- 
tremely irritable. 
Sleep: Sleeplessness from over-excitement of mind 
and body, during which all the senses are extremely 
acute. 
Fever: Internal chilliness with external heat. In 
the evening after lying down, general sensation of 
heat, without sweat, with shivering in the back. In- 
ternal shivering and heat of the head and sweat of 
the face. 
COLCHICUM. 
General Action: It produces violent inflammation of 
the gastro-intestinal canal, with profound depression 
of the heart and of the temperature. It produces also 
acute inflammation of the kidneys. It is specially in- 
teresting to note that it produces symptoms of the 
acute manifestations of gout, quite apart from any 
direct modifications of the excretion of urea or uric 
acid. Its relief of acute gout seems to be purely a 
homoeopathic action. 
Generalities: General sensitiveness to the slightest 
touch. Weakness; exhaustion, with paralytic feeling 
in all the limbs; very easily affected by night watch- 
ing. Pains, tearing, jerking, sticking, like electric 168 
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[Colchicum. 
shocks, in all parts of the body, with paralytic sensa- 
tion; pains become worse and intolerable towards 
evening, and become better only at daybreak. Sensi- 
tiveness of the whole body, especially of the affected 
parts, to the slightest touch and motion. Crawling 
sensation in various parts of the body as after being 
frozen. Tearing pains seem worse in warm weather, 
sticking pains in cold weather. General tendency to 
collapse, with internal coldness. 
Mind: Intolerant of the pain; his troubles seem un- 
endurable. External impressions, as, for example, a 
bright light, or strong odors, or touch, make him 
beside himself on account of intolerance. Memory 
weak. Mind generally distracted. 
Head: Aching in the occiput, < mental effort. Neu- 
ralgic, tearing pains in the scalp; crawling over the 
head, or on the forehead. 
Eyes: Diffused inflammation and congestion. In- 
flammation and swelling of the margins of the lids. 
Clinical. Kerato-iritis, with pus in anterior chamber of the eye. 
Occasional attacks of rheumatic inflammation of iris (see Clematis); 
ulcerations of cornea and opacities of cornea. 
Ears: Tearing pain in the ears, with discharge (after 
measles). Crawling in the ears. 
Nose: Smell morbidly acute; odor of cooking makes 
him sick and faint. 
Face: Face sunken, pinched as in collapse. Face 
sometimes yellow, mottled. Pain as if the bones of 
the face were forced asunder. 
Mouth: Tearing pain in the roots of the teeth and 
gum, < taking anything cold into the mouth immed- 
iately after something warm. General inflammation 
of the cavity of the mouth and fauces. Saliva profuse. 
Tongue insensible and stiff. 
Stomach: Great appetite for a variety of things, but 
as soon as they are seen or, still more, smelt it distresses 
him; he is nauseated and cannot eat. Unquenchable Colchicum.] 
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thirst. Eructations, with burning in the stomach. 
Nausea and anxiety from the smell of cooking, or from 
fat food. Violent retching and vomiting; first of food, 
then watery. Vomiting, associated with watery diar- 
rhoea and symptoms of cholera. Violent vomiting; 
must lie bent up and very quietly. Burning in the 
stomach, internally, sometimes with external coldness. 
Clinical. One of the most characteristic indications for Colchicum 
is craving for various things, but when they are brought to him, es- 
pecially if he smells them, he is seized with extreme aversion and be- 
comes nauseated, and may even vomit. It is indicated in the most 
violent attacks of gastralgia, with retching and vomiting of food and 
bile; from the repression of gout. 
Abdomen: Distention, as if one had eaten too much, 
or a pressing-downward pain. Burning or feeling of 
coldness in the abdomen. 
Clinical. In typhlitis; in extreme distention of abdomen, with icy 
coldness in stomach: colic; occasional attacks of nausea and vomit- 
ing. Ascites with the characteristic gastric symptoms. 
Rectum and Stool: Crawling, tearing and burning in 
the rectum. Violent tenesmus, followed by scanty, 
transparent, bilious, membranous mucus, with relief of 
colic. Spasmodic constriction of sphincter, with chilli- 
ness running up the back, followed by urging to stool. 
Stool with many white shreds; like dysentery, slimy; 
bloody, with tenesmus; watery, copious, yellowish and 
offensive, containing pieces of white membrane, etc. 
Clinical. Dysentery; great tenesmus; discharges jellylike or bloody, 
mucous or changeable in character, but with great tenesmus, with or 
without stool, with tympanitis, colic, inability to stretch out the legs; 
at times the dysenteric discharges are reddish, mucous, like scrapings 
of intestines; sometimes there is even protrusion of the low7er bowels 
(Pod.). Especially indicated in autumnal dysentery (compare Aloes 
and Mercurius). 
Urinary Organs: Frequent urging to urinate, but 
with scanty discharge. Strangury, with bloody urine. 
Urine deposits a white sediment. 
Clinical. Nephritis, with extreme pain in the region of the kidneys; 
in some cases aggravated by stretching out legs, as from pressure on 
the kidneys, in the abdominal cavity; urine bloody or dark albumin- 
ous; in some cases there are symptoms of inflammation of the neck 
H 170 
A t*RIMiSR Of 
[Colchicum. 
of the bladder, with terrible pain after urinating (Canth.). In- 
flamed kidneys, with pain in back and sacrum; hot, burning urine: 
constant chilliness and cold extremities, with coldness in stomach. 
Respiratory Organs: Difficult breathing, with oppres- 
sion of the chest, > bending forward. Cough short, 
dry. Cough at night, with involuntary micturition. 
Stitches in the chest on inspiration and coughing. 
Heart: Tremulous feeling in the prsecordial region, 
with sticking pain. Anxiety in the region of the heart, 
causing sighing. Oppression; extending into left side 
of chest, obliging deep inspiration; or with trembling 
of the heart. Fulness at night, with oppression, as from 
stagnation. Sensitiveness in the region of the heart to 
pressure. Palpitation ; dull, irregular, suppressed beats, 
with indescribable sensation. Impulse of the heart not 
felt; heart sounds heard with difficulty, or a blowing 
sound; sounds, like a heart, heard at a great distance, 
or through a stone wall. 
Clinical. Chronic or subacute pericarditis, with exudation of water 
in pericardium, with severe pain about heart; oppression and dysp- 
noea, as if the chest were squeezed with a tight band (Cact.); in these 
cases the heart's action is weak and indistinct, the pulse may even be 
threadlike; in many cases there is chronic feeling of icy coldness at 
pit of stomach. 
Neck and Back: Drawing pains in the back, small of 
the back. Tension and pain in the region of the kid- 
neys (with inflammation). Pains in the region of the 
kidneys, >> lying on the back and drawing up legs. 
Extremities: Pains in the smaller joints, fingers, toes, 
wrists and ankles; also in the shoulder and knee 
joints, during rest, with uneasiness. Joints generally 
feel stiff and inflamed. Paralytic pain in the arms, so 
that he cannot hold the slightest thing. Tearing in 
the arms, extending to the fingers. Crawling in the 
tips of the fingers. Drawing pains in the whole lower 
extremities, even to the toes. (Edematous swelling of 
the leg and foot. Crawling in the tips of the toes. 
Clinical. Gouty diathesis; soreness of the flesh, of the joints; ex- 
treme irritability; intolerance of touch, with gastric symptoms. Collinsonia.] 
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Articular rheumatism, with tearing, jerking pains, cardiac complica- 
tions, gastric symptoms. Shifting rheumatism; pains aggravated to- 
wards night; the patient is very irritable, etc. It is generally indi- 
cated when the smaller joints are affected; the pains are violent, 
often paralytic, so that the patient can hold nothing in the hands ; or 
when the feet are affected they become swollen, cedematous; it is dif- 
cult to lift the feet. Rheumatism or gout in heel, which is ex- 
tremely sore, with tearing pains. Inflammation of the joint of great 
toe, with acute pain as from sharp sticking. Cannot bear to have it 
touched or to have any one come near him. 
Fever: General tendency to coldness, especially of 
the extremities, or internal coldness in the abdomen; 
sometimes with cold breath, nausea and vomiting, fol- 
lowed by cold sweat, etc. Pulse rapid, irritable. Dry 
heat, especially at night, with great thirst. 
Clinical. Occasionally indicated in typhoid fever, tympanitis, cold- 
ness in stomach, cold breath, nausea and vomiting; cold sweat, al- 
buminous urine. Effects of sudden suppression of perspiration in 
gastralgia, etc. 
COLLINSONIA. 
Head: Dull frontal headache. Tongue coated yel- 
low, with bitter taste. Nausea. Cutting pains in the 
lower abdomen; must sit down, with faintness, fol- 
lowed by yellow stool, with mucus and blood and 
tenesmus, then recurrence of the cutting pain. 
Stool: Light-colored, with tenesmus, followed by 
pain in the anus and hypogastrium. Constipation 
(feces hard like stones). 
Clinical. Haemorrhoids, sharp sticking in rectum, constipation, etc. 
Haemorrhoids, bleeding almost incessantly, especially with sensation 
of sharp sticks in rectum: general aggravation late at night. Most 
obstinate constipation, with protruding haemorrhoids. Dysmenor- 
rhoea, with luemorrhoidal troubles; membranous dysmenorrhcea. 
Pruritus of vulva and prolapsus uteri, haemorrhoids, constipation, 
etc. In all these pelvic troubles Collinsonia reminds us of Aloes, 
though obstinate constipation is the rule with Coll.; looseness of the 
bowels with Aloes. Pruritus during pregnancy, swelling and dark 
redness of genitals; cannot even sit down. 
COLOCYNTHIS. 
General Action: A violent hydragogue cathartic, pro- 
ducing terrible colic. It also causes violent pains in 172 
A PRIMER OF 
[Colocynthis. 
nearly all the nerves of the body, almost always re- 
lieved by pressure. 
Generalities: Tearing pains throughout all parts of 
the body. Cramplike pains and contractions of inter- 
nal and external parts. Stiffness of the joints. Mus- 
cular twitchings. Contraction of tendons. All the 
limbs become drawn up. Weakness. Faintness, with 
coldness, external. Weakness, with bruised sensation 
in small of back. Most of the symptoms are >> mo- 
tion, the pains > pressure. 
Head: Tearing digging pains through the brain, < 
on moving the eyelids or bending forward, with pain 
in the eyes. Pressing down in the forehead, < stoop- 
ing and lying on back. Attacks of violent, one-sided, 
pinching headache, with nausea and vomiting every 
afternoon at 5 o'clock. The pains in the head are gen- 
erally confined to one side, are > hard pressure, and 
are nearly always a sharp cutting or boring. 
Eyes: Cutting pains in the eyeballs. Burning pains 
in the eyes. The eye pains are < stooping, > pres- 
sure. 
Nose: Throbbing, burrowing pains in the nose. Flu- 
ent coryza. 
Face: Tearing pains in the face, especially in one 
side and in the left malar bone, extending into left 
eye, > pressure. Sticking, neuralgic pains in the 
upper jaw. Face usually pale and relaxed, with 
sunken eyes. Rarely dark redness of the face. 
Mouth: Neuralgic toothache on one side, recurring 
daily, pains extending over the side of the face to the 
ear and head. Burning pains in the tongue. Scalded 
sensation. Taste .bitter. 
Stomach: Drinks much, without thirst. Unnatural 
appetite for bread. Empty eructations. Vomiting of 
yellow, bitter liquid. Griping in the stomach always 
after eating, especially towards evening; sometimes 
followed by soft stool. Pinching in the pit of the Colocynthis.] 
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stomach, with constriction ; sensitiveness; tolerates 
no covering. Cramp in the stomach, > eructations. 
Clinical. Violent gastralgia; cutting and sharp pains, which seem 
to center in the pit of the stomach from other parts; ameliorated by 
hard pressure and bending double, though the spot may be sensitive 
to the touch. 
Abdomen: Distention; sensitive. Flatulent colic of 
the most violent sort, cutting, pinching, griping, etc. 
A feeling as if the intestines were squeezed between 
stones; the pains sometimes worse below the navel, 
always obliging the patient to bend over; always >> 
hard pressure, some times > after stool. 
Clinical. Colic of the most violent character, ameliorated by hard 
pressure, sometimes with nausea and vomiting, sometimes with 
diarrhoea, sometimes with discharge of great quantities of gas; pains 
often extend into chest and pelvis, and may be caused by suppressed 
perspiration, as from drinking ice water when heated, or they may 
be brought on by fits of anger; the patient always doubles up with 
the colic. 
Rectum: Ineffectual urging to stool, frequently fol- 
lowed by sudden stool. 
Stool: Stool mostly liquid, < after eating, preceded 
by terrible colic; evacuation thin, frothy, or with much 
mucus. Occasionally indicated in most obstinate con- 
stipation, with very hard, nodular stools. 
Clinical. Diarrhoea as the result of anger, or from fruit, with colic; 
the evacuation preceded by the characteristic colic of Coloc. as an 
important indication. Dysentery, bloody and mucous; stools always 
after eating or drinking, preceded by colic. 
Urinary Organs: Sudden pressure on the bladder, > 
evacuation of gas from the bowels. Frequent urging 
to urinate, scanty discharge, or with copious, clear, 
watery urine. Urine like brown beer, becoming 
turbid as soon as cold, with copious sediment ; or thin, 
whitish color, depositing a light brown, flocky, trans- 
lucent sediment, with hard, solid, reddish crystals, 
adherent to the vessel. 
Sexual Organs: Clinical. Suppressed menses with characteristic 
colic. Dysmenorrhoea, with violent pain, ameliorated by bard pres- 
sure. Ovarian tumor. Cysts in the broad ligament. Many cases of 
cystic tumors in the ovaries or broad ligament have been cured by 174 
A PRIMER OF 
[Comocladia. 
Coloc., especially if the tumors are round and small, associated with 
pain or with general discomfort, ameliorated by pressure ; the patient 
always wants the abdomen supported by a bandage, and has periodic 
attacks of severe pain. Inflammation of ovaries, with great sore- 
ness, ovarian colic, etc. Chyluria; urine is white like milk, coagulates 
in cold. 
Respiratory Organs: Tickling cough at night. A feel- 
ing of constriction of the larynx, > open air. Oppres- 
sion of the chest. Pains in the intercostal muscles. 
Neck and Back: Drawing pains in the cervical mus- 
cles, < motion. Pressing pain in the left side of 
the neck, like rheumatism, < turning. Stiffness in 
the nape of the neck on moving it. Drawing pain in 
the region of the right scapula. Tensive and bruised 
pain in the small of the back. 
Extremities: Rheumatic pains in the joints. Draw- 
ing pains in the extremities. Sticking or tearing 
pains, especially in the joints of the wrist and hand. 
Occasional tight pains in the thumbsand fingers. Vio- 
lent drawing, twitching pains in the region of the left 
hip, or sharp pains in the region of right hip, suddenly 
appearing and disappearing when walking, > sitting, 
with heat and sensitiveness of the part; pain better in 
the warmth of the bed, but returned after a time. 
Pain along the course of the sciatic nerve as far as 
the hollow of the knee. Pain as if the psoas muscles 
were too short. Drawing pain in one or the other 
thigh as far as the knee. Violent sticking or tearing 
pains in the toes and foot, simulating gout. 
Clinical. Sciatica; pain extremely violent, tearing, shooting, boring, 
aggravated by heat, pressure and by flexing leg on abdomen. 
Fever: Chilliness over the body, usually with pains. 
Heat, especially of the upper part of the body. Sweat 
over the whole body towards morning. 
COMOCLADIA. 
General Action: The symptoms of this drug are very 
similar to those of Rhus tox., with which it is closely 
allied botanically. Conium.] 
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Generalities: A scarlet redness of the whole body, 
like scarlet fever. Swelling of the whole body. Pains 
throughout the body, especially in the left side, > 
moving in the open air. 
Eyes: Violent pain in the right eyeball, with a feel- 
ing as if it were too large and protruded, aggravated 
near a stove. Eyeballs feel heavy and large, painful, 
pressing out of head, as from a pressure on top of eye- 
balls, moving them downward and outward. Soreness 
of the eyeballs, especially in the right eye, < moving 
it and in the evening, by candle light. 
Face: Face swollen, with protruding eyes; vision of 
the left eye becomes lost. 
Skin: Burning and itching of the whole body. 
Swelling, like erysipelas, with inflammation and de- 
velopment of blisters. Inflammation of the left leg 
and foot, with swelling. 
General Action: It produces paralysis of voluntary 
motion, then of respiration. The brain is benumbed; 
vertigo, dilated pupils and even convulsions follow. 
Generalities: Trembling, especially of the arms. Con- 
vulsions, with danger of suffocation. Great weakness 
and loss of power, even to paralysis. Sudden giving- 
way of muscles when walking. Takes cold easily. 
Easily overstrained. Relaxation of all the muscles in 
the legs, and difficulty in walking; cannot control move- 
ments, must lie down. On walking, a tendency to fall 
forward on the kees, with heaviness, giddiness. Tremu- 
lous weakness, especially after stool, > open air. Dull- 
ness of all the senses. General aggravation at night 
and during rest. 
Mind: General aversion to being with people, and yet 
afraid of being alone. Frightened at night. Inability 
to sustain mental effort. Mental operations are slow 
and difficult; stupidity; difficulty in understanding 
what is read. Loss of memory. 
CONIUM. 176 
A PRIMER OF 
[Conium. 
Clinical. Melancholy; quiet, sad, picks his fingers, makes short 
answers; or this condition alternates with excessive gayety. Hypo- 
chondriasis, especially resulting from excessive venery. Averse to 
people, yet dislikes to be alone. Melancholia, resulting from sup- 
pression of menses; aversion to members of her own family. General 
mental weakness; inability to get the mind fixed on his business or to 
stand any prolonged mental effort. 
Head: Headache in the morning, as if head were too 
full and would burst. A general feeling of heaviness. 
Vertigo in the morning on rising, or on walking. Par- 
oxysms of tearing pains in the head, with nausea. 
Sensation of a large foreign body in the right half of 
the brain. One side of the head feels numb and cold. 
Brain seems very sensitive to noise. 
Clinical. Vertigo is a common accompaniment of the Conium con- 
dition; especially aggravated on motion, such as turning over in bed 
or rising up; this vertigo is sometimes accompanied by partial paraly- 
sis of the muscles of the eye, or objects seem to be unsteady; especi- 
ally indicated in vertigo of old people; vertigo resulting from exces- 
sive use of tobacco. With the head symptoms the brain is frequently 
extremely sensitive, with feeling of a hard Jump in the brain, oi- of 
numbness or coldness in the head or one side of the head. 
Eyes: Burning in the eyes in the open air, or a feel- 
ing of coldness. Aching in the eyes when reading. 
Lids seem pressed down and heavy, almost like a 
sleepiness. Burning on the inner surface of the lids. 
Vision weak, with dazzling, vertigo and genera] debil- 
ity; legs will not support him. Power of accommoda- 
tion very much impaired or lost. Vision double. 
Clinical. Valuable for partial or complete paralysis of the ocular 
muscles, especially of the internal rectus; the attempt to fix the eyes 
upon any object seems painful and may even cause vertigo, henco 
many symptoms, of letters running together, vanishing of vision, etc. 
This drug is very valuable in numerous forms of scrofulous oph- 
thalmia, in a general way indicated by extreme photophobia, greater 
than the apparent inflammation would warrant. There is general 
aggravation at night on lying down, especially of ulcers of the cornea. 
Adapted to old people; it has proved beneficial in cataract when the 
above symptoms were present. 
Ears: Tearing, sticking pains in the ears and about 
them. The ears feel stopped, with more or less roaring- 
in the ears. An unusual accumulation of blood-red wax Conium.] 
MATERIA MEDICA. 
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in the ears. At times the hearing becomes painfully 
acute. 
Nose: Smell particularly sensitive. 
Clinical. The patient is inclined to pick at his nose, which bleeds 
easily and becomes sore (in melancholia). It has been prescribed for 
polypus of the nose. Purulent discharge from the nose. 
Face: Heat of the face. Face puffy, pale blue. Tear- 
ing pains through the face, especially at night. 
Mouth: Drawing pains in the hollow teeth, < cold 
food. Speech difficult. Articulation imperfect. Bit- 
ter taste. Tongue swollen, stiff or painful. 
Throat: Irritation, provoking hacking cough. 
Stomach: Loss of appetite. Empty eructations. Sour 
eructations after eating. Offensive eructations. Efforts 
to vomit, with entire loss of appetite. Nausea from 
all food. Constrictive pain in the epigastric region, 
gradually extending to left side of abdomen, with 
nausea. Pain in the pit of the stomach, extending to 
throat, as if a ball rose up. A feeling of soreness in 
the stomach. A feeling of distention of the stomach 
and upper abdomen after taking milk. 
Clinical. Gastralgia, especially with spasmodic cough (stomach 
cough). Sometimes spasmodic constriction of stomach and oesoph- 
agus, as if a round body ascended from the stomach. The symptoms 
of pain, of vomiting, etc., have led to the use of Conium in cancer 
of the stomach and liver. 
Abdomen: Tremulous feeling in the abdomen. Cut- 
ting pains. Sticking pain in the region of the liver, 
or under the ribs both sides, < motion; < at night 
when lying down and on inspiration. Tearing pains 
in the hepatic region. Constriction of the hypochon- 
dria as from a band. 
Clinical. Hard swellings of the liver have been cured (note the 
sticking, tearing pains in the hepatic region). Enlarged mesenteric 
glands and tumors in the abdomen have been treated successfully 
(note the great sensitiveness of the abdomen, the swelling and the 
character of the pain, knifelike). 
Rectum and Stool: Heat in the lower part of the 
rectum; also during stool. Sticking pains in the anus 
when not at stool. Diarrhoea watery, frequent, with 
H* 178 
A PRIMER OF 
[Conium. 
many empty eructations and copious urine. Involun- 
tary stools during sleep. Constipation, with ineffect- 
ual straining. 
Clinical. Chronic diarrhoea of old people, with tremulous weak- 
ness; discharges sometimes involuntary; specially indicated by the 
symptoms that the flow of urine is intermittent. In obstinate con- 
stipation, especially if it sometimes alternates with diarrhoea, the 
stool followed by tremulous weakness. Evacuations of undigested 
food, with colic. Useful for the diarrhoea of pregnant women. 
Urinary Organs: Micturition frequent at night; some- 
times involuntary, or with dribbling after micturition. 
A burning in the urethra during and after micturition 
in the morning. Cutting in the urethra when urinat- 
ing. Urine turbid, whitish and thick. Urine bloody. 
Micturition frequent at night. A feeling of pressure 
on the bladder. 
Sexual Organs, Male: Lack of sexual power, with ex- 
aggerated sexual desire. Erections incomplete; of 
very short duration. Excessive emissions. Emissions 
on the slightest sexual provocation. Emissions with- 
out sexual dreams. 
Sexual Organs, Female: Menstruation too early, but 
scanty; sometimes suppressed. During menstruation, 
painful cramps in the abdomen. Irritation in the 
vagina, deep. Leucorrhoea follows menstruation, pre- 
ceded by colic; accompanied by weakness and para- 
lyzed sensation in small of back and weakness; con- 
sisting of white, acrid, burning mucus, or sometimes 
thick and milky; with contractive, labor-like pains 
from both sides. 
Clinical. Useful in the bad effects following excessive venery, 
sexual weakness or impotence; flow of prostatic fluid, with consti- 
pated stool or on the slightest motion. Enlarged testicles, which are 
very hard, especially following injuries. It also has been found use- 
ful for the sexual nervousness of strong, healthy men, who are unable 
to have an erection. In . both sexes useful for the effects of sup- 
pressed sexual appetite; for instance, collapse, hysteria, melancholy, 
etc. Uterine polypi. Uterine haemorrhages, with pain in the uterine 
region, running down thighs, etc. Dysmenorrhoea; menstruation too 
scanty and too early. Numerous accompaniments of the menses; 
gastric or mental symptoms. Pruritus of the vagina and pudenda Conium.] 
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following the menses; excessive hyperesthesia of the genital organs, 
especially in suppression of menses. Useful in various indurations 
and tumors in sexual organs, especially in the cervix; particularly 
with burning, stinging or knifelike pains. Leucorrhcea following the 
menses, excoriating and burning; sometimes bland in children. Mam- 
mary glands indurated, with sharp, knifelike pain. Numerous symp- 
toms of the mammary glands preceding the menses, viz: swelling, 
sharp pain; aggravation of the tumors at the menstrual period. 
Respiratory Organs: Tickling in the larynx as from 
a dry spot, which causes almost constant dry cough. 
Scraping in the larynx, with irritation to cough, and 
dry cough in the evening. Cough on first lying down, 
day and night; must sit up and cough, after which he 
has rest. Cough < lying down; almost constant be- 
fore going to bed. Cough sometimes loosens some- 
thing, but it cannot be expectorated until later. Suffo- 
cative cough, with flushes of redness in the face. 
Clinical. Very valuable for tormenting night cough of old people; 
it is usually dry; they can expectorate a little only after coughing a 
long time; the cough is caused by a dry spot in the larynx, aggra- 
vated on lying down at night; is accompanied by suffocative attacks; 
the usual indication is that the patient is unable to expectorate the 
little mucus which seems to be loosened, it must be swallowed. 
Asthma in old people. Stomach cough; it seems as if the cough came 
from the abdomen; he must hold the body tight. Occasionally whoop- 
ing cough. Irritation, reflex cough of pregnancy. Whooping cough 
when the spasms occur at night. 
Chest: Sharp thrusts in the sternum, extending to 
the spine. Sticking pains in the mammary glands on 
every inspiration when walking; >> hard pressure. 
Indurations in the right mammary gland, painful to 
touch, with sticking pains at night. Clothes lie like a 
weight on the chest and shoulders. Dyspnoea in the 
morning on waking. Shortness of breath when walk- 
ing. 
Heart and Pulse: Palpitation after drinking; after 
stool; intermittent. 
Neck and Back: Pain as from a sprain on the left 
side. Pain beneath the scapulae. Sticking pains in 
the small of the back when standing, with drawing 
pains through the lumbar vertebrae. 180 
A PRIMER OF 
[Convallaria. 
Clinical. Cervical glands enlarged and very hard. At times with 
stinging pains. 
Extremities: Trembling of all the extremities. Heav- 
iness and weariness. Paralyzed feeling; difficulty in 
using the limbs, hands unsteady; the legs tremble 
when attempting to use them. Numbness of the fin- 
gers and toes, looking as if dead. Piercing and tear- 
ing pains in the extremities and joints. 
Skin: Stinging and itching in the skin. Eruption 
like a nettlerash, especially after violent motion. Pale 
yellow spots, sometimes petechiae. 
CONVALLARIA. 
General Action: In large doses it causes irregularity 
of heart's action, vomiting and collapse; in somewhat 
smaller doses it diminishes the rate of the pulse and 
promotes the flow of urine. In small doses it acts as 
a cardiac tonic and dissipates dropsical effusions of 
cardiac origin. 
Abdomen; Clinical. In pelvic congestion, with sore aching in lower 
part of abdomen, especially after miscarriages or operations. Feel- 
ing as if uterus had descended and pressed upon rectum, causing 
cutting in rectum and anus; dull, aching soreness in lumbar region, 
great prostration, pain, ameliorated by lying on back. 
Respiratory Organs: Paroxysms of hot, suffocating 
sensation, with general perspiration. Dyspnoea on 
ascending a hill. Breath short when walking. 
Clinical. Dyspnoea with pulmonary stasis and hydrothorax, re- 
lieved so that she could lie flat on her back; it also caused profuse 
micturition. 
Heart: Sounds feeble, with anaemic murmur over 
jugular veins. Pain in praecordial region; in region 
of apex. Discomfort in region in afternoon. Uneasy 
feeling. Fluttering when exercising, then redness of 
face and sensation as if heart stopped beating and 
started up again suddenly, causing faint, sick feeling. 
Beating not as hard as normal. 
Clinical. It benefits valvular disease of the heart, with scanty 
urine and dropsy; great dyspnoea; sometimes produces bloody urine. 
In several cases of heart diseases it relieved oedema, so that the Copaiva.] 
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181 
patient could lie down. In a case of very feeble, irregular action of 
the heart, soft irregular pulse, doses of ten drops of 1st dec. dil. re- 
lieved the dyspnoea and palpitation. It relieved dyspnoea, on ascend- 
ing stairs or walking, in a woman without organic disease. Heart 
irregular, urine suppressed, dropsy, dyspnoea, mitral disease; after 
Conval. the heart's action was regular and the dropsy disappeared. 
COPAIVA. 
General Action: It is an irritant to all mucous mem- 
branes, particularly to the urinary tract, for which it 
has special affinity; it is also diuretic and laxative. It 
produces an urticaria-like eruption on the skin, or, at 
times, an eruption like pemphigus. 
Generalities: Uneasiness, then chill, then heat and 
circumscribed lenticular patches, with itching and 
prickling like measles, but without catarrhal symp- 
toms ; then mottled appearance; no desquamation. 
Stool: Diarrhoea, thin, whitish, with chilliness and 
colic. 
Clinical. Catarrh of the intestines; mucus comes away in masses 
or the stools are coated with mucus, especially in the morning, with 
colic and chilliness. Dysentery, with intolerable burning at anus; 
tenesmus and blood (Canth., Caps.). 
Urinary Organs: Burning in the neck of the bladder 
and urethra. Pressure in the bladder, with frequent, 
ineffectual urging; micturition by drops. Micturition 
painful, with milky, acrid discharge. Urethra inflamed 
and swollen, with pains, with retention of urine, with 
distress in the bladder, anus and rectum. 
Clinical. Catarrh of the bladder, with great dysuria, especially if 
it follows gonorrhoea; has to make great effort to pass a little water. 
Inflammation of urethra, with great burning far back on urinating; 
swelling of the orifice of the urethra. Constant desire to urinate. 
Hsematuria. Urine smells of violets, especially in gonorrhoea; dis- 
charge yellow and purulent. 
Sexual Organs: Swelling of testicles, with sensitive- 
ness to touch. Itching of the vulva. Throbbing in 
the region of the right ovary, < standing. 
Respiratory Organs: Cough from tickling in the 
larynx, trachea and bronchi; also in the morning and 
evening. Cough, with difficult expectoration of green- 182 
A PRIMER OF 
[Coral. Ruh. 
ish mucus; with profuse whitish expectoration, some- 
times saltish, sometimes flat and nauseous. 
Skin: Eruption like nettlerash in large, red blotches, 
sometimes with fever and constipation. 
CORALLIUM RUBRUM. 
Head: Head feels large. Pressing-outward pain in 
the forehead, obliging him to move the head from side 
to side, with heat of the body, only transiently > un- 
covering. Pain in the parietal bones as if forced 
asunder, < stooping. Sensation as if the wind blew 
through skull on rapid motion or on shaking head. 
Eyes: Drawing pain in external wall of left orbit, 
extending along nervus malaris to below cheek bone. 
Nose : Clinical. Painful ulcer in right nostril; sensation as if nose 
were pressed asunder. Profuse nasal catarrh; the inspired air feels 
cold. 
Face: Bruised pain in left zygoma, < touch. Sprain- 
ed pain in left joint of jaw on drawing jaw far down- 
ward and on biting and yawning. 
Throat: Left submaxillary glands swollen and pain- 
ful, < on swallowing or bending head forward. 
Clinical. Hawking of profuse mucus; throat very sensitive, es- 
pecially to air. 
Sexual Organs, Male: Red flat ulcer on glans and 
inner surface of prepuce, with yellowish discharge. 
Glans and inner surface of prepuce secrete a yellowish- 
green offensive matter, with sensitiveness, redness and 
swelling. 
Respiratory Organs: Feeling as if cold air were 
streaming through air-passages in morning on deep 
inspiration, with provocation to cough, and with diffi- 
cult hawking of bronchial mucus. 
Clinical. Most violent spasmodic cough (whooping cough), often 
preceded by sensation of smothering, followed by exhaustion; the 
attacks are extremely violent; the patient becomes purple in the face, 
foilowed by exhaustion or vomiting of quantities of tough mucus. 
Indicated in whooping cough by the extreme violence of the parox- 
ysms, even with expectoration of blood. Cornus Cir.] 
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183 
CORNUS CIRCINATA. 
Generalities: Weakness, especially in the morning on 
waking, with apathy. Indolence and loss of all phys- 
ical energy. 
Clinical. Chronic malarial troubles, with jaundice; tendency to 
diarrhoea or dysentery, enlarged spleen, etc. General debility, with 
drowsiness and depression of spirits, unrefreshing sleep, etc. 
Mind: Disinclination to read, to think or work. De- 
pression of spirits. Inability to concentrate the 
thoughts. 
Head: General heavy headache; < walking, stooping 
or shaking head. Fulness in the brain in the morning 
on rising; > after a very thin evacuation. Stool fol- 
lowed by tenesmus and burning in the anus. Throb- 
bing pain in the temples and sides of the head. Heavy, 
confused feeling in vertex, with drowsiness. Deep- 
seated pain in the occiput, almost a pulsation, and in 
the nape of the neck. 
Eyes: Dull and heavy. Sunken. Surrounded by 
dark circles. Eyeballs sore and painful. Lids heavy. 
Clinical. Scrofulous ophthalmia and herpes of the conjunctiva, 
with chronic diarrhoea. 
Mouth: Dry. Tongue furred white, yellowish. 
Clinical. Nursing sore mouth. Aphthous stomatitis of children. 
Stomach: Pain in the pit of the stomach during din- 
ner, with distention of abdomen from wind, >> imme- 
diately after dinner by loose, windy, dark, bilious stool. 
Abdomen: Many flatulent pains, as if the contents of 
the abdomen were in motion. A feeling of heaviness 
in the hypogastrium. 
Clinical. Chronic inflammation of liver; jaundice; face yellow, 
sunken. 
Rectum and Stool: Urging to stool; at 5 A. M., with 
bearing-down pain in abdomen; early in morning, not 
> discharge of a few slimy lumps, with pressing and 
smarting at anus; on rising, but discharge of only 
scanty, dark and slimy fluid and offensive flatus. 
Loose stool, copious, with pressing-down pain in rec- 184 
A PRIMER OF 
[Cornus Flor. 
turn; loose, large, dark, with griping and tenesmus; 
and dark, with tenesmus and burning in anus; and 
bilious, offensive; five hours later, another less loose 
and less offensive; and scanty, with burning pain in 
rectum; and scanty, with offensive flatus and burning 
at anus, also with tenesmus; and scanty, with tenes- 
mus, griping in umbilical region, rumbling and offen- 
sive flatus; and scanty, with pressing pain in rectum, 
smarting at anus after the discharge, dull feeling in 
head, drowsiness and lassitude. Scanty, bilious, slimy, 
with flatus and tenesmus during and after the stool, 
burning pain at anus and a short distance within rec- 
tum. Scanty, with burning at anus; scanty and dark, 
with burning pain at anus; and hard, with pressing in 
rectum. Dark, copious, with pressing down in rectum. 
Clinical. Diarrhoea; dark, bilious, very offensive, with sallow com- 
plexion and sunken face. Dysentery, with burning in anus and 
rectum and great debility. 
Fever: Coldness, then flushes of heat; and sweat; 
coldness and flushes of heat in alternation, followed 
by cold sweat. Flushes of heat; then sweat; to head 
and face. Heat of head and face; in morning on ris- 
ing; on vertex. 
Headache: Face flushed. Nausea. Heat in stomach. 
Pulse accelerated and bounding; and tense; and full, 
strong; and full, afterwards, but full; and irregular, 
afterwards slower and smaller. Pulse full, afterwards 
slower and smaller. 
Clinical. Intermittent fever, with dullness, drowsiness, did! head- 
ache, great exhaustion; during the intervals between the paroxysms 
very weak, with diarrhoea, general clammy sweat, etc. It seems to 
be adapted to chronic malaria; the paroxysms sometimes begin with 
heat, followed by oppression, with heat beginning in the back; the 
patient feels weak and miserable in the apyrexia, and especally has 
diarrhoea and jaundiced skin. 
CORNUS FLORIDA. 
CROCUS. 
Generalities: Great weakness, not only in the evening, 
but also in the morning, generally > open air, or when Crocus.] 
MATERIA MEDICA. 
185 
the mind is occupied; tendency to tremblings and to 
twitchings of muscles; especially a feeling as though 
something were living and jumping about in the flesh, 
or in the stomach or abdomen. Crawling sensation here 
and there. Parts of the body fall asleep, especially at 
night. General tendency to haemorrhage from various 
parts; blood always tenacious and black. 
Mind: As a rule the moods are extremely variable: 
sadness alternating with gayety; a vacillating mood 
towards evening; at one moment is angry at her rel- 
atives and friends, and about to break into a passion, 
at the next is calm and vexed with herself, and then 
becomes angry. Involuntary singing and laughing in 
spite of her determination. Mind very much dis- 
tracted. Forgetful. 
Head: Sudden thrusts, extending deep into the brain, 
in the forehead and temples; usually > pressure. 
Frontal headache associated with burning and pres- 
sure in the eyes, especially in the evening by the light. 
Pulsating headache in the side of the head, extending 
into the eye. < 
Eyes: Spasms of the lids. Frequent heed to wink or 
wipe the eyes, as if mucus or some foreign body were 
in the eyes. Inclined to press the eyes tightly to- 
gether. Lachrymation in the house, or in the open air. 
Dimness of vision in the evening by the light like a 
veil or mist. 
Clinical. Ciliary neuralgia; the pain goes from the eyes to the top 
of the head, with feeling as if a cold wind were blowing against the 
eye. Asthenopia; pain extending from the eye to the top of the 
head. Affections of the eye in nearsighted people, posterior sclero- 
choriditis. Asthenopia with extreme photophobia; cannot read with- 
out a gush of tears, as if he had to wink all the while. 
Nose : Epistaxis of tenacious, thick, black blood, with 
drops of cold sweat on forehead. Coryza, with stringy 
mucus. 
Face: Face usually of an earthy color (with the 
haemorrhages). Burning red places on the spots. Glow- 
ing heat of the face. Cracking of the lips. 186 
A PRIMER OE 
[Crocus. 
Mouth: Foul odor from the mouth. 
Throat: Scraping in the throat before and after eat- 
ing. Scraping in the throat as if the uvula were 
elongated. 
Stomach: Thirst for cold drinks. Heartburn after 
eating. Qualmishness, which disappears in the open 
air. Sensation of something jumping about in the 
stomach as if it were alive. 
Abdomen: Sensation in the abdomen as of something 
alive and jumping about, with nausea and shivering. 
Abdomen distended. Heaviness and dragging in the 
lower abdomen, extending towards the genitals. 
Rectum and Stool: Sticking and crawling in the anus, 
with itching, as from worms. Stools contain dark, 
stringy blood. 
Sexual Organs, Female: Intermitting, sharp, sticking 
pains extend from anus into the pudenda, leaving 
a dull ache, < inspiration. Menses too early and pro- 
fuse. Uterine haemorrhage of black, tenacious, offen- 
sive blood. Frequent feeling as if the menses would 
come on, with colic and pressure. 
Clinical. It is not only useful in uterine haemorrhages of thick dark 
blood, but it has removed the disposition to miscarriage associated 
with an unnatural sensation of worms in the abdomen, or of some- 
thing dead and heavy. 
Respiratory Organs: Difficulty in breathing, with in- 
clination to take deep breaths, > after yawning. Dry, 
violent cough, caused by irritation in the trachea, >> 
laying the hand on the pit of the stomach. Sticking 
pains on the left side of the chest. Heaviness in the 
chest, causing deep breathing. A feeling as though 
something alive were jumping about in the right side 
of the chest. 
Heart and Pulse: Anxious palpitation. Palpitation 
on going upstairs, with great debility. 
Back: A feeling of coldness in the back. 
Upper Extremities: A sensation in the shoulder joint 
as if the head of the humerus would be dislocated. Crotalus Hor.] 
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The whole upper extremity falls asleep. Burning, 
crawling and a feeling of tightness in the tips of the 
fingers. 
Lower Extremities Great weakness in the knees and 
legs. Bruised pain in the hip joint. Chilblains on the 
fingers and toes. 
Skin: Scarlet redness of the whole body. Bruised 
spots on the skin tend to suppurate, with pain and 
soreness. 
Sleep: Constant yawning and sleepiness, especially 
after every meal. Confused and frightful dreams of 
the occurrences of the day. 
Fever: Chilliness, with yawning and goose-flesh. 
Shivering only in posterior parts of the body. Heat 
towards evening, especially of the head, with redness 
of the face, and thirst. Sweat only on the lower part 
of the body. 
General Action: It produces a general disorganization 
of the blood, with haematogenous. jaundice, haemor- 
rhages, etc. 
Generalities: Bleeding from all orifices; suddenly 
from eyes, ears, nose, gums and beneath nails. Swell- 
ing of the whole body, especially of the head. Ex- 
treme exhaustion; fatigue from the slightest effort; 
muscles seem to refuse to act. Weakness and trem- 
bling as from apprehension. 
Mind: Delirium, especially at night. Loquacious 
delirium, with desire to escape. Connected thought 
difficult, with cold skin and rapid pulse. Memory 
weak. 
Head: Dull aching, extending into the eyes, or even 
into the teeth, sometimes with vertigo and nausea on 
moving. Dull frontal headache, with nausea and even 
vomiting. Pain in the occiput as from a blow, < lying 
down. 
CROTALUS HORRIDUS. 188 
A PRIMER OF 
[Crotalus Hor. 
Clinical. Vertigo, with faintness and weakness. Occipital head- 
ache recurring several times a day. Has relieved the extreme head- 
ache in diphtheria and frequent headache in dysmenorrhoea. Sore- 
ness of back of head; everything looks yellow; aching in liver, 
numbness of extremities and coldness; skin dark. Cerebro-spinal 
meningitis, with red tongue, nose-bleed, delirium, offensive, bloody 
stools, offensive breath, etc. It is useful for the dull headache which 
precedes an attack of uraemic coma. 
Eyes: Yellow color of the conjunctiva. Vision dim, 
especially for distant objects. Aqueous humor cloudy, 
with dim vision. 
Clinical. Ciliary neuralgia as from a cut around the eye; pain tear- 
ing, boring; photophobia, especially felt at the menstrual period. 
Haemorrhage in the retina, especially in Bright's disease. Keratitis, 
cutting pains around eyes, swollen lids; especial aggravation at the 
menstrual period. 
Nose: Clinical. Otorrhoea after scarlatina, offensive and bloody, 
with deafness. 
Face: Color yellow or leaden, sometimes with pale 
flushes. Lower part of the face swollen and puffy, 
with swelling of the submaxillary glands. 
Mouth: Bleeding of the gums, which are pallid. 
Tongue swollen. Tongue red, sore, or yellowish- 
brown and dry in the centre; or very ford, with a red 
tip. Tongue swollen and protruded. Mouth fetid; 
feels foul and sticky on waking. Salivation, with 
bloody or frothy saliva. 
Clinical. Grinding of teeth at night so terrible that the molars are 
broken; on waking, face distorted, drawn towards the left (in an 
epileptic family), with delayed, scanty menstruation. 
Throat: Throat dry and swollen. Extreme swelling 
of the fauces, which are dark red, associated with ex- 
ternal swelling. 
Clinical. Diphtheria; fauces swollen and dark red; frightful head- 
ache. Diphtheria, with oozing of blood from anus, mouth, etc. 
Chronic spasm of oesophagus; cannot swallow any solid substance. 
Hysterical spasms of oesophagus. 
Stomach: Unquenchable thirst. Vomiting; stomach 
unable to retain the slightest food or drink. Green 
vomiting. Sticking pain in the pit of the stomach. 
Intolerance of clothing about the stomach and hypo- 
chondria. Crotalus Hor.] 
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189 
Clinical. Bilious vomiting; inability to lie on right side, with dark 
green vomiting. Vomiting of blood, with ulceration of stomach. 
Gastritis in chronic alcoho'.ism, with constant nausea and vomiting. 
Atonic dyspepsia, with continual throbbing, occipital headache and 
trembling, fluttering feeling below the epigastrium towards the um- 
bilicus; tongue very red, feels swollen. 
Abdomen: Distention; hot and tender; can scarcely 
bear the clothes. Pains in the region of the liver, with 
vomiting, etc. 
Clinical. Abdominal troubles, with extreme tenderness; cannot 
bear the touch of her clothes; perityphlitis, with high fever, great 
tenderness over the appendix, and hardness. Jaundice, with haem- 
orrhage from the nose, dusky flushes of face, tenderness of the liver, 
dark, scanty urine, the result of a wasp sting on the upper lid. The 
liver is painfully sore, with jaundice, sensitiveness of abdomen, etc. 
Chronic haemorrhage from the bowels, dark fluid, continual oozing, 
with great debility, faintness ano depression of spirits. 
Stool: Stools black like coffee grounds, offensive. 
Diarrhoea, with nausea, thirst and anxiety; stools 
watery. 
Clinical. Diarrhoea during bilious, remittent and other adynamic 
fevers. Dark fluid haemorrhage with the stools; even oozing of 
blood when standing or walking, with debility and faintness. 
Urinary Organs: Haemorrhage. Urine looks dark as 
in jaundice. 
Clinical. Inflamed kidney, dark bloody urine. Haemorrhage from 
the kidney after scarlet fever. Haematuria with bronchitis. Haema- 
turia with disorganization of blood in low fevers. 
Sexual Organs, Female: Menstruation prolonged, pre- 
ceded by pain in the head, accompanied by pains in 
the abdomen and back. 
Clinical. Dysmenorrhcea preceded by pain in uterine region, ex- 
tending down thighs, which continued for two days during the flow; 
during the flow, aching in region of Heart, extending through left 
arm, cold feet, etc. Uterine haemorrhage at the menopause, with 
faintness at the pit of the stomach, great prostration; blood dark 
and offensive. Uterine haemorrhage associated with malignant dis- 
eases. 
Respiratory Organs: Cough, with bloody expectora- 
tion. Difficult respiration. 
Clinical. Whooping cough, with great debility, cardiac weakness, 
blueness of face ; after the attack, gets its color slowly; or the face 
is puffy, nose-bleed, etc. 190 
A PRIMER OF 
[Croton Tiglium. 
Heart: Palpitation, with a sensation as if the heart 
were tumbling about. Heart's action feeble. Pulse 
rapid, soft, scarcely perceptible, even tremulous. 
Extremities: Hands tremulous, swollen and insensi- 
ble. The lower extremities go to sleep very easily. 
Rheumatic or neuralgic pains in the joints or fingers, 
with extreme weakness. 
Skin: Yellow color of the whole body. Haemor- 
rhages under the skin. Enlarged lymphatics and 
glands, with inflammation, threatening to become gan- 
grenous. Vesicles become ulcers, surrounded with 
red areolae. 
Clinical. Chilblains, especially when threatened with gangrene. 
Felons. Pustular eruptions about the wrists. Petechial spots over 
the whole body, especially the lower extremities, with faintness, 
irregular action of heart, dizziness. Erysipelas after vaccination, 
the pustule filled with dark lymph. After vaccination, pustular 
eruptions on back of arm, across shoulders, over the breasts. Lym- 
phangitis and septicaemia from dissecting wounds. Gangrenous 
inflammation of skin and cellular tissues. Abscesses, pustules, boils, 
carbuncles, etc. The parts look bluish and unhealthy, with great 
prostration, etc. Erysipelatous inflammation following the bites of 
insects. 
Fever: Clinical. Malignant fevers of a haemorrhagic or prutrescent 
character. Malignant scarlet fever, with weakness, tremulousness, 
torpor, unconsciousness, vomiting and oozing of blood from gangren- 
ous fauces, sighing, intermittent respiration. Haemorrhagic measles. 
Malignant, remittent fevers of the South; eyes sunken, tongue dry, 
nausea, black, pasty stools, prostration; also yellow face, pain in 
liver, bloody evacuations, hepatized lung; also dry, cracked, brown 
tongue, cold, clammy sweat, skin yellow, urine dark. Yellow fever, 
with vertigo, general pains, tenderness of liver, swollen parotids, 
nose-bleed, dusky face, hands nearly black, dry tongue, black urine, 
or dark, bloody stools, often involuntary, tendency to collapse, sup- 
pression of urine, etc. 
CROTON TIGLIUM. 
General Action: A powerful drastic purge. When 
applied to the skin it produces an eruption of small 
pustules with inflamed areolae. 
Head: Heat and heaviness of the head, with sore- 
ness of the eyes. Croton Tiglium.] 
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191 
Eyes: Lachrymation; inflammation. 
Clinical. Pustules and vesicles on the eyeball. Ciliary neuralgia, 
and feeling as if a string were pulling the eyeballs back into the 
head. The pustules and ulcers in the eye are characterized by ex- 
cessive photophobia, superciliary pain, and often by eruption about 
the eyes, on the lids and face. 
Ears: Spasmodic, twinging pains deep within the left 
ear. 
Nose: Eruption on the right side of the septum, fol- 
lowed by desquamation, associated with eruption about 
the nose. 
Face: Vesicular eruption about eyes, nose and 
mouth. Sensation as if insects were creeping over the 
face. Lips burning, dry and parched; cracked. 
Mouth: Vesicles on the tongue and mouth. Taste 
nauseous and flat. Tip of the tongue very sensitive. 
Throat: Throat red, inflamed, with swelling of the 
submaxillary glands. 
Stomach: Hunger, with rumbling in abdomen. Ex- 
cessive nausea, worse from drinking. Retching and 
vomiting, > pressure. Sensation of emptiness and 
sinking of the stomach. Sensitive to touch. 
Abdomen: Distention. Sensation of swashing water, 
gurgling, rumbling. Flatulent distention, with rum- 
bling, then urging to stool, followed by sudden watery 
stool. Cutting and griping colic. Swashing in the 
intestines as from water. Pressing on the umbilicus 
causes pain, extending to anus, where there is con- 
stant protrusion. 
Rectum and Stool: Constant urging to stool, followed 
by sudden pasty, dirty green, offensive, forcible stool. 
Pain in the anus as if a plug were forced outward. 
Burning in the anus. Stool watery, forcible, painless. 
Stool pasty, light brown, preceded by urging, then 
rumbling and gurgling in the abdomen. 
Clinical. A very valuable remedy in diarrhoea, with the general 
character of sudden expulsion and great aggravation from taking 
anything into the stomach; stool occurs immediately after eating or 
drinking, generally very watery and yellow, passed with a gush, 192 
A PRIMER OF 
[Cubeba. 
sometimes associated with nausea and vomiting, sometimes with 
pain following the colon down to the rectum. 
Sexual Organs, Male: Vesicular eruption on the scro- 
tum and penis. Scrotum shriveled and itching, > 
scratching. Corrosive itching of scrotum and glans, 
< walking, with redness. 
Respiratory Organs: Sensation as if he could not get 
air enough into the lungs. A feeling of fulness in the 
chest, with burning, sticking in the left side, extend- 
ing towards the scapulae. 
Clinical. Nipples very sore, with excruciating pain running through 
to scapulae on nursing. 
Skin: Itching and burning, somewhat >■ gentle 
scratching. Eruption of vesicles, surrounded by in- 
flammation, with great itching. 
Fever: General coldness, especially of the feet and 
legs. General heat not marked. 
CUBEBA. 
General Action: A marked affinity for the urethra, 
bladder and vagina, where it produces violent inflam- 
mation. The mucous membranes of throat and air 
passages are also involved, as well as the skin. 
Eyes, Nose and Face: Clinical. Obstinate otorrhoea, offensive dis- 
charges. Nasal catarrh, with fetid odor and catarrh of the throat; 
with greenish-yellow expectoration of fetid odor. In catarrh of the 
throat the mucus trickles from the nose into the throat; is greenish- 
yellow, with rawness of throat and hoarseness. 
Abdomen, Rectum and Stool: Clinical. Dysentery; stools colorless, 
transparent, mingled with white particles like rice, with unquench- 
able thirst, distended, sensitive abdomen, aggravated by fruit, acids, 
etc. 
Urinary Organs: Inflammation of urethra. Mucus 
from urethra much increased. Cutting after micturi- 
tion, with constriction. Irritation of passages. Urine 
copious, dark. Urine frothy. Hsematuria. 
Clinical Chronic inflammation of bladder, with cutting and con- 
striction during micturition. Haemorrhage from the bladder. In- 
flammation of bladder and urethra in women; necessity to urinate 
every ten or fifteen minutes, with smarting, tenesmus and ropy 
mucus. Cundurango.] 
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193 
Sexual Organs: Prostatitis. 
Clinical. Inflamed prostate, with thick yellow gonorrhoeal dis- 
charge ; especially useful in the chronic form, sometimes with 
swollen testicles. Leucorrhoea, profuse, acrid, offensive, yellow or 
green, with pruritis, intense sexual desire, uterus swollen and pain- 
ful, etc. Acrid leucorrhoea in girls. Catarrhal leucorrhoea, offensive, 
yellow. 
Respiration and Pulse: Clinical. Dyspnoea, with deposit of a false 
membrane in the larynx and danger of suffocation; also useful in 
bronchitis, in which the cough seems to tear the bronchi; expectora- 
tion difficult, sometimes streaked with blood. 
Skin: Eruption all over the body like urticaria, gen- 
erally with fever and thirst. 
CUNDUR ANGO. 
Generalities and Mind: Clinical. Tumors of the breast, very hard, 
painful, associated with ulcers in the corners of the mouth; this sore- 
ness and cracking in the corners of the mouth seems to be very char- 
acteristic of the drug. It seems also to have cured stricture of the 
oesophagus, with burning pain behind it where the food seems to 
stick. Vomiting of food and induration in left hypochondrium, with 
constant burning pain. Indolent ulcerations of legs and other parts. 
CUPRUM. 
Generalities: Convulsions, epileptiform. Clonic con- 
tractions of muscles, stiffness and rigidity of limbs and 
body, clenched jaws, etc. Generally characterized by 
cramps of muscles; a collapsed stage, with violent 
cramps, colic and vomiting. 
Clinical. Epilepsy, characterized by most violent spasms, cold 
sweat. Chorea violent, spasmodic, vomiting, cold sweat, etc., caused 
by fright. Uraemic convulsions. General neuritis, with lightning- 
like pains, aggravated by touch. 
Mind: Delirium, with disconnected talk. Anxiety, 
with tossing about. 
Head: Bruised pain in the brain and eyes on turning 
them. Intermitting lancinating pains in various parts 
of the head. 
Clinical Meningitis from suppressed eruptions, with convulsions, 
loud screams, etc. Violent continued headache, with sensation as if 
water were poured over the head ; vomiting of everything taken. 
Eyes: Eyes crossed on account of contraction of 
muscles. 
i 194 
A PRIMER OF 
[Cuprum. 
Face: Pale, bluish, with blue lips. Pains, burning 
and stinging, <( touch. 
Throat: Constriction and spasm on attempting to 
swallow, with intense pain behind the sternum. Audi- 
ble gurgling of drink on swallowing. 
Stomach: Most violent ineffectual efforts to vomit, 
with constriction of the oesophagus and spasms in stom- 
ach. Vomiting ;>> temporarily by cold Violent 
cramps and pains in the stomach and bowels. Terrible 
intermittent, contractive pains or cutting, extending 
to the back, < touch and motion. 
Abdomen: Distention; tender: very tense. Terrible 
cramps in the abdominal muscles and intestines, < 
touch. 
Stool: Violent diarrhoea; liquid, involuntary; like 
cholera, with coldness and cramps. 
Urinary Organs: Urine suppressed. Painful efforts 
to evacuate the urine. 
Respiratory Organs: Hoarseness. Cough, with inter- 
rupted, almost suppressed respiration. Violent, spas- 
modic cough, like whooping cough. Respiration difficult 
and suffocative; spasmodic dyspnoea, with constriction, 
blue face, retching and vomiting. 
Clinical. The spasmodic cough, with purple face and vomiting; 
sometimes temporarily ameliorated by drinking cold water. 
Heart and Pulse: Distress in the region of the heart 
and behind the sternum (chronic aortitis). 
Back: Violent paroxysmal sticking, cutting pains, 
with sensitiveness of the whole length of the spine. 
Extremities: General cramps and convulsive move- 
ments. Painful contractions of the fingers and toes. 
Cramps, especially in the calves. 
Fever: Generally characterized by coldness, with 
cramps in the limbs. Neither fever nor sweat usual, 
though numerous attacks end in sweat. Cyclamen.] 
MATERIA MEDICA. 
195 
CYCLAMEN. 
Generalities: The pains are drawing or tearing, seem- 
ing to be seated in the periosteum. Except for weak- 
ness the longer he continues to move about the better 
he feels; but the symptoms return on sitting, especially 
towards evening. 
Mind: Generally depressed mood, with weeping; de- 
sire to be alone. 
Head: Headache in the morning on rising, with flick- 
ering before the eyes. Vertigo very marked, worse 
towards evening; sometimes worse when walking in 
the open air, better when quiet. Vertigo and head- 
ache, associated with indigestion and menstrual irregu- 
larities. 
Eyes: Flickering and dim vision, especially on wak- 
ing, with spots before vision of various colors. 
Ears: Much roaring in the ears. 
Nose: Coryza, with much sneezing. Diminished 
smell. 
Mouth: Drawing toothache at night. Saliva salt; 
all food tastes salt. Taste flat, nauseous. 
Stomach: Loss of appetite, especially as soon as one 
begins to eat. General absence of thirst. Eructations, 
with oppression of the stomach. Hiccough after eat- 
ing, with qualmishness in the episgastric region, as 
after too much fat. A feeling of fulness and aching in 
the pit of the stomach, as if overloaded. 
Abdomen: General discomfort and qualmishness. 
Flatulent colic. Rumbling after eating. 
Stool: Diarrhoea after coffee; stools pasty. Frequent 
urging to urinate ; urine profuse, whitish. 
Sexual Organs, Female: Menstruation early, profuse, 
black and clotted, with pains, extending from back to 
pubis. Menses black, clotted and membranous. 
Respiratory Organs: Cough, V during sleep, violent 
at night, with tickling and scraping in the larynx. 196 
A PRIMER OE 
[Digitalis. 
General oppression of the chest. Shortness of breath 
in the evening, like a feeling of weakness in the chest. 
Heart: Palpitation in the evening, with a feeling of 
rush of blood to the chest. 
Extremities: Pressure, paralytic as in periosteum from 
the shoulder to the fingers. Tearing in the fingers as 
if next to the bones. Cramplike pains posteriorly on 
the thighs. Pain as from a sprain in the ankles. Sore 
pain in the heels. 
Sleep: Restless, dreamy sleep at night, but sleeps late 
in the morning. Great sleepiness in the evening. 
Fever: Chill and heat, without thirst; the thirst comes 
an hour after the heat. Chill in the evening, with great 
sensitiveness. 
DIGITALIS. 
General Action: The chief interest in this drug centres 
about its action on the heart; vigorous systolic contrac- 
tions, which become very irregular; the pulse becomes 
slow, arterioles are contracted and arterial tension in- 
creased. 
Generalities: General weakness and faintness, < ris- 
ing. Cold, pale, and covered with profuse sweat. Rest- 
lessness. The symptoms, especially those of the circu- 
lation, < suddenly rising. 
Mind: Great anxiety and fear of death. General 
apprehension, with depressed spirits, especially < 
music. Inability to think. Forgetfulness. 
Head: Sudden cracking noises in the head, starting 
one up from the midday nap. Confusion and pain, as 
if the head were full. Vertigo; worse on rising from 
a seat, with weakness of the limbs. On stooping a feel- 
ing as if something fell forward in the head. Head is 
inclined to fall backward while sitting and walking, as 
if the muscles were too weak to hold it up. 
Eyes: Blue rings about the eyes. Pupils dilated. In- Digitalis.] 
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sensible. Loss of vision and many symptoms associated 
with anaemia of the retina and optic nerve. 
Ears: Hissing like boiling water. Sudden crashing 
noises, deep in the head. 
Face: Pale, sickly expression; a bluish color, espe- 
cially about the eyes and mouth. 
Mouth: Tendency to saliva. Tongue pale, sometimes 
coated white. Tongue blue. 
Stomach: Loss of appetite, even with a clean tongue. 
Constant thirst, especially for sour, cold drinks. Nausea 
and vomiting, with deathly anxiety. Nausea, caused by 
smell of food. Vomiting, with extremely feeble and 
irregular pulse. A feeling of great weakness in the 
region of the stomach, as if one were dying, immed- 
iately after eating. Cramp in the stomach, with nausea 
and vomiting, somewhat > eructations. Stitches ex- 
tend from the region of the stomach to the sides and 
back. 
Abdomen: Distention. Soreness over the region of 
the liver, with jaundice. Griping pains as if the in- 
testines were twisted. 
Stool: Watery diarrhoea. Stools ash-colored. Stool 
mixed with mucus; stool white like chalk. Evacuation 
forcible. 
Urinary Organs: Dragging and pressure in the blad- 
der, not >> frequent micturition. Urine generally de- 
creased in quantity (though sometimes increased). At 
times dark brown or red, depositing brick-dust sedi- 
ment. 
Clinical. Nephritis after scarlatina. Cystitis. Inflammation of 
neck of bladder; after passing a few drops the desire to urinate is in- 
creased and the patient walks about in great distress, associated with 
tenesmus of rectum; these symptoms have indicated the use of the 
drug for the relief of acute inflammation in chronic enlargement of 
the prostate. In inflammation of the kidneys of the chronic form it 
is sometimes of temporary value when there is threatened failure of 
the heart, or very scanty or suppressed urine, with oedema of the 
lungs, etc. 198 
A PRIMER OF 
[Dioscorea, 
Sexual Organs: Copious seminal emissions at night. 
Weakness of the sexual organs, with great irritability. 
Weak pulse. Suppression of menstruation follows ir- 
regularity; sometimes haemorrhages. 
Respiratory Organs: Painless hoarseness. Dry cough, 
with pains in the shoulders and arms; with soreness in 
the chest; with expectoration like boiled starch, or 
sometimes bloody. Respiration irregular, with deep 
sighs. Dyspnoea, with constant desire to breathe 
deeply; it seems as if the chest could only be half 
filled. Suffocative constriction in the larynx as if 
grown together. (Edema of the larynx. 
Clinical. Pneumonia in old people, with prune juice expectoration, 
cold extremities, cyanotic face and feeble pulse. 
Heart: Heart's action feeble, intermittent and irreg- 
ular. Sudden sensation as if it stood still, with anxiety. 
Pulse small, feeble and irregular. Audible throbbing 
of the heart, with a feeling of constriction in the breast 
bone, anxiety, etc. 
Clinical. Pericarditis, with effusion; fluttering of heart. Cardiac 
dropsies. In all forms of diseases of the heart in which Digitalis is 
indicated there is feeble, irregular or fluttering pulse, feeling as if the 
heart stood still, with anxiety and oppression; sometimes there is a 
cyanotic hue of the face, general desire to take a deep breath, which 
only partially relieves the sense of suffocation. 
Extremities: Heaviness and weakness of the left arm 
specially. Pains in the arms coming from the chest. 
Lower extremities weak and unsteady. Coldness of 
the extremities. 
Sleep: Frequent waking as from anxiety, and in 
fright. Sleep restless, unrefreshing. Overpowering 
sleepiness during the day. 
Fever: Coldness spreads from extremities over the 
body. Internal chilliness. Profuse perspiration at 
night. 
DIOSCOREA, 
Generalities: Pain in every part of the body; shoot- 
ing and cramp-like, generally > moving in the open 
air, aggravation when_lying*down. Dolichos Pru.] 
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Stomach: Cramp-like pain in the pit of the stomach, 
followed by eructations of gas, then hiccough, with 
flatulence. 
Clinical. Dyspepsia of a flatulent character, resulting from tea. 
Flatulent dyspepsia, with belching of large quantities of offensive 
gas, partially relieving the pain in stomach and abdomen. Neuralgia 
of the stomach most severe; pain even along sternum and extending 
into both arms, with cold, clammy sweat, etc. 
Abdomen: Flatulent distention. Rumbling, griping, 
cutting. The pains particularly affect the umbilical 
region, are griping and cutting, and extend through to 
the intestines; pains radiate from abdomen to back, 
chest, arms and limbs. 
Rectum and Stool: Haemorrhoids protrude, with pain 
shooting up to the liver. Diarrhoea; yellow,thin, pre- 
ceded by violent, twisting colic, followed by exhaustion. 
Sexual Organs: Seminal emissions in sleep. General 
relaxation and coldness of the sexual organs. 
Extremities: Shooting pains in the lower extremities, 
extending the whole length of the limb; worse on the 
right side; somewhat > pressure, but more by lying 
still. 
Throat: Pain in throat below right angle of jaw as 
if a splinter were imbedded vertically, < swallowing. 
Pain in the gums so that she could not sleep half the 
night. 
Clinical. Intolerable itching over the whole body at night. Jaun- 
dice, with white stools. Herpes zoster, extending around the body, 
with burning and smarting. Itching is worse at night, and aggravated 
by scratching. 
DOLICHOS PRURIENS. 
DROSERA. 
Generalities: Rapid emaciation. Aching of the limbs 
upon which he lies as from too hard a bed. Most of 
the symptoms are worse at night and towards morn- 
ing, and are also < during warmth and by rest. 
Mind: General mental depression and uneasiness. 200 
A PRIMER OF 
[Drosera. 
Head: Pain in the forehead and zygomatic processes, 
extending outward; generally > walking, < stooping. 
Nose: Frequent sneezing; symptoms of coryza. Per- 
sistent dryness of the nose. Sensitive to sour odors. 
Mouth: Bitter taste of all food; loss of taste. 
Throat: Rough scraping, dry sensation in fauces and 
soft palate, causing hacking cough, with yellow mucous 
expectoration and hoarseness, so that he speaks with 
exertion, in a bass voice, with oppression of chest as 
if the air were withheld on talking and coughing, so 
that the breath could not be expired. Hawking of yel- 
low and green mucus. 
Stomach: Nausea after eating fat food. Vomiting in 
the morning of bile, or clear water. Vomiting of food 
and mucus during and after coughing. Vomiting 
blood. 
Abdomen: Constrictive pain in the hypochondria dur- 
ing paroxysms of cough, so that he must press his hands 
on the pit of the stomach, or hold the sides. 
Respiratory Organs: Violent paroxysmal cough, so 
that he could scarcely get his breath. Cough wakes at 
night about two o'clock, generally caused by a crawling 
in the larynx, with a bruised feeling, extending to the 
pharynx. Dyspnoea, < talking, with constriction of 
the throat. Expectoration bloody. On coughing, stick- 
ing pains in the muscles of the chest, > pressure. 
Clinical. Cough aggravated at night after lying down, spasmodic, 
ending with choking and vomiting, with cold sweat. When coughing 
must hold his sides with his hands. Whooping cough, paroxysmal 
after midnight; the child holds its sides, retches and vomits. Laryngeal 
phthisis, hoarseness, tough mucus, soreness in the chest; sweat after 
coughing and on waking. In general, after coughing some of the 
expectoration seems to remain, so that he cannot fully expire, ag- 
gravated by speaking and coughing. Haemorrhage sometimes after 
violent paroxysmal cough. 
Extremities: Pains, mostly stinging and gnawing, in 
the long bones and joints, > motion. Pains as if 
bruised. Drawing pains in the humerus at night, not Dulcamara.] 
MATERIA MEDICA. 
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during the day on moving about. Cutting and stick- 
ing pains in the thigh. 
Fever: Internal chilliness during rest, without thirst. 
Shivering, with hot face and cold hands, without thirst. 
Is always too cold, even in bed, while at rest. 
DULCAMARA. 
Generalities: Rheumatic-like pains in the muscles, < 
cold, wet weather. General catarrhal symptoms, with 
free secretions, < cold, wet weather. 
Head: Vertigo in the morning on rising, with trem- 
bling and weakness. Headache, < motion and stoop- 
ing, worse in cold, wet weather. 
Eyes: Inflammation (after taking cold). Pupils di- 
lated. Jerkings in the muscles of the eyes. 
Nose: Coryza, with very free secretions in cold, wet 
weather. Nose-bleed of hot, bright, red blood, with a 
feeling of oppression over the nose. 
Face: Circumscribed redness of the cheeks, with pale- 
ness of the face. Neuralgia of the face, < in cold, wet 
weather. 
Mouth: Salivation. Tongue swollen, dry, with diffi- 
cult speech, and even frothing. On taking cold, speech 
becomes difficult from paralysis of the tongue. 
Stomach: General aversion to food. Unquenchable 
thirst. Vomiting of pale, tenacious mucus. 
Abdomen: Colic, as after taking cold; cutting, espe- 
cially about the navel. 
Stool: Yellow, watery diarrhoea, preceded by tearing 
and cutting, as after taking cold. Diarrhoea of green, 
changeable mucus, at times of a sour odor. Stools 
bloody. 
Urinary Organs: Burning in the meatus while urin- 
ating. Catarrh of the bladder. Urine offensive, de- 
positing a slimy sediment. Micturition involuntary 
(from paralysis of the neck of the bladder). 
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A PRIMER OF 
[Elaps, 
Sexual Organs: Clinical. Menstruation delayed and too short; dis- 
charge watery. Menses suppressed from taking cold. Menses pre- 
ceded by nettlerash over the whole body. Heat and itching in the 
genitals, with unusual sexual desire; aggravated by cold, wet weather. 
Respiratory Organs: Cough, with copious expectora- 
tion of mucus. Cough at times violent, almost like 
whooping cough; expectoration of bright red blood. 
Cough always < in cold, wet weather, and by lying 
down, >> in the cold, open air. 
Neck and Back: Pain in the nape as if the head were 
lying in an uncomfortable position. Stiffness of the 
muscles. Pain in the small of the back as after long 
stooping. Drawing pain in the small of the back; down 
through the legs during rest; on motion; stitches, > 
pressure. 
Extremities: General shooting or bruised pains. Icy 
coldness of the extremities. Pains in the legs, drawing 
and tearing; >■ walking, returning when sitting. For- 
mication in the feet. 
Skin: Nettlerash over the whole body, without fever; 
with violent itching; coming on in cold weather, < ex- 
posure to air. Vesicular eruption. Papular eruption, 
bleeding when scratched, < cold weather. The epi- 
dermis over the whole body becomes thick. 
Fever: Icy coldness with the pains. Dry heat and 
burning of the skin. Chilliness, with violent thirst; 
heat without thirst. Sweat at night over the whole 
body, often offensive. 
ELAPS. 
Head: Clinical. Violent headache in a man who was blind; first in 
left, then in right eye; headaches extending from forehead to occiput; 
vision partially restored. 
Eyes and Ears: Clinical. Blindness. Deafness, with offensive, yel- 
lowish-green discharge, buzzing in ears, headache in forehead and 
occiput; dull pain from nose to ears; pain goes to ears on swallowing. 
Chronic otorrhoea. Sudden attacks of deafness at night, with roar- 
ing and cracking in ears. 
Nose: Clinical. Subject to nose-bleed; eruption about nose, pain in 
nose and forehead, skin dry and hot, but complains of feeling cold. Elaterium.] 
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Stoppage and stuffiness high up in nostrils and dull aching in fore- 
head; bad smell in nose, posterior pharynx scabby, cracked and dry; 
nose-bleed; pain from root of nose to ears on swallowing; no smell. 
Another case: fetid odor from nose and throat; nose was always dry 
and stuffed up by yellow scales; skin always hot and dry. Sore throat; 
offensive discharge from nose; occasional nose-bleed; posterior wall 
of throat covered with dry, greenish-yellow membrane; stuffiness at 
root of nose; no smell. Old ozsena and nasal catarrh; nose always 
stuffed up with plugs of dry mucus; pain at root of nose. 
Chest and Heart: Clinical. Cough, with expectoration of black 
blood, and terrible pain through lungs as if they were torn out, es- 
pecially in right upper chest. Coldness in chest after drinking. 
ELATERIUM. 
Stool: Stool watery, forcible, frothy, copious, pre- 
ceded by violent cutting pains in the abdomen, with 
chilliness and prostration. 
EQUISETUM. 
Urinary Organs: Pain in the bladder, not > micturi- 
tion. Pain in the bladder as from distention; tender- 
ness, extending upward, especially on the right side. 
Constant desire to urinate, not >> copious micturition. 
Constant urging, but only a small quantity is passed. 
Urine generally scanty and high-colored, contains much 
mucus. General aggravation immediately after mic- 
turition. 
ERIGERON. 
Persistent haemorrhages from bladder; in stone in bladder. 
Chronic gonorrhoea, with burning micturition, which is offensive; 
continual dribbling, smarting, burning, etc. Post-partum haemor- 
rhages. Haemorrhages from uterus, with painful micturition. 
EUONYMUS EUR0P2EUS. 
Abdomen: Clinical. A remedy for engorgement of liver, so-called 
biliousness, headache, coated tongue, bad taste, constipation. Passive 
congestion of liver. Constipation with haemorrhoids; also with severe 
pain in back, like lumbago. Diarrhoea; stool variable in color, gen- 
erally very profuse. It has been found useful for gastric derange- 
ments, associated with albuminuria, especially for headache and 
weakness, or vertigo and obscuration of sight. 
EUPATORIUM PERFOLIATUM. 
Generalities: General soreness and aching in the 
bones; cannot lie in bed; moans and cries. 204 
A PRIMER OF 
[Euphorbium. 
Head: Pain at first < going into the open air, with 
internal soreness. 
Eyes: Eyeballs sore. 
Nose: Violent coryza, with bone pains, etc. 
Stomach: Extreme thirst. Nausea, retching and vom- 
iting of anything taken into the stomach; of bile. 
Respiratory Organs: Cough, with soreness and heat 
in the bronchi and soreness of the chest generally, with 
bone pains. Cough < lying on the back, > lying on 
the face; cough hurts the head and chest so that he 
holds the chest with the hands. 
Back: Bruised pain in the back as if beaten. Back 
feels weak. 
Extremities: Most violent aching in all the bones, 
with soreness of the flesh as if beaten. The wrists feel 
broken or dislocated. Soreness of the lower extremi- 
ties, with aching. Calves feel as if they had been 
beaten. 
Fever: Clinical. Chill, preceded by thirst, which continues during 
the fever. Vomiting occurs before or after the chill and fever, 
caused by taking water or food into the stomach. Violent bone pains; 
headache. A bruised feeling of the chest always accompanied the 
paroxysms. The paroxysm is generally incomplete; usually the 
sweating stage is suppressed. Catarrhal fever, with bilious vomiting, 
or other symptoms. 
EUPHORBIUM. 
Generalities: Pains in the limbs like rheumatism; 
tearing or sticking only during rest. Paralytic weak- 
ness of the joints, especially on beginning to move. 
Burning pains in internal parts. Symptoms are < dur- 
ing rest, especially during sitting and by touch. 
Eyes: Inflamed, with itching of the margins of the 
lids; biting and lachrymation. Eyes agglutinated in 
the morning. Vision dim or feeble. 
Nose: Violent fluent coryza or influenza, with watery 
discharge from the eyes and nose, with burning and 
cough. Euphrasia.] 
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Skin: Erysipelatous inflammation, especially of the 
cheek, with a formation of vesicles filled with yellow 
liquid. 
EUPHRASIA. 
Generalities: General tendency to catarrhal inflam- 
mation of mucous membranes, particularly of the eyes 
and nose. General aggravation of the symptoms in 
the evening; relief from coffee. 
Head: Bruised dull headache towards evening, with 
coryza. Headache, with blinding of the eyes from 
sunlight; head feels as though it would burst. 
Eyes: Inflammation, with discharge of mucus and 
tears, somewhat acrid, causing biting of the lids. The 
cornea feels covered with mucus; must frequently wink 
to clear the vision. Smarting as from sand. Swelling 
and burning, especially of the lower lid. Photophobia. 
Clinical. Conjunctivitis; catarrhal, with free discharge of acrid mat- 
ter, which makes the lids sore on the margins. Tendency to accumu- 
lation of sticky mucus on the cornea, which necessitates frequent 
winking. Inflammation of the eyes and nose generally associated. 
Nose: Profuse fluent coryza in the morning, with 
much coughing and expectoration. Constant sneezing. 
Discharge from the nose rather watery, not excoriating. 
Respiratory Organs: Cough, caused by irritation in 
the larynx, during the day, not at night; generally with 
profuse expectoration of mucus, which is rather difficult 
to loosen, with difficult breathing. In the morning pro- 
fuse expectoration, even on hawking. 
Sleep: Unusual yawning, even when walking in the 
open air. Great sleepiness during the day, but after 
midnight wakes frequently until morning, when he falls 
into a heavy sleep. 
Fever: General coldness and chilliness. Sweat mostly 
on the chest at night during sleep. 
FERRUM. 
General Action: Iron acts chiefly on the blood, pro- 
ducing more rapid oxidation, with rise of temperature; 206 
A PRIMER OF 
[Ferrum. 
at first an increase of red color (or of red corpuscles), 
but subsequently a diminution of red corpuscles and 
profound anaemia. 
Generalities: Emaciation. Extreme weakness, border- 
ing on paralysis. Trembling and uneasiness in all the 
limbs; unable to keep quiet, yet motion aggravates. 
Unnatural sensitiveness to pain and external impres- 
sions. Wandering pains. General aggravation at night 
and towards morning ; also during rest, especially when 
sitting still. Amelioration from gentle movement. 
Mind: Easily made anxious; excited by the slightest 
opposition. Great alternations of mood; excessively 
lively, then again sad and melancholy. 
Head: Violent hammering and beating; must lie 
down; apparent rush of blood to the head; all the 
vessels seem swollen. Violent pulsating headache, apt 
to recur periodically. Hot headache, with flushed face. 
Occipital headache when coughing. The scalp is even 
sensitive to touch, with falling out of the hair. (Con- 
gestive headache usually > pressure, <Z sudden noise or 
motion, associated with cold extremities and feeble 
pulse.) 
Eyes: Sensation as if they would protrude; sunken, 
with blue rings. Vision obscured in the evening. 
Nose: Bleeding in the morning on stooping; also in 
the evening. Clots of blood constantly accumulate in 
the nose. 
Face: Face usually earthy, yellowish, pale; at times 
becoming flushed, with red spots on the cheeks. Lips 
pale and dry. 
Mouth: Taste foul; everything seems dry. 
Throat: Constriction, with pain on swallowing. 
Stomach: Loss of appetite, especially in the forenoon. 
Aversion to meat and sour food. Meat and acids, as 
well as beer, cause nausea. Unquenchable thirst. 
Vomiting of food, especially after midnight. Sour Ferrum.] 
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207 
eructations. Bitter eructations after fat food. Vom- 
iting of food immediately after eating. Sour vomiting 
of food in the morning or at night. Vomiting after 
eating eggs. 
Abdomen: Soreness, as if beaten, on touch and on 
coughing, especially in the epigastric region, usualty 
>• walking about. A feeling of tension in the right 
hypochondrium. 
Stool: Watery diarrhoea, with burning. Undigested 
stools. Evacuation of mucus, with worms. Evacua- 
tion generally painless, more at night or after eating 
and drinking, with coldness of the body and great pros- 
tration. • 
Urinary Organs: Constant urging to urinate, with 
pain in the liver, chest and kidneys. Involuntary mic- 
turition. especially during the day, or also at night. 
Sexual Organs: Painfulness of the vagina during 
coition. Sore pain and smarting in the vagina during 
coition, with 'loss of all sexual desire. Suppressed 
menstruation, with vicarious haemorrhages. Menses 
usually profuse and prolonged, with great debility; 
preceded by labor-like pains and headache, followed 
by milky-white, acrid leucorrhoea. 
Respiratory Organs: Hoarseness, with roughness in 
the larynx, almost loss of voice. Cough < moving 
about; spasmodic, with expectoration of transparent, 
tenacious mucus, immediately > eating; spasmodic at 
noon after eating, followed by vomiting of food. Ex- 
pectoration bloody morning and night; copious in the 
morning, greenish during the day, sometimes streaked 
with blood. Cough is apt to be dry in the evening 
after lying down; when coughing he loses breath. 
Dyspnoea after midnight, also when sitting up. Anx- 
ious oppression of the chest. Stitches in the chest when 
coughing; the chest pains as if it were bruised. 
Heart and Pulse: Heart's action rapid, tumultuous. 208 
A PRIMER OF 
[Ferrum lodatum. 
Pulse frequently slow and feeble, sometimes full and 
hard; increased by any effort. General disturbance of 
the circulation, a tendency to congestion of the face, 
head, chest, etc. 
Neck and Back: Drawing pains, extending from the 
nape into the head. Lumbago, > walking slowly, 
worse after sitting. 
Extremities: General tendency to swelling of the 
hands and legs below the knees. Sticking or tearing 
pains in the arms during night. Paralytic tearing pain 
in the shoulder and muscles of the upper arm, so that 
raising the arm is impossible, but it gradually disap- 
pears on gentle motion. Nightly sticking tearing from 
the hip joint down through the leg, gradually >> gentle 
motion. Cramp in the calves at night. 
Sleep: Cannot sleep at night; restless. Sleep dis- 
turbed by numerous dreams; weary in the morning on 
rising. Must lie on the back at night. 
Fever: General coldness; lack of vital warmth. Ex- 
cessive surging of blood through the vessels. Dry heat, 
with tendency to uncover. Sweat during sleep and on 
the slightest motion. Cold, anxious sweat, with cramps 
in the muscles. Sweat at night of a very strong odor. 
Clinical. Acute nephritis following the exanthemata. 
Sexual Organs: Clinical. Uterine congestion, with great bearing 
down, with feeling as if something sore were being pushed up when 
sitting down. Uterine displacements; retroversion and prolapsus, 
with atony; difficulty in retaining urine. Suppression of menses. 
FERRUM IODATUM. 
FERRUM PHOSPHORICUM. 
Clinical. In general it has been indicated in congestions, some- 
times in inflammations, with high fever and quick pulse; hot, dry 
skin; there is, however, a general feeling of weakness, soft pulse and 
drowsiness, but great thirst. Violent headaches, ameliorated by nose- 
bleed, especially during menstruation; head very sensitive. Inflam- 
mation of the internal ear, with muco-purulent discharge; ear red, 
swollen; mastoid process swollen and sore. Catarrhal sore throat, 
especially of the Eustachian tube. Dyspepsia symptoms like Ferrum. 
Cholera infantum, with red face and soft pulse. Dyspnoea. Pains Ferrum Picrate.] 
MATERIA MEDICA. 
209 
in the left ovary, sacrum, etc. Congestion of respiratory organs like 
Ferrum. Articular rheumatism. With the fever there is generally a 
soft, quick pulse and thirst, but the sweat does not relieve. 
FERRUM PICRATE. 
Clinical. Has proved valuable clinically in cases with hepatic com- 
plications, jaundice, constipation, weight and oppression over the 
heart, and heavy, oppressed feeling low down on the right side; 
chronic deafness, hepatic diseases, abdominal diseases, even malig- 
nant; mitral disease, etc. 
FLUORICUM ACIDUM. 
Generalities: Irritant to mucous membranes; gener- 
ally indicated in deep, destructive processes. General 
amelioration on motion (walking). A very marked 
characteristic of the drug is the apparent necessity for 
energetic and rapid motion. Generally indicated for 
unhealthy tissues, bed-sores, syphilitic ulcerations, ex- 
ostoses, varicose veins, bone diseases generally, skin dis- 
eases, with ulcerations, etc. 
Head: Clinical. Alopecia areata. Caries of the skull, particularly 
of the temporal bones. 
Eyes: A feeling as of wind blowing through the eyes. 
Lids feel forced open. Sensation of sand in the eyes. 
Clinical. Lachrymal fistula. Chronic inflammation of the lachrymal 
sac; aggravated by cold air. 
Ears: Intolerable itching in the ears. Profuse otor- 
rhcea. 
Nose: Chronic nasal catarrh. 
Mouth; Clinical. Dental fistula, with persistent, bloody, salty dis- 
charge, which keeps the mouth foul. 
Throat: Clinical. Goitre. Syphilitic ulcerations of the throat, with 
fetid smell; much tumefaction; throat very sensitive to cold. 
Abdomen: Clinical. Numerous symptoms in the liver have led to its 
use in hepatic engorgement, and even degeneration of the liver in 
consequence of alcholismus; and also in abdominal dropsies associ- 
ated with hepatic disease. With the hepatic and abdominal symptoms 
there is sometimes offensive, bilious diarrhoea, especially in hard 
drinkers, with great aversion to coffee, desire for highly-seasoned 
food, soreness over liver, etc. 
Extremities: Inflammation of the joints, especially of 
the phalanges of the fingers; feeling of a splinter under 
the thumb nail audio the cellular tissue when touched. 210 
A PRIMER OF 
[Gambogia. 
Pulsating pain in the hand, especially in the tip of the 
thumb, which is sore to touch; the whole hand swollen 
and hot. The nails crumble or have longitudinal fur- 
rows. 
Skin: Varicose ulcers. 
Stool: Clinical. The diarrhoea of Gamboge resembles that of Aloes 
in respect to the suddenness of the movements, which are expelled 
in one gush; the evacuations are thin, yellow, generally watery or 
with some mucus; often green, associated with burning in anus and 
profusion; griping below umbilicus, with sudden urging and sudden 
expulsion. Intense itching of the eyelids, so that children rub them 
frequently; it is said to be a marked indication for the drug in diar- 
rhoea. 
GAMBOGIA. 
General Action: It produces spinal convulsions and 
paralysis, lowering the force and rate of the heart, and 
finally paralyzing respiration. The paralysis of the 
oculo-motor nerve is noticeable, with double vision, 
ptosis, squint and vertigo. Consciousness is preserved 
to the last stage of life. 
Generalities: Tremulous weakness; with profuse mic- 
turition. Weakness; pallor, nausea and trembling of 
the lower limbs; > open air. Weakness, with vertigo. 
General motor paralysis. More rarely convulsions. 
Deep-seated pains, with loss of control over the painful 
part. 
Mind: More or less complete inability to think. Un- 
consciousness. General stupidity. General heaviness 
(results of emotional excitement, bad news, grief, etc.). 
Head: Dull, bruised pains. Heaviness and tight- 
ness, > profuse micturition. Much vertigo, < any 
sudden motion, with blurred vision. General head- 
ache, < smoking. Headache in the occiput, extending 
to the forehead. Predominating pains in the occiput, 
with muscular soreness in the neck. 
Eyes: Lids droop. Pupils dilated. Vision very dim. 
GELSEMIUM. Gelsemium.] 
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especially with vertigo and double vision. Vision 
double; sometimes partially controlled by the will. 
Clinical. Intra-ocular inflammations, characterized by serous exu- 
dation, with dull pains, vertigo, double vision, etc. 
Ears: Deafness (from catarrh of the middle ear and 
Eustachian tube). 
Nose: Nasal catarrh, with prostration, with inflamed 
throat, and pain extending to ear. Takes cold on the 
slightest changeofthe weather, with much sneezing, etc. 
Face: Face flushed and hot; heavy, dull. Sharp pains, 
with vertigo, double vision, etc. 
Mouth: Tongue thick; can hardly speak. Tongue 
coated yellowish-white; tongue numb. Mouth dry; 
must swallow frequently. 
Throat: Swallowing difficult on account of loss of 
power of the muscles; sometimes with spasmodic feel- 
ings. Throat inflamed, with pains, extending to the 
ears. 
Stomach: General lack of thirst. Emptiness and 
weakness in the stomach, or a feeling of a heavy load. 
Hiccough, < in the evening. 
Abdomen: Symptoms of intestinal catarrh, with per- 
sistent nausea; diarrhoea. Hepatic symptoms, with 
vertigo, blurred vision, etc. 
Stool: Diarrhoea, resulting from excitement or emo- 
tional disturbances; stool yellow, painless, sometimes 
involuntary. Loss of power of the sphincter ani and 
rectum. 
Urinary Organs: Frequent and profuse micturition; 
relieves the head. When urinating the bladder does 
not seem to be emptied; stream intermittent. 
Sexual Organs: Involuntary emissions at night, with- 
out sexual excitement. Labor-like pains in the uterine 
region, extending to the back and hips. 
Clinical. Dysmenorrhoea, or suppressed menstruation, with vertigo 
and headache; pains extending to back and legs. During labor 
pains extend upward and are ineffectual. Threatening puerperal 
convulsions. 212 
A PRIMER OF 
[Gentiana. 
Respiratory Organs: Loss of voice, with dryness and 
burning in the throat (paralytic). Severe attacks of 
dyspnoea, with fulness in the chest, threatening suffo- 
cation ; desire for fresh air, cold extremities. 
Heart: Sensation as though it would stop beating if 
she did not move. Action irregular, feeble, pulse soft 
and weak, cold extremities. 
Neck and Back: Numerous pains in the neck, extend- 
ing into the head. Muscles of the neck feel bruised. 
Dull pains in the lower part of the back, with weak- 
ness of the legs. At times, sharp pains extend from 
the back down to the hips. 
Extremities: General tremulousness, weakness of the 
hands and feet, and loss of control. Lower extremities 
become fatigued after very little exercise. 
Sleep: General tendency to stupor. Nights restless, 
especially towards morning. Sleep, with unpleasant 
dreams. * 
Fever: Chill especially along the spine, extending 
upward, with profuse micturition. Heat. Paroxysms 
of fever generally recur from 3 to 5 in the afternoon. 
Fever, with vertigo, prostration, without thirst, with 
soft pulse. Perspiration generally not profuse. 
GENTIANA. 
Generalities: Various species of Gentiana seem to 
have a similar action in increasing the appetite, and, 
for a time, stimulating the action of the heart and ele- 
vating the temperature, though a prolonged and de- 
pressing reaction follows. Following the ravenous 
appetite, we find flatulent dyspepsia, with abdominal 
diseases and yellow diarrhoea; also, in some cases, 
symptoms of catarrhal affection of the throat. 
GLONOINE. 
Generalities: Paralysis of the peripheral vaso-motor 
nerves, with a peculiar sensitiveness, so that the beat- Glonoine.] 
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ing of the heart seems to be felt through all the blood 
vessels. Throbbing throughout the body, with a feel- 
ing of fulness and congestion, which seems to be a 
characteristic feature of this drug. Like Amyl nit. the 
dilatation of the blood vessels is greater in the upper 
part of the body. 
Mind: Sudden attacks of uueonsciousnes, with rush 
of blood to the head. Falls down senseless; even with 
convulsions and congestion of the head. Mind be- 
comes very much confused, so that he loses the sense of 
locality: partially controlled by a great effort of the 
will. 
Head: Intense fulness and throbbing, apparently of 
all the blood vessels in the head and brain; < motion, 
especially by shaking the head. The blood seems to 
surge into the head, where it beats and throbs with 
every impulse of the heart; he is afraid to shake the 
head lest it would drop to pieces. Undulating sensa- 
tion in the brain. He feels as though he were hanging 
with the head downward, with consequent rush of 
blood. Skull feels too small, as if the rush of blood to 
the brain would burst it. 
Eyes: Staring; wild and protruded. Vision confused; 
objects dance with every beat of the pulse. Black, 
floating objects always on stooping. 
Ears: Ringing and rushing in the ears. Deafness, 
with a stopped sensation. 
Face: Face very much flushed, especially with a 
headache. 
Clinical. Neuralgia of the face; characterized by pulsating pains, 
extending through the head. 
Mouth: Pulsating toothache. 
Throat: Feeling as if swollen, with choking sensation. 
Heart: A feeling of fulness in the region of the heart; 
sometimes sharp pains. Sticking pains on stooping. 
Lancinations extending to between the shoulders. 214 
A PRIMER OF 
[Gnaphalium. 
Heart's action rapid; palpitation, with pulsation over 
the whole body, heat in face, etc. Pulse full. 
Clinical. Angina pectoris, with fluttering of the heart and violent 
beating, as if it would burst the chest open, with labored breathing; 
pains radiating in all directions, even into the arms; with loss of 
power in the arm. 
Fever: Flushes of heat, especially in the head and 
face, with violent pulsation. Perspiration on the face 
and chest. 
Extremities: Pain along the sciatic nerve. Numbness 
occasionally takes the place of the sciatica, and then 
walking is very fatiguing. 
Clinical. Sciatica; intense pains extending to ramifications of the 
nerve, with feeling of numbness, the sometimes alternat- 
ing with the pains; these pains extend into the toes; Giiap. has cured 
rheumatoid pains confined to the toes. 
GNAPHALIUM. 
GRAPHITES. 
Generalities: Great emaciation. Takes cold easily, 
and the symptoms are increased by becoming cold. 
General inclination to stretch, with drawings through 
the whole body. Falling asleep of various parts. Con- 
tractions of tendons. Drawing up of various parts. 
Violent pulsations of the whole body on every motion. 
Many of the pains return on beginning to walk, but 
many symptoms disappear after walking in the open 
air. Tremulous weakness of the whole body. General 
tendency of old people to grow fat. 
Mind: Sadness, with thoughts of death. Despond- 
ency; must weep. Apprehension and weeping. Very 
irritable and fretful. Internal grief and despair. In- 
tense restlessness, which drives him out of bed at night. 
Head: Dull ache, as if numb and pithy. A feeling 
of constriction, especially in the occiput, extending to 
the nape. Headache worse every morning, with faint- 
ness or cold sweat. A feeling of constriction and ten- 
sion in the occiput, with stiffness of the nape of the Graphites.] 
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neck. Headache on riding in a wagon. The scalp be- 
comes moist. Eruptions on the top of the head, pain- 
ful to touch and moist. The hair turns gray and falls 
out. 
Eyes: Inflammation of the white of the eye, with 
lachrymation. Photophobia. Biting, stinging pains, 
with lachrymation. Burning. Margins of the lids 
inflamed and swollen. Lashes filled with dry crusts. 
The external can th us is particularly affected; it is apt 
to be cracked. Lids are agglutinated in the morning. 
Clinical. Various forms of inflammation: characterized by redness, 
inflammation and swelling of the mrgins of the lids, with tendency 
to cracking in the outer corners; ulceration; pustules on the cornea, 
little tumors on the margins of the lids, etc. 
Ears: Behind the ears it is moist, sore and cracked. 
The glands below the ears are swollen with pain. 
There is apt to be a bloody discharge from the ears. 
Hearing diminished, roaring and humming noises, etc. 
Nose: General dryness within the nose. Nostrils 
ulcerated and scabby, The pores on the nose become 
black. There is a purulent, offensive discharge from 
the nose. Smell often very acute; cannot tolerate 
odors. 
Face: Color is generally pale yellow. Flushes of 
heat; sometimes erysipelatous inflammation and swell- 
ing. Facial muscles of one side distorted or paralyzed, 
making speech difficult. Sensation of a cobweb on the 
face. Tearing pains in the left zygoma in the evening 
in bed. Eruption and cracking in the corners of the 
lips. Scurvy eruption on the chin and mouth. Crack- 
ing of the lower lip. Hard swelling of the submaxil- 
lary glands. 
Mouth: Ulcers on the inner surface of the lips. 
Shooting pains in the teeth on drinking cold water, 
but < in warmth. Swelling and easy bleeding of the 
gums. A general foul, urinous odor from the mouth. 
Burning blisters on the lower side and on the tip of 216 
A PRIMER OF 
[Graphites, 
the tongue. Tubercles and painful blisters on the back 
of the tongue. Taste as of rotten eggs in the mouth. 
Bitter taste in the mouth. Saliva pours into the 
mo utli in the morning. 
Throat: Feeling of a lump or plug in the throat, 
especially at night. A sensation of constriction in the 
oesophagus, with retching. 
Stomach: Frequent, sour eructations, with bitter 
taste. General aversion to animal food, and to sweets. 
Sweets, are disgusting and nauseous. Aversion to salt 
food. Nausea in the morning. Vomiting after eating. 
Griping pains in the stomach, and constant spitting of 
saliva. Constrictive pain. Pains in the stomach > 
lying down, and warmth of bed; also by eructations. 
Symptoms generally > eating, especially by warm 
milk, < cold drinks. 
Abdomen: Distention as from incarcerated flatus, 
with intolerance of anything tight about the hypo- 
chondria. A feeling of hardness in the region of the 
liver. Pain as if everything would be torn to pieces 
in the upper portion during menstruation. Burning 
pain in the left hypochondrium >■ motion. Burning 
pains radiate throughout the abdomen. General heavi- 
ness and distention. Swollen glands in the groins, 
with sensitiveness. 
Rectum and Stool: Tendency to prolapsus of the rec- 
tum, as if the anus were paralyzed. Burning haemor- 
rhoids, sometimes with smarting, sore pain. Fissures, 
with burning, smarting and itching. Stools generally 
in large hard masses, with mucus, causing smarting 
sore pain and cracking of the anus. Stools dark 
colored, only partially digested, of an intolerable odor. 
Urinary Organs: Painful and anxious urging to 
urinate, but urine only dribbles. Urine becomes tur- 
bid and deposits a white sediment; or is covered with 
an iridescent film; or has a sour odor. Upon urinat- 
ing, pain in the coccyx. Graphites.] 
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Sexual Organs, Male: Eruptions on the prepuce, some- 
times with cedematous swelling. Itching ; moist erup- 
tion on scrotum. Loss of sexual power ; coition with- 
out emissions. 
Sexual Organs, Female: Menstruation generally de- 
layed or suppressed, with mental depression. Erup- 
tions and abdominal symptoms. Leucorrhoea profuse, 
white, discharged in gushes, with great weakness and 
soreness. Itching of the pudenda before menstruation. 
Stony hardness of the left ovary, with stitches, pain, 
etc. 
Clinical. Dysmenorrhcea; sometimes membranous; menses dark, 
with colic, or suppressed, with cutting and bearing-down pains. Es- 
pecially adapted to dysmenorrhcea of fat women, who have herpetic 
eruptions. Indurations of the ovaries; particularly of the left ovary, 
with violent pain on touch or on breathing; aggravated by taking 
cold or getting feet wet. Pelvic tumors, with bearing-down pains. 
The nipples of nursing women become sore and cracked, and bleed. 
Respiratory Organs: Tickling in the larnyx causes a 
short, hacking cough, which is worse in the evening or 
at night, and on deep breathing. Hoarseness every 
evening. Sensitiveness of the larnyx, with scratching 
and hoarseness. Suffocative paroxysms at night; must 
jump out of bed, with hoarse cough. A feeling of con- 
striction in the chest; sometimes a pain like a rawness. 
Neck and Back: Pain in the nape of the neck, with 
stiffness. Glandular swellings on the side of the neck. 
Small of the back feels bruised. Formication on the 
back. 
Extremities: Weakness and paralyzed sensation of 
the extremities; the arms and legs fall asleep, even 
while sitting, with formication, especially on walking. 
Sticking, tearing pains in the left shoulder joint; in 
the wrists and hands. The finger nails become thick- 
ened and rough. Rheumatic, tearing pains in the 
joints of the fingers, especially the first joint of the 
right thumb. Tearing or bruised pains in the thighs, 
and especially in left knee. The legs seem to fall 
j 218 
A primer of 
[Gratiola. 
asleep. Cramps in the calves at night. Swelling of 
the legs, even when lying in bed. Rheumatic pains in 
the feet and toes. 
Skin: General tendency to thickened indurations of 
the skin, sometimes with moist eruptions, but always 
with tendency to crack. The cracks ooze a glutinous 
moisture, and are sore and burning. Soreness in the 
folds of the skin, with oozing of corrosive moisture. 
Itching here and there; skin becomes moist after 
scratching. Itching < warmth: 
Fever: Chill mostly in the evening,sometimes in the 
morning in bed. Flushes of heat, especially at night; 
could not stay in bed. Burning of the feet; of the 
heels, especially in the morning in bed. Sweat after 
slight effort, frequently offensive. Sweat of the feet, 
which is disagreeable. 
GRATIOLA. 
General Action : Emetic, cathartic and diuretic, caus- 
ing inflammation of the lower bowel and pelvic viscera, 
with rush of blood to the head, etc. 
Stomach: Vomiting of yellow, bitter, sour water. 
Coldness in the stomach, which feels as if full of water. 
Nausea; frequently >> eating. 
Abdomen: Numerous symptoms of flatulent disten- 
tion, pains, rumblings, etc. 
Stool: Diarrhoea; profuse, yellow, watery, gushing; 
of green, frothy water, followed by soreness and burn- 
ing in the anus, or by chilliness. Diarrhoea, associated 
with a feeling of coldness in the abdomen. 
Urinary Organs: Urine at first increased, then dimin- 
ished, scanty and reddish. 
GRINDELIA. 
Respiratory Organs: Clinical. Dyspnoea, with palpitation, faint- 
ness, inability to lie down; starts up with convulsive efforts to breathe. 
On falling asleep patient ceases to breathe; wakes with a start and 
gasps. Chronic pneumonia, with purulent expectoration; great dys- 
pnoea, or chronic bronchitis; asthmatic respiration. Guaiacum.] 
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GUAIACUM. 
Generalities: General indolence and weakness, espe- 
cially in the thighs, with dread of motion. Emaciation. 
A general feeling of discomfort, so that he wants to 
yawn and stretch. Most of the symptoms appear while 
sitting, in the morning and in the forenoon. General 
sensitiveness to touch, particularly of the affected 
parts; everything seems too tight. 
Clinical. Chronic rheumatism. Arthritic diathesis. Stiffness and 
contraction of musclesand tendons, sometimes with rheumatic swell- 
ings of joints. Chronic inflammation and degeneration of bones, 
which are sore and cannot bear the slightest touch. Syphilitic pains. 
Mind: G eneral sadness and fretfulness. Inclination 
to blame everybody and scold. Great forgetfulness, 
especially of names. 
Head: Sticking pains, apparently in the brain. Tear- 
ing pains in one side of the head, extending down into 
the cheek. A feeling in the head externally as if it 
were swollen, and the blood vessels were distended. 
Eyes: The eyes feel swollen and protruded; lids seem 
too small to cover them. 
Ears: Tearing, aching pains. 
Face: Painful stitches in the cheek bones or muscles. 
Mouth: Tearing, drawing pains in the teeth, ending 
in stitches. Toothache when biting. 
Stomach: Great hunger. Great thirst. Disgust for 
food in the morning and forenoon. Empty eructations. 
Vomiting in the morning of watery mucus, with great 
effort. A feeling of constriction in the region of the 
stomach, with oppressed breathing. 
Abdomen: Griping pain in the abdomen as from in- 
carcerated flatus, which goes lower down. Twitching 
of the abdominal muscles. 
Stool: Hard, crumbly. Very foul. 
Urinary Organs: Constant urging to urinate, with 
free discharge of offensive urine. Cutting when urin- 220 
A PRIMER OF 
[Hamamelis. 
ating. Stitches in the neck of the bladder after in- 
effectual straining to urinate. 
Sexual Organs: Clinical. Ovaritis in rheumatic patients, with irreg- 
ular menstruation and dysmenorrhoea. Chronic inflammation of the 
ovaries, with agonizing pains, irritable bladder. 
Respiratory Organs: Dry cough, with loss of breath, 
caused by tickling in the pit of the stomach. Cough, with 
copious, offensive, purulent expectoration. Stitches in 
the left chest, < inspiration. 
Neck and Back: Stiffness in the left side from the 
nape to the sacrum. Pain on the slightest motion. 
Constrictive pain between the shoulders. 
Extremities: Tearing shooting pains in the muscles 
of the upper and lower extremities; the parts become 
hot. Immovable stiffness of the limbs, which are bent 
double. Extremities fall asleep; they seem very heavy 
and weak, and one dreads to move them. The limbs 
become extremely emaciated. Pains in the bones, 
particularly of the thighs. 
Sleep: Sleeplessness and restlessness at night. Used 
up in the morning. 
Fever: Predominating chilliness, even by a warm 
stove. Pulse soft and small, even when warm. Much 
sweat, especially on the head, on walking in the open 
air. Sweat usually offensive. 
HAMAMELIS. 
Generalities: Clinical. It seems to have a marked curative power 
over diseases of the veins, and, in some cases, it arrests haemorrhages. 
Varicose veins, with soreness and swelling. Ecchymoses. Trau- 
matic inflammations. 
Nose: Profuse nose-bleed, with a feeling of tightness 
in the bridge of the nose, and in the forehead between 
the eyes; particularly, if caused by a varicose condition 
of the blood vessels. 
Rectum and Anus: Bleeding piles, with itching. 
Bleeding from the rectum, which is dark and thick, 
without pain. 
Sexual Organs: Pain in the spermatic cords, running Helleborus.] 
MATERIA MEDICA. 
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down into the testicles. Uterine haemorrhage, without 
clots. 
Clinical. Varicocele. Varices of the labia?. Dysmenorrhoea, with 
pain in ovaries. Chronic metritis. Uterine haemorrhage; dark, 
venous flow. Ovaritis, subacute. Orchitis. 
HELLEBORUS. 
Generalities: Convulsions, with coldness. Sudden 
relaxation of all the muscles; even with the greatest 
effort the muscles refuse to act; he staggers while 
walking, lets things fall while eating, etc. Shooting, 
boring pains, apparently in the periosteum, < cold 
air. The pains are usually transverse in their direc- 
tion. Symptoms gets worse towards evening. General 
improvement in the open air, though he feels as though 
he had been long sick. 
Mind: Stupefaction; answers slowly or not at all. 
Frequently sits as if in deep thought, staring at one 
point. His mind seems to hat?e lost all control over 
his body. The will seems to have no control, for ex- 
ample, over muscular movements. 
Clinical'. Numerous symptoms of mental dullness, due to serous 
effusions. 
Head: Dull, painful confusion of the head; the brain 
feels too large. Heaviness of the head, like a con- 
gestion, sometimes with burning heat in the head, 
though with pale face. Pains in the head, pressing 
from without inward. Severe pain in the occiput. 
Clinical. A child with symptoms of hydrocephalus bores its head 
into the pillow, is threatened with, or has, general convulsions and 
suppression of urine. 
Eyes: Pupils dilated, a feeling as if the eyes were 
pressed downward from above, and it were difficult to 
open them. 
Face: Face is pale, even with heat of the head, 
features distorted or sunken, with coldness, feeble 
pulse and cold sweat. 
Mouth: Tongue often dry, with general dryness of 222 
A PRIMER OF 
[Helleborus. 
the mouth. Aphthae and blisters of the mouth and 
tongue. Tongue seems swollen and numb. 
Stomach: Thirst; sometimes unnatural appetite; at 
times nausea and vomiting; or eructations. Fulness 
and distention of the pit of the stomach. Burning and 
biting in the stomach. Painfulness of the stomach 
when coughing or stepping. 
Abdomen: Distention; rumbling; colic. 
Clinical. Coldness in the abdomen. Ascites. 
Stool: Diarrhoea, consisting of clear, colorless mucus, 
almost like frog spawn; sometimes watery, or alternat- 
ing with constipation. 
Urinary Organs: Frequent urging to urinate, with 
scanty discharge. Urine dark colored (sometimes sup- 
pressed). 
Sexual Organs: Clinical. Menses suppressed. 
Respiratory Organs: Cough sudden, constant hacking; 
< smoking. Constriction of the chest so that he gasps 
for breath, but cannot inhale. 
Heart and Pulse: Heart's action weak; pulse rapid, 
small, tremulous, or sometimes slow. 
Extremities: Boring, sticking pains in the wrist and 
finger joints; also in the knee and ankle joints. Vesi- 
cular eruptions between the fingers and toes. 
Skin: Sudden dropsical swellings. Desquamation 
over the whole body, even of the hair and nails. 
Sleep: Stupid sleepiness through the day; sleeps with 
half-open eyes, which are turned upward. Numerous, 
confused, anxious dreams. 
Fever: General coldness. Coldness, without thirst, 
with heat of the head. Chilliness, alternating with 
shooting pains in the limbs. Heat mostly external, 
with internal shivering in the evening, without thirst. 
Heat in the evening in bed and sweat all over. After 
the fever passes he feels as though he had been sick a 
long time. 
Clinical. A low type of fever, with great apathy, offensive breath, 
feeble pulse, opium-like stupor, coldness and cold sweat. Helonias.] 
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HELONIAS. 
Generalities: Clinical. Effects of excessive fatigue, especially in 
women, with tired aching in back and legs. Sometimes useful in 
debility following exhausting diseases, such as diphtheria. 
Urinary Organs : Clinical. Very profuse, light-colored urine, with 
debility and emaciation. Diabetes, with melancholia, etc. Inflamed 
kidneys. Albuminuria during pregnancy. 
Sexual Organs: Clinical. Atonic conditions of the female organs, 
prolapsus, etc., with general debility, soreness of the uterus and 
mental depression. Atonic haemorrhages. Leucorrhoea, with ulcer- 
ations. With all these there is lumbar pain, general weakness, rest- 
lessness, etc. 
HEP AR SULF. 
Generalities: The characteristic features are, sensi- 
tiveness to open air, easy and profuse sweating. 
Sharp, splinter-like pains and tendency to suppuration, 
or profuse secretions. 
Mind: General stupidity; weak memory, depression 
of spirits. 
Head : Pain in one-half of the brain as from a nail or 
plug; headaches generally relieved by binding the 
head tightly. Scalp sensitive. 
Eyes: General inflammation, with sharp, stinging- 
pains. 
Clinical. Tendency to ulcerations of the cornea ; purulent inflam- 
mations within the eye, especially hypopyon. Conjunctival catarrh, 
with muco-purulent discharge. Purulent inflammation of the lach- 
rymal sac. 
Nose: Inflammation of the nostrils, swelling and 
pain like a boil. Discharge bloody, offensive. The 
bones are sore to the touch. 
Face: Swelling of the upper lip. Bones of the face 
painful to touch. 
Mouth: Toothache on opening the mouth and after 
cold drinks ; sometimes worse in a warm room, and 
better in the open air, worse on biting. Generally 
offensive odor from the mouth. Swelling of the gum, 
painful when touched. Aphthous patches on the inside 
of lips and cheeks and on the tongue. 224 
A PRIMER OF 
[Hepar Sulf. 
Throat: A sensation as if a splinter were sticking in 
the throat on swallowing, sometimes extending towards 
the ear. Scraping and rawness in the throat. Con- 
stant hawking of mucus. Tonsils inflamed and swollen, 
threaten to suppurate. 
Stomach: Desire for acids and wine. Aversion to 
fat. Great thirst. Distention of the pit of the stomach. 
Frequent eructations; sometimes fetid, sometimes hot, 
sour. Vomiting, of bile, or of green acrid water, after 
much retching. Gnawing as from acids. 
Abdomen: Distended and tense. Stitches in the 
hypochondria. Swelling and suppuration of the inguinal 
glands. 
Rectum and Stool: Loss of power to expel even a soft 
stool. Stool soft, clay-colored, sometimes with bloody 
mucus and tenesmus. 
Urinary Organs: Bladder weak, urine flows very 
slowly; some seems to remain in the bladder. Urine 
dark red, hot; acrid, burning; sometimes bloody. 
Clinical. Inflamed kidneys, especially after Mercury, with soreness 
in the region of the kidneys. An oily film on the surface of the 
urine. 
Sexual Organs: Clinical. Venereal ulcers, with fetid discharge and 
stinging pains. Herpes of the prepuce, which is sensitive and bleeds. 
Abscess of the labiae, with splinter-like pains. Very foul leucorrhoea. 
Respiratory Organs: Speech very weak, voice lost. 
Hoarseness, painless. Cough hoarse, paroxysmal, < 
the slightest cold, caused by tickling in the upper part 
of the throat, left side, < talking and stooping. Cough 
rough, scraping, suffocative, in the evening on going 
to sleep. Dyspnoea. 
Clinical. Indicated in a late stage of croup, hoarseness, free secre- 
tion of mucus, difficult breathing. Bronchitis; loose, rattling cough, 
aggravated by cold air; towards morning. Chronic pneumonia, with 
threatening abscess. Cough, aggravated by drinking. A chile cries 
after coughing. 
Chest: Clinical. Suppuration of the mammary glands. Swelling 
and suppuration of the axillary glands. Foul perspiration in the 
axillae. 
Extremities: General stinging and drawing pains in Hydrastis.] 
MATERIA MEDICA. 
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the back and limbs. Bruised pain in the small of the 
back extends into the thighs. The skin of the hands 
and feet cracks. 
Skin: Unhealthy; slight injuries suppurate. Sore- 
ness and moisture in folds. Ulcers bleed easily and 
have a foul odor. Skin very sensitive to the slightest 
cold and to touch. Burning itching, but after scratch- 
ing white blisters form. 
Sleep: Sleepy all day, especially in the morning and 
evening, with spasmodic yawning. Sleeplessness after 
midnight. Frequent starting from sleep, as if he could 
not get his breath. 
Fever: Chilliness in the open air, or from the slight- 
est draft. Chill at night, when the pains are much in- 
creased. Dry heat at night. Sweats at night. Profuse 
sweat on the slightest motion; sour, sticky, offensive. 
HYDRASTIS. 
Generalities: Debility. General catarrhal discharges, 
and tendency to ulcerations. 
Eyes : Clinical. Catarrhal inflammation, with profuse secretions; 
often smarting and burning, sometimes witli swollen lids; opacities 
of the cornea. 
Ears: Clinical. Catarrhal inflammation of the middle ear and deaf- 
ness, after scarlet fever. Otorrhcea, with thick mucous discharge. 
Nose: Discharge thick, yellow, watery, excoriating, 
with burning, rawness of the throat. Catarrh of the 
posterior nares ; the discharge drops into the throat. 
Purulent and bloody discharges. 
Mouth: Aphthous sour mouth. 
Throat: Sore, with increased mucus, with burning 
and rawness, extending to nose and chest. Roughness 
in the morning on waking, worse swallowing. 
Stomach: Soreness over the stomach. Sinking. Acute 
pain. 
Abdomen: Pain in the region of the liver, extending 
to scapulae, with yellow skin, light-colored stools, etc. 
j* 226 
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[Hydrocotyle. 
Intestinal catarrh, with sinking in the stomach, dis- 
charge of mucus. 
Stool: Diarrhoea. Mucous or bloody stools, with 
symptoms of intestinal catarrh. Constipation. 
Urinary Organs: Clinical. Catarrh of the bladder, with thick, ropy 
mucus in the urine. 
Sexual Organs: Clinical. Chronic gonorrhoea. Hydrocele. Pruritis 
of the vulva; hard nodular tumors of the breast, with lancinating 
pains. Ulceration of the cervix, with prolapsus of the uterus. Can- 
cerous ulcerations of the uterus. Haemorrhages from the uterus, 
especially with ulcerations. The leucorrhoea is almost always tena- 
cious, rarely with albuminuria; with great prostration, palpitation, 
or with derangements of the liver, constipation, haemorrhoids, etc. 
It has been used successfully in chronic enlargement of the uterus 
(sub-involution). Uterine fibroids. Inflammation of the cervix, 
with heat and itching of the vagina. Ulceration of the neck of the 
womb, fungoid; leucorrhoea profuse. 
Respiratory Organs: Clinical. Laryngeal catarrh; mucous mem- 
brane pale, vocal cords relaxed. Bronchial catarrh, yellow, tena- 
cious mucus. 
HYDROCOTYLE. 
Skin: Clinical. It has cured lupus of the suppurating variety. 
Lymphatic tumors. It has ameliorated cases of leprosy; seems to 
have arrested the destructive processes. It also has ameliorated 
cases of elephantiasis. Numerous cases of eruptions, for the most 
part dry, with great thickening of the epidermoid layer and enor- 
mous exfoliation of scales. It has cured psoriasis with the above 
indications, and has greatly relieved forms of dry eczema. Excessive 
thickening and exfoliation of the epidermis is a strongly marked in- 
dication for its use. 
Generalities: Clinical. Hysteria, or epileptiform convulsions, fre- 
quent, violent attacks, with feeble, irregular beating of the heart. 
Tetanic convulsions, with complete loss of consciousness. Tetanus, 
cyanosis, coldness; action of heart irregular, feeble. Hysterical at- 
tacks; when drinking the water seems to gurgle down the throat. 
Epileptic attacks preceded by nausea, vomiting or waterbrash. 
Uraemic convulsions. Attacks of faintness, cyanosis, cold skin, 
gurgling on drinking. It has been used for the collapse of Camphor, 
with sudden cessation of all discharges, cyanosis and gurgling on 
drinking. 
HYDROCYANIC ACID. 
HYOSCYAMUS. 
Generalities: Convulsions. Twitchings. Catching at 
things in the air or pulling at the clothes. General Hyoscyamus.] 
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weakness, with blunted sensibility. Symptoms are 
generally worse in the evening, and after eating and 
drinking. 
Mind: Raving. Delirium, with restlessness : ludicrous 
actions; violent biting, striking and rage; constantly 
clutching with the hands; with foolish laughter; with 
singing and shouting; with irrational chattering and 
muttering; with obscene actions; with efforts to re- 
move clothing. Dread of drink. Unconsciousness. 
Great loquacity. 
Head: Aching and confusion of the head, generally 
with apparent rush of blood. The brain seems to 
shake about when walking and on stooping. Vertigo, 
worse when walking, usually with obscured vision. 
Eyes: Distorted, squinting. Staring; wild and 
sparkling, brilliant; rolling about. Red, with dilated 
pupils. Spasmodic closure of the eyes. Vision dim; 
double; small objects seem very large; some red. 
Night blindness. 
Ears: Deafness (from paralysis of the nerve). 
Nose: Dryness in the nose. Loss of smell (and taste). 
Face: Red and hot; swollen. Distorted. Sometimes 
pale, even bluish; twitching of the facial muscles. 
Mouth: Grinding of the teeth, so that they become 
loose. Tearing toothache in the morning, with rush 
of blood to the head. Toothache after taking cold, and 
in the open air. Pulsating toothache. Tongue seems 
paralyzed; speech is confused, difficult, as well as irra- 
tional. General dryness of the mouth and fauces. 
Frothing from the mouth. Saliva, sometimes bloody, 
sometimes with salt taste. 
Throat: A feeling of constriction, with inability to 
swallow anything, especially drinks. Spasmodic con- 
striction ; spasms renewed on every attempt to swallow 
liquids. 
. Stomach: Ravenous hunger, unquenchable thirst, but 
cannot swallow. Thirst, but drinks little at a time. 228 
A PRIMER OF 
[Hyoscyamus. 
Drinking causes spasms. Hiccough. Nausea and vomit- 
ing. Vomiting of blood or bloody mucus. Retching and 
vomiting after coughing. Great sensitiveness of the 
pit of the stomach to touch. Violent cramps in the 
stomach, > for a time by .vomiting. 
Abdomen: Sensitiveness of the walls of the abdomen, 
especially when coughing. The abdominal muscles 
seem strained or bruised. Cutting pains in the lower 
portion of the abdomen, which is distended. 
Stool: Evacuations involuntary, especially during 
sleep. Diarrhoea ; stools yellow, watery, usually with- 
out much odor. 
Urinary Organs: Prolapsus of the bladder and reten- 
tion of urine. Involuntary micturition from loss of 
power of the neck of the bladder. 
Sexual Organs: Menstruation suppressed. Spasms 
precede the menses; labor-like pains, with drawings in 
the loins. 
Clinical. Nymphomania, sometimes most furious. (Apparent 
nymphomania, especially of puerperal women; seems to be a sort of 
delirium rather than real sexual desire. The tendency to uncover is 
most characteristic.) 
Respiratory Organs: Cough incessant when lying 
down, )> when sitting up; usually dry at night, seem- 
ing to be caused by a tickling in the trachea. Cough 
frequently spasmodic, in short, rapid paroxysms, almost 
like whooping cough. Voice sometimes rough on 
account of the collection of a little mucus in the larynx 
and trachea. Paroxysms of dyspnoea, especially at 
night on lying; down must jump up. 
Neck and Back: Contraction of the muscles of the 
neck, so that the head is turned obliquely. 
Extremities: Tremblings; twi tellings, especially of 
the hands and feet. Convulsive movements with the 
thumbs closed in the fist. Carphology. Cramps of the 
posterior parts of the thighs and calves. Toes spas- 
modically flexed by spasms, even when walking. 
Skin: Skin usually hot and dry. A scarlet-like rash Hypericum.] 
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spreads over the whole body, which becomes purplish. 
Boils or gangrenous spots. Ulcers bleed and become 
painful. 
Sleep: Sleeplessness all night, with restlessness, 
twitchings and startings. 
Fever: General shivering; coldness predominates. 
Heat usually localized in the face and head; sweat 
general, sometimes clammy, particularly during sleep. 
Clinical. Tetanus. Tetanus of neck and jaw, aggravated on right 
side, involving thorax and abdomen, from getting pins in the foot. 
Results of penetrating wounds from pointed instruments. Effects 
of gunshot wounds. Concussion of the brain and spine in railroad 
accidents followed by a large number of symptoms, especially be- 
tween scapulae, stiffness of extremities, nervous cough, chilliness, 
aggravated by damp weather; diarrhoea from slight excitement, etc., 
all cured by Hyper. In a general way it is indicated for the effects 
following injuries of nerves. In general, excessive painfulness and 
soreness of the affected part indicates the drug; the attacks are gen- 
erally brought on by change of weather. Many cases of subacute 
and chronic neuritis have been apparently cured by its use. Spinal 
tenderness, with paroxysms of terrible pain, screaming if -ap- 
proached ; in other cases, great sensitiveness of cervical vertebrae to 
touch, with dyspnoea, short, hacking cough, etc. 
HYPERICUM. 
IGNATIA. 
Generalities: Trembling; twitching of various mus- 
cles. Convulsions. Constantly changing position, espe- 
cially at night. Pains shift about, mostly in small spots; 
pains are usually sharp, boring, or shooting, extending 
from within outward, sometimes in the opposite direc- 
tion. Hysterical spasms. General aggravation from 
tea, coffee, tobacco and brandy; after dinner, in the 
evening after lying down, and in the morning imme- 
diately after waking. Amelioration, from lying on the 
back, or on the painful portion; and, in general, from 
change of position. 
Note: The general keynote of Ignatia is a condition of contrari- 
ness; thus, a frontal headache is ameliorated by stooping; fever 
without thirst, etc. 
Mind: Extreme sensitiveness and impatience; change- 230 
A PRIMER OF 
[Ignatia. 
able mood: becomes angry on the slightest contradic- 
tion. Frightened mood, as if he had committed a crime. 
Dread of trifles. Hysterical mood; laughs and cries al- 
ternately. 
Clinical. Especially useful for results of depressing emotions, such 
as grief, love. 
Head: General heaviness. Headache, consisting of a 
pressing pain from within outward, usually in the fore- 
head between the eyes; > bending the head forward 
on the table (sometimes <( stooping). Pain as from 
something pressing hard on the brain, especially in the 
morning on waking; pain constantly shifts to other 
parts of the body; > coffee. Sharp, piercing pain, as 
from a nail being driven in the head, or like a boring. 
Headaches; sometimes < coughing or stimulants, al- 
ways by noise and by odors. The head is sometimes 
bent excessively backward with the pain. 
Eyes: Inflammation, with biting tears and agglutina- 
tion at night. A feeling as if sand were under the 
upper lid. Inflammation of the upper part of the eye- 
ball, which is covered by the lid. Convulsive move- 
ments of the muscles of the eyes. Zigzag, flickerings 
before vision. Photophobia. 
Ears: Roaring and ringing in the ears. Obstinate 
itching in the auditory canal. 
Nose: Nasal catarrh, with crawling and itching in 
the nostrils, which are sore, sensitive or swollen. 
Face: Alternately pale and red. Convulsive twitch- 
frigs of the facial muscles (especially on attempting to 
talk). Always dry, cracked, bleeding. 
Mouth: Inner surface of the lower lip seems raw. 
The whole interior of the mouth red and inflamed. 
One bites the inside of the cheek when chewing. Taste 
is sour; sometimes bitter, then sour. 
Throat: Inflammation, with sharp sticking pains when 
not swallowing; usually > swallowing. Constriction in Ignatia.] 
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the oesophagus as from a plug; worse when not swal- 
lowing. 
Stomach: Hunger in the evening, which prevents fall- 
ing asleep. Desire for different things, but when they 
are brought they are not relished. Aversion to the 
customary smoking. Aversion to meat and brandy. 
Thirst with the chill, but not during the fever. Eruc- 
tations of a bitter taste. Hiccough after eating, drink- 
ing or smoking. Vomiting of food at night. Stitches 
in the region of the stomach. A feeling of weakness 
and emptiness as if the stomach hung down relaxed. 
Gastric symptoms, usually > eating. 
Abdomen: Fulness and distention in the hypochon- 
dria; a feeling of hardness and swelling in the region 
of the spleen. Twisting around the navel. Localized 
distention here and there of the abdomen. Pulsating 
pains in the lower part of the abdomen. Pressing- 
outward pain in the pelvic region. Extreme flatulence, 
with hysteria. 
Rectum: Prolapsus from slight straining at stool. Cut- 
ting and sharp pains in the rectum, as from contrac- 
tion and soreness, especially after stools. Itching and 
crawling as from thread-worms in the anus. Ineffectual 
urging to stool, with protrusion of the rectum, felt par- 
ticularly in the middle of the abdomen. Sensation of 
piles in the anus, with soreness and pain; usually better 
when walking. Sharp sticking pain in the anus, ex- 
tending deep into the rectum. 
Stool: Diarrhoea; thin, involuntary. 
Clinical. Diarrhcea resulting from fright or emotional excitement, 
especially grief. Diarrhcea, with tenesmus. Desire for stool is felt 
in the abdomen, but is ineffectual. Alternate diarrhoea and consti- 
pation. 
Urinary Organs: Frequent micturition of large quan- 
tities of pale urine. Constant micturition after cough- 
ing. Burning and smarting in the urethra when urinat- 
ing. 
Sexual Organs: Itching about the genitals in the 232 
A PRIMER OF 
[Ignatia. 
evening; >scratching. Menstruation too early. Men- 
strual How black, offensive, clotted. 
Clinical. Dysmenorrhoea, with great pressure. Ovarian pains. 
Uterine haemorrhages from grief or emotional excitement. During 
pregnancy, nausea, weakness, sinking in the stomach, ameliorated 
by eating. During labor, spasms amounting almost to convulsions. 
Respiratory Organs: Hacking cough in the evening 
after lying down, seeming to come from the larynx; 
finally > forcibly suppressing the cough by will power. 
Dry cough as from feathers or dust in the pit of the 
throat; worse the longer he coughs. Dyspnoea, as from 
a load on the chest; expiration easy. Dry cough in the 
morning on waking, and from tickling near the pit of 
the stomach. 
Heart and Pulse: Palpitation, especially at night; 
sometimes with stitches in the region of the heart. 
Neck and Back: Stiffness in the nape of the neck. 
Spasmodic bending of back backward. Cutting stitches 
extend from the small of the back down through the 
legs as from a knife. Pain in the sacrum in the morn- 
ing when lying on the back. 
Extremities: Convulsive jerkings and twitchings, es- 
pecially on falling asleep. Pain in the shoulders as 
after violent effort. Twitching of the deltoid muscles. 
Twitching of the muscles of the forearm, especially in 
the evening after lying down. Cutting stitches in the 
hips and knees; when walking he involuntarily draws 
the knees up too high. Stitching pain in the soles of 
the feet. Burning in the heels at night, though they 
are cold to touch. 
Skin: Itching, > scratching,but immediately appear- 
ing in another place. Itching from becoming heated 
in the open air. Skin very sensitive to the air. Itching- 
nettle-rash over the whole body. 
Sleep: Excessive, spasmodic yawning, which causes 
pain in the jaws as if they would be dislocated. Sleep 
sometimes deep; stupid; sometimes so light that one 
hears everything; generally with great restlessness lodum.] 
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233 
and twitching of the limbs, especially on falling asleep. 
Dreams of one idea persistently. 
Fever: Chilliness, with thirst, without relief from 
external warmth. Heat largely external, with internal 
shivering; in the afternoon, without thirst; with dry 
skin, but sweat on the face; external heat and redness ; 
without thirst and without internal heat, with intoler- 
ance of external warmth. 
IODUM. 
General Effects: Acute catarrh of all mucous mem- 
branes, especially of the eyes and nose. Salivation. 
Enlargement of lymphatic glands, followed by atrophy, 
especially of testicles and mammae, and general emacia- 
tion. Polyuria, nephritis and albuminuria. 
Generalities: Emaciation. Restlessness. Trembling 
of the limbs. Muscular twitchings. (Edematous swell- 
ings. Weakness so great that one can hardly speak. 
Great excitement of the whole nervous system. Violent 
pains; worse at night. 
Clinical. Chronic eases, not febrile, generally characterized by 
great appetite and rapid emaciation. Acute cases, with high fever. 
Localized inflammations very frequently require lod., which seems 
to be adapted to febrile conditions accompanying parenchymatous 
inflammations of the various organs and tissues. These patients are 
usually very thirsty, but not of necessity restless; certainly not anx- 
ious like Aconite. 
Mind: General despondency. Irritability, with sad- 
ness. 
Head: A feeling of rush of blood, with throbbing. 
Pain as if a tight band were about the head. Head- 
ache ; < warmth, noise and talking. 
Eyes: Inflammation, especially from taking cold; 
swelling of the lids. Obscured vision. 
Clinical. Valuable for intra ocular inflammations, especially of the 
iris and choroid. 
Ears: Deafness (due to adhesions in the middle ear, 
or associated with chronic catarrh. Sensitiveness to 
noise). 234 
A PRIMER OF 
[lodum. 
Nose: Sneezing, with acute, fluent coryza, which 
sometimes becomes stopped towards evening; sudden, 
violent lachrymation, pain in the eyes, and a feeling as 
if the larynx were constricted. 
Clinical. In acute influenzas, with hot watery discharge, pain at 
the root of the nose and over frontal sinuses, with general fever. 
Face: Pale, sometimes yellowish or greenish, with 
blue lips (in chronic cases). Twitching of the facial 
muscles. Swollen submaxillary glands. 
Mouth: Teeth yellow and covered with mucus in the 
morning. Gums loosened from the teeth and bleeding 
easily. Ulcers in the mouth, of a foul odor. Saliva- 
tion. Tongue thickly coated. 
Throat: Inflamed, with burning pain. Constriction, 
with general swallowing. 
Clinical. Catarrh of the Eustachian tube, with deafness, some- 
times with hoarse cough. Ulceration, with swollen glands. En- 
largement of the thyroid gland. (External application of lodum to 
be absolutely forbidden as extremely hazardous.) 
Stomach: Ravenous hunger. Great thirst. Heart- 
burn. Nausea, even vomiting, < after eating. Vomit- 
ing of bile, with violent pains in the stomach. Pressure 
in the stomach always after eating. Burning; gnawing. 
A peculiar internal trembling seems to spread over the 
region of the stomach. 
Abdomen: Pains in the region of the liver, renewed 
after eating; sore to pressue. Pain in the region of 
the liver, with jaundice, emaciation, etc. Inflamma- 
tion of the liver, with fever, dry tongue, restlessness 
etc. Region of the spleen very painful. 
Clinical. Enlarged spleen, with salivation. Disease of the pan- 
creas. Enlarged mesenteric glands, with enormous appetite, emacia- 
tion. Enlarged liver, with jaundice, etc. 
Stool: Diarrhoea; whitish, frothy; sometimes with 
undigested fat. Diarrhoea alternating with constipa- 
tion. 
Urinary Organs: Frequent, copious micturition. 
Urine yellowish-green; or with iridescent film. 
Sexual Organs: Swelling and induration of the testi- Ipecacuanha.] 
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235 
cles. Uterine haemorrhage. Menstruation usually very 
irregular, early or late. 
Clinical. Excoriating leucorrlioea, with atrophy of the mammary 
glands, goitre, etc. Ovaritis, witli leucorrlioea. Chronic metritis. A 
wedge-like pain from the right ovary to uterus. 
Respiratory Organs: Pain in the larynx, with hoarse- 
ness, rawness and intolerable crawling, provoking a dry 
cough. Cough croupy, with difficult respiration. 
Clinical. Extremely valuable in croup, with dry cough and fever, 
particularly indicated after Aconite; has relieved the restless anxiety 
but not the fever. lod. controls the fever and softens the cough, 
and is frequently to be followed by Bromine. In pneumonia the 
hepatization, dry cough and fever, without the anxiety of Aeon, or 
the sticking pains of Bryonia, especially if the lesion be at the apex 
of the lungs. Atrophy of the breasts. 
Heart: Palpitation; < any effort. Symptoms of in- 
flammation of the heart or of hypertrophy. 
Extremities: Trembling and weariness in the ex- 
tremities and debility. Tearing pains in the joints. 
Pains in the bones at night; < when lying on that 
side. 
Clinical Inflammation of the joints; rheumatic, especially when 
complicated with inflammation of the heart. White swelling of the 
knee joints. 
Fever: Heat predominates; sometimes followed by 
profuse sweat at night, especially of the feet. 
IPECACUANHA. 
General Action: Produces nausea and vomiting; in- 
creases secretions, especially in the upper part of the 
intestinal canal; sometimes true dysentery. It in- 
creases secretions from the bronchi, and may even 
cause hepatization, as well as emphysema. The cough 
is generally spasmodic. A general heemorrhagic ten- 
dency. 
Generalities: Weakness, with aversion to all food, 
and a general association of nausea with all the symp- 
toms. Sensitiveness to cold and warmth. Rigid stretch- 
ing out of the whole body. Body bent backward and 
forward, in rigid spasms. Symptoms in general, > in 236 
A PRIMER OF 
[Ipecacuanha. 
the open air. More frequently found indicated in per- 
sons with light hair. 
Mind: Very irritable and impatient. Ill humor, but 
quiet. Intolerance of noise. A child cries and screams 
constantly. Shooting pains in the vertex. A bruised 
feeling throughout the brain, extending from the skull 
down to the root of the tongue, with nausea. Painful- 
ness of the occiput and nape of the neck. 
Eyes: Violent, shooting pains through the eyes, with 
profuse lachrymation; redness. Collection of hard 
mucus in the external canthi. 
Clinical. Pustular conjunctivitis, especially in children. Granular 
lids. Inflammation of the cornea, threatening ulceration. 
Ears: Clinical. Ears are cold during the fever. 
Nose: Sneezing; violent, paroxysmal; discharge of 
thin mucus; associated with cough and expectoration. 
Violent nose-bleed. 
Face: Generally pale, with blue rings around the 
eyes; convulsive twitchings of the facial muscles and 
lips. Red and sore about the mouth; a biting eruption 
and ulcers on the margins of the lips. 
Mouth: Toothache in a hollow tooth as if it would be 
torn out. Salivation; constantly obliged to swallow; 
with nausea. Biting pain in the mouth and on the 
tongue. Tongue yellow, coated yellow. A sweetish 
taste of blood in the mouth. 
Stomach: General loss of appetite as from weakness 
of the stomach. Aversion to all food; or dislike for 
sweets and dainty things. No thirst. Nausea, which 
seems to come from the stomach, with empty eructa- 
tions and salivation. Retching and vomiting of food ; 
of bile; of green, bilious mucus; of blood; renewed 
after taking cold drinks or smoking tobacco. A feeling 
as though the stomach hung down relaxed. Persistent 
nausea is the general accompaniment of Ipecac symp- 
toms: 
Abdomen: Clawing pains as from a hand clawing the Ipecacuanha.] 
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237 
intestines; < motion. Cutting pains about the navel, 
with shivering. Colic, with frequent stools. 
Stool: Diarrhoea of greenish mucus, with nausea and 
colic; bloody stools, with tenesmus. Fecal stools, 
covered with bloody mucus. 
Urinary Organs: Urine generally diminished; dark 
red; sometimes bloody, with cutting pains in abdomen 
and urethra. Ineffectual urging to urinate. 
Sexual Organs: Menstruation early and profuse. 
Dragging towards the uterus and anus. 
Clinical. Uterine haemorrhage of bright but clotted blood. Haem- 
orrhage following labor or after a miscarriage, with persistent nau- 
sea and faintness, sometimes with colic and sinking in the abdomen. 
Respiratory Organs: Cough, suffocative, (a child be- 
comes stiff and blue in the face); caused by constrictive 
tickling from upper part of larynx to lowest bronchi; so 
spasmodic as to cause vomiting; < walking in cold air 
and after lying down and by deep inspiration. Suffo- 
cative paroxysms of cough, > in the open air, < in the 
house. Expectoration of yellow mucus, or of blood. 
Suffocative dyspnoea, with wheezing throughout the 
bronchi; weight and anxiety about the heart, etc. 
Loss of breath on the slightest effort. 
Clinical. Spasmodic asthma. Capillary bronchitis, with spasmodic 
cough and vomiting. Bronchitis, with much mucus, especially in the 
large tubes, and from expectoration. Cough, like whooping cough; 
patient gets red and blue in the face and vomits; sometimes has 
bleeding from the nose or lungs. Bleeding from the lungs, with a 
feeling of bubbling in the chest and frothy expectoration. 
Extremities: Bruised pain in all the bones and joints. 
Pain in the joints as if asleep. A feeling as if the hip 
would be wrenched out of its socket on lying down. 
Convulsive jerks in the legs. Cramps in the muscles 
of the thighs. 
Skin: Nettle-rash. Violent itching, without any 
rash; must keep on scratching until a rash appears. 
Fever: Coldness, external, shivering (even without 
thirst), followed by fever, generally after 4 P. M., and 
then by sweat. One hand is cold while the other is hot. 238 
A PRIMER OF 
[Iris Ver. 
Clinical. Intermittent fever, characterized by persistent nausea, 
and especially with the chill and fever; raging headache, generally 
great thirst, though anything taken into the stomach is vomited. 
General Action: Cathartic and diuretic, stimulating 
the liver, increasing the flow of bile, producing nausea, 
vomiting, etc. 
Head: Headache, especially in the forehead and ver- 
tex, as if the top of the head would come off, cough- 
ing, by cold air and on quick motion. Depressed spirits, 
debility, pain in the stomach and bowels. Fulness of 
the head and heaviness. Pain in the forehead over the 
left eye. 
Clinical. Neuralgic headaches, generally one-sided, with gastric 
symptoms; with blurred vision; pain usually begins over one eye. 
Face: Neuralgia of the right side, beginning in the 
infra-orbital nerve, thus involving the whole face, with 
headache, etc. 
Mouth: Mouth and tongue feel scalded; profuse sa- 
liva, ropy. 
Throat: Heat, smarting and burning, and dryness. 
Stomach: Empty eructations. Nausea and sour vom- 
iting. Burning in the epigastric region, with tender- 
ness, vomiting of food. 
Abdomen: Flatulent colic, with vomiting of bile and 
acrid fluid, soreness over the liver, cutting pains. 
Rectum and Stool: Burning after the stool. Soreness 
in the anus as from sharp, stinging points. Distressed 
feeling as if prolapsed. Stools watery, with burning 
tenesmus. 
Clinical. Diarrhoea, watery, characterized by burning in the anus 
as if on fire and burning through the intestinal canal; stools gen- 
erally preceded by colic. Constipation, particularly associated with 
gastric derangement, sick headaches, etc. 
Respiratory Organs: Dry cough, caused by tickling in 
the larynx, with dry, smarting or burning sensation; 
larynx sore externally. 
Chest: Cutting pain in the left side as if the ribs were 
pressing against the lung. 
IRIS VERSICOLOR. Jaborandi.] 
MATERIA MEDICA. 
239 
Extremities: Sharp tearing: shifting pains in joints 
and extremities, particularly in the right shoulder, 
where it is < raising the arm, and by motion. Shifting, 
shooting pains in the lingers and joints of the hand. 
Pain in the left hip as if it were wrenched. Pain, ex- 
tending down the left sciatic nerve to the knee, and 
burning and shooting; < motion. 
Skin: Clinical. Herpes zoster of right side, and other skin affec- 
tions, associated with gastric derangements, etc. 
JABORANDI. 
General Action: The remarkable affects of this drug 
are diaphoresis and ptyalism; contracted pupil and 
spasm of accommodation. Makes the hair coarse and 
turns it dark. 
Eyes: Clinical. Asthenopia. Spasms of the ciliary muscle. Con- 
vergent strabismus. 
Mouth: Constant spitting of alkaline saliva. 
Sexual Organs: Clinical. Inflammation of the testicles, resulting 
from mumps. 
Fever: Clinical. Flushes of heat at the climacteric period, with 
profuse perspiration, nausea and vomiting; cold extremities. 
JATROPHA. 
General Action: A violent hydragogue cathartic. 
Generalities : Cramps in the muscles, especially of the 
calves; he feels as though they were twisted around the 
leg. 
Throat: An acrid feeling, extending to the stomach; 
which causes vomiting. 
Stomach: Nausea and vomiting, easily brought on 
by drinking, associated with the watery diarrhoea. 
Abdomen: Distended; noises as of liquid gurgling 
from a bottle, with the diarrhoea. Pain in the hypo- 
chondria. Stitching in the hepatic region; under the 
right scapula, extending into the right axilla and 
shoulder. 
Stool: Sudden, profuse, watery. Evacuations, with 
gurgling in the abdomen as of water running out of a 240 
A PRIMER OF 
[Juglans Cinerea. 
bottle, generally associated with coldness, cramps, 
nausea and vomiting, or other symptoms like cholera. 
Head: Occipital headache; sharp, shooting pains, >» 
on rising in the morning. 
Stool: Diarrhoea; yellow, frothy, with tenesmus and 
burning; cutting in the abdomen. Prostration. 
Chest: Violent wrenching pain under the sternum, 
with threatening suffocation; < walking, like angina 
pectoris. 
Skin: Eruption like scarlatina ; like eczema. Pustu- 
lar eruptions. Itching > scratching, with burning. 
JUGLANS CINEREA. 
General Action: Poisonous doses produce ulceration of 
the skin; circumscribed and penetrating ulcers; papu- 
lar and pustular eruptions; general catarrh of mucous 
membranes; even ulceration; periostitis, inflammation 
of the joints, acute nephritis, etc. 
Generalities: Tearing pains suddenly shift from place 
to place, > motion; the pains seem to be deeply seated 
along the bones or tendons; worse in the morning on 
waking; better on rising. Generally weak and sick, > 
in the open air, with nausea. Weakness amounts al- 
most to paralysis; similarly to other potashes; it is in- 
dicated in conditions of profound prostration, without 
fever. 
Mind: Disinclination to mental work; dull, or even 
stupid. 
Head: Sharp pains, confined to a small spot, particu- 
larly over the eyebrows; at times with dimness of 
vision. 
Eyes : Inflammation, with yellow, tenacious discharge. 
Itching, with burning; worse evening and night. 
Burning pain, with lachrymation. Inflammation of the 
margins of the lids, which are raw, and feel rough and 
dry as if they rubbed against the eyeball. 
KALI BICHROMICUM. Juglans Cinerea.] 
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241 
Clinical. Catarrhal inflammations, ulcerations, etc., mostly of an 
indolent character, usually without much photophobia. Occasionally 
indicated in subacute syphilitic inflammations. 
Ears: Thick, yellow, fetid discharge. Outer ear 
swollen, with tearing pains. 
Nose: Ulceration of the nostrils, exposing the bone. 
The septum of the bone is perforated by small ulcers; 
inflammation, with free discharge, involving the whole 
mucous membrane. Shooting and stinging pains, with 
greenish, offensive discharge; nostrils seem filled with 
hard plugs, and when these are discharged they expose 
ulcerated places, and bleeding may follow. Pain at 
the root of the nose, as if in the bones; the nose seems 
plugged at this point, with pain over the frontal sinuses. 
Clinical. Nasal catarrh, ulceration, etc., characterized by a profuse 
secretion of mucus, which is usually tenacious. 
Face: Sensitiveness of the bones, especially beneath 
the orbits. Face covered with pimples, acne or 
blotches. 
Mouth : Inner surface of the lips ulcerated. Tongue 
smooth, red and cracked; coated yellow. Aphthae 
throughout the mouth, dryness. 
Throat: Ulceration, excavated, with yellow tenacious 
exudation. Mucous membrane dark, livid and swollen. 
Hawking of much tenacious mucus, especially in the 
morning; this tenacious mucus often comes from a 
posterior nares. 
Clinical. In the ulcerations of the throat, indicating this drug, 
there is profound prostration, soft pulse, lack of acute pain, and a 
general apathetic condition. 
Stomach: Appetite lost. Thirst, especially a longing 
for beer. Nausea; constant vomiting of glairy mucus. 
Burning pain in the pit of the stomach; extending into 
the throat. Indigestion from meat; from malt liquors. 
Clinical. Nausea and vomiting are frequent accompaniments of 
other indications. Gastric catarrh or ulceration, with burning pain, 
vomiting of glairy mucus, tongue furred, etc. 
Abdomen: Distention. Rumbling. Gripings, followed 
by thin stools. 
K 242 
A PRIMER OF 
[Juglans Cinerea. 
Rectum and Stool: Burning in the anus after a stool; 
sensation of a plug. Haemorrhoidal vessels distended. 
Stools, consisting of brown, frothy water, preceded by 
pain in abdomen and nausea; sometimes involuntary. 
Stools of mucus and blood, with tenesmus: hard, con- 
stipated. 
Clinical. Chronic morning diarrhoea. Periodical dysentery, partic- 
ularly in the spring. 
Urinary Organs: Frequent micturition, followed by 
burning; urine scanty, high-colored, often with a white 
sediment. 
Clinical. Chronic urethritis; feels as though a little urine remained 
after urinating and could not be expelled, with burning, etc. 
Sexual Organs: Clinical. Ulcers small, excavated, with tenacious 
exudation. Yellow, tenacious leucorrhoea, with burning. Prolapsus 
of the uterus, worse in hot weather. 
Respiratory Organs: Hoarseness; scraping in the 
larynx; hawking of tough mucus. Laryngitis, with 
ulcerative pain ; < talking; constantly needs to clear the 
throat. Hoarseness and very rough voice, with thick, 
tenacious mucus, < in the evening. Cough from tick- 
ling in the larynx; worse after eating; expectoration of 
thick, tenacious mucus ; expectoration so tough that it 
is drawn out in strings. 
Clinical. Inflammation of the larynx, especially croup in the late 
stage, after the fever has disappeared; pulse soft, often weak. Cough 
not dry, but hoarse and rough; tenacious mucus causes vomiting, etc. 
Bronchitis; cough worse from eating in the morning, ameliorated by 
lying down and in the warmth. 
Back: Pain across the back in the lumbar region, 
cannot stoop. < motion. Pain in the sacrum and 
coccyx when sitting, extending up to the nape or 
down the thighs. 
Extremities: Drawing pains in the limbs as if along 
the bones. Shooting pains down the outside of the 
thighs, usually worse at night. Tearing in the tibiae. 
Skin: Circumscribed ulceration, with tenacious exu- 
dation. Psoriasis. Acne. Papular eruptions. Erup- 
tions, with burning pains. Kali Brom.J 
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Fever: Febrile excitement not marked, mostly cold- 
ness, rarely fever. Always soft, weak pulse and pros- 
tration. 
KALI BROM. 
General Action : In large doses it produces tetaniform 
convulsions, opisthotonos in animals; in men, general 
failure of mental power, especially loss of memory, 
melancholia, anaesthesia of the mucous membranes of 
the eyes and throat and skin ; acne, loss of sexual 
power, imbecility, paralysis. 
Generalities: Clinical. In moderate doses, it arrests for the time 
being, epileptic convulsions, but rarely prevents their recurrence. 
In continued doses, it impairs the mental powers in a manner similar 
to that caused by true epilepsy. Its homoepathic use is very limited. 
Mind: L oss of memory, especially for words and syl- 
lables; when writing, omits words or parts of words. 
Clinical. Brain fag; a numb feeling in the head as if one would 
lose his reason. Cerebral anaemia, with cold extremities, etc. Night 
terrors of children, suicidal mania, with tremulousness. 
Throat: Anaesthesia of the fauces, without impair- 
ment of swallowing. 
Stomach: Persistent hiccough. 
Urinary Organs: Frequent, profuse micturition ; urine 
is pale and watery. 
Clinical. Palliative in diabetes, with impaired mental power, dry- 
ness of mouth, etc. 
Sexual Organs: Clinical. The effects of sexual excesses, melan- 
cholia, loss of memory, numbness of the limbs. Ovarian neuralgia. 
Even ovarian tumors. Reflex symptoms in pregnancy, pruritis, 
cough, neuralgia, etc. 
Respiratory Organs: Cough dry,paroxysmal, recurring 
every night when lying down, resembling whooping 
cough. 
Skin: Acne of the face, cheeks and forehead. 
KALI CARBONICUM. 
General Action: Anaemia, feeble heart's action, de- 
pressed temperature, increased tissue waste; aggrava- 
tion of all symptoms from 3 to 4 A. M.; aggravation 
from cold air. 244 
A PRIMER OF 
[Kali Carb. 
. Generalities: Sharp sticking pains in various parts of 
the body, < motion and cold air, and in the early 
morning hours. Takes cold from the slightest expos- 
ure. Dread of open air. Weariness, especially in the 
morning. 
Mind: Mental powers weakened; is anxious and easily 
frightened; fearful about her disease. 
Head: Sensation, as if something were loose in the 
head. General headache from walking in the open air. 
Frontal pains, extending into the eyes and root of the 
nose. Hair becomes very dry ; falls out. 
Eyes: Swelling, like a sac, between the brows and 
lids. Muscular weakness, with sticking pains, floating 
spots. A feeling of coldness in the lids. 
Ears: Purulent discharge from the ears. Loss of 
hearing. 
Nose: Stoppage. Burning within the nostrils, which 
are scabby, with ulcerative pain. 
Clinical. Nasal catarrh, rather dry, sometimes with fetid discharge 
and obstruction. Recurring nose-bleed on washing the face in the 
morning. 
Face: Yellowish, puffy, haggard. 
Mouth: Toothache only when eating. Tearing pain 
in the teeth, extending into the jaws. Painful pimples 
on the tip of the tongue, and on the interior of the 
mouth. General dryness, without thirst. Mouth slimy, 
bad taste. Salivation. 
Throat: Collection of tough mucus on the back of the 
throat; a little is loosened by much hawking. Sharp 
pains like splinters. Swallowing difficult on account 
of weakness of the muscles of the oesophagus. 
Stomach: Longing for sugar or acids. Aversion to 
meat. Acid eructations. Sharp, stinging pains, with 
external sensitiveness. Stomach feels full of water, 
swollen and heavy. Burning acidity rises with spas- 
modic constriction. 
Abdomen: Distention, after eating, even a little. 
Cutting pains in the abdomen. Sharp pains in the Kali Carb.] 
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hepatic region; general thirst, also heaviness and heat. 
Cutting and dragging in the lower abdomen, with a 
feeling of weight. Coldness, and a feeling of inactivity 
in the bowels.. 
Rectum and Stool: Burning and sore pain in the anus, 
as though haemorrhoids would protrude. Sticking and 
cutting pain, burning, itching, etc., in the anus. Stool 
seems insufficient, not always hard. Constipation, with 
difficult and slow evacuation, as from loss of power of 
the intestines. 
Urinary Organs: Urging in the bladder, but has to 
wait for the stool and flow of urine. Frequent micturi- 
tion at night, but urine flows only after long pressure. 
Sexual Organs, Female: Menstruation early, profuse, 
prolonged. Leucorrhoea, with pains in the back and 
bearing-down pains in the abdomen. 
Clinical. Puerperal inflammations, with sharp, cutting pains, weak- 
ness, etc. Ineffectual labor pains; uterine atony. 
Respiratory Organs: Hoarseness and loss of voice- 
Cough at 3 to 4 A. M., dry, tickling, suffocative, caused 
by dryness of the larynx. Expectoration scanty, of 
small round lumps of mucus. Dyspnoea, as if no air 
could get into the chest. Sharp, sticking pains through 
the sides of the chest on deep breathing, in the even- 
ing after lying down; the cutting pains extend into 
the left hypochondrium. Sore pains in the chest, < 
talking, breathing or lifting anything heavy. 
Clinical. Diseases of the lungs, especially chronic, always aggra- 
vated in cold, dry air, with sharp sticking pains in the chest, etc. 
Heart and Pulse: Weak heart, with feeble pulse; pal- 
pitation on the slightest effort. 
Neck and Back: Neck stiff. Glands swollen. Bruised 
and tearing pains in the back, especially in the lumbar 
muscles or region of the kidneys. A feeling of stiff- 
ness between the scapulae. Lumbago, with sharp, lan- 
cinating pains, extending up and down the back as if 
broken. 246 
A PRIMER OF 
[Kali Chlor. 
Extremities: Sharp sticking pains, with uneasiness in 
bed. Heaviness of the limbs; can scarcely raise his 
feet. The arms fall asleep in cold weather and after 
much effort. Arms feel powerless in the morning in 
bed. Drawing pains, extending down the thighs at 
night, when standing and after sitting down. Cramps 
in the calves. Jerking, tearing and drawing pains 
from the hands to the feet. The legs are restless at 
night in bed. Legs feel heavy; walking is difficult; 
they fall asleep. 
Sleep: Sleepiness during the forepart of the day and 
during the day. Sleepless aft'er 1 or 2 A. M. 
Fever: Fever, with surging or blood or throbbing in 
the blood vessels. General tendency to shivering and 
coldness and lack of heat. General inability to sweat, 
though rarely there is partial sweat at night. 
KALI CHLORICUM. 
General Action: The chlorate, most poisonous of all 
the salts of Potash, lowers the temperature, depresses 
and paralyses the heart, irritates the mucous mem- 
branes, producing gangrenous ulcerations from the 
mouth to the anus, violent, acute nephritis, and pro- 
found prostration. 
Face and Mouth: Gangrenous ulceration in the mouth, 
(exactly similar to cancrum oris), with hard swelling, 
profound prostration, albuminuria, haematuria, dysp- 
noea, etc. 
Throat: Swelling of the submaxillary glands. Inter- 
nal throat red and oedematous, swallowing difficult, 
with rawness, dryness and scraping. 
Stool: Blood and mucus, violent cutting pains, great 
prostration. 
Urinary Organs: Acute nephritis. Urine bloody, 
scanty, albuminous. 
Heart and Pulse: Heart's action very feeble, weak, 
soft pulse. Coldness in tlie praecordial region. Kali lodatum.] 
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Skin: General cyanotic hue, especially of the lips and 
extremities. 
Fever: Tendency to coldness, especially with cold 
limbs. 
KALI I0DATUM. 
• Generalities: Emaciation. Weakness. Periosteal 
pains, tearing, pinching; generally >> on motion, < at 
night. 
Mind: Sadness. Anxiety. 
Head: Tearing or jerking pains in the forehead, par- 
ticularly in the frontal sinuses, > pressure. Pains, as 
if the temples would burst, with heat on the vertex. 
Pains in the sides, as if screwed together; better in the 
open air. 
Eyes: Inflammation. Dim vision. 
Clinical. Inflammation of the iris and choroid, especially syphilitic. 
Catarrhal inflammations, associated with similar trouble in the nose 
and frontal sinuses. Bony tumors of the orbit. 
Nose: Tearing pain in the upper part of the nose. 
Stoppage, with running of clear water. Sneezing 
and symptoms of violent coryza, complicated with 
inflammation in the frontal sinuses, with frequent 
inclination to cough, and inflammation of the eyes. 
Discharge of hot, burning water, which is acrid. Loss 
of smell. 
Mouth: Teeth elongated. Jerking toothache, <Z at 
night, >> warmth. Blisters on the tip of the tongue, 
with burning pain. Tongue swollen; shows the im- 
pressions of the teeth. Salivation great, offensive odor 
from the mouth. 
Throat: Swollen and ulcerated. Sticking pain at the 
root of the tongue on swallowing. Dryness and itch- 
ing in the throat, with salivation, running from the 
nose, etc. 
Stomach: Thirst. Nausea and vomiting, with sali- 
vation. 248 
A PRIMER OF 
[Kali lodatum. 
Abdomen: Great distention, with movements of flat- 
ulence. 
Stool: Constipation. 
Clinical. Dysentery; stools of jelly-like mucus, with painful tenes- 
mus. Stools yellow, watery, or greenish. Pain in the small of the 
back and some tenesmus. 
Urinary Organs: Urine profuse, especially at night. 
Clinical. Inflammation of the kidneys, with pains in the back, 
chilliness, etc. 
Sexual Organs: Atrophy of the testicles. 
Clinical. Watery, corrosive leucorrhoea, reddish, offensive. 
Respiratory Organs: Loss of voice, especially at night. 
Hoarseness. Dry cough morning and evening, with 
soreness of the larynx; or with rawness in the throat. 
Difficult respiration on waking at night, with loss of 
voice; dyspnoea on ascending stairs, with pain in the 
region of the heart. 
Clinical, Expectoration like soapsuds. Asthma and asthmatic 
bronchitis. Granular inflammation of the larynx. 
Chest: Sticking pain in various parts of the chest, 
with asthmatic breathing, or with internal inflamma- 
tions. 
Clinical. Various diseases of the lungs and pleura, associated with 
exhausting sweats, salivation, etc., with dyspnoea, constant teasing 
cough. 
Heart: Palpitation. Pulse slow, weak, soft. 
Neck and Back: Enlarged cervical glands. Pain in 
the small of the back, as if screwed in. Pain in the 
coccyx, as from a fall. 
Extremities: Arthritic or drawing pains as if in the 
periosteum; < at night. Gnawing, drawing pains in 
the thighs and legs. Chronic inflamma>tion of the 
knee; pains < at night, could not remain in bed. 
Sciatica; < lying on the affected side; worse at night. 
Tearing pains in the toes (like gout). 
Skin: Roseola. Papular or tubercular eruptions. De- 
velopment of small pustules or acne, especially on the 
face. Vesicular eruptions. Itching, is generally > 
scratching, and worse at night. Kali Mur.] 
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Fever: Chill predominates; worse at night, or from 
4 to 7 P. M., with thirst. 
KALI MURIATICUM. 
Clinical. The general characteristic indications for this drug seem 
to be connective tissue exudations; diphtheritic ulcerations; croup- 
ous exudations. w Lymphatic enlargements. Ulcerations, especially 
at the base of the tongue, with whitish-gray exudations, etc. Epi- 
lepsy, chorioretinitis, with hazy vitreous; parenchymatous keratitis; 
exudative retinitis; scrofulous inflammations of the eye; kerato-iritis, 
with pus in the anterior chamber. Proliferous inflammations of the 
middle ear, with obstruction of the Eustachian tube and naso-phar- 
yngeal catarrh; retraction of drum; exfoliation of the epithelial layer 
of the tympanum; deafness, with earache, swelling of the glands, 
sore throat, etc. Nasal catarrh, sneezing and profuse secretion of 
mucus. Naso-pharyngeal catarrh; the vault of the pharynx covered 
with adherent crusts. Paralysis of the facial nerve of right side, 
beginning with face ache and facial neuralgia, with twitching and 
trembling of the muscles of the face, aggravated by eating, speaking 
or touch. Gums inflamed and bleed easily. Aphthous ulcers in the 
mouths of childrens or mothers; canker; excoriation of the mouth; 
epithelioma of the mouth, excessive ulceration; epithelioma of the 
tongue, hypertrophy and ulceration. Follicular pharyngitis, with 
expectoration of cheesy lumps; tonsillitis. 
KALI NITRICUM. 
General Action: Gastro-intestinal inflammation and 
ulceration, bronchial catarrh and asthma. Nephritis. 
Action on the heart similar to that of other salts of 
potash. Extreme prostration, threatening collapse. 
Dizzy. faintness, with vertigo in the morning when 
standing, better sitting down. General rheumatic 
stiffness, < in cold, in warmth. 
Nose: Sore pain and swollen feeling in the right 
nostril, painful to pressure. Nasal catarrh, sneezing. 
Purulent, offensive discharge; bleeding. 
Clinical. Polypus of the right nostril. 
Stomach: Faint-like weakness in the pit of the 
stomach. Thirst after frequent sips of water, which 
seem to relieve the dyspnoea. 
Stool: Diarrhoea; stools thin, watery. Stools bloody, 
containing membranous shreds mixed with blood, with 
tenesmus. 
K* 250 
A PRIMER OF 
[Kali Nit. 
Clinical. Diarrhoea from eating veal. Dysentery, with cold hands, 
small, rapid pulse; aggravation at night. 
Urinary Organs: Frequent and copious evacuations 
of light colored urine. 
Sexual Organs: Menstruation too early and profuse; 
discharge black. Menses preceded and. accompanied 
by violent pain in the small of the back. Leucorrhoea 
thin, white, with pain in the small of the back, as if 
bruised. 
Respiratory Organs: Hoarseness, with rawness and 
scraping in the larynx. Difficult respiration. Dry 
cough in the morning; wakes about 3 o'clock, with 
stupefying headache, with pains in the chest, >> expec- 
toration. Expectoration of clear blood, with stitches 
in the chest. 
Clinical. Asthma, with excessive dyspnoea, faintness and nausea, 
and dull stitches or burning pain in the chest. 
Chest: Sensation of constriction in the lungs early in 
the morning in bed. Oppresion, < in the morning. 
Tightness at night from coughing, with heaviness. 
Burning in the chest > expectoration. 
Heart and Pulse: Palpitation, < night when lying in 
bed. Sharp sticking pains in the prsecordial region. 
Pulse frequently irregular, or scarcely perceptible; 
generally small and soft. 
Back: Stitches between the shoulder blades, arresting 
breathing. Violent pain in the small of the back in 
the morning and on stooping. 
Extremities: Tearing and sticking in the joints. 
Tearing and sticking in the shoulders at night. Hands 
and fingers seem thickened and swollen. Paralytic 
weakness and weariness of the lower extremities.' 
Fever: Febrile paroxysms consist mostly of chilli- 
ness and coldness. Chill in the evening, with various 
pains. Coldness in the afternoon, with thirst, followed 
by heat at night, without thirst and without sweat. 
Sweat in the morning, mostly on the chest. Kalmia.] 
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KALMIA. 
General Action: Very slow pulse. Tingling and 
numbness in various parts. Pains wander and cause 
restlessness. 
Generalities: Pains over the whole body, changing 
their position, becoming seated in the shoulder, elbow 
and wrist. Bruised feelings over the whole body. 
Restlessness and frequent tossing about. Weakness; 
it is almost impossible to move. 
Clinical. Shifting pains, particularly about the shoulders, involving 
the heart and left arm, with stiffness and numbness. Pains shift 
from joint to joint, with weakness, trembling and paralytic symp- 
toms. 
Head: Tearing pains as if in the bones, extending 
into the neck. Vertigo, with pains in the limbs. Pains 
extend from the nape of the neck over the head to the 
side of the face, < heat. Pain in the forehead, extend- 
ing into the right upper teeth, or shooting to the eye- 
teeth. 
Eyes: Stiffness of the muscles about the eyes. Motion 
of the eyeballs is painful. Paralysis of the ocular mus- 
cles, with double vision. Glimmering before vision, 
with dimness. 
Clinical. Paralysis of the upper lids. Muscular asthenopia. Intra- 
ocular inflammations, with exudation. Retinitis albuminurica, espe- 
cially during pregnancy. 
Face: Tearing in the bones of either side. Facial 
neuralgia, especially in the malar bones, extending 
into the teeth, with numbness and stiffness. 
Stomach: Pressure in the pit of the stomach, < 
bending over. A feeling as if something were pressed 
down beneath the pit of the stomach. Soreness to 
touch. 
Abdomen: Sensation of weakness, extending upward 
to the throat. Paroxysmal pains, < motion. 
Urinary Organs: Frequent micturition of scanty, hot 
urine. Rarely large quantities of urine. 
Clinical. Albuminuria during pregnancy, with pains in the lower 
limbs, distended abdomen, dry skin, etc. 252 
A PRIMER OF 
[Kreosotum. 
Sexual Organs: Menstruation too early, with pain in 
the limbs and back and inside of the thighs. 
Clinical. Suppressed menstruation, with neuralgic pains through- 
out the body. Leucorrhoea follows the menses, with general aggra- 
vation of other symptoms. 
Respiratory Organs: Tickling in the trachea,oppressed 
breathing, with palpitation and anxiety. Cough, caused 
by dryness in the throat (associated with heart symp- 
toms). 
Heart and Pulse: Palpitation, with fluttering of the 
heart; irregular pulse. Pulse very slow and feeble; 
slow and weak. 
Clinical. Neuralgic pains about the heart, involving shoulder and 
arm, with dyspnoea, paroxysms of anguish, slow pulse. Valvular 
disease. Hypertrophy of the heart, with pains involving the left 
side, etc. 
Neck and Back: Muscles sore to touch and motion. 
Pains extend from the neck down to fingers, with stiff- 
ness. Pains in the spine, drawing or sharp, < in the 
evening and on motion. Lameness of the small of the 
back in the evening in bed. 
Extremities: Sticking, shooting, darting pains, worse 
on the left side, generally < motion and in the 
evening. Pains involve the whole left arm. Pains 
from the hip down the leg to feet. 
Fever: Rapid alternations of chill and heat. Shiver- 
ing and coldness. Shivering without coldness. 
KREOSOTUM. 
Generalities: Weakness; prostration and faintness 
from the least effort. General tendency to haemor- 
rhages, and to rapid decomposition of fluids and secre- 
tions. Discharges fetid. Pains burning like red-hot 
coals. General aggravation from motion, from cold, 
general amelioration in the open air. 
Head: Vertigo, especially on turning around quickly, 
with staggering, in the morning in the open air. Dull 
pain as from a board pressing against the forehead. Kreosotum.] 
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Eyes: Acrid lachrymation, like salt. Margins of the 
lids red and swollen. 
Ears: Clinical. Small pimples or pustules within the ear, with burn- 
ing, swelling, and redness of the outer ear. Moist eruption on or 
about the ears, with swelling of the glands in the neck. Difficult 
hearing, with buzzing and roaring, especially before and during men- 
struation. 
Nose: Nasal catarrh, fluent, with acrid rawness in 
the air passages. Offensive smell and offensive dis- 
charges. 
Clinical. Lupus on the nose and face, with burning. 
Face: Complexion pale, puffy. Upper lip sore and 
cracked. 
Mouth: Toothache from decayed teeth; jerking or 
throbbing pain, extending to side of face and temple. 
Tongue coated white, sometimes dry. Putrid odor from 
the mouth and bitter taste. 
Clinical. Rapid decay of the teeth, with spongy, bleeding gums: 
teeth become dark and crumbly. 
Throat: Burning, with inflammation. A painful, 
choking sensation and soreness, especially in the left 
tonsil, on swallowing. 
Clinical. Has been indicated in diphtheritic ulceration, with great 
fetor, vomiting and burning, dryness in the throat. 
Stomach: Nausea, with efforts to vomit; nothing but 
saliva ejected. Vomiting of food several hours after 
eating; of sweetish water in the morning before eat- 
ing. Soreness or burning in the epigastric region, 
temporarily eating. A feeling of coldness as from 
ice water in the stomach. 
Abdomen: Distention. Sticking pain in the region 
of the liver; cannot tolerate tight clothing. 
Rectum and Stool: Frequent urging. Painful burn- 
ing of haemorrhoids. Constipation; evacuation very 
difficult, with burning. 
Clinical. Diarrhoea, very offensive, dark brown, undigested; gener- 
ally associated with more or less nausea, sometimes with vomiting. 
Dysentery, with nausea and vomiting. Bloody, fetid stools during 
typhoid fever, with great prostration. Cholera infantum, offensive 
brown stools, great restlessness, with painful dentition and complaint 
of pain in the gums. 254 
A PRIMER OF 
[Kreosotum. 
Urinary Organs: Frequent urgency to urinate, with 
great haste. Urine sometimes increased and clear, 
passed very frequently; at other times, scanty offen- 
sive, burning. 
Sexual Organs, Female: Burning in the pudenda on 
urinating. Soreness between labite, with biting pain, 
also between the thighs. Itching, biting, burning in 
labiae between vagina, with swelling. Internal geni- 
tals swollen, hot and hard, with internal burning and 
soreness. Leucorrhoea of peculiar odor, like green corn, 
yellow, acrid, with biting and burning externally. 
Menstruation early, profuse, prolonged, followed by 
leucorrhoea. 
Clinical. Ulcerations; offensive, excoriating discharges, with burn- 
ing pain, heat and soreness. Pruritis of the vulva, with heat and 
burning. 
Respiratory Organs: Hoarseness and scraping in the 
larynx. Inflammation of the larynx. Cough from the 
larynx, with hoarseness and soreness; bloody, with 
greenish expectoration; cough worse in the evening in 
bed, convulsive, with efforts to vomit; in the morning 
spasmodic, with retching, incontinence of urine; with 
pain in the chest; must hold it with the hands. Raw 
scraping and burning in the chest like red-hot coals. 
Back: Pain as if the small of the back would break, 
> motion, extending up the back so that she could not 
move the arms, < stooping. Dragging backache as be- 
fore menstruation, extending into the genitals, or down 
thighs. 
Extremities: Pains in the joints like rheumatism. 
Pain in the left thumb, which seems sprained and is 
stiff Boring pain in the hip, alternating with numb- 
ness. 
Skin: Itching, < towards evening, almost intolera- 
ble ; burning on the soles, especially at night in bed. 
Eruptions dry, or moist, with much itching. Herpetic 
eruptions, > warmth. Dry, scaly eruptions, like psor- 
iasis. Lachesis.] 
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Clinical. Senile gangrene, with burning; foul odor. Gangrenous 
degeneration of ulcers. Eruption after menstruation. 
Fever : Coldness of isolated parts, particularly inter- 
nal coldness, with alternations of chill and heat. Heat 
localized in flushes, mostly in face. 
LACHESIS. 
Generalities: Emaciation, with weakness, trembling. 
Tremblings or jerkings, with faintness, sudden. Con- 
vulsive attacks, seeming to begin in the lower extrem- 
ities. Swelling, especially of the upper part of the 
body, head and throat. Pains extend from left to 
right. General intolerance of the slightest touch. 
General aggravation from sleeping. General tendency 
to suppurations, gangrenous degeneration, abscesses, 
offensive discharges or exhalations. 
Mind: Loquacity. Mental confusion or alienation; 
tries to escape, with loquacity. Suffocative feeling 
about the throat, etc. Muttering delirium. Insane 
jealousy. 
Clinical. Dementia, with loquacity. Religious melancholia. Ef- 
fects of lasting sorrow. 
Head: Pain, extending into the nose, with vertigo; 
flickering before the eyes. Bursting or throbbing pain 
in the temples, w ith heat, < motion. Pain like a rush 
of blood to the head, with heat. Vertigo in the morn- 
ing on waking, < closing the eyes. Biting pain on the 
vertex, with w'eight and pressure, < the sun. Pain, 
extending from the right side of the head into the neck 
and shoulders, with tension of muscles. A leaden 
heaviness in the occiput in the morning on waking; 
can hardly raise the head, with vertigo. General 
amelioration from warm applications, aggravation on 
rising in the morning. Headache worse on the right 
side. 
Eyes: Sticking, drawing pain, extending to the ver- 
tex. Lachrymation. Eyes feel pressed out. Vision 
dim, with black flickering. Flickering, with apparent 256 
A PRIMER OF 
[Lachesis. 
congestion of the head. Bine ring around the light, 
with fiery rays. 
Clinical. Neuralgia of the orbit. Cellulitis of orbit. Haemorrhage 
of the retina and optic nerve. Asthenopia from paralysis of accom- 
modation. 
Ears: Pain in the ear (particularly left), with sore 
throat. Difficult hearing, with dryness in the ears as 
from lack of wax. 
Nose: Catarrh, with soreness, obstruction, headache, 
fluent coryza, preceded by headache, with sore throat. 
Nose-bleed thick, dark. 
Face: Swelling (erysipelatous). Tearing pains in 
zygoma, extending to ear. 
Mouth: Periodic toothache, always after waking, after 
eating, from warm and cold drinks, extending through 
jaw to ear. Teeth feel too long when biting. Gums 
swollen, spongy, bleeding. Tongue dry, red, tremu- 
lous ; blisters on the tip; aphthae. Aphthae of the 
mouth, with burning pain, soreness and dryness. 
Speech stammering. Saliva abundant, tenacious. 
Throat: Throat and neck swollen, extremely sensi- 
tive to the slightest touch, cannot bear any tight band 
around it. Fauces purplish, swollen, ulcerated, uvula 
elongated, a feeling of a lump in the throat, especially 
of pain on the left side, extending to ear. Most severe 
and malignant inflammation of the throat (diphther- 
itic), with internal swelling and sensitiveness. Sensa- 
tion of a crumb sticking in the throat. Swallowing 
difficult, especially of liquids; they regurgitate through 
the nose. Throat externally swollen and very sensi- 
tive, not only the sides, but in front as far down as the 
pit of the throat. 
Stomach: vYppetite increased; longing for oysters. 
Insatiable thirst; aggravation from alcohol and from 
acids. Can bear nothing tight over the stomach; must 
loosen clothes. Sticking pains, extending to the chest. 
Pressure after eating and general weakness. Lachesis.] 
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257 
Abdomen: Distention and soreness; cannot bear the 
weight of the clothes, or of the hand. Violent pain 
under the right hypochondrium (with inflammation 
and frequent abscess in liver). Tearing pains in the 
right side. 
Rectum and Stool: Throbbing or beating as with ham- 
mers in the anus. Protrusion after stool, followed by 
painful constriction. Stool lies close to anus, but does 
not pass without urging. Diarrhoea watery, with burn- 
ing; soft, bright yellow, very offensive; pasty; bright 
yellow. 
Clinical. Haemorrhage from the bowels of putrid, decomposed 
blood. Diarrhoea in hot weather or in low types of disease. 
Urinary Organs: Frequent micturition. Urine, strong- 
odor, dark, blackish. 
Sexual Organs: Clinical. Gangrenous ulcers on genitals. Dysmen- 
orrhcea, with pain shooting upward in left ovary; great sensitiveness. 
Suppressed menstruation, metritis, fetid lochia. Climacteric troubles. 
Respiratory Organs: Larynx painful to touch or on 
bending head backward. Hoarseness, constant hawk- 
ing; cough, with efforts to expectorate. Cough from 
pressure on the larynx in evening; during sleep; from 
smoking. Cough dry, hacking. Constantly obliged to 
take a deep breath. Sense of suffocation in the larynx, 
with suffocative fulness in chest; can bear nothing 
tight; must sit up. Pain on coughing, from larynx to 
left ear. Pain in the left side of chest, extending up- 
ward. 
Heart and Pulse : Cramp-like pain in the region of the 
heart, palpitation and anxiety. Constriction of heart. 
Intolerance of pressure over heart (with pain and 
numbness of left arm). 
Neck and Back: Nape sensitive to pressure; stiff. 
Swelling of glands. Drawing in the back, extend to 
hips or up back. Pains in the coccyx, extending into 
legs, < rising up. 
Extremities: Weakness of the arms so that they can 
scarcely be raised. Pains in left arm particularly, 258 
A PRIMER OF 
[Laurocerasus. 
seeming to come from left side of chest. Weakness of 
lower extremities. Sciatica. 
Skin: Erysipelatous eruptions. Sore places become 
gangrenous. Ecchymoses. Indolent ulcers, carbun- 
cles. Pustular eruptions become black. General 
tendency to sub-cutaneous decomposition. 
Sleep: Troubles become worse during sleep, until the 
patient wakes in fright or in distress. 
Fever: Coldness. Chill begins in the back. Heat 
as from surging of blood; must loosen the clothes, with 
suffocation. 
Respiratory Organs: Spasmodic cough from tickling 
or dryness in the throat, with whistling sound. Cough 
sometimes dry, as if mucus hung in the throat, and 
could not be loosened, afterwards loosened easily. 
Cough with dry gelatinous or bloody expectoration. 
Cough, with feeling of suffocation about the heart, 
with valvular disease. A feeling of fluttering about 
the heart, gasping for breath, etc. 
LAUROCERASUS. 
LEDUM. 
Generalities: Pains, changing location; affecting par- 
ticularly the small joints, fingers, toes, wrists and 
ankles, < evening when sitting. Bruised pain over 
the whole body. Emaciation of the limbs. Pains in 
the joins, <C motion. Intolerance of the warmth of 
the bed on account of heat of the limbs, hands and feet, 
<Z evening. 
Mind: Discontentment, misanthropic, morose. 
Head: Headache, with intolerance of covering the 
head. Brain feels shattered on making a false step. 
Eyes: Clinical. External ecchymoses, intra-ocular haemorrhages. 
Face: Alternate redness and paleness. Eruption of 
dry pimples, with stinging pain as from brandy drink- 
ing. Leptandra.] 
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259 
Sexual Organs: Menstruation early, profuse, bright 
red. 
Respiratory Organs: Dyspnoea, with spasmodic double 
efforts to breathe, a kind of sobbing. Cough, which 
threatens to suffocate. Tightness of the chest from 
constriction when walking; cannot go up steps. Cough 
violent, with expectoration of bright red blood. Spas- 
modic cough, shaking the head and chest. Asthmatic 
constriction of the chest. Sore burning pains in the 
chest. 
Back: Painful stiffness in the shoulders, < motion. 
Painful stiffness of the small of the back and loins 
when rising from seat. 
Extremities: Pains in the small joints, even knees 
and wrists. < motion. Paralytic pain in joints on 
moving at night in bed. Sticking in the shoulders 
on raising the arm. Pain in the elbows, < motion. 
Gouty nodes on the finger joints. Tearing pains in 
the hip, knee and ankles. Gouty inflammation of the 
toes. General aggravation from warmth of bed. Pain 
in the ankles, as if sprained. Ball of the great toe 
swollen and painful. 
Skin: Itching tetter, dry, burning in the open air. 
Papular eruption on the face, especially forehead. 
Violent itching, < warmth of the bed. Petechial 
spots. 
Sleep: Sleep restless, with uneasy dreams. 
Fever: Predominating coldness of the limbs, even 
with heat of the face. Heat in the hands and feet in 
the evening and at night. Sweat on the hands and 
feet. 
LEPTANDRA. 
Abdomen: Pain in the region of the liver, extending 
to the spine, and in the gall bladder, extending to 
umbilical region, with rumbling in the abdomen. 
Burning and aching in the region of the gall bladder, 260 
A PRIMER OF 
[Lilium Tig. 
chilliness along the spine, urging to stool, followed by 
profuse black stool. Hot pains in the liver, extending 
to spine, with chilliness in spine. 
Stool: Profuse, black, fetid, soft or watery, with pain 
as above. 
LILIUM TIGRINUM. 
General Action: The chief interest in this drug centres 
in the uterine symptoms, associated with numerous re- 
flex troubles, mental and physical. 
Generalities: Flesh feels sore and bruised, and intol- 
erant of pressure. Tremulousness, with weakness. 
Startings. Contractions of muscles. Debility. Rest- 
lessness. Faintness, < in a warm room. Pulsations 
throughout the body. Aggravation at night after 5 
P. M. 
Mind: Feels hurried as if duties were crowding upon 
her, with inability to perform them, with sexual ex- 
citement. Depression of spirits; inclination to weep 
as though suffering from some internal disorder. 
Aversion to being alone. 
Head: Dull pain, > fresh open air. Sharp neuralgic' 
pains over the eyes, < motion and in the evening. 
Eyes: Pain, with lachrymation, with dim, confused 
vision, with inclination to press upon the eyes, with 
heat. It is valuable for asthenopia. 
Abdomen: Dragging sensation, involving even the 
chest. Bearing-down in the lower abdomen, < wak- 
ing, with weight low down. Pressure downward, with 
constant desire for stool, with a feeling as if a hard 
weight pressed against the rectum and evacuation was 
difficult. Pulling downward and backward from an- 
terior spines of ilia. A feeling as if anything were 
pushing out through the vagina. 
Rectum and Anus: Pressure on the rectum and blad- 
der as from a hard substance, with difficulty in evacu- Lithium.] 
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261 
ating the bowels. Burning in rectum and anus. Con- 
stipation. 
Urinary Organs: Constant efforts to evacuate bladder, 
with scanty discharges, always followed by irritation 
and smarting in urethra. Frequent micturition (almost 
every fifteen minutes). 
Sexual Organs: A feeling of weight in the uterus as 
if it would be pressed out through vagina, > sitting 
down or pressing with the hand. Uterus anteverted, 
pressing against bladder. Sharp pain in the region of 
the ovaries and in back. Aching and burning, or gnaw- 
ing and dragging pains, wor§e in region of the right 
ovary. Sexual desire increased in women. 
Clinical Uterine displacements, with distress in rectum, etc. Ovar- 
ian pains (right ovary), with palpitation, mental symptoms, etc. 
Leucorrhoea thin and acrid, burning. 
Respiratory Organs: Sharp, quick pains in left side of 
chest, with fluttering of the heart. Dragging, as if the 
lung were involved with the pelvic viscera. 
Heart and Pulse: Pain, as if the heart were grasped 
in a vice; wakes suddenly. Fluttering in the region 
of the heart; faintness. 
Back: Pain in the sacrum, with a pressing downward 
in pelvis, < morning on rising, not lying. 
Fever: Chilly feelings running down the face, head 
and back, with violent beating of the heart and con- 
striction. 
LITHIUM. 
General Action: Similar to other alkalies, but a more 
decided diuretic than even Potassium. 
Generalities: Feels sore and beaten, and stiff in the 
muscles, bones and joints. Paralytic stiffness of the 
whole body. Pains mostly sharp, from within out- 
ward, usually in small spots, worse on the left side. 
Eyes: Vanishing of the right half of objects. Photo- 
phobia, blinded by sunlight. 
Clinical. Asthenopia. Retinal aneemia. Vanishing of the right 
half of objects, with pain over eyes. 262 
A PRIMER OF 
[Lobelia Inflata. 
Stomach: Appetite diminished; distress on beginning 
to eat. Acidity. Gnawing in the stomach, > while 
eating. 
Urinary Organs : Soreness in the region of the bladder, 
with frequent micturition. Pain in the region of the 
right kidney. Urine scanty, dark red, acid. 
Heart and Pulse: Pain and soreness in the region of 
the heart; < in the morning on stooping. 
Clinical. Trembling and fluttering in the region of the heart ; 
sometimes painful, extending to between the shoulders; has been 
found valuable in organic diseases of the heart; valvular; especially 
when associated with chronic rheumatism of the joints. 
Back: Sticking pain *in the region of the sacrum, 
seeming to be in the bone. Soreness in the right side, 
in the region of the kidney, extending to sacrum; < 
pressure; > rising and moving about. 
Extremities: Pain in the right shoulder joint and arm 
near the shoulder. Burning, stinging pains in the 
finger joints and balls of fingers and thumbs. Pain in 
the hollow of the foot, extending up to the knee.' Pains 
like rheumatism in the foot at night; A rising. Swell- 
ing and tenderness of the joints of the fingers and 
toes; > hot water. 
LOBELIA INFLATA. 
General Action: Violent vomiting, with profound 
prostration, failure of the heart and respiration, end- 
ing in fatal stupor. Laryngeal and bronchial spasms, 
associated with deathly nausea. 
Generalities: Extreme weakness. General ameliora- 
tion towards evening. 
Head: Vertigo, with nausea. Pain from one temple 
to the other across the forehead. 
Mouth: Salivation. Disagreeable taste. 
Throat: Constant need to clear the throat of mucus. 
Contraction of the oesophagus like a lump in the pit 
of the throat, with difficult swallowing. 
Stomach: Nausea; worse in the morning; > a little Lycopodium.] 
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263 
water, with vertigo, cold sweat on the head and face, 
ineffectual retching, with oppression of the stomach, 
heat, pain. Burning and weak feeling. Faintness and 
sinking of the pit of the stomach. 
Urinary Organs: Urine deposits a rosy red sediment. 
Respiratory Organs: Difficult breathing, caused by 
constriction in the middle of the chest. Asthmatic 
breathing, with great oppression, > moving about. 
Spasmodic croup, with nausea, vomiting and threaten- 
ing suffocation. 
Fever: Chilliness, coldness. Sweat towards evening 
or at night. 
LYCOPODIUM. 
Generalities: Emaciation. Weakness, particularly a 
feeling of loss of internal strength, especially after 
every effort. Weakness is felt even during rest, yet 
every movement is dreaded. Takes cold easily. Symp- 
toms aggravated at 4 P. M., but again better at 8 P. M. 
Drawing and tearing pains in the limbs during rest 
and at night, or every other afternoon. General desire 
for open air. 
Mind: Melancholia, with despair. Anxiety, with 
depressed and lachrymose mood. Easily made to weep. 
Dread of people and anxiety when in their company. 
Indecision, lack of self-confidence. Easily frightened 
and startled. Mental powers very sluggish. Hears 
wrong words and syllables. Confused about common 
words. Loss of comprehension and memory. 
Head: A feeling of rush of blood; throbbing, especially 
after paroxysm of coughing. Throbbing in the brain 
on leaning the head backward. Shattering pains in 
the temples, as well as chest, during cough. Tearing 
pains back and forth in the forehead. One-sided head- 
ache in the evening, < mental effort. Vertigo in the 
morning on rising and afterward. Hair becomes gray 
and falls out. Eruptions on the scalp, with scratching 
and bleeding. 264 
A PRIMER OF 
[Lycopodium. 
Eyes: Dryness, with distressing pain, worse at night. 
Stinging and smarting, worse in the evening by the 
light. Dryness of the eyes in the morning, which are 
difficult to open, with smarting between the lids, as 
from dust. Ulceration and redness of the lids. Recur- 
ring styes. Lids agglutinated at night. Burning 
dryness in the lids and eyes, so that they cannot be 
opened in the morning. Towards evening he becomes 
blinded, can see nothing. Flickering and dim vision 
after a nap in the afternoon. Black floating spots. 
Can see only the left half of objects. 
Ears: Roaring, humming and whizzing in the ears. 
Loss of hearing. Over-sensitiveness of hearing. 
Clinical. Eczema of external ear, with crusts and fissures in the 
skin. Discharges from the ear. 
Nose: Nostrils ulcerated. Dry stoppage of the nose, 
especially in children; must breathe through the 
mouth. Swelling of the nose. Stoppage at night; 
cannot breathe. Acrid discharges from the nose, but 
with internal dryness. 
Clinical. Acute chronic catarrh, with dry stoppage. Fan-like mo- 
tion of the wings of the nose, with dyspnoea. 
Face: General paleness and yellowishness, with 
sickly color, worse towards evening. The lines of the 
face become very deep, with blue rings about the eyes 
and mouth. Humid eruptions on the face. Freckles. 
Mouth: Teeth become yellow. Toothache at night 
or when eating, > warmth and the warmth of the 
bed. Bleeding of the gums easily. Tongue coated. 
Vesicles on the tip of the tongue. Mouth generally 
dry, without thirst, with stiffness of tongue, and indis- 
tinct speech. Bitter taste in the morning, or sour 
taste after eating. 
Throat: Inflammation, with internal swelling, or even 
ulceration; frequent inclination to swallow. Contracted 
feeling as if a ball rose into the throat; on swallowing, 
food and drink regurgitate through nose. Dryness in 
the throat, with soreness and pain on swallowing. Lycopodium.] 
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265 
Clinical. Inflammations beginning on the right side, with stoppage 
of nose; symptoms worse at 4 P. M., etc. 
Stomach: Great appetite, but after beginning to eat 
satiety, and stomach and abdomen feel full and tense. 
Sudden satiety, with thirst, heaviness and distention 
in the abdomen. Appetite lost; difficult to eat any- 
thing. Aversion to customary coffee and tobacco. 
Eructations incomplete, rising part way, where they 
cause burning. Sour eructations, with gnawing in the 
stomach. Rising of water. Hiccough. Nausea in the 
morning before eating, with salivation; afterwards 
vomiting of food and bile. General relief in the open 
air and from coffee. Distention and pain or cramps 
in the stomach in the afternoon after eating a little, 
with heaviness; caused by cough, with eructations as 
if over-distended, even after eating a little; < sitting 
bent over, with dyspnoea, etc. Digestion slow; dis- 
comfort, sensitiveness to pressure. Constriction, ex- 
tending into chest. Anxiety in the pit of the stomach. 
Heartburn. 
Abdomen: Distention, especially about the hypo- 
chondria. Tightness as from a cord. Distention over 
the region of the liver, worse after eating. General 
flatulent distention. Cutting pains. Distention most 
in the upper part of the abdomen and in hypochondria, 
extending to back, ribs and chest; > eructations. 
Numerous rumblings and gurglings in the abdomen, 
griping, especially in the region of transverse colon. 
Incarcerated flatulence. Heat rises from abdomen to 
head, with burning cheeks. Weight in the left side of 
abdomen when walking, sitting or lying. 
Rectum and Stool: Contraction and protrusion during 
hard stool. Protruding haemorrhoids, with burning 
and sticking; painful. Anus painfully closed. Stool 
constipated, with ineffectual straining. Diarrhoea from 
eating milk. First part of stool hard ; last part soft 
like diarrhoea. 
L 266 
A PRIMER OF 
[Lycopodium. 
Urinary Organs: Frequent desire to urine; burning 
during micturition. Urine usually copious, often dark 
colored, even bloody, with red sandy sediment. 
Sexual Organs: Loss of sexual power. Male organs 
become small and cold. Dryness of the vagina, burn- 
ing of the vagina during coition. Varicose veins of 
the pudenda. Menses usually too long continued and 
too profuse; sometimes too scanty. Depressed mood 
before the menses, with indigestion, as above. Corro- 
sive leucorrhoea. 
Respiratory Organs: Tickling in the larynx, causing 
forcible cough. Cough dry at night; expectoration in 
the day time. Cough caused by tickling on deep inspi- 
ration. Cough, with yellowish, purulent expectoration, 
with rawness and sore pain in the chest. Cough, with 
gray, salty expectoration. Dyspnoea, as if chest were 
constricted. Heavy pressure on the chest. Stitches 
in the left side, with inflammation of the lungs ; when 
breathing. 
Heart and Pulse: Palpitation, in the evening in bed, 
during digestion. 
Neck and Back: Tensive pain in the nape of the neck, 
with stiffness ; muscles seem too short. Drawing and 
sticking pains in the back, especially in the region of 
the kidneys, extending into rectum, < pressure. 
Pains in the region of the kidneys, < morning on 
rising or during menses. 
Extremities: Stiffness of all the joints. Pain worse in 
the right side, in the evening and by warmth. Bone 
pains in the arms at night. Jerking pains in the arms 
and shoulders. Arms and fingers fall asleep easily. Skin 
of the hands dry. Finger-joints red and swollen, with 
tearing pains. Tearing pains in the legs at night. 
Swelling and stiffness of the knees, especially in the 
hollows of the knees, in the morning on rising. Con- 
tractive pain in the calves when walking. Swelling 
of the feet, which are habitually cold. Lycopus.] 
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267 
Skin: Brown spots appear here and there ; sometimes 
itching or inflamed, with burning pain. Itching pim- 
ples in various places. Boils. Skin becomes unhealthy, 
raw, smarting on walking; he feels rubbed sore. 
Veins varicose. Gouty nodes. 
Sleep: Yawns all day, and is very sleepy, but falls 
asleep late at night. Night sleep restless, with anxious 
dreams and frequent waking. 
Fever: Periodic recurrence of chill; fever and sweat 
every afternoon from 4 to 8, with thirst; nervous irri- 
tability ; sour vomiting, cough. Chill begins in the 
back, as from cold water, with sleepiness, cold hands 
and feet. Heat of the face or between the scapulae. 
Sweat at night on the feet, or during the day on the 
slightest effort. 
LYCOPUS. 
Clinical. It has been used in morbus Basedowii, with tremulous 
action of the heart and protruding eyes. It may relieve the protru- 
sion of the eye and the cyanosis from the general relaxation. It is 
indicated in diseases associated with tumultous action of the heart, 
with more or less pain and tenderness; often in symptoms associated 
with hypertrophy of the heart. Palpitation from nervous irritation, 
with oppression about the heart. Rheumatoid pains in various parts 
of the body, associated with valvular disease of the heart, cough 
and hypertrophy, or with simple palpitation and various nervous 
symptoms. Cardiac disease following rheumatic fever, with hack- 
ing cough, palpitation, dyspnoea, small, weak, irritable pulse, which 
intermits now and then. Haemoptysis, with palpitation and pain in 
left side of chest. Feeble, irritable heart, with cold extremities and 
general nervousness. 
MAGNESIA CARBONICA. 
General Action: Gastro-intestinal catarrh, flatulence, 
sour eructations, sour-smelling stools and sour perspir- 
ation. Marked tendency to neuralgia, especially about 
the face, similar to other salts of Magnesia. 
Generalities: Emaciation; relaxation of the whole 
body. General painfulness of the whole body. Sensi- 
tiveness, particularly to cold, or soreness of the skin. 268 
A PRIMER OR 
[Mag. Car. 
Weakness, worse in the morning after a good sleep 
than in the evening, noticed even while sitting. Un- 
easiness in all the limbs in the evening after sitting a 
long time; must get up and walk about. Some of the 
symptoms are worse in the evening and at night, as 
well as during rest. Amelioration during walking in 
the open air. 
Head: Dull aching, < mental work. Sticking pains 
in the side of the head on which he is lying. Hair 
falls out freely; scalp is scaly, with an itching in wet 
weather. 
Eyes: Lids agglutinated in the morning. Inflamma- 
tion and dimness of the cornea. Black spots before 
the eyes. Tearing pains above the margin of the right 
orbit. 
Ears: Deafness; sensitiveness to noise. Diminished 
hearing, especially in the house, with roaring and 
whizzing in the ears. 
Face: Tearing pains, worse at night, in one side of 
the face, > when sitting up in bed, or on getting out 
of bed; a boring as with a hot iron, with anxiety. 
Face ache; must constantly run about all night, holding 
the side of the face or moving the head; intolerable 
when quiet. 
Mouth: Toothache from driving in a carriage. Burn-, 
ing pain in the teeth in the evening, and at night in 
bed, driving him out of bed; intolerable when quiet. 
Shooting pains in the teeth after eating. Toothache, 
with great restlessness. Toothache during pregnancy. 
Toothache, < cold. Dryness in the mouth at night. 
Vesicular eruption in the mouth and on the tongue. 
Sour or bitter taste. Bloody saliva. 
Throat: Sticking pains in the throat when talking 
and swallowing. 
Stomach: Great desire for vegetables. Desire for 
fruit and acids generally. Thirst for water at night. Mag. Car.] 
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269 
Food tastes like straw. Constrictive pain in the stom- 
ach, with sour eructations. Heartburn, with belching, 
sour taste, etc. Nausea, even while eating, followed 
by retching and vomiting of bitter, sour water. 
Abdomen: Numerous flatulent symptoms; rumbling, 
gurgling, griping, followed by a thin, green diarrhoea. 
Dragging towards the pelvis as before menstruation. 
Stool: Diarrhoea greenish, or frothy, or of green 
mucus, with distended abdomen, cutting and pressure. 
Stools -often have a sour odor; sometimes contain 
bloody mucus, associated with acid dyspepsia. 
Urinary Organs: Urine increased, pale or greenish. 
Sexual Organs: Menstruation delayed; at times scanty 
and brief, at others more profuse, at night than by 
day; with dragging pains, > pressure on abdomen, or 
stooping. Menstruation, preceded by abdominal pains, 
associated with pale face, followed by acrid leucorrhoea, 
Menses flow after the pains, and during sleep at night; 
discharge often dark, glutinous, adhesive. 
Respiratory Organs: Spasmodic cough at night from 
tickling in the larynx or trachea. Expectoration salty; 
sometimes bloody; at times of clots of blood or mucus 
having a sweet taste. Constrictive or cutting pains in 
the chest, with dyspnoea. 
Back: Stiffness in the neck. Violent bruised pain in 
the back at night. 
Extremities: Tearing pains in the shoulders, and 
crawling extending to fingers. 
Skin: Itching over the whole body. Eruptions, ves- 
icular, on hands and fingers; small red, desquamating 
tetter. Itching generally > scratching (not always). 
Skin dry. 
Sleep: Nights usually sleepless; more tired in the 
morning than at night. Anxious, vivid dreams. 
Fever: Chilliness in the evening. Fever at night, 
internal, anxious, with restlessness and dread of un- 
covering. Perspiration sour or greasy, offensive, 270 
A PRIMER OF 
[Mag. Mur. 
MAGNESIA MURIATICA. 
Generalities: Restlessness, particularly in bed as soon 
as she closes her eyes. Weakness very pronounced, 
with faintness, nausea and trembling. Symptoms arise 
when sitting. > motion and in open air. 
Head: Pain in the head, > wrapping it up. Grip- 
ing in the temples in the evening after lying down, >> 
pressing with both hands. Shooting pain in the right 
side of the head, extending to the eye, with tearing; 
must press the eyes together. Headache, <C -motion, 
> pressure. 
Nose: Right wing of the nose red, swollen and pain- 
ful. Nostrils ulcerated. Increased secretion of mucus, 
with sneezing. Burning as if sore. Sneezing, with 
watery discharge. Coryza, with stoppage of the nose; 
with hoarseness; alternatively stopped and fluent 
coryza; loss of smell and taste. Coryza, with inability 
to lie down or sleep; must breathe through mouth. 
Face: Blisters on the margin of the lips; itching and 
burning. 
Mouth: Incisors seem too long and are sensitive. 
Toothache, < eating. Gums swollen and bleed easily. 
Tongue feels burnt and scalded; coated white in the 
morning. Whole mouth feels scalded. Mouth dry, 
without thirst. 
Throat: Dry, with hoarseness and rawness. 
Stomach: Eructations watery, with nausea. Nausea 
in the morning after rising, with salivation, faintness, 
weakness in the stomach. Region of stomach sensi- 
tive. Stomach sour after dinner. 
Clinical. Gastralgia, especially from milk, which cannot be di- 
gested. 
Abdomen: Great flatulence, often incarcerated, caus- 
ing numerous pains. Burning, tensive stickings in the 
region of the liver; > pressure. Cutting pains in the 
left hypochondrium in the morning. Sharp drawing 
pain in the region of the liver, Manganum.] 
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271 
Clinical. Chronic diseases of the liver, with jaundice, whitish 
stools, albuminous urine, constipation, aggravation from lying on 
right side. Liver disease, with sour vomiting, offensive breath, con- 
stipation, etc. Enlarged liver, with bloating of abdomen, yellow 
tongue, dry, hard stools, palpitation, small, weak pulse, swelling of 
feet, tenderness over the liver. General aggravation immediately 
after eating, with flatulence, dyspnoea, small, weak pulse, constipa- 
tion. 
Rectum and Stool: Haemorrhoids painful, smarting or 
burning after a stool. Stool generally hard, consisting 
of small, hard nodules; sometimes covered with blood 
and mucus; evacuation, with pain and smarting in the 
anus. Stools crumbly as if burnt. 
Urinary Organs: Micturition feeble, only effected by 
pressure of the abdominal muscles; urine always 
seemed to remain in the bladder. 
Sexual Organs: Leucorrhoea, with cramps in abdomen. 
Menstruation black, clotted; greater when sitting, 
even when walking; usually too profuse, too early 
and too prolonged; associated with pain in the small 
of the back. 
Clinical. Uterine pains, witli abdominal symptoms, particularly 
with soreness in liver, aggravated by lying on the right side; consti- 
pation, palpitation, etc. 
Respiratory Organs: Cough, spasmodic, from tickling- 
in the throat, dry; < fore part of the night, associated 
with burning and soreness in the chest. 
Back: Bruised pain in the small of the back and 
hips, especially during menstruation, > pressure. 
Extremities: Rheumatic or tearing pains in arms and 
legs, > motion and pressure. 
Generalities: Weakness. Paralysis, especially of the 
lower limbs so that he staggers or leans forward when 
walking. Paralytic symptoms of the muscles of the 
face and of the larynx. General anaemia. Tearing 
and drawing pains in the extremities, or burrowing 
pains at night in the joints. Symptoms usually vary 
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[Manganum. 
with the weather, always at night. 
Mind: Ill humor, with weeping mood; prefers to sit 
by herself. 
Head: Rush of blood to the head, which feels larger 
than usual and heavy, so that he can scarcely hold it 
up. Painful shattering of the brain on motion. The 
headache which comes on in the house is better out of 
doors and vice versa. 
Eyes: Burning heat and dryness of the eyes. Lids 
painful on the slightest motion, with a feeling of dry- 
ness, especially on looking at a bright light. 
Ears: Earache, with deafness as if the ears were 
stopped; cracking on blowing the nose, or shooting 
pain when talking, laughing, swallowing, or walking 
rapidly. Pains from various parts of the body seem to 
extend into the ears. Cracking in the ears on blowing 
the nose and on swallowing. The ear symptoms vary 
with the weather. 
Nose: Dry coryza; nostrils obstructed, alternatively 
with fluent coryza. Nose obstructed in the evening. 
Nose and upper lip are sore, red and painful, general 
aggravation in cold, wet weather. 
Face: Pale, sunken, with a suffering expression. 
Dry lips, ulcerated at the corners of the mouth. 
Mouth: Painful sensitiveness of the teeth. A smart- 
ing toothache; insupportable when anything cold 
touches teeth. Violent drawing toothache, which sud- 
denly jumps to another part, especially to the ears. 
Throat: Rawness on hawking. 
Stomach: Burning, rising up to the mouth, with great 
restlessness. 
Rectum and Stool: Constriction in the anus while sit- 
ting. Stool dry, difficult. 
Sexual Organs: Menstruation early, scanty, brief. 
Respiratory Organs: Rough voice in the morning. 
Deep cough, dry, from larynx; tries to loosen mucus. Marum Verum.] 
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but cannot except by forcible expiration; cough < 
talking. Larynx internally dry, rough, constricted; 
mucus looosened after long hawking and forcible ex- 
piration. Cough in evening, but > lying down. 
Heart and Pulse: Pulse feeble, irregular, variable. 
Extremities: Tearing, drawing pains. Shiny-red 
swelling of the joints after taking cold. Pains in the 
joints >> at night, at times with shiny red swelling. 
Skin: Itching > scratching. Soreness and deep 
cracks in the skin, in the bends of the elbow, etc. 
Skin unhealthy. 
Sleep: Overpowered by sleep as early as 8 P. M. 
Numerous vivid, remembered dreams. 
Fever: Shaking chill in the evening, with shooting- 
headache, without thirst. Heat rises into the head, 
with thirst. Sweat at night, at times only about the 
throat or on the cheeks. 
MARUM VERUM. 
Generalities: An excited, tremulous feeling over the 
whole body. General exhaustion about noon. Long- 
ing for motion in the open air, which does not fatigue 
him, but seems to do him good. 
Head: Painful pressure in the right temple, alternat- 
ing with the same in right frontal eminence, and in 
left temple. Frontal headache, < stooping. 
Ears: Earache, with shooting pain. 
Nose: Right nostril partly stopped, with sneezing and 
bleeding of the nose, without relief. Shooting tearing 
high up the nose. Crawling in the nostrils, with lach- 
rymation, sneezing, etc. 
Clinical. Nasal polypus. 
Mouth: Tearing in the roots of the lower incisors 
and in the gums. Biting on the sides of the tongue. 
Throat: Biting; scraping in the fauces and root of 
the tongue. 
Stomach: Unnatural appetite, which even prevents 
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[Melilotus. 
sleep. Hiccough on eating. Eructations of food, with 
a bitter taste. Anxious oppression in the pit of the 
stomach. 
Abdomen: Flatulent symptoms; particularly cutting- 
pains after drinking. 
Rectum and Stool: Incessant itching and crawling in 
the anus, in the evening in *bed. 
Clinical. Ascarides, with above symptoms, aggravated at night in 
the warmth of the bed. 
Urinary Organs: Increased flow of watery urine. 
Extremities: Rheumatic tearing pains in the arms 
and legs, particularly in the bones and joints. Cutting 
pains transversely through the muscles of the forearm. 
Pain in the toenails as if they had grown into the flesh. 
MELILOTUS. 
Generalities: General amelioration in the open air 
and from walking or change of position. 
Mind: Irascible, impatient, discontented, fault- 
finding. Stupid, indifferent, unable to fix the mind. 
Omits words and letters in writing. Unable to study; 
memory will not retain anything. 
Head: Great heaviness and oppression of the head as 
from congestion of blood. Throbbing headache; seems 
as though the blood vessels of the brain would rupture, 
with bloodshot eyes. Face > nose-bleed. Headaches 
tend to recur at 4 P. M. 
Face: Face flushed, with throbbing in carotids and 
head. Nose-bleed. 
Urinary Organs: Frequent, profuse micturition, 
somewhat relieving the congestive headache. 
Respiratory Organs: Cough caused by fulness in the 
chest, bloody expectoration. Sense of suffocation 
Breathing difficult as from a weight on the chest. 
MENTHA PIPERITA. 
Respiratory Organs: Voice husky from reading aloud. Menyanthes.] 
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275 
Cough caused by talking, cold weather, smoking. 
Cough dry or slight, expectoration in the morning. 
Clinical. Flatulent colic. Pruritus of the vulva. 
MENYANTHES. 
Generalities: Convulsive, painless twitchings of mus- 
cles in various parts, < during rest. Symptoms < 
during rest and towards evening, > motion and pres- 
sure of the hand. 
Head: Heaviness. Pressive pain from above down- 
ward; > hard pressure of the hand, < after eating 
and ascending steps. Pressing-together pain from 
both sides. Sense of weight pressing on the brain, at 
every step on going upstairs. Stitches in the left side 
of brain, extending towards the vertex. 
Clinical. Neuralgic headaches, commencing in the right side of 
the nape of the neck, extending over whole brain, ameliorated by 
stooping, sitting or pressure; aggravated by going upstairs, with a 
feeling of heavy weight on the brain. 
Face: Twitching of the facial muscles of the right 
side, < during rest. Heat and redness of the face, 
with cold feet. Cracking and pain in the joints of the 
jaw when chewing. 
Mouth and Throat: Dryness, without thirst. On 
yawning and coughing a feeling as if the left side of 
the palate were paralyzed. 
Stomach: Ravenous hunger, > eating a little; pre- 
ceded by heat in the stomach. Rumbling; a feeling of 
emptiness in the stomach. 
Abdomen: Incarcerated flatus, with ineffectual efforts 
to discharge it. Soreness of the walls of the abdomen. 
A feeling of coldness in the abdomen. 
Urinary Organs: Frequent urging, with scanty dis- 
charge. 
Heart and Pulse: Sticking in the region of the heart, 
with anxiety. 
Back: Boring sticking in the left scapula, extending 276 
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[Mephitis. 
across the spine. Bruised pain in the small of the 
back on sitting and stooping, > pressure. 
Extremities: Cramp-like pain in the arm, hands and 
fingers, like paralysis. Similar pain in the lower ex- 
tremities. Thighs feel bruised. Feet as cold as ice. 
Fever: Chilliness, with extreme coldness in the hands 
and feet, while the rest of the body is warm. It seems 
as though the feet as far as the knees were like ice. 
Shivering without chill and without thirst, especially 
in the upper part of the body. Fever in the evening, 
without thirst. 
Clinical. A valuable remedy in intermittent fever, with character- 
istic extreme coldness of the fingers and toes and of legs to the 
knees, and of the tip of the nose; the chill predominates. 
MEPHITIS. 
Clinical. Paroxysms of suffocative cough, like whooping cough, 
with a feeling as though it were impossible to expire, bloated face 
and almost spasms. Violent asthmatic paroxysms at night on lying 
down, aggravated at night. 
MERCURIUS. 
General Action: The marked features of Mercury are: 
(1) Destruction of tissue, as shown in ulceration of 
mucous surfaces, periosteal inflammation; destruction 
of bone, attacking especially long bones. (2) Increased 
secretions, mucus, sweat, glandular secretions. (3) 
Chorea-like spasms (which in cases of poisoning seem 
to take the place of tissue changes). (4) Gastro-intes- 
tinal inflammations, even true dysentery; acute in- 
flammation of the kidneys and liver. (5) Mercury 
does not seem to attack the flat bones, has never pro- 
duced iritis; the periosteal pains are very marked, and 
the symptoms are always < night. 
Generalities: Foul odors from the whole body. Ema- 
ciation, followed by dropsical swellings. General ag- 
gravation from cold, damp weather and at night. 
Trembling of the tongue and of the extremities. 
Pains appear in the evening on going to bed ; seem to Mercurius.] 
MATERIA MEDICA, 
277 
be seated in the bones. Extreme weakness and 
anaemia. 
Mind: Mental restlessness; hurried talking. 
Wretched and sad: irritable. Thinks he is losing his 
reason and will die; has numerous illusions. Is weary 
of life; is mistrustful; thinks every one is his enemy. 
Slow in answering questions. Memory weak. 
Head: Dull pain like a tension, encircling the head 
above the eyes and ears. Tearing burning pains in the 
temples; or one-sided tearing pains in the head at 
night. Pressing headache. A feeling as if a band 
were tied about the head. Moist eruption on the 
scalp, with loss of hair, soreness, ulceration, etc. 
Eyes: Inflammation of the margins of the lids, which 
are swollen, often ulcerated. General inflammation, 
with intolerance of light; mucous discharge which ex- 
coriates the lids. Vision dim. with involuntary clos- 
ing of the eyes; intolerance of firelight. Floating 
black spots. 
Clinical. Various external inflammations of the conjunctiva and 
cornea, catarrhal, with tendency to ulceration of cornea and lids, 
and also episcleritis. All aggravated at night and by the heat of a 
fire. Does not affect the iris, and is rarely useful in inflammation of 
that membrane. Valuable in inflammation of the retina when ag- 
gravated by firelight and worse at night. 
Ears: Bloody, offensive discharge, excoriating; even 
with tearing pains. Shooting pains in the ears, which 
feel swollen and stopped. Various disturbances of 
hearing. 
Clinical. Inflammation of the external canal, eczematous or 
suppurative: discharges offensive, excoriating. Furuncles of the 
canal. Catarrh of the tympanum and Eustachian tube. 
Nose: Inflammation, with sneezing and acrid dis- 
charges. Offensive odor from the nose. Pain in the 
nasal bones, which are sore. Nasal discharge of mucus, 
excoriating, sometimes offensive. Nose-bleed during 
sleep at night. 
Face: Earthy colored and puffy. Pale, bloated and 278 
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[Mercurius. 
sallow. Contractions of the masseter muscles, so that 
speaking and eating is difficult, Periostitis of the 
jaw, progressing to necrosis. Inflammation of the 
roots of the teeth, which ulcerate and fall out. Inflam- 
mation extends to the alveolar processes. 
Mouth: Lips swollen, ulcerated, especially in the 
corners. Teeth decay, become painful and loose and 
fall out. Inflammation and ulceration in the roots of 
the teeth, with violent pain at night. The gums recede 
from the teeth and are ulcerated. Violent, jerking 
toothache at night, involving the whole face, with 
chilliness, salivation, etc. Gums bleed easily, or are 
spongy and unhealthy. Tongue red and swollen, 
showing the imprint of the teeth; coated white or 
sometimes with red edges; even black and dry. Tongue 
covered with ulcers, bleeding, with a thick yellow 
coating. Tongue trembling. Stammering. Speech 
difficult on account of trembling of tongue. Salivation, 
with swelling of the glands. The orifices of the sali- 
vary ducts inflamed and ulcerated and all the salivary 
glands become inflamed and sore. Aphthae in the 
mouth; mucous membrane bluish-red and spongy. 
Mucous discharge fetid. General stomatitis, with ten- 
dency to ulceration. Saliva greatly increased, of a 
sweetish taste and bad odor. General sweet taste, 
occasionally salt or putrid. 
Throat: Suppuration of the tonsils, with stinging- 
pain on swallowing. Dryness, with pain on swallowing, 
but is constantly obliged to swallow the profuse saliva. 
Spreading ulcers in the throat, with shooting pains in 
the enlarged glands and salivation. 
Stomach: Unnatural hunger; or aversion to all food. 
Unquenchable thirst. Thirst for cold drinks. Pain in 
the stomach; a sensation of dragging downward after 
eating. Hiccough and regurgitation of water or food. 
Abdomen: Numerous pains in the region of the liver, Mercurius.] 
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279 
< lying upon it, with thirst, bitter taste, loss of appe- 
tite, chilliness, yellow skin. Flatulent distention of 
abdomen, with numerous pains. Intestines feel sore, 
< lying on right side. Inguinal glands swollen and 
inflamed, with shooting pains. Boring pains in the 
right groin. 
Clinical. In addition to hepatitis, it is valuable in catarrhal enter- 
itis, with numerous pains, mostly sharp, preceding evacuations of 
mucus and blood. Colitis, profuse mucus evacuations. Abdominal 
symptoms, aggravated at night and lying on right side. 
Rectum and Stool: Constant, ineffectual urging, with 
tenesmus in rectum; < night. Stools of mucus, bloody, 
or green mucus, sour odor, causing soreness in the 
anus, followed by protrusion and straining. Stools 
whitish-gray. 
Clinical. Stools usually contain mucus, often bloody, always with 
more or less tenesmus. Dysentery, with fever, perspiration; aggra- 
vation at night; tenesmus and burning pain, even with prolapsus. 
Whitish-gray stools, sometimes constipated, with symptoms of in- 
flamed liver. 
Urinary Organs: Constant urging, with scanty evac- 
uation. Burning in the urethra on beginning to uri- 
nate. Micturition frequent at night, even involuntary. 
Inflammation of the kidneys with albuminuria. 
Urethral discharge, greenish, < night. Burning in 
the urethra, even when not urinating. Urine usually 
dark, scanty, bloody and albuminous, depositing a sedi- 
ment. 
Clinical. Nephritis. Pain in the back, burning and tenesmus in 
the bladder; easy perspiration, nocturnal aggravation. Cystitis. 
Urethritis. 
Sexual Organs, Male: Inflammation of prepuce, with 
swelling. Development of vesicular eruption which 
ulcerates and has an offensive discharge; ulcers bleed, 
spread rapidly, painful at night. Coldness of genitals 
evening and night. Sexual power decreased. Seminal 
emissions at night bloody. 
Sexual Organs, Female: Menses profuse, with abdom- 280 
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[Mercurius Cor. 
inal pains. Leucorrhoea greenish, corrosive, biting, 
burning, < evening and night. 
Respiratory Organs: Cough dry, short, fatiguing, 
from tickling beneath upper part of sternum, < talk- 
ing. Expectoration easy; salt or bitter tenacious mucus. 
Cough causes pressing pains in the head and chest. 
Shortness of breath on ascending stairs, with suffoca- 
tion. 
Chest: Shooting pains in the chest, extending through 
to the back, < coughing. Sensation of burning or 
constriction in the chest, < night. 
Neck and Back: Cervical glands swollen and inflamed, 
hard, with shooting pains. Bruised pain in the back, 
<Z open air. Shooting pains in the sacrum on breath- 
ing. Tearing pains in the coccyx, > pressing on abdo- 
men. 
Extremities: Nocturnal pains in upper and lower ex- 
tremities. Weakness of extremities. Dropsical swel- 
lings, especially of the lower extremities. Tremblings 
of the hands so that he could not use them. 
Skin: Yellow skin, at times with biting and itching, 
especially on arm. Tendency to ulceration in folds. 
Eruptions of sores, with tendency to ulceration, bleed- 
ing, excoriating discharge, itching night. Scratch- 
ing followed by burning. 
Sleep: Falls asleep very late, with tossing about, las- 
situde and anxiety. 
Fever: Paroxysms, < evening and night; chilliness 
as if dashed with cold water, so that he cannot get 
warm even by the stove. Febrile stage not marked ; 
very profuse perspiration, skin almost constantly 
moist, especially at night, and on slight exertion; sweat 
offensive, oily, staining the clothes yellow. 
MERCURIUS CORROSIVUS. 
Generalities: Lies on the back, with the knees bent 
up. Extreme debility. Mercurius Cor.] 
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Mind: Ill humor. Low spirits. Delirium; must be 
confined to the bed forcibly, at night. Stupidity. 
Stupor. Coma. 
Head: Drawing pains in the periosteum. Conges- 
tion. Headaches, with burning in the cheeks and face. 
Eyes: Pain, as if the eyes would be forced out. Con- 
junctiva red. Inflammation: with tearing in the bones 
about the eyes. Pupils insensible. Photophobia. 
Nose: Violent coryza, with heat and dryness in the 
nose, rather scanty mucous discharge, soreness and 
burning of the nostrils; discharge excoriates the upper 
lip. Nose-bleed. 
Face: Swollen and red. At times sunken, with an 
expression of collapse. Lips black, swollen and tender. 
Dry and cracked. 
Mouth: Gums swollen and spongy, bleed easily-. 
Teeth sore, loose and painful at night. Tongue 
swollen, inflamed and white. Very red, with blackish 
coat. Coated and moist, with red edges. General 
inflammation of the mouth, with ulceration, burning 
pain. Dryness and burning of the mouth, with saliva- 
tion. Bitter or salt taste. Metallic taste. 
Throat: Internal and external swelling, with tender- 
ness. Inflammation, with threatening suffocation, with 
excessive swallowing, ulceration, salivation, violent 
headache, even delirium, prostration, especially involv- 
ing arches of the palate and uvula. Burning pain in 
the throat, extending through oesophagus to stomach. 
< external pressure. Swallowing, even of fluids, 
extremely difficult, with constriction and dryness of 
throat. Spasm of the oesophagus on attempting to 
swallow. 
Stomach: Thirst excessive for large quantities, though 
with difficulty in swallowing. Vomiting of tenacious 
mucus, with bile or blood-; green, bilious, incessant; 
epigastric region swollen, sensitive. 282 
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[Mercurius Cor. 
Abdomen: Swollen and painful. Bruised sensation, 
worse in the coecal region, extending along colon. 
Soreness of transverse colon. 
Rectum and Stool: Most extreme tenesmus, with 
scanty evacuations of mucus and blood. Violent burn- 
ing in the rectum and anus. Stools consist of blood 
and mucus, with constant straining. Stools pasty, 
dark green, blackish, offensive. Stools of bloody mucus, 
with cutting pains in abdomen, accompanied by burn- 
ing in the anus and tenesmus of rectum and bladder 
together. 
Urinary Organs: Extreme burning and straining in 
the neck of the bladder. Micturition frequent, very 
scanty. Urine scanty, containing albumen, bloody. 
Clinical. Indicated in violent inflammations of the bladder, with 
extreme tenesmus and burning. Inflammation of kidneys, associated 
with pain in the neck of the bladder. Urethritis, with greenish dis- 
charge, burning pain and tenesmus. 
Sexual Organs: Swelling of the male organs. Inflam- 
mation and swelling of female organs. 
Respiratory Organs: Cough, with expectoration of 
bloody mucus. Difficult respiration. 
Clinical. Laryngitis, with aphonia, hoarseness, burning and pain 
as if the larynx were being cut by a knife. 
Chest: Sticking pains, worse on right side. 
Heart and Pulse: Pulse rapid, intermittent, even 
irregular. 
Back: Clinical. Pott's disease of the spine, with abscesses and nu- 
merous symptoms of Mercury. 
Extremities: General weakness, with trembling. 
Must lie with the lower extremities drawn up in bed. 
Sticking pains in the hips, > motion. 
Sleep: Wakeful after 3 A. M. Starts up from sleep. 
Frightful dreams. 
Fever: Shivering, with cold skin, small, intermittent 
pulse, even with sweat. Coldness of the limbs. Shiv- 
ering during and after swallowing. Heat, causing 
great restlessness at night, with anxiety; often tempo- Mer. Cyan.] 
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283 
rarily > drinking cold water. Sweat at night on 
various parts of the body; offensive towards morning. 
MERCURIUS CYANATUS. 
Throat: Internal and external swelling, with extreme 
inflammation, ulceration, difficult swallowing and great 
destruction of tissue. 
Clinical This has proved a valuable remedy for diphtheria, char- 
acterized by extreme prostration, profuse sweating, threatening col- 
lapse, small, rapid, intermittent pulse; the disease invades the nos- 
trils; frequently indicated after Apis. 
MERCURIUS DULCIS. 
Stool: Scanty ; bloody mucus, with bile, with con- 
stant desire. Watery, green. Dark green, with grip- 
ings in the bowels. 
Clinical. Frequently valuable in infantile diarrhoea, with constant 
desire, but without tenesmus, grass-green stools, excoriating, with 
offensive breath, salivation, swollen glands, etc. 
Generalities: General aggravation at night in bed 
from motion; on the right side; sometimes > lying on 
the right side. 
Head: Pain at the root of the nose, < morning On 
waking, somewhat > pressure. Pain on the vertex. 
Eyes: Clinical. Syphilitic iritis, aggravated at night. Ulceration of 
the cornea. Pustular conjunctivitis. Ciliary blepharitis, with ulcer- 
ation of margins of lids, etc. 
Nose: Clinical. Catarrh of frontal sinuses, with offensive discharge, 
particularly with boring, shooting pains at the root of the nose. 
Chronic catarrh of posterior nares, extending into the throat. 
Mouth: Tongue covered with dirty yellow fur on the 
back, especially in the morning; edges red. 
Throat: Inflammation, with ulceration, particularly 
of the right tonsil and right side of the throat. Sore- 
ness, with difficult swallowing; a sensation of swelling. 
Stomach: Persistent nausea. Thirst for sour drinks. 
Sharp pains, < pressure. 
Abdomen: Numerous flatulent symptoms. 
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[Mercurius lod. 
Stool: Frequent, profuse, light colored; stools at night, 
often hard, scanty and black. Stools like putty, requir- 
ing great straining. 
Skin: Much itching in various spots over the whole 
body, < night in the bed, not > scratching. 
Mind: Low spirited and ill humored in the morning 
on waking. 
Head: Headache, with pains in the bones, worse in 
the occiput. Dull ache, > walking in the open air. 
Head feels bound with a tight cord. 
Eyes: Inflammation with burning; painful. 
Nose: Acute coryza, with much mucus in nose and 
throat, with hoarseness. 
Mouth: Lips sticky, slimy, on waking in the morn- 
ing. Blisters on the tongue, salivation; pain in the 
lower teeth. Bitter taste. 
Throat: Inflammation and swelling of the left tonsil, 
with much hawking of mucus, glandular swellings, 
hoarseness and cough. 
Sexual Organs: Clinical It has been found useful in ulcers and 
erosions of the cervix; profuse, greenish, corrosive leucorrhoea. 
MERCURIUS I0DATUS RUBER. 
MERCURIUS NITROSUS. 
Generalities: The sharp, sticking pains of nitric acid 
seem to indicate this drug in conditions generally re- 
sembling Mercurius. 
Eyes: Clinical. Pustular conjunctivitis and keratitis, with burning 
pain,- lachrymation, photophobia, sharp sticking pains. 
Throat: Ulceration, with stinging pains. 
General Action: Inflammation of mucous membranes 
and of the skin, with burning internally and itching 
externally. Neuralgia, particularly of the face. Peri- 
osteal inflammations of various bones. 
Generalities: Sensitiveness to cold air. Paralytic 
tension and tightness of the limbs. Jerking and twitch- 
MEZEREUM. Mezereum.] 
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285 
ing of the muscles. Symptoms are usually one-sided. 
General aggravation on motion and touch, and in the 
evening. 
Mind: Hypochondriac mood. Very ill humored. 
Thought difficult, dull. Memory weak. 
Head: Pain on the slightest touch, especially in the 
temples and sides, with shivering and chilliness, < 
open air. One-sided stupefying headache. Bone pain 
on the vertex, < touch. Moist and itching eruption 
on the head. Eruption on the scalp becomes scabby, 
with suppuration underneath, with itching and burn- 
ing. 
Eyes: Inflammation, with dryness. Smartingin the 
eyes compels rubbing. Jerking of the muscles of the 
upper lid. Eyeballs feel too large. 
Ears: Ears feel too open, as if distended by air. 
Various pains in the ears; difficult hearing, with ring- 
ing noises. • 
Clinical. Deafness following the suppression of the pustular erup- 
tion on the scalp. Inflammation, with a feeling as if the drum were 
exposed to the cold air. 
Nose: Margins of the nostrils inflamed, painful, 
dressing asunder pain at the root of the nose, extend- 
ing into the forehead, with pain in the temples, heat 
and sweat on the head, coldness of the rest of the body. 
Nose dry, with diminished smell. Sneezing, with fluent 
coryza; sore pain in the chest, followed by yellow dis- 
charge, with soreness and burning pain. 
Face: Inflammation, with pustular eruptions. Jerk- 
ings of the muscles in the middle of the cheek. Neu- 
ralgia, tearing and boring in one side, with burning. 
Sudden pain, wakes from sleep. Tearing or boring 
pains in the jaws. Eruptions around the mouth, with 
fluent coryza. Lips dry, stick together. Lips become 
shiny and painful, with burning soreness. 
Mouth: Rapid decay of teeth; they feel too long and 
sore, < cold air and at night. Shooting pains in the 286 
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[Mezereum. 
teeth, which involve the side of the face and extend to 
the temples. Burning in the whole mouth, extending 
to the stomach; with salivation. 
Throat: Burning and scraping; a feeling of constric- 
tion in the throat. Irritation in the throat provokes 
hacking cough. Dryness and burning in the pharynx 
extends to (esophagus. 
Stomach: Unnatural appetite, noon and evening. 
Empty eructations. Nausea felt particularly in the 
throat, eating. Vomiting of beer or of bitter green 
mucus; with bitter taste. Burning in the stomach, 
with pain on pressure, extends transversely, < pres- 
sure. 
Clinical. A gastric ulceration, with burning; temporarily relieved 
by eating; vomiting of blood or even evacuation of blood with the 
stools. 
Abdomen: Flatulent symptoms, with burning ; abdo- 
men hard and distended. Tearing pains. Severe pain 
in the region of the spleen. 
Rectum and Stool: Burning and sore pain in the 
rectum; diarrhoea, with abdominal pain. Stools pre- 
ceded and followed by shivering. 
Clinical. Sour, undigested diarrhoea, preceded by colic, followed 
by chilliness; constipation, with prolapsus of the rectum, which is 
difficult to reduce on account of constriction of the anus. 
Urinary Organs: Blood is discharged after the urine. 
Biting, burning pain in the fore part of the urethra at 
the close of micturition. Urine hot, with red sediment; 
bloody. 
Sexual Organs: Menstruation frequent and prolonged. 
Vaginal discharge like the white of an egg, corrosive, 
burning. 
Respiratory Organs: Hoarseness and cough and raw- 
ness in the chest, Cough < eating, even to vomiting; 
worse in the evening in bed and in the morning, 
caused by an irritation in the trachea, which seems to 
be lower down than can be reached by the cough. Millefolium.] 
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287 
Constriction across chest as if the lungs were adherent. 
Painful tension in the intercostal muscles. 
Neck and Back: Stiff pain in the nape of the neck 
and muscles of the sides, < motion. Pain in the mus- 
cles of the back like a tension, < motion. 
Extremities: Trembling. Pain in periosteum of long 
bones, especially in the tibiae, < night in bed, with 
intolerance of all touch. Tearing pains in the long 
bones, with chilliness and shivering, sensitive to cold 
air. Pains in the tibiae as if the periosteum would be 
torn off. after midnight, disturbing sleep. Burning in 
the tibiae. 
Skin: Itching at night, after scratching; swelling 
when the itching becomes worse. Desquamation over 
the whole body. Old ulcers burn and sting; or become 
covered with scabs under which yellow matter collects. 
Eczema on the face of a child, which is constantly 
scratched until it bleeds. 
Clinical. Herpetic or eczematous eruptions, witli tendency to ulcer- 
ate and form scabs, from under which pus exudes. Itching intolera- 
ble, aggravated by scratching, with burning, aggravated at night and 
by heat. Impetiginoides eczema of the face, with formation of scabs 
and oozing of offensive matter. Herpes zoster. Psoriasis. Lupus. 
Sleep: Much yawning and stretching; irresistible 
sleepiness during the day. Nightmare at night. 
Fever: Chill, mostly external, without desire for 
warmth. Chill associated with most other symptoms. 
Heat internal, even with external coldness. 
MILLEFOLIUM. 
Generalities: Congestion of the head, face and tho- 
racic organs. Haemorrhages. 
Clinical. It has been found useful for hsemorrhages, consisting of 
bright red, thin blood, particularly for haemorrhages from the bowels, 
bladder, uterus and lungs. 
Head: A feeling of rush of blood to the head, <Z 
stooping, > rising. 
Urinary Organs: Hiematuria (preceded by pain in the 
region of the left kidney). 288 
A PRIMER OR 
[Moschus. 
MOSCHUS. 
Generalities: Trembling of the body. Prickling or 
tingling in the limbs, with a feeling of heaviness. 
Weakness, felt more during rest than during motion. 
Faintness, followed by headache. Parts upon which 
he lies seem sprained or broken. He seems particu- 
larly sensitive to the open air, which seems cold. Res- 
piratory troubles are worse when becoming cold. 
Clinical. Valuable for hysterical complaints, with palpitation, suf- 
focative spasms in the chest, constriction of the throat, restlessness, 
great anxiety, particularly with belching and flatulent symptoms. 
Numerous forms of hysterical spasms. 
Head: A feeling of rush of blood to the head. Press- 
ing headache, especially in the forehead, with nausea. 
Vertigo on the slightest motion of the head. A feel- 
ing of heaviness of the head. Tension in the occiput, 
extending into the nape. 
Stomach: Fulness and constriction in the region of 
the stomach. Pressure in the pit of the stomach ex- 
tends through to back. Frequent violent eructations 
of gas. 
Abdomen: Fulness, with anxiety and restlessness. 
Tension and pressure in the abdomen, coming from the 
stomach. Symptoms of incarcerated flatulence. 
Sexual Organs: Dragging towards the genitals as if 
menstruation would come on. 
Clinical. Suppressed menstruation, with hysterical spasms, choking 
in the throat, faintness, etc. 
Respiratory Organs: Sudden sensation in upper part 
of larynx as if it closed on the breath. Difficult respi- 
ration, with sticking in the chest; can only take short 
breaths. 
Clinical. Spasm of the laryngeal muscles, with crowing inspiration, 
aggravated by eating or laughing. Sense of impending suffocation, 
with spasmodic constriction of the larynx and chest. Spasmodic 
asthma. Sudden dyspnoea, with violent cough ; chest filled with 
mucus, with rattling and suffocative constriction. Angina pectoris, 
with extreme tightness of the chest; need to take a long breath. Ex- 
treme suffocation, with palpitation and deathly anxiety. Murex.] 
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Chest: A feeling of cramp in the lungs, making one 
almost desperate. Suffocative tightness; needs to 
breathe deeper and more frequently than usual; can 
not lie down; gasps for air. 
Heart: Palpitation. (Sensationof trembling around 
the heart, with constriction and suffocation.) 
Fever: Shivering, which begins in the scalp and 
extends over the whole body. 
Clinical. Prolapsus of the uterus, with bearing-down pains, espe- 
cially when there is a sharp pain extending from uterus to breasts; 
sometimes aggravated by lying down, with aching in the sacrum; also 
witli leucorrhoea, green or bloody, or with unusual sexual excite- 
ment. Chronic inflammation and induration of the uterus, with a 
feeling of soreness on sitting down. Sensation of prolapsus so great 
that the patient must keep legs tightly crossed to relieve it. Chronic 
inflammations following miscarriages or even normal labor, with 
soreness over the right ovary, extending up into the right chest. 
With the uterine symptoms, sensation of heavy pressure on the 
rectum, haemorrhoids, etc. 
MUREX. 
MURIATICUM ACIDUM. 
Generalities: A general bruised feeling of all the 
joints. Weakness, so that the eyes unconsciously 
close, always on sitting. Great sensitiveness to damp 
air. Tearing pains in the extremities, > motion. 
Clinical. Frequently adapted to a low typhoid condition, with 
muttering delirium, sordes on the teeth, an offensive odor. Great 
muscular debility after prostrating diseases, with restlessness. 
Head: Vertigo and unsteadiness when walking. A 
feeling of heaviness in the occiput, with dimness of 
vision. Pain, as if the brain would be torn or crushed. 
Shooting pains in the head. Headache on rising up 
in bed or on moving the eyes. 
Ears: Tearing, cramp-like pains. A feeling of in- 
sensibility within the meatus. Difficult hearing. Very 
sensitive to noise. 
Mouth: Margins of the lips raw, skin dry and cracked. 
Mucous membrane red and inflamed, dotted with 
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[Muri. Acidum. 
whitish points. Burning in the lips. Tongue dark 
red, covered with a grayish-white membrane. Tongue 
feels as heavy as lead when talking. Deep ulcers on 
the tongue. (Paralysis of the tongue, with difficult 
speech.) General inflammation in the mouth and arch 
of the palate, with rawness, soreness and ulceration. 
Dryness of the mouth, with swollen gums and swollen 
glands. 
Throat: Swelling of the uvula, tonsils, etc. Attempts 
to swallow cause spasms and choking. Appearance of 
dead, white patches over the arch of the palate and 
throat and in the throat, like false membrane or ulcers. 
Clinical. Diphtheritic ulceration of the throat, with sore, cracked 
lips, fetid breath, nose-bleed, sordes on the teeth, oedema of the 
throat, great prostration, restlessness, etc. 
Stomach: Loss of appetite. A feeling of emptiness 
in the stomach, not )> eating. Af times, ravenous 
appetite, with constant desire to drink. 
Abdomen: Distention; cramp in the abdomen, with 
griping in the umbilical region, extending to the sides. 
A feeling of emptiness and discomfort in the abdomen. 
Rectum and Stool: Prolapsus when urinating. Diar- 
rhoea, with smarting and burning in the anus. Watery, 
involuntary stool, when urinating. 
Urinary Organs: Frequent and copious micturition. 
Extremities: General feeling of heaviness, bruised 
pain and weakness. Heaviness, especially of the fore- 
arm. Cramp-like tearing in the thigh. Weakness, 
which causes a tottering gait. Drawing pains in the 
tendo Achillis when walking so that the foot seems 
paralyzed. 
Fever: Cold extremities, especially in the evening, 
with dry mouth. Heat, without thirst, but with inclin- 
ation to uncover. 
Clinical. Typhoid types of fever, stupidity, haemorrhages, dry 
tongue, involuntary discharges, restlessness; sinks down in bed; 
aphthae in the mouth, bed sores, etc. Naja.] 
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NAJA. 
Generalities: Like other serpent poisons, it produces 
swelling of the whole body or special parts and local 
inflammations. General torpor and listlessness, or 
even insensibility. Sensation, as if internal organs 
distant from each other were drawn together; for 
example, the ovary and heart. 
Head: Neuralgic pains, preceded or followed by 
nausea and vomiting; a sense of dull, heavy constric- 
tion, often extending from the forehead to the occiput, 
with ringing in the ears, palpitation, etc. 
Nose: Clinical. Symptoms of hay fever, with asthmatic breathing, 
especially with dryness in the larynx, suffocation; aggravation by 
lying down; must be held erect to breathe; aggravated by sleeping. 
Throat: Dryness in the mouth and throat. Sense of 
constriction, with grasping at the throat, inability to 
swallow. 
Clinical. Diphtheritic inflammation; patient is cyanotic, gasps, 
wakes from sleep in distress, with palpitation, intermittent and 
thready pulse, threatening paralysis of the heart. 
Sexual Organs: Constrictive pains in the left ovary, 
with palpitation. A feeling as if the ovary and heart 
were being drawn together. 
Respiratory Organs: Constriction and suffocated feel- 
ing in the larynx. Dyspnoea < lying down. Respira- 
tions rapid and superficial, with irregular, feeble pulse. 
A short cough, at times paroxysmal, even associated 
with a feeling of rawness in the larynx and trachea. 
Expectoration bloody or viscid. Asthmatic constric- 
tion in the chest in the evening, >> expectoration of 
mucus. 
Heart: Pain in the region of the heart, a peculiar 
depressed feeling. Palpitation. Fluttering. Pulse 
becomes irregular and very feeble, with cyanosis; gasp- 
ing for breath on waking from sleep. Pains in the 
heart extend to the shoulder and neck, with extreme 
anxiety. 292 
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[Natrum Arsen. 
Clinical. Not infrequently indicated in rheumatic diseases of the 
heart, with irregular, feeble action, particularly with cough, asth- 
matic breathing, suffocative constriction of the chest; angina pectoris. 
Generalities : This drug, recently well proved, has as 
yet a limited clinical record. 
Eyes: Sensation on moving the eyes as of granula- 
tions of the lids. (It has been found useful for chronic 
inflammation of the conjunctiva, with a feeling of 
roughness; eye dry and painful.) 
Noss: Clinical. Nasal catarrh, associated with headache over the 
eyes, burning in the eyes, watery discharge from the nose, dry throat, 
aggravated in morning. Nasal catarrh, with pain at the root of tha 
nose; the discharge drops into the throat and must be expectorated. 
In all the nasal catarrhs, indicating this drug, the eyes seem to be 
more or less affected; usually dry and painful. The nose feels 
stopped. 
Throat: Inflammation, with swelling, cedematous, 
dark purplish hue, with great prostration and feeble 
intermittent pulse. 
Respiratory Organs: Oppressed feeling from the 
larynx, extending into the chest and about the heart. 
Racking cough, with profuse, greenish expectoration. 
NATRUM ARSENICATUM. 
NATRUM CARBONICUM. 
Generalities: Generally relaxed; an unsteadiness of 
the whole body. Great weakness in all the limbs and 
body, <Z morning, or after taking a little exercise. 
Great dread of the open air • takes cold easily. Symp- 
toms appear while sitting and disappear on moving 
about. The weakness is < hot weather, especially the 
headache. 
Mind: Great depression of spirits, with apprehension. 
Attacks of anxiety, with uneasiness, especially during 
sultry weather. Loss of power of collecting the ideas 
and of memory, very marked. 
Head: Headache caused by exerting the mind. Head- 
ache in the sun. Tearing or shooting pains in the 
head, in the forehead, passing out through the eyes. Natrum Car.] 
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Eyes: Shooting pains from within outward; lids 
swollen. Heaviness of the upper lids; the eyes close 
involuntarily. Ulcers appear on the cornea, with shoot- 
ing pains. Photophobia. Vision of black spots; some- 
times blinding lightnings. 
Ears: Deafness. Sharp stitches in the ears; sensi- 
tiveness to noise. 
Nose: Violent coryza, sneezing; discharge thin, very 
free, especially at night, < the least draft of air: mucus 
gets into the throat. Discharge of yellow, offensive 
mucus from the nose. Coryza, with burning in the 
eyes; obstruction at night. Chronic nasal catarrh, 
with thick, offensive discharges. General aggravation 
of the nasal symptoms by the slightest draft; discharge 
through the day and stoppage at night. 
Face: Yellow spots appear on the forehead and 
upper lip. Paleness, with blue rings around the eyes 
and swollen lids. Moist eruption appears on the nose 
and about the mouth. 
Mouth: Sensitiveness of the lower incisors, tooth- 
ache, < eating sweets or fruit. Blisters and ulcers in 
the mouth. Pimples on the tip of the tongue, which 
burns as if full of cracks. Tongue heavy, with difficult 
speech. Ulcers on the inside of the mouth, with burn- 
ing pain, often with dryness. 
Throat: Accumulation of much mucus in the throat, 
which comes from the nose, with violent hawking. 
Swelling of the submaxillary glands. 
Stomach: Extreme thirst; cold drinks cause distress. 
Sour eructations. Waterbrash, ineffectual efforts to 
eructate in the morning. Region of the stomach pain- 
ful to touch. Heartburn, especially after fat food. 
Clinical. Great weakness of digestion caused by the slightest errors 
of diet, even after every meal, with general discomfort and ill humor, 
palpitation, distress about the heart. 
Abdomen: Distention, < eating. Many symptoms 
from incarcerated flatus; colic somewhat >> eating and 294 
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[Natrum Car. 
warmth. Stitches in the right or left hypochondrium. 
Rectum and Stool: Urging, with sudden evacuation, 
forcibly discharged. Burning in the rectum after a 
stool. Stool often bloody or hard, with burning in the 
rectum. Discharge of balls of mucus like peas. 
Clinical. Sometimes cures diarrhoea, aggravated by eating; gushing 
preceded by cutting in abdomen, followed by burning and soreness 
in anus, sinking in abdomen, etc. 
Urinary Organs: Frequent need to urinate. Urine 
offensive, containing mucus. Buring in urethra dur- 
ing and after micturition. 
Sexual Organs: Bruised pain in the testicles. Sore- 
ness between the scrotum and thighs. Sexual power 
weak. Pressing and dragging in the female organs. 
Thick, yellow leucorrhoea, offensive. Menstruation too 
early, with pains in the small of the back and abdomen. 
Leucorrhoeal discharge is preceded by colic. 
Respiratory Organs: Dry cough, with stopped nasal 
catarrh. Cough < coming into a warm room. Cough, 
with expectoration of greenish mucus, at times, salt, 
with rawness in the chest, < morning. 
Heart and Pulse: Palpitation, < ascending stairs; 
waking at night when lying on the left side; a general 
accompaniment of attacks of indigestion. 
Extremities: Tearing pains in the shoulders, with 
weakness of the arms. Heaviness in the lower extrem- 
ities and feet. Gout. Cords under the knees seemed 
shortened. Makes a false step and sprains the ankles 
easily. Many symptoms in the tendo Achillis and on 
the heel, which seems to get sore easily. Soreness 
between the toes and fingers. 
Skin: Skin becomes dry, rough and cracked. Itch- 
ing as from fleas over the whole body. Herpetic erup- 
tions, sometimes suppurate; and leave yellow rings. 
Ulcers form, with swelling arid inflamed redness. 
Fever: Cold feet and hands; with hot forehead. 
Coldness of the lower extremities. Chill, without Natrum Mur.] 
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thirst, with cold hands and hot cheeks, or the reverse. 
Night sweat alternates with dryness of the skin. 
During the pains, the patient breaks into a cold, anxious 
sweat, with dreams. 
NATRUM MURIATICUM. 
Generalities: Emaciation. Great relaxation, not only 
physical, but mental, after slightest effort. Tremblings, 
especially in the evening, < tobacco smoking. Limbs 
feel weak and bruised in the morning. Pain, as if the 
flesh were loosened from the bones, especially in the 
thighs and upper limbs, on motion. Sensitiveness to 
air; takes cold easily, dreads open air. Pulsation 
throughout the whole body, even during rest, < the 
slightest motion. Weakness when standing, with a 
feeling of heaviness of the feet, especially after walking, 
or after eating. Pains at night take away the breath 
and seem almost to cause paralysis. Greatest weak- 
ness in the morning in bed. 
Mind: Mental excitement; laughs or cries immod- 
erately. Weeping mood; the more one is consoled, 
the more he is affected. Intense sadness, with appre- 
hension and palpitation; prefers to be alone. Com- 
pletedespair. Hatred of people. Ill humor. Indiffer- 
ence. Disinclined to make any mental effort. Per- 
sistent melancholia. 
Head: Weakness of the muscles of the neck, so that 
the head nods forward involuntarily. Vertigo, with 
jerking in the head. Heaviness in the head, especially 
in the occiput. A feeling as if the head would burst; 
stupefying ache or throbbing pain, which seems to press 
out the eyes, and is > pressure on the eyes and fore- 
head. Dull frontal headache, recurring daily about 
10 A. M., with mental weakness and heaviness of the 
head. Painful shootings through the head, like a jerk. 
Headache is < 10 A. M., motion and cold air, and if 
vexed. The hair of the scalp and beard falls out pro- 296 
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[Natrum Mur. 
fusely. Eruption, particularly at the bottom of the 
hair and at the nape of the neck, with itching; with 
glutinous discharge, which mats the hair. 
Eyes: Inflammation, with ulceration, and a feeling 
as if sand were in the eyes. The eyeballs feel too 
large, and as if pressed outward. Pain on looking 
intently, as if a foreign substance were in the eyes. 
The margins of the lids inflamed and irritable, agglu- 
tinated in the morning. Letters and stitches run 
together; great muscular weakness, giving rise to 
inflammation, with frontal headache, etc. 
Ears: Swelling and heat of the outer ear. Purulent 
discharge from the ears. Roaring in the ears, with 
difficult hearing. 
Nose: Dryness of the nose internally. Painful swell- 
ing of the left half, with inflammation and pain, sore- 
ness to touch. The nostrils seem stopped and dry. 
Takes cold in the nose easily. It is stopped at night. 
Coryza, with loss of smell and taste. 
Face: Usually pale, earthy, yellowish; sometimes 
shining as if greasy. The hair of the beard falls out. 
Inflammation of the lower lip, with burning and the 
development of blisters, followed by desquamation 
Blisters around the mouth, with soreness and ulcera- 
tion ; with blisters on the tongue. Painful crack in the 
middle of the upper lip. Dryness of the lips, with burn- 
ing and cracking. 
Mouth: Teeth very sensitive to the cold air and to 
touch. Toothache drawing into the ears and throat. 
Swelling of the gums; sensitive both to cold and to 
heat. Gums spongy and bleed easily. Burning blisters 
in the mouth and on the tongue. Taste bitter or en- 
tirely lost. 
Throat: Chronic inflammation, usually with dryness 
or with hawking of salty mucus. Sensation of a plug 
in the throat on swallowing, or as if one swallowed over 
a lump. Burning pain and rawness, with swelling and Natrum Mur.] 
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shooting pains. Hawking of much mucus in the throat 
in the morning. - 
Stomach: Appetite usually good at noon and in the 
evening. General aversion to bread and fat food. A 
desire for bitter things. Persistent thirst, but drink- 
ing causes distress. Sour eructations after eating. 
Eructations of gas and heartburn after eating. Rising 
of fluid into the mouth. Sensation of a foreign body 
sticking at the cardiac orifice of the stomach. Nausea 
in the morning. Vomiting first of food, then bile. 
Pressure as from a stone in the stomach, with nausea. 
Constrictive pain, with cramp. 
Abdomen: Flatulent rumblings and distention. Great 
fermentation. Cutting pains. Shooting pains in the 
region of the liver. Pain in the abdominal rings, ex- 
tending into the testicles when coughing, as if the 
spermatic cord would be torn. General weakness and 
relaxation, even of the abdominal walls. 
Rectum and Stool: Ineffectual urging to stool. Con- 
strictive sensation in the rectum and anus during 
stool, with hard, difficult evacuations, which seem to 
tear the anus so that it bleeds and is sore. Haemor- 
rhoids which are painful and stinging, with glutinous 
moisture. Stools dry and hard, causing fissures, or 
loose and profuse, with burning. 
Urinary Organs: Profuse micturition day and night 
of pale, watery urine. Micturition followed by cut- 
ting and burning in the urethra. Involuntary mic- 
turition when walking and also at night. Involuntary 
micturition when coughing or sneezing. 
Sexual Organs: Dryness and soreness of the vagina, 
with itching. Menstruation too early and profuse, or 
too late and scanty (irregular). Suppressed men- 
struation. Delayed appearance of menses in girls. 
Menses preceded and followed by headache. Acrid 
leucorrhcea, with yellowish ness of the face, chlorosis, etc. 
M* 298 
A PRIMER OF 
[Natrum Mur. 
Respiratory Organs: Persistent, dry, short cough day 
and night from irritation in the pit of the stomach. 
Cough, with bloody expectoration. Cough, with 
headache as if it would burst the forehead, and with 
stitches in the chest. Dyspnoea on ascending stairs. 
Stitches in the chest and sides. 
Heart and Pulse: Violent, anxious palpitation, •< lying 
on the left side, with faintness, coldness, or a feeling of 
fluttering at the heart. Sense of constriction, with an 
intermittent pulse and dyspnoea. Heart's action 
irregular, pulse often intermits. 
Neck and Back: Pain as if the back were broken. 
Backache and weakness, > lying down. 
Extremities: General weakness and paralytic heavi- 
ness of the arms and legs. Hang-nails form on the 
Angers. Tremulous weakness in the legs on rising 
from a seat, > walking. A feeling of tightness in the 
calves and under the knees. 
Skin: Itching eruption on the margin of the hair at 
the nape of the neck. Eruption like nettle-rash after 
violent exertion. Eruption like ringworm, with itch- 
ing, < warmth.. Vesicular eruption around the mouth 
especially below the nose, with burning. Warts be- 
come painful. Skin around the nails becomes dry and 
cracked. Moist eruption under knees, and itching and 
smarting, with acrid discharge. 
Sleep: Sleepy all day. Sleepy, but cannot sleep at 
night, and in the morning feels unrefreshed. Numerous, 
frightful dreams of robbers, etc. 
Fever: Chilliness, especially about 10 A. M., followed 
by fever, then sweat. Whole paroxysm associated 
with headache and thirst. Persistent, frontal headache, 
which commences during the chill and gets worse 
during the fever, with thirst, is very characteristic of 
this drug. Natrum Sul.] 
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NATRUM SULFURICUM. 
Generalities: General aggravation from lying on the 
left side; from dampness. Amelioration in the open 
air. 
Head: Vertigo (at 6 P. M.), followed by vomiting of 
sour mucus. 
Eyes : Burning in the eyes, with a feeling of rough- 
ness; photophobia; dryness. Pain caused by reading 
by candlelight, with heaviness of the eyelids. General 
intolerance of light, with roughness and dryness. 
Ears: Sticking or shooting pains like lightning, 
extending from within outward (in right ear). Pains 
in the ears lightning-like, always worse in damp 
weather. 
Nose: Clinical. NasaJ catarrh, with thick, yellow discharge, some- 
times scabby, bloody and offensive, with hawking of salty mucus 
from the throat; oppression of the chest. 
Mouth: Burning on the tongue and in the mouth. 
Tongue coated with a discolored grayish or brownish 
coat. Burning on the tip of the tongue, with blisters. 
Blisters on the arch of the palate, so sensitive that she 
could scarcely eat, > anything cold. 
Throat: Hawking of salt mucus, < morning. Inflam- 
mation, with profuse, tenacious mucus. 
Stomach: Thirst, especially in the evening; desire 
for very cold drinks. Nausea, not > vomiting salt, 
sour water. Waterbrash. 
Clinical. Acid dyspepsia, with heartburn, flatulence; soreness in 
the region of the liver; aggravation from lying on the left side. 
Abdomen: Flatulent symptoms; flatus becomes incar- 
cerated on the right side; flatulent pains, < lying on 
the left side. Tension in the right hypochondrium as 
if it would burst, worse in hepatic region; the region 
is sore on walking and on touch. 
Stool: Diarrhoea; thin, yellow, liquid, even involun- 
tary; <( morning after moving about, accompanied by 
much flatulence, with soreness and pain over the liver. 300 
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[Nitric Acid. 
Diarrhoea on rising in the morning, with desire for ice 
water. Chronic diarrhoea; stools sudden, forcible, oc- 
casionally involuntary; < cold food and drink, < damp 
weather. 
Urinary Organs: Burning during micturition. Urine 
deposits a red sediment. Micturition frequent, especi- 
ally at night. 
Clinical. It has been used in various disturbances and diseases of 
the urinary organs, associated with uric acid deposits. 
Sexual Organs; Clinical. Chronic nephritis; urethral discharge yel- 
lowish green, burning during micturition. Menses acrid, associated 
with abdominal troubles, colic, diarrhoea. Leucorrhqea corrosive. 
Respiratory Organs: Cough, with stitches in the left 
side of the chest; shortness of breath. Dry cough; < 
morning after rising; also worse at night, with soreness 
in the chest and roughness in the throat; on coughing 
must rise and hold the chest with both hands. Short 
breath when walking. 
Clinical. Bronchial catarrh, with glairy expectoration, aggravated 
from 3 to 4 A. M., and in damp weather. Asthma, cough at night; 
must sit up and hold the chest with the hands, aggravated in cold, 
damp weather. 
Extremities: Various pains, usually sharp, tearing or 
drawing, in the extremities ; general amelioration from 
motion; he cannot lie long in one position on account 
of restlessness. Tendency to panaritium. Pain; > 
open air. 
Fever: General coldness; internal; usually < towards 
evening and at night. 
NITRIC ACID. 
Generalities: Rapid emaciation. Sharp pains in dif- 
ferent parts of the body, seeming to be in the bones; 
suddenly appearing and disappearing; pains are felt 
even during sleep. Tearing pains in the limbs and 
body, especially after becoming cold. Weakness so 
great that he is constantly obliged to lie down. Gen- 
eral aggravation from washing with water. Symptoms 
< evening and night. General amelioration from riding Nitric Acid.] 
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in a carriage. Generally indicated in people with dark 
hair, of 11 tense fibre." (The weakness is even associated 
with a general undefined feeling of tension.) 
Mind: Easily excited, much affected by peevishness. 
Easily vexed at trifles. Discontented with himself and 
inclined to weep violently. Despondent and sad. Is 
anxious all day, and especially in the evening and dur- 
ing night, as if engaged in disputes. Anxious about his 
disease; he thinks he is going to die. Difficult to exert 
the mind, or to collect the thoughts. Memory weak. 
Head: Feeling of rush of blood to the head, with 
much heat in head. Pulsating headache, as if the head 
were tightly bound, )> binding the head tightly. A 
feeling as though the head were in a vise, extending 
over the vertex, from ear to ear. Sharp, shooting pains 
in the head > lying down. Sharp pains in the head, 
with great sensitiveness to noises. Pains as if in the 
bones of the skull. Pressing and drawing pains in the 
left side of the head, extending to the ears and teeth. 
The hair falls out freely. Moist eruption on the scalp. 
The scalp is sensitive, even to the pressure of the hat. 
Eyes: Sharp, sticking pains in the eyes. Burning 
and heat. Lachrymation as if the eye were full of 
tears. Lids are heavy, difficult to raise in the morn- 
ing. Vision double, especially of distant, horizontal 
objects. Obscured vision when reading; requires 
strong light to read; has to stop earlier than usual, at 
twilight. 
Clinical. Ulceration of the cornea. Intra-ocular inflammations, 
iritis, pains aggravated by lying clown and at night; particularly in- 
dicated in the abuse of Mercury. Lachrymal fistula. 
Ears; Shooting pains in the ears. Hearing blunted. 
Cracking noises when chewing. Swelling of the glands 
behind and beneath the ears. The shooting and tear- 
ing pains are > warmth of the bed. 
Nose: Nostrils sore, ulcerated, scabby. Tip of the 
nose red and scabby. Stinging in the nose on touch. 302 
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[Nitric Acid. 
A feeling of distress at the root of the nose, with stick- 
ing pains, < sneezing and coughing. A feeling of 
soreness in the nostrils, with itching. Nose is stopped 
at night. Discharge passes only into the throat. 
Fluent coryza, and at the same time the nose feels 
stopped, with difficult breathing. Shooting pains in 
the throat. Nasal discharges offensive, yellow, bloody. 
Clinical. Discharges from the nose. Caries of the mastoid bone, 
syphilitic or mercurial. 
Face: Pain in the bones of the face, tearing < night. 
Cracking in the joints of the jaw when chewing and 
eating. Ulceration of the corners of the lips, becoming 
scabby, with stinging pain. 
Mouth: Inner surface of the lips bleeds and smarts, 
with shooting pains. The teeth become yellow, loose 
and painful. The gums are soft and spongy and bleed 
easily. Toothache on taking anything cold or hot into 
the mouth. The teeth become so loose that they 
almost fall out. Blisters on the tongue, with burning 
pain. Painful pimples on the sides of the tongue; 
ulceration on the inside of the cheeks, with sticking 
pains. Inflammation and ulceration over the whole 
interior of the mouth, with offensive saliva. He bites 
the mucous membrane of the cheeks easily when chew- 
ing. Profuse saliva, which is sometimes bloody, and of 
a foul order. 
Throat: Inflammation and ulceration of the throat, 
with white patches and sharp pains, as from splinters, 
on swallowing. Constant desire to hawk mucus from 
the throat, with sharp, stinging pains; with soreness 
as if raw and ulcerated. Swallowing difficult on ac- 
count of inflammation and sharp, stinging pain. Vio- 
lent, shooting pain on swallowing ; extends to ears and 
causes a wry face. 
Stomach: Great hunger, with sweetish taste; weak- 
ness; appetite very variable. Thirst great. Longing 
for indigestible things, such as chalk, lime, earth and Nitric Acid.] 
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fat. Distress from eating milk. Pain in the cardiac 
orifices of the stomach on swallowing food. Shooting 
and sticking pain in the pit of the stomach. Eructa- 
tions sour, empty. • Nausea after eating; with heavy, 
dull head. Vomiting of tenacious or bloody mucus. 
Abdomen: Flatulent symptoms; rumblings. Cutting 
pains. Shooting pains in the region of the liver; < 
motion. Pressure and shooting in the region of the 
spleen. Swelling and suppuration of inguinal glands, 
with splinter-like pains. 
Rectum: Stitches; splinter-like pains during and after 
stool, with spasmodic constriction in anus. Pain during 
stool as if it would be torn asunder. Itching and burn- 
ing in anus, at night, on walking, in the morning, ex- 
tending to perineum. Ineffectual desire and inability 
to evacuate feces on account of inactivity. Haemor- 
rhoids, with bleeding after every stool. Soreness and 
moisture of haemorrhoids, with shooting pains. 
Clinical. Ulceration of the rectum, with splinter-like pains after 
stools. Fissure of the anus, with constant oozing of fetid moisture, 
with sensation of rawness and smarting as if cut. Old painful, pen- 
dulous haemorrhoids. 
Stool: Diarrhoea, frequently slimy, offensive. Stools 
bloody, with tenesmus, fever and headache. Stools 
consist only of mucus, with cutting pains and straining, 
also with burning in rectum. Constipation, with 
evacuation of hard, scanty masses, with burning and 
cutting in the rectum and anus. Following the stools, 
great irritability of mind and general exhaustion. 
Urinary Organs: Frequent urging at night, with 
scanty micturition. Micturition in a thin stream as 
from stricture. Ineffectual micturition. Stinging in 
the orifice of the urethra. Burning and smarting dur- 
ing and after micturition. Urine offensive, scanty, 
dark-colored. Urine cold when passed. Urine deposits 
a red sediment. 
Clinical. Chronic inflammation and ulceration of the urethra, with 
burning and stinging pains. Inflammation of the bladder. Urine 304 
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[Nitric Acid. 
has a strong odor like horses' urine. Urine albuminous, with pain 
in the region of the kidneys. Urine bloody. 
Sexual Organs: Ulceration of the penis; the ulcers are 
elevated, with sensitive edges, sharp, splinter-like 
pains. Soreness and burning in the glans penis and 
beneath the prepuce when urinating. Ulcers on the 
corona glandis, exuding an offensive matter. Excres- 
cences offensive and bleeding on touch. Vesicles appear 
on the prepuce that ulcerate and burn and sting, be- 
coming covered with a thick matter. Swelling of the 
prepuce, with burning pain and the development of 
small ulcers, exuding a bloody, offensive matter, with 
sticking and tearing pains, < evening and night. 
Menstruation earlier; soreness and itching of the ex- 
ternal genitals, with the development of ulcers, exuding 
yellow or bloody matter, which is offensive. Leucor- 
rhoea brown, flesh-colored, stringy, greenish, offensive, 
< after menstruation. The hair on the genitals of 
both sexes falls off. 
Respiratory Organs: Voice hoarse, especially after 
long talking, with scratching and stinging in the 
trachea. Cough usually short and dry, caused by a 
feeling of constriction in the throat, < fore part of the 
night, preventing sleep until towards morning, with a 
feeling as if the chest were tightly bound, often with 
stitches in the small of the back. Dry, barking cough 
in the evening after lying down. Cough causes anxiety 
and vomiting of mucus and food. Stitches in the sides 
of the chest. Whistling rales on inspiration. A feel- 
ing of soreness in the chest when coughing and breath- 
ing. Chest seems filled by a rush of blood, with heat 
and anxious palpitation. 
Heart and Pulse: Anxious constriction about the 
heart, sometimes with palpitation in the evening in 
bed, or on ascending steps, with anxiety. Pulse small 
and weak ; intermittent, irregular and fluttering. 
Neck and Back: Stiffness in the nape of the neck, 
with stitches between the scapulae. Nux Mos.] 
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Extremities: General uneasiness, with drawing pains. 
Tearing and drawing in the arms, especially below the 
elbows. Tearing and drawing in the lower extremities 
as if in the bones. A feeling of gnawing in the bones 
and pulling in the sinews of the lower extremities, < 
night. Legs restless in the evening. Weakness of the 
knees. Cramp in the calves when walking. 
Skin: General yellowness, with constipation. Dark 
spots like freckles. Redness and heat in the hands and 
feet as though they had been frozen, or like chilblains. 
Stinging or burning pains in old ulcers or in warts. 
Sleep: Starts in fright on falling asleep. Frequent 
waking and inability to fall asleep again after a long 
time. Sobbing during sleep, with anxious dreams. 
Fever: General external coldness. Constant chilli- 
ness. Heat and sweat, with great weakness after eat- 
ing. Dry heat at night, with much thirst. Sweat 
usually in the morning, especially on the soles of the 
feet, causing soreness, with sticking pains as if walk- 
ing on pins. Sweat offensive at night,especially in the 
feet and in the axillae. 
NUX MOSCHATA. 
General Action: Attacks of syncope, with threatening 
cardiac failure and cold extremities. Extreme dryness 
of the skin and mucous membranes. Twitchings and 
general spasms. 
Generalities: Great weakness ; faintness. Weakness, 
especially of the back and knees, with sleepiness. 
Great sensitiveness to parts upon which one lies. 
Symptoms < cold, wet weather; > external warmth. 
Mind: Extremely changeable mood, laughing and 
crying in rapid succession. Inability to think. Absence 
of mind; cannot finish what he he begins, but stands 
in a dazed condition. While writing his thoughts 
vanish entirely. Thought slow and difficult; waits a 
long time before answering. Omits letters and syllables 306 
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[Nux Mos. 
when writing, and is incoherent when expressing her 
thoughts. Loss of memory. Momentary attacks of 
unconsciousness, which seem to last a long time. Com- 
plete loss of ideas, so that one thinks they had been 
asleep. 
Head: Head feels heavy and drops forward or rolls 
about on the shoulders involuntarily; must hold it with 
both hands. Fulness; a distended feeling in the head, 
painless. Violent pain in a small spot in the left side 
of the forehead. The pain feels loose on moving it or 
on walking, < hot weather. 
Eyes: Excessive dryness, reading is difficult, eyes 
close as from sleepiness. Pupils dilated and insensible. 
Objects seem very large, especially in the evening. 
Nose: Dryness and stoopage of the nostrils. Over- 
sensitiveness of smell and then loss of smell. 
Face: Face generally pale, though the cheeks are 
sometimes hot and red. 
Mouth: Lips, mouth and throat perfectly dry, with- 
out thirst. Sticking toothache, > external warmth ; < 
cold wet weather, in the evening. Teeth feel as though 
they were covered with chalk. 
Stomach: Unnatural appetite, with hasty eating. 
Chalky taste, or as if he had eaten excessively of salt 
food. Deathly nausea on raising the head from the 
pillow. Nausea when riding in a carriage. 
Abdomen: Tension; a feeling of heaviness in the 
upper abdomen. Cutting and twisting about the navel, 
though with sleepiness. Numerous flatulent symptoms, 
disturbing sleep. 
Stool: Stool soft but difficult, indolent. Diarrhoea 
like beaten eggs, undigested, with sleepiness. 
Urinary Organs: Frequent micturition, sometimes in- 
voluntary. Urine smells like violets. 
Sexual Organs: Menstruation irregular, even sup- 
pressed. with persistent attacks of fainting. Obstinate 
uterine haemorrhage of thick, dark blood. Nux Vomica.] 
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Respiratory Organs: Voice hoarse, unsteady or lost 
entirely (aphonia). Hoarseness, caused by walking 
against the wind. Oppression of the chest, with a 
feeling as if the blood rushed towards the heart and 
then spread over the- whole body. Paroxysms of 
suffocation. Constriction, or a feeling of a heavy 
weight on the chest. 
Heart: A feeling of sudden rush of blood to the 
heart. Palpitation, with attacks of faintness. 
Neck and Back: Pain in the back as if bruised or 
broken, riding in a carriage. 
Extremities: Numbness. Tingling in the toes as after 
being frozen, with pain in the soles, as if bruised. 
Sleep: Overpowering sleepiness (with all symptoms). 
Fever: Chilliness, with pale face, especially on un- 
covering, and in cold wet air. Febrile attacks, with 
sleepiness, without thirst, with dry mouth and throat. 
Internal fever, with cold, dry skin. General absence of 
perspiration. 
NUX VOMICA. 
General Action: Muscular spasms* with general 
hypersesthesia, without impairment of consciousness. 
Irregular peristaltis of stomach and bowels, followed 
by or associated with gastro-intestinal catarrh. Clearly 
defined paroxysms of chill, fever and sweat. 
Generalities: Twitchings or convulsions, < the 
slightest touch and noise. Spasms, with tetanic rigid- 
ity of muscles. Opisthotonos. Contractive pains 
throughout the whole body. A general bruised feeling 
in the morning in bed. Extremely impressionable; 
takes cold from the slightest draft. General inclina- 
tion to sit or lie, with dread of movement and of the 
open air. Alternating sensations of heaviness and 
lightness of the body. A "general lean and hungry 
look." Effects of the continued use of stimulants, of 
loss of sleep, and of sedentary habits. General aggra- 308 
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[Nux Vomica. 
vation from exerting the mind, from motion and slight 
touch, though hard pressure sometimes affords relief. 
Symptoms morning on waking, and after eating. 
Symptoms which occur in the open air and on moving 
about, are > in the house and during rest and vice 
versa. 
Mind: Very irritable and ill humored; quarrelsome, 
even to violence. Hypochondriac mood, especially 
after eating. Very sensitive to all kinds of impres- 
sions; all the senses intolerant; intolerant of noise, 
talking, music and singing. Cannot endure the slightest 
contradiction. Dread of mental work, especially in the 
morning. Unable to think connectedly. Easily makes 
mistakes. Time seems very long. 
Head : Confused pain in the morning in bed, on wak- 
ing. Head feels heavy and dizzy in the morning. 
Heaviness and pressure, as if he had not slept, upon 
rising, <( moving the eyes, getting better in the even- 
ing. General heat in the head. Brain feels bruised. 
Headache, associated with nausea and vomiting. One- 
sided headache; < coughing. Headache generally >> 
walking in the open air. Head externally sensitive to 
slight touch. Vertigo, as if intoxicated, on rising up- 
or after eating and coffee. 
Eyes: Inflammation, with photophobia, itching and 
biting; lachrymation. A smarting dryness in the inner 
corner of the eye in the morning early. Margins of 
the lids sore as if rubbed. Photophobia in the morn- 
ing. The lower portion of the eyeball is yellow. 
Vision obscured and even lost (especially from alcohol 
or tobacco). 
Ears: Shooting, tearing pains. Pain on swallowing, 
as from outward pressure. An irritation in the Eus- 
tachian tube compels frequent swallowing, and dis- 
turbs rest at night. 
Nose: Coryza, with sneezing in the morning; with 
scraping in the throat, headache, heat of the face, Nux Vomica.] 
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chilliness. Coryza: fluent in the morning and during 
the day, but stopped at night. The nostrils internally 
are sensitive and inflamed. The nostrils internally 
seems dry, with occasional watery discharge; < dry, 
cold weather, though < in the house, and > open air. 
The margins of the nostrils sore, as if ulcerated. 
Face: Color often pale, yellowish, especially around 
the nose, eyes and mouth. Tearing pains in the cheek 
bones. Painful peeling of the lips. Tetanic contrac- 
tion of the muscles of the jaws, like lockjaw. 
Mouth: Toothache like a soreness or burrowing, 
<Z mental exertion. Tearing in the teeth and jaws, ex- 
tending into the bones of the face, < cold drink and > 
warmth. Gums swollen, white or bleeding. Tongue 
coated white. Painful blisters on the tongue. Articu- 
lation and speech difficult, tongue seems heavy when 
talking. Taste bad in the morning. Sour taste, 
< after eating and drinking. Bread has a bitter taste. 
Dryness of the mouth, though sometimes an increase of 
saliva in the fauces. Very offensive odor to the breath 
in the morning. 
Throat: Throat feels rough and scraped, especially on 
inhaling cold air. A feeling of a plug in the throat on 
swallowing. Stitches extend into the ear when swal- 
lowing. Pain extends from pharynx to pit of stomach. 
Pharynx feels constricted; swallowing impeded. 
Stomach: Unnatural hunger at times, but with aver- 
sion to food, especially to bread, coffee and tobacco. 
Thirst in the morning; also with aversion to water 
and beer; a desire for brandy. Nausea and distress in 
the stomach from bread and acid food, though fat food 
is well tolerated. A general aggravation from cold, 
but relief from warm food. Sour eructations. 
Uprisings of water. Rancid heartburn, especially after 
acid and fat food. Violent hiccough. Nausea in the 
morning or after eating, and from smoking. Retching 
and vomiting from clearing the throat. Vomiting of 310 
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[Nux Vomica. 
sour mucus. Vomiting of food, of blood, of bile. 
Scraped, raw feeling in the pit of the stomach. A 
feeling of a stone in the pit of the stomach, < walking. 
Stomach feels overloaded after eating, with distention 
of abdomen and dyspnoea. Cramp in the stomach in 
the morning and after eating, extending to the back, 
between the shoulders. Burning in the stomach. 
General intolerance of all drinks; of brandy and coffee. 
Clinical In general, indigestion, with extreme distress, as if the 
stomach were knotted up, with bitter and sour eructations, bad taste. 
Persistent nausea and vomiting; vomiting spasmodic, with great dis- 
tress, aggravated by eating. Irritable stomach, with violent pains, 
aggravated by eating. Indigestion, with pains around the sides of 
the chest and in the back. Inflammation and irritability of the 
stomach, caused by drinks, alcoholic stimulants or coffee. General 
intolerance of pressure over the stomach, though the pain is some- 
times aggravated by hard pressure and vomiting. 
Abdomen: A feeling of stricture around the hypo- 
chondria. Region of the liver sore, sticking pains < 
pressure and motion. Numerous flatulent symptoms, 
< eating and drinking. Pain as before diarrhoea after 
taking cold; the bowels feel sore on every step. A 
weight as if everything would fall down, must walk 
carefully. Dragging downward from the sides to the 
hypogastric region or uterine organs in women. Pain 
in the inguinal rings, as if hernia would protrude or 
become incarcerated. 
Clinical. Numerous indications for enlarged liver, with great sore- 
ness. General uneasy feeling in the bowels, with desire for stool. 
Jaundice resulting from anger or from the habitual use of alcoholic 
drinks. General relaxation of the abdominal muscles, which favors 
the development of hernia, especially with constipation. 
Rectum and Stool: An ineffectual urging to stool, 
often with constriction, with sensation as if the stool 
were incomplete. Sharp pains in the rectum after 
stool and after eating or from exerting the mind. 
Haemorrhoids, with burning and cutting soreness. 
Stools sometimes loose, dark-colored, especially in the 
morning and after eating. In general, constipation, 
with uneasiness in the intestines as from irregular eon- Nux Vomica.] 
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striction. Stool often mixed with mucus and blood. 
Constipation and diarrhoea alternate. (The diarrhoea 
then consists of frequent small stools, with backache 
and a feeling as if more were to be evacuated.) 
Urinary Organs: Ineffectual urging to urinate. Re- 
tention of urine. Burning in the neck of the bladder 
during micturition, with tearing pains. Burning and 
itching in the urethra when urinating. Urine usually 
turbid, with a yellowish sediment or bloody. 
Sexual Organs: Unnatural sexual appetite, especially 
in the morning in bed. Nocturnal emissions, witji 
lascivious dreams. Menstruation too early, profuse, 
of dark or black blood, with great pain, constant 
desire to evacuate the bowels and bladder, irritable 
disposition, pain in the sacrum as if it would break. 
All the symptoms are < immediately after menstru- 
ation, or new symptoms appear. 
Respiratory Organs: The larynx feels rough and 
scraped, which provokes cough. Cough caused by ad- 
herent mucus in the trachea, < morning on rising. 
A feeling of constriction in the air passages, with 
mucus which must be forcibly expectorated. Itching 
and scraping under the middle of the sternum, provok- 
ing cough. Cough dry after midnight; violent in the 
morning before rising, even with expectoration of 
blood. Cough after motion or mental effort. Cough, 
with spitting headache and bruised feeling in the 
abdominal muscles. Cough dry evening and night, 
expectoration during the day. Cough > warm drinks. 
Hoarseness, with scratching in the throat and larynx. 
Dyspnoea in the morning and evening, or at night 
when waking from frightful dreams. Scraping in the 
chest causes cough. Asthmatic constriction across the 
chest, <Z walking, or singing. A feeling of rawness 
extends from sternum to each side of the chest on 
coughing and breathing. Pain as from a weight on 
the-chest. 312 
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[Nux Vomica. 
Heart and Pulse: Heart's action irregular, rapid. 
Palpitation, from mental emotions or study; or after 
stimulants; after eating. Pulse rapid and irregular, at 
times intermitting. 
Neck and Back: Paroxysms of tearing pain in the 
nape of the neck. Drawing in the muscles of the 
nape. Bruised and tearing pains in the back, < morn- 
ing, extending down to the hips. The lumbar region 
feels bruised and lame, < bending forward; sometimes 
<Z night in bed. Drawing pains extend from the small 
of the back into the shoulders. 
Extremities: Spasmodic drawing or bruised pain in 
the joints, when lying, )> rising. < morning. Trem- 
blings. Jerkings. A paralytic heaviness in the shoul- 
ders. The hands seem to fall asleep. Lower extrem- 
ities unsteady. Stiffness under the knees as if the 
tendons were too short, on rising from a seat. Tensive 
pains in the calves. The gait is tottering and unsteady, 
the knees " knock under." The feet feel asleep and 
dead. (The feet are shuffled along when walking, and 
not lifted.) 
Skin: Painful swellings of pimples, here and there, 
especially on the chin and face. Acne of the face. 
Sleep: Very sleepy in the evening, but sleepless after 
midnight, then falls asleep late in the morning; is un- 
refreshed on waking. Tendency to lie on the back, 
with the arms under the head. Sleepiness only after 
daybreak, finally waking stupid and dull. The morn- 
ing sleep always aggravates the symptoms. 
Fever: Chill, with backache on the slightest motion, 
with blue nails; begins as early as 3 A. M.; heat, with 
thirst (usually). Heat even before the chill and during 
it. Sweat rather light, but giving relief to the pains. 
Clinical. Intermittent fever, anticipating paroxysms, morning chill, 
with blue nails, yawning, backache, even mixed with fever; must be 
covered up during the fever; perspiration light. Oleander.] 
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OLEANDER. 
General Action: General paralysis, with weak, ir- 
regular pulse, follows convulsions. Its action upon the 
skin, especially scalp, has been frequently confirmed. 
Generalities: Stiffness and paralysis of the limbs, 
without pain. A feeling of tension throughout the 
whole body. Attacks of faintness and weakness. Trem- 
bling of the knees when standing or of the hands when 
writing. 
Mind: Confusion; difficult to understand reading or 
to speak connectedly. Loss of memory. Distrust of 
himself. 
Head: V ertigo on rising up. Stupefying pressure, 
particularly in the forehead, as if it would burst. Head 
feels very heavy, > lying. Gnawing itching of the 
scalp, particularly on occiput, with a moist, scaly erup- 
tion; itching at first > scratching, but followed by 
smarting. 
Eyes: A feeling of tension in the lids when reading; 
lachrymation when reading; double vision (forcibly 
squinting the eyes seems to relieve the headache). 
Stomach: Ravenous hunger and hasty eating, with- 
out real appetite. Thirst for cold water. Violent 
empty eructations. Vomiting of food or greenish 
water, followed by hunger and thirst. Beating in the 
pit of the stomach. 
Abdomen: Flatulent symptoms, rumbling and gur- 
gling. 
Rectum and Stool: Burning in the anus. Undigested 
stools, sometimes watery or even involuntary. 
Chest and Heart: A feeling of emptiness and coldness 
in the chest. Stitches in the region of the diaphragm. 
Anxious palpitation. Drawing pain in the region of 
the heart, < stooping and expiration. Pulse irregular 
and variable. 
Extremities: Lower extremities particularly, seem 
N 314 
a primer of 
[Onos. Vir. 
asleep and weak when walking. A kind of buzzing 
sensation in the legs, particularly in the soles of the 
feet. 
Skin: Sensitive to rubbing; it easily becomes red 
and sore. Biting, itching on undressing, with burning- 
after scratching. 
ONOSMODIUM VIRGINIANUM. 
Head: Dull heavy pain, pressing upward in the occi- 
put with vertigo. Pain in occiput and forehead in the 
morning on waking. 
Clinical. Headaches caused by straining the eyes, with strained 
feeling in the eye, or also associated with troubles in the ears and 
vertigo. 
Eyes: Eyes feel strained, especially on reading. The 
retina and optic nerve becomes congested. The eye- 
balls pain and lids are sore and heavy. 
OPIUM. 
General Action: Stupor and profound coma, with ir- 
regular, stertorous respiration; contracted pupils. 
Pulse slow and feeble, skin cool and moist; finally 
failure of respiration. Rarely delirium and convul- 
sions. Diminished secretions, obstinate constipation, 
retention of urine; reflex irritability increased, then 
lost. 
Generalities: Emaciation. Tremblings, twitchings, 
convulsions, often with terrible pains; with groaning, 
screaming and biting; difficult, irregular respiration; 
paroxysmal. The whole body becomes rigid in parox- 
ysms. A feeling of humming and buzzing throughout 
the whole body. Flesh becomes insensible. Symptoms 
are generally < becoming heated. 
Mind: Delirium, with frightful visions. Vivid fancies, 
sometimes amounting to ecstacy. Starts at the least 
noise or is fearful of impending death. Becomes im- 
becile. Dull, stupid; complete insensibility, with ster- 
torous respiration. Opium.) 
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Head: Rush of blood to the head. Heaviness. Dull 
headache; < moving the eyes. 
Eyes: Eyes congested, with contracted pupils (rarely 
dilated and insensible). Paralysis of the upper lids. 
Face: Face hot, puffy, dusky red, with distended 
blood vessels. Facial muscles relaxed and hanging 
down. Face covered with profuse sweat. Cramps of 
the muscles, especially about the mouth. 
Mouth: General dryness, with inability to swallow. 
Frothing at the mouth. Paralysis of the tongue ; diffi- 
cult speech. 
Throat: Paralysis of the pharynx so that it is impos- 
sible to swallow. 
Stomach: Aversion to all food. Unquenchable thirst. 
Ineffectual efforts to vomit. Vomiting of food; green, 
of bile, with violent pains in the stomach and convul- 
ions. Fecal vomiting. 
Abdomen: Distention from flatulence, with cutting 
pains. Intestines seem to have lost the power to expel 
their contents. Colic, with spasmodic closure of anus. 
Tympanitis. 
Stool: Diarrhoea, with burning in the anus. Stools 
involuntary. Tenesmus, with stools. Extreme con- 
stipation from inactivity of intestines; feces hard and 
dark brown. 
Urinary Organs: Retention of urine from paralysis of 
the bladder; urine passed only after long effort. Urine 
often scanty, red. 
Sexual Organs: Clinical. Suppressed menstruation from fright. 
Cessation of labor pains, with coma and twitchings. Puerperal con- 
vulsions. 
Respiratory Organs: Respiration stertorous or rattling; 
difficult, intermittent, suffocative. Cough, arresting 
breath; becomes blue in the face. Cough, with frothy 
expectoration of bloody mucus. Cough dry and rack- 
ing, from tickling in the larynx, < night, > water. 
Expectoration scanty, tenacious. 316 
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[Osmium. 
Heart and Pulse: Pulse irregular, feeble, soft, some- 
times slow, with stertorous breathing. 
Back and Extremities: Drawing in the dorsal muscles 
and bending backward of the body. Trembling of the 
limbs or numbness, with swelling of the veins. 
Sleep: Irresistible sleepiness, with slow pulse, moist 
skin, heavy stertorous or snoring respiration. 
Fever: Cold extremities and coldness of the surface 
of the body generally, with warmth of the head. Dry 
burning heat, with glowing heat of the face. Hot 
sweat over the whole body. Febrile paroxysms char- 
acterized by stupor, snoring respiration and twitching 
of the limbs. 
Clinical. Clearly marked type of intermittent fever is produced 
and cured by this drug. Thirst is not always present. 
OSMIUM. 
General Action; Violent irritation and catarrh of the 
whole respiratory tract, with tenacious mucus. Kid- 
neys become inflamed. True glaucoma of the eyes is 
produced and cured. 
Eyes: Glaucoma, with violent pains and lachryma- 
tion, pains above and below the eyes, candlelight sur- 
rounded by a rainbow circle of green colors especially 
predominating. 
Nose: Fluent coryza, with violent sneezing, running 
from the nose, which feels as though it were stopped 
with mucus. 
Respiratory Organs: Acute laryngitis, with cough and 
expectoration of tough, stringy mucus, sore pain and 
rawness in larynx and trachea; hoarseness < in the 
house and singing; scraping and pain in larynx. 
Cough convulsive and feeling as though membrane 
would be torn out of larynx. 
OXALIC ACID. 
General Action: Gastro-enteritis. Inflammation of 
the spinal cord and motor paralysis. Stupor, convul- Oxalic Acid.] 
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sions and collapse, with irregular pulse. Pains in 
small spots; transient, violent, < motion and thinking 
of them. 
Mouth: Inflammation; salivation, with aphthae. 
Stomach: Eructations after eating. Vomiting, with 
griping and twisting pain. Violent heartburn, especi- 
ally in the evening, >> eructations and eating. 
Abdomen: Burning pain, worse about navel, < even- 
ing and at night. 
Stool: Involuntary, watery, mixed with blood. Diar- 
rhoea, < coughing. Dysentery preceded by colic, with 
much ineffectual urging. 
Urinary Organs: Clinical. Oxaluria, with pyrosis, pains in the back 
and extremities; weakness. 
Sexual Organs: Bruised pain in the testicles and 
shooting along the spermatic cord; < motion. 
Respiratory Organs: Breathing spasmodic, difficult, 
with constriction in the larynx and chest. Dry cough 
< violent exertion, with swelling and dryness in the 
larynx, soreness and pains in the chest. 
Heart and Pulse: Palpitation. Irregular action of 
the heart; < lying down at night. Pulse very feeble, 
often scarcely perceptible, with cold, clammy sweat. 
Livid extremities. 
Back and Extremities: Pains extending to the thighs. 
Bruised sensation from the shoulders to the hips and 
in the extremities. Numbness and weakness in the 
limbs; could not ascend the steps. Numbness and 
tingling in the thighs. 
Clinical. Violent pains, starting from the spine and extending 
through the extremities, with tenderness of the spine, numbness 
and weakness of the back and legs; numbness of the whole body, 
witli coldness and motor paralysis. Drawing and lancinating pains, 
involving the left lung and heart, with dyspnoea. Spinal pains, 
shooting down the extremities, with dyspnoea and numbness. Lower 
extremities become cold, blue anol immovable. Lameness and stiff- 
ness. 
Fever: Cold extremities and livid nails, especially in 
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[Paeonia. 
PTE ONI A. 
Rectum and Stool: The anal orifice feels swollen, with 
biting itching, burning after stool, then internal chilli- 
ness. Sudden pasty diarrhoea, with faintness in abdo- 
men and burning in the anus. 
Clinical. Haemorrhoids, with ulceration; anal orifice purple and 
covered witii crusts, ulcerated, fissured, exquisitely painful; evacua- 
tion followed by burning and biting. Exudation of offensive moist- 
ure. 
Skin: Painful ulcer on perinuem near anus, oozes of- 
fensive moisture. 
Clinical. Abscess below the coccyx. Ulcers on the leg and other 
parts of the body. 
PALLADIUM. 
Head: Pain across the vertex as if head were swing- 
ing backward and forward, shaking the brain. 
Sexual Organs: Clinical. Pain in the right ovary, a drawing down- 
ward during and after menstruation, aggravated by standing and 
moving, ameliorated by rubbing and lying down, with prolapsed 
feeling of the uterus, headache and nausea, glairy leucorrhoea, sore- 
ness in the right side of abdomen. Pains shooting down the right 
thigh; pain in liver and spleen, also flatulence and constipation; fre- 
quent micturition. Glairy leucorrhoea before and after menstrua- 
tion, with heaviness and weight. Right ovary swollen and indurated, 
with soreness and shooting pain from navel to breasts. Uterine dis- 
placement, with pains in back and hips and cold extremities. Gen- 
eral amelioration when lying on left side. 
PAREIRA BRAVA. 
Clinical. Cystitis; violent urging to urinate and straining, aggra- 
vated after midnight; can urinate only on the knees and bending 
forward; urine scalds urethra; with violent pain in the thighs, ag- 
gravated after micturition. Urine ammoniacal, with thick, white 
mucus. 
PARIS QUADRIFOLIA. 
Generalities: Shooting pains or twinges. Heaviness 
of the whole body. 
Head: Sticking pains in the middle of the head 
and temples; weight on forehead; < stooping. Fron- 
tal pain, and a feeling as if a thread were being drawn 
through the eye to middle of thediead. Heaviness in Petroleum.] 
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the occiput. Headaches; < mental effort. Scalp and 
skin of forehead sore to touch. 
Clinical. Neuralgia, especially from tobacco and tea. 
Eyes: Burning in the eyes. Lachrymation. Eye- 
balls feel too large. A feeling of a string drawing the 
eyes into the head. 
Face: Shooting pains in the left malar bone, which 
becomes sore to the touch. 
Back: Pain in the spine, extending upward and 
downward from the lower cervical vertebra, with sore- 
ness on the top of the head. Neuralgia of the coccyx. 
PETROLEUM. 
Generalities: Emaciation. Takes cold easily. Aver- 
sion to open air. General feeling of indolence and 
heaviness or weakness, even in bed in the morning. 
Flushes of heat, orgasm of blood and sweat after a little 
physical effort or any emotional excitement. Symp- 
toms caused by riding in a wagon or on the water. 
General amelioration from warm air. 
Mind: Illusion of some one lying by his side in the 
bed. 
Head: Leaden heaviness in the occiput; pressure or 
pinching. Pain in the occiput extends to the vertex, 
with vertigo, stiff neck. Pulsation in the occiput. A 
feeling as if the contents of the head were alive. The 
scalp is painful as if suppurating or as if it had been 
bruised. Eruptions on the scalp, particularly towards 
the nape. 
Eyes: Inflammation, with burning, pressure, stitches 
and itching. Inner canthus swollen and inflamed, 
with dryness. 
Clinical. Inflammation of the margins of the lids, with smarting, 
stinging and dryness. Threatening lachrymal fistula. 
Ears: Obstinate dryness. The meatus inHamed and 
painful. A discharge of blood and pus. Diminished 
hearing, with roaring and ringing. Pain in the occi- 320 
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[Petroleum. 
put and in the Eustachian tubes. Moist eruption 
behind the ears. 
Nose: Nostrils dry, ulcerated and stopped. Forma- 
tion of scabs, covering ulcers; discharge of purulent 
matter. Margins of nostrils cracked and ulcerated. 
Mouth: Cracking of the lips and scurfiness around 
the mouth. Joints of the jaw easily dislocated, with 
great pain. Back teeth painful at night and on in- 
haling cold air. Dental fistula. Mouth pasty and dry. 
Tongue white. Taste sour or slimy. 
Throat: Very dry, with shooting pains on swallow- 
ing. Rawness in the pharynx. Pain on swallowing 
extends to the ears. 
Stomach: Ravenous hunger and speedy satiety. Great 
aversion to meat and fat. Great thirst. Sour and bit- 
ter eructations. Persistent nausea ; at times with ac- 
cumulation of water in the mouth. Nausea incessant, 
often with sudden heat of the face and vertigo, with 
pains in the occiput; cutting in abdomen and diar- 
rhoea; violent vomiting. General amelioration by 
eating. 
Clinical. Nausea and vomiting of pregnancy. Seasickness, with 
occipital pain. Gastralgia, with coldness and faintness in abdomen. 
Abdomen: Distention. Cutting pains after eating, 
with nausea and vomiting; > bending up. 
Rectum and Stool: Burning in anus. Haemorrhoids 
and fissures in anus. Stool generally hard and un- 
satisfactory. Diarrhoea pi-eceded by colic; profuse, 
bloody mucus, often involuntary, with soreness along 
the colon. 
Urinary Organs: Bladder weak, urine dribbles after 
urinating. Micturition involuntary. Burning in the 
urethra. Urine bloody, turbid, depositing a red, slimy, 
adherent sediment; albuminous, containing casts, 
with an iridescent film. 
Sexual Organs: Redness, soreness and moisture 
around the scrotum and perineum, with an itching Petroselinum.] 
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eruption. Soreness and moisture about the female or- 
gans. Menses too early, discharge causes itching and 
soreness. 
Respiratory Organs: Dry cough at night, coming from 
deep in the chest and caused by scratching in the 
throat. Hoarseness. Oppression of the chest, < cold 
air. 
Heart: Coldness in the region of the heart. 
Neck and Back: Stiffness and weakness in the neck 
and back. Pain in the coccyx when sitting; pain in 
the small of the back so that he could not stand. 
Extremities: General stiffness and bruised pain. 
Shooting or burning pains in corns. 
Skin: Generally unhealthy; rough and cracked,with 
cutting and sticking. Moist, denuded spots appear in 
the folds, with itching. Tendency to proud flesh. 
Clinical. Moist eruptions, with cracking and rawness. Fissures in 
the tips of the fingers, aggravated by cold weather. Herpes and 
eczema on the hands or about the ears and nape of the neck. 
Fever: Chilliness, in open air, with headache and 
cold face and hands. Sweat follows immediately after 
the chill. Flushes of heat, particularly of the face and 
head; < night. Perspiration on the feet. 
PETROSELINUM. 
Urinary Organs: Symptoms located principally in the 
navicula fossa; burning when urinating, followed by 
cutting and biting. Urethritis, with milky discharge. 
Frequent urging to urinate, with symptoms of acute 
inflammation of bladder and urethra; symptoms located 
in the navicula fossa. 
PHELLANDRIUM. 
Head: Heaviness as if a hard body were crushing in 
vertex. 
Eyes: Clinical. Ciliary neuralgia, with photophobia, inflammation, 
lachrymation, weight on the vertex, aggravation on attempting to 
use the eyes. 
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[Phos. Acid. 
Sexual Organs: Menstruation flowing only morning 
and evening, profuse. 
Respiratory Organs: Clinical- Bronchitis, rapid respiration; must 
sit up when coughing, extremely offensive expectoration. 
Chest: Violent, neuralgic pain, like a stitch through 
the right breast to the back between the shoulders, 
then down the right side to sacrum, < breathing, 
(neuralgia of nursing women). 
PHOSPHORIC ACID. 
Generalities: Weakness, with apathy. General free 
discharges. Bruised pains throughout the body and 
limbs, <Z morning. Scraping pains in periosteum of 
all the bones. Formication over the body. General 
coldness of the surface of the body. General relief by 
motion ; pains felt during rest. 
Clinical. Results of sexual excesses. Consequences of grief and 
disappointment. 
Mind: Indifference; unwilling to speak. Difficult to 
collect his thoughts; unable to find the right word or 
to remember. 
Clinical. In low types of fever a dullness of comprehension from 
which the patient may be roused with difficulty to collect his thoughts 
and answers, after which he sinks back into a state of stupor. 
Head: Pressure as from a weight on the vertex; a 
general dull headache, especially after coition. Hair 
turns gray and falls out early in life. The headache is 
< shaking the head or by exerting the mind. 
Eyes: Eyes lustreless. A feeling as if the eyeballs 
were too large. Burning in the eyelids and corners of 
the eyes in the evening by the light. Margins of the 
lids inflamed; the lashes fall out. 
Ears: Difficult hearing, with roaring in the ears. 
Face: Color generally pale, earthy, with dark rims 
around the eyes. A feeling of tension on the skin of 
the face as if white of egg had dried on it. Lips dry, 
encrusted. 
Mouth: Gums bleed easily. Mouth is generally dry. Phos. Acid.] 
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Tongue pale, coated with thick, tough mucus; swollen, 
bites the tongues involuntarily. 
Stomach: Loss of appetite; desire for refreshing or 
juicy things. Unquenchable thirst, caused by a feel- 
ing of dryness throughout the whole body (though 
absence of thirst does not contra-indicate the drug). 
Pressure in the stomach as from a weight, with sleepi- 
ness, especially after eating. Bitter eructations after 
eating sour food. 
Clinical. Symptoms following sour food and drink. 
Abdomen: A constrictive pain about the naval. 
Gurgling in abdomen as from water. Numerous flatu- 
lent symptoms. 
Stool: Diarrhoea, involuntary. Evacuations thin, 
whitish-gray; pasty, bright yellow ; undigested; pain- 
less. 
Urinary Organs; Frequent, rapid, irresistible urging 
to urinate. Frequent micturition, at M times, with 
scanty discharge. Urine as clear as water, often pro- 
fuse, especially at night from 10 to 3. At times as 
white as milk. Micturition preceded by anxiety and 
restlessness, or followed by burning. 
Clinical. Diabetes, with aching in the small of the back; excessive 
thirst, mental apathy. 
Sexual Organs: Persistent erections early in the 
morning in bed or during sleep, followed by involun- 
tary emissions. Emissions at night without erections; 
when pressing at stool. Swelling of the testicles and 
spermatic cord. Loss of sexual desire. 
Respiratory Organs: Cough dry from tickling, as with 
a feather in the middle of the chest above the pit of 
the stomach, < in evening after lying down. Expec- 
toration in the morning, salty. Expectoration in small 
masses; at times purulent and offensive; rarely bloody. 
Respiration difficult. Sense of great weakness in the 
chest. 
Heart: Pulse soft, at times irregular or intermittent. 
Palpitation. 324 
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[Phosphorus. 
Back: Boring pains between the scapulae. Burning 
in a spot above the small of the back. 
Extremities: General weakness. Various pains in the 
lower limbs from the hip dowmward, usually < night, > 
towards morning. 
Sleep: General drowsiness and apathy. Sleep filled 
with lascivious dreams, with emissions, at times with 
erections. 
Fever: Predominating chilliness and coldness; heat 
towards evening, sweat in the morning. Febrile 
paroxysms, usually without thirst, with debility, 
stupor, painless diarrhoea, deafness. 
PHOSPHORUS. 
General Action: A universal tissue remedy. Acute 
gastro-enteritis, with destructive processes and predom- 
inating haemorrhages. Acute inflammation and degen- 
eration of the liver. Acute inflammation of the kidneys. 
Inflammation of the respiratory tract and pleuro- 
pneumonia; spinal myelitis and paralysis, inflamma- 
tion and necrosis of bones; fatty degeneration of mus- 
cular tissue and other organs; general predisposition 
to haemorrhage. 
Generalities: General relaxation and emaciation. 
Persistent bleeding from small openings, even from 
free surfaces; the blood fluid and difficult to coagulate. 
Tendency to haemorrhage from all the orifices of the 
body, with feeble pulse and cold limbs. A general 
jaundiced hue. Muscular motion uncertain, like palsy, 
trembling. Numerous paralytic symptoms, with par- 
ticular loss of sensation so great that one is obliged to 
lie in bed; dread of all exertion, either mental or 
physical. General heaviness of the whole body ; espe- 
cially' a sensation of tightness about the chest. 
Increased tendency to take cold in the open air. 
Symptoms < change of weather. A general aggrava- 
tion in the morning, in the evening in bed, and after Phosphorus.] 
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eating. At times, symptoms appear while eating, and 
cease afterward. Aggravation from getting hands and 
feet wet and in hot weather. 
Mind: Delirium, loquacious, with difficult respiration. 
Delirium, that he was in several pieces and could not 
collect them. Erotic delirium, she uncovers herself. 
Spasmodic laughing and crying. Unable to make any 
mental effort, even to converse. Great anxiety and 
oppression, especially lying on the left side. Apathy ; 
is unwilling to talk and answers slowly; cannot keep 
the mind on any subject. Stupor: is aroused with diffi- 
culty and immediately relapses. 
Head: Vertigo in the morning on rising, sometimes 
with nausea and headache. Rush of blood to the 
head, with heat and throbbing. Fore part of the head 
seems heavy, pressed downward; pain extends into the 
root of the nose and eyes as if they would be pressed 
out. Headache < stepping hard, music, laughing, 
and in general < slight causes. Stupefying headache, 
with pale face. The hair becomes very dry and falls 
out, bald spots form. Dandruff, with great dryness of 
.the scalp and falling of the hair. 
Eyes: Upper lids swollen, moved with difficulty. 
Pupils dilated. Vision dim, > shading the eyes. 
Vision of green halo about the candlelight; of black 
floating points; like a black vail. Flickering, with 
roaring in the head. Eyes tire easily on reading. 
Ears: Hearing difficult, as if ears were stopped. 
Words and sounds re-echo in the ears. 
Nose: Swollen and red. Stopped and bleeding, dry- 
ness. Foul odor from the nose. Acute coryza, with 
stupid headache. A discharge of purulent mucus or 
of blood. 
Face: Usually pale, puffy, yellow. Face puffy, but 
with dark rings around the eyes, which seem to be 
sunken. Violent pains in the bones of the face, usually 326 
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[Phosphorus. 
associated with necrosis and numerous attendant 
symptoms. 
Mouth: Rapid decay of the teeth; tearing and shoot- 
ing pain in the teeth; < open air and warm food. 
Toothache in the morning when chewing. Gums 
swollen, bleeding easily, retracted from the teeth. 
Saliva increased, salt or sweet, of foul odor. Tongue 
swollen, chalky white or dry and black. Easy bleeding 
from erosions of the mucous membrane of the mouth. 
Throat: Dryness of the mouth and throat. Scraping 
and roughness in the fauces. 
Stomach: Loss of appetite, with feeling of fulness in 
throat. Ravenous hunger at times in the night, with 
desire for acids and spices. Unquenchable thirst, but 
lack of thirst is the usual accompaniment of fever. 
Eructations of food, empty ; vomiting of food or blood ; 
vomiting temporarily > ice-cold drinks, returning as 
the stomach becomes warm. Extreme faintness and 
goneness in the region of the stomach. Soreness in 
the pyloric extremity. Sensation of pressure, as from 
a hard substance or of a heaviness on the stomach. 
Clinical. Ulceration of the stomach, with haemorrhage; vomiting, 
temporarily relieved by cold drink. Violent gastralgia as from 
knives or burning, with external pressure. Burning, extending to 
the back. Gastric troubles, aggravated by hot weather. 
Abdomen; Numerous flatulent symptoms, tension, 
tympanitis, rumbling. A feeling of emptiness and 
sinking down. Coldness. Symptoms of inflammation 
of the liver; enlargement of the spleen. Inflammation 
of the pancreas, with greasy stools. 
Rectum and Stool: Smarting and burning in the rec- 
tum and anus, with exhaustion. Haemorrhage of the 
anus from the haemorrhoids or bowels. Diarrhoea, pre- 
ceded by rumbling, evacuations watery and slimy, 
undigested, with flakes of white mucus. Diarrhoea 
involuntary. Rectum does not retain its contents. 
Bloody stools, without tenesmus. 
Urinary Organs: Urine at times copious and color- Phosphorus.] 
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less, at others scanty and passed frequently. Bloody ; 
with pain in the region of the kidneys and liver, with 
jaundice. Urine covered with an irridescent film. 
Sediment white, sandy or flocculent, albuminous; con- 
taing fatty casts. 
Sexual Organs: Sexual desire increased, but with 
lack of power. Frequent emissions at night, even fol- 
lowing coition. Menstruation too frequent and scanty, 
usually bright red. Uterine haemorrhage between 
menses. Leucorrhoea, corrosive. 
Respiratory Organs: Rawness in the larynx, with 
hawking and hacking cough. Hoarseness, larynx 
seems coated, cannot speak aloud, with prostration. A 
sense of suffocation in the larynx and trachea, and 
especially across the upper part of the chest, as from a 
heavy weight. Cough caused by tickling or itching in 
the throat and chest; at times with rawness and 
usually with hoarseness; often dry, with bursting- 
headache, caused by cold air or using the voice. Ex- 
pectoration salty or even sometimes purulent, with 
tenacious mucus and blood. Numerous chest symp- 
toms, most especially oppression as from a heavy 
weight on the chest. Symptoms of inflammation of the 
larynx, with cough and bloody expectoration, always 
aggravation lying on the back or left side. Pneumonia, 
with fever, but without much pain, usually without 
thirst, with general prostration and apathy, but with 
aggravation from lying on the left side. General ten- 
dency to bloody expectoration, bright red, mixed with 
mucus. 
Heart and Pulse: Pain and anxiety in the region of 
the heart and palpitation; a sense of great pressure. 
Valvular murmurs, either anaemic or the result of or- 
ganic disease; aggravation lying on the left side. Pulse 
usually soft, compressible, rapid. 
Back: Sensitiveness of the spinous processes of the 
dorsal vertebrae and burning between the scapulae. 328 
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[Phytolacca 
General weakness of the spine, as if crushed, with weak- 
ness and trembling of the limbs on the least exertion. 
Extremities: Weakness and bruised pain,with heavi- 
ness of the hands and feet, and trembling so that he 
could scarcely hold anything with his hands. The arms 
feel stiff, lame and paralyzed. The hands fall asleep, 
are numb, the fingers feel like thumbs. Pain in the 
hip, as if wrenched, with drawing and tearing, extend- 
ing to knees; weakness of the legs and numbness, es- 
pecially of the the tips of the toes. The tibia is in- 
flamed and becomes necrosed with attendant symp- 
toms. Chilblains and corns develop on the toes. 
Skin: Jaundice. Petechije. Ecchymoses like pur- 
pura hsemorrhagica. Ulcers form and bleed easily, and 
will not heal. A general formication and numbness 
in the skin. 
Sleep: Persistent sleepiness during the day and 
before midnight; afterwards sleeplessness, with anxiety 
and restlessness, at times with fright or followed by 
prostration in the morning. During sleep frightful 
dreams. 
Fever: Shivering, worse in the evening and generally 
without thirst, coldness, particularly of the extremities, 
of the knees in bed. Heat at night, without thirst. 
At times, with unnatural hunger, followed by or alter- 
nating with chilliness; heat usually internal, some- 
times partial, as of one leg. Sweat general in the 
morning, on slight effort, exhausting at times, cold and 
clammy. A low type of continued fever, with stupid 
delirium, apathy, lack of thirst. 
PHYTOLACCA. 
Generalities: Convulsions. General sore, bruised 
feeling of the muscles, with stiffness. Prostration. 
Aggravation at night and in wet weather. Ameliora- 
tion of pains in the open air. 
Mind: Genera] indifference or even stupor. Phytolacca.] 
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Head: Internal soreness, < right side. Dull pain in 
one side of the forehead, with nausea and cold sweat. 
Vertigo, with dim vision and nausea, especially when 
rising from a bed, with faintness and cold sweat. 
Eyes: Inflammation, with a feeling of sand or of 
granulations; the edges of the lids seem raw. 
Clinical. Blepharitis, with little tumors in the margins of the lids, 
which are thickened and indurated or even ulcerated. Chronic oph- 
thalmia. Suppurative inflammation, intra-ocular. 
Ears: Pain on swallowing. A feeling of obstruction 
and irritation in the Eustachian tube. 
Nose: Pain at the root of the nose, with stoppage, 
with symptoms of coryza. 
Mouth: Irresistible inclination to bite the teeth 
together, though they are sometimes sore and feel 
elongated. Tip of the tongue red, with blisters on the 
sides. Pain at the root of the tongue on swallowing, 
extending into the throat. Saliva profuse and tena- 
cious. Metallic taste. 
Throat: Diffuse inflammation, with dryness, dark 
redness, swollen tonsils. Roughness, rawness and 
smarting in the throat. Pain on the right side of the 
throat, and feeling of a lump on swallowing; pains ex- 
tending into the Eustachian tube. Hawking, increased 
discharge from the posterior nares. General dryness 
and soreness, with inclination to hawk and shooting 
pains through the Eustachian tubes on attempting to 
swallow. 
Clinical. Catarrhal sore throat, with general stiffness of the mus- 
cles of the neck; aggravation on the right side. Diphtheritic throat, 
with albuminaria, soreness across the kidneys. 
Stomach: Vomiting of blood and mucus, with deathly 
nausea and faintness. Bruised, sore feeling in the pit 
of the stomach. 
Abdomen: Burning, griping pains. Flatulent symp- 
toms. 
Rectum and Stool: Neuralgic pains in the rectum, 
shooting along perineum to penis. Evacuations of 330 
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[Picric Acid. 
blood and mucus, like scrapings of intestines. Consti- 
pation from torpor. 
Urinary Organs: Urine scanty, even suppressed, with 
pains in the region of the kidneys. 
Clinical. Nephritis, with soreness over the kidneys, aggravated on 
right side; urine scanty, dark colored. 
Sexual Organs: Clinical. Ovarian neuralgia of the right side. 
Menses frequent and profuse, followed by leucorrhcea, with ulcer- 
ation of cervix. Inflammation and suppuration of mammary glands. 
Respiratory Organs: Larynx dry, with hoarseness and 
aphonia. Cough dry, croupy, with burning in the lar- 
ynx and trachea ; < night and in cold, damp weather. 
Heart and Pulse: Pain in the region of the heart, < 
walking; pain shoots into the right arm. 
Neck and Back: Neck stiff in the morning on waking, 
or < night on the right side. Shooting pains in the 
sacrum, extending down the hips to the feet, < motion, 
worse on the right side. Stiffness and lameness of the 
back every morning. Soreness in the region of the 
kidneys. - 
Extremities: Numerous pains, like rheumatism, in 
the extremities, particularly below the elbows and 
knees; pains are near the surface generally, attended 
with stiffness and lameness of the muscles; sometimes 
seem to be in the periosteum; are usually burning 
and < night and damp weather. Pains generally fly 
about. Sciatica; pain involves the right leg, espe- 
cially outer side of the thigh, < damp weather. Pains 
tearing, extending to the feet. 
Clinical. Shifting syphilitic or gonorrhoeal pains, often with swollen 
red joints and swollen glands, aggravated in damp weather. 
Skin: Clinical. Eruptions dry, like psoriasis, or moist, like herpes. 
Disposition to boils or carbuncles, with swollen glands and burning 
pains, aggravated at night. Scarlatina-like rash. 
PICRIC ACID. 
General Action: Disintegration of the blood. De- 
generation of spinal cord, with paralysis. Inflamma- 
tion of the kidneys. Plantago.] 
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Generalities: A general tired feeling; feels incapable 
of the least effort, with lameness over the whole body 
and complete indifference. Numbness and paralytic 
symptoms. 
Mind: Loss of will power. Disinclination for mental 
or physical work. Unable to collect the thoughts. 
Head: Pains, particularly in the occiput, < mental 
work. Confused, heavy pain as the base of the brain, 
extending down the neck and spine, at times, throb- 
bing, mental work, with general prostration. 
Ears: Buzzing and hissing in the ears, with vertigo 
and pain at the base of the brain. Chronic deafness. 
Urinary Organs: Urine dark colored, scanty, albu- 
minous, bloody. 
Sexual Organs: Violent, persistent erections day and 
night, at times associated with sexual desire and emis- 
sions, at others, without any sexual desire whatever. 
Extremities: Heaviness, < any effort. Weakness, < 
left leg. 
Skin: Development of small, painful boils on the face 
or back of the neck or within the ears, with burning, 
stinging pains or itching, < night. 
Fever: General tendency to coldness, especially of 
the extremities. Cold, clammy sweat on the extremities. 
PLANTAGO. 
Generalities: Sudden boring pains, < right side. 
Sharp, darting pains in the left side. Shifting pains. 
Restlessness, particularly of the lower extremities. 
General aggravation when sitting still, amelioration 
moving about. 
Head: Numerous sharp pains, mostly in the left side 
of the head, transiently >> pressure. 
Ears: Shooting or sticking pains, mostly in the left 
ear. Pulsating pains in the left ear. Noise very pain- 
ful, with unnatural acuteness of hearing. 
Mouth; Sudden neuralgic pain in the teeth, mostly 332 
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[Platinum. 
on the left side, either upper or lower, at times with 
swelling of the cheek or with running of saliva from 
the mouth; pain not worse at night. Teeth feel sore 
when eating; < cold air or great heat, partially > 
lying down and pressure on the face. 
Urinary Organs: Frequent micturition of profuse, 
colorless urine. 
Clinical. Nocturnal enuresis in children. 
PLATINUM. 
Generalities: Bruised or cramp-like pains, especially 
in the extremities. Dull, shooting or pressing-inward 
pains. A paralytic numbness or rigidity of various 
parts, usually with coldness. General paralytic weak- 
ness and weariness, even tremulousness of the whole 
body, especially during rest. The pains generally 
begin slight, increase gradually, and disappear slowly. 
Symptoms V in the evening and during rest. 
Clinical. Useful for the effects of fright or anger. Hysterical 
spasms from nervous excitement, with constriction of internal parts 
(globus hystericus). Alternations of anaesthesia and hypersesthesia. 
Mind: Extreme anxiety, with dread of approaching 
death; with trembling of the extremities and flushes 
of heat; oppression of breath and palpitation ; or with 
inconsolable weeping. Morose and discontented mood; 
< being spoken to. Quarrelsome and hasty. Very 
lively, felt like dancing, with sudden change to weep- 
ing. An arrogant, contemptuous mood; looks down 
upon people as beneath her. Illusions ; objects really 
look too small; even people seem physically and men- 
tally inferior. Sudden alternations of mental and emo- 
tional symptoms with physical. 
Head: Cramp-like or constrictive pains in the head, 
especially about the forehead, increasing and decreas- 
ing gradually. Vertigo, < descending, even sitting- 
down. A feeling of numbness in the fore part of the 
head, < warm room or in the company of people, with 
fretful impatience. A cramp-like tension in the tem- Platinum.] 
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333 
pies as if they were screwed together, with numbness. 
Formication on the temples, extending down to lower 
jaw, with coldness. Numbness and a feeling of con- 
traction on vertex as from a weight. The scalp, espe- 
cially of the fore part of the head, seems contracted. 
Eyes: Cramp-like pain in the orbits; twitchings and 
convulsive tremblings of the lids. A feeling of cold- 
ness in the eyes. Objects seem smaller than they really 
are. 
Ears: Cramp-like twinges in the ears. A feeling of 
numbness of the ears, which extends to the cheeks and 
lips. Roaring and rumblings as of wagons, in the ears. 
Face: Painful, cramp-like numbness on the malar 
bones. The sides of the head and face seem screwed 
together with tense numbness. Coldness, especially 
about the mouth. 
Mouth: Toothache like a numbness, especially in the 
morning after rising. Tongue feels burnt, with 
crawling. 
Stomach: Ravenous hunger, with hasty eating. 
Empty eructations. Persistent nausea, with anxiety 
and weakness. Fermentation in the stomach, with 
numerous flatulent symptoms. Constrictive pain as if 
the pit of the stomach were tightly laced. 
Abdomen: Pressure in the lower abdomen, extending 
downward to the genitals, as during menstruation, 
with ill humor. Drawing in both groins, coming from 
the small of the back. 
Rectum and Stool: Sensation of weakness in the ab- 
dominal muscles as if stool could not be evacuated. 
Constipation, feces hard and dry, as if burnt, with 
great effort. A feeling of a heavy weight in rectum, 
which cannot be evacuated. 
Sexual Organs: Sensitiveness of the sexual organs, 
with voluptuous crawling in the back and abdomen. 
Dragging in female organs like prolapsus. Painful 
sensitiveness of the external genitals alternating with 334 
A PRIMER OF 
[Plumbum. 
anaesthesia. Unnatural sexual desire, amounting to 
nymphomania. Menstruation too early- and profuse, 
flow clotted. 
Clinical. Satyriasis or nymphomania, associated with extreme sen- 
sitiveness or numbness of the external female organs. Sexual mel- 
ancholia. Various uterine and ovarian diseases, with dragging to the 
genitals and external sensitiveness, witli melancholia or hysterical 
symptoms, as above. 
Chest: Cramp-like constriction or weight, causing 
deep breathing. Weakness as if she could not breathe 
deeply enough. A nervous, dry cough, with dyspnoea 
or palpitation. 
Neck and Back: A tense numbness in the nape, with 
weakness; head sinks forward. Bruised pain in small 
of back, especially from pressure or bending backward. 
Numbness of the coccyx when sitting down as if it had 
been injured. 
Extremities: Paralytic drawing; a feeling of weak- 
ness in the arms. A feeling of rigidity in the fore- 
arms. Trembling- of the hands, with numbness. A 
feeling of tightness of the thighs as if bound. Tremu- 
lous numbness of the legs, with rigidity. The feet and 
toes feel tightly bound. 
Fever: Localized coldness, on the right side of the 
face and on other parts. Sudden flushes of heat, par- 
ticularly in the face. 
PLUMBUM. 
General Action: Lead paralysis; attacks chiefly the 
flexor muscles, beginning in the flexors of the forearm. 
It also produces degeneration of all the tissues of the 
body, particularly of the brain and nervous system, 
characterized by sclerosis in the kidneys, heart and 
other organs; a general interstitial proliferation of 
connective tissue. Degeneration of the spinal cord; 
is very similar to spinal sclerosis, both pathologically 
and symptomatically. 
Generalities: Emaciation; anaemia; jaundice. Trem- Plumbum.'] 
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335 
bling, twitchings and convulsions, even true epilepsy. 
Violent pains in the limbs and body, < motion and 
cold, usually > pressure. Hyperesthesia of the sur- 
face, with restlessness, followed by anesthesia and 
paralysis. General aggravation at night and while 
lying in bed. 
Mind: Delirium, with fear of assassination. Numer- 
ous hallucinations and delusions, sometimes violent, 
with screaming and general convulsions. Slow per- 
ception and loss of memory. 
Eyes: Yellow. Optic nerve inflamed, swollen. Pupils 
dilated. Intra-ocular, suppurative inflammation. 
Mouth: Blue line along the margins of the gums. 
Tongue red on the margins, with brown coat in the 
centre, which may be dry. Tongue tremulous, para- 
lyzed. Fetid breath. 
Throat: Sense of constriction, or swelling. More or 
less paralysis of the pharyngeal muscles, with difficult 
swallowing. 
Stomach: Loss of appetite; at times, unquenchable 
thirst. Hiccough, nausea; persistent vomiting, especi- 
ally of food or even fecal, with colic and constipation. 
Sensation as if a ball rose from the stomach to the 
throat, where it suffocated and prevented swallowing 
and speaking. 
Abdomen: Most terrible colic, with retraction and 
hardness of the abdominal walls. The pains radiate 
ta the lumbar region, and the muscles contract into 
hard knots. The terrible colic-like pains radiate to all 
parts of the body, and the walls of the abdomen seem 
to adhere to the spine. 
Anus and Stool: Anus drawn up, with terrible con- 
striction. Most obstinate constipation of hard, scanty 
feces, at times alternating with diarrhoea. These 
usually associated with colic. 
Urinary Organs: Frequent, ineffectual tenesmus, with 
discharge of urine by drops. Micturition extremely 336 
A PRIMER OF 
[Podophyllum. 
difficult. Urine albuminous, of very low specific 
gra vity. Chronic interstitial nephritis, sometimes with 
haemorrhage in the kidneys and agonizing pains in the 
ureters or abdomen. 
Sexual Organs: Vaginismus. Dysmenorrhoea, with 
terrible abdominal pains. 
Respiratory Organs: A short, nervous cough, some- 
times with bloody expectoration. 
Heart: Degeneration of the heart walls, with valvu- 
lar murmurs. Palpitation. Heart's action feeble, 
slow, irregular. 
Back: Violent, lancinating pains extend from the 
back into the thighs. Degeneration of the spinal 
cord (sclerosis), with paralysis of the lower ex- 
tremities. 
Extremities: Fulgurating pains, especially in the 
thighs; < evening and night, so violent as to make 
him cry out; temporarily > pressure. Paralysis; not 
only of the arms, but of the legs. Dilation of the veins 
on the forearms and lower legs. 
Skin: Skin usually quite dry. 
PODOPHYLLUM. 
General Action; An active cathartic; causes inflam- 
mation of the intestinal canal, affecting chiefly the 
duodenum and rectum. Congestion of the liver, and 
an increased secretion of bile. Dysentery; prolapsus 
of the rectum. Inflammation of the uterus and right 
ovary. 
Generalities: Faintness; a sensation of emptiness 
after stool. General aggravation from 2 to 4 A. M. 
Head: Dull headache, with dim vision. 
Mouth: Tongue white, with much sticky mucus in 
the mouth. 
Throat: Soreness; pain, extending to the ears. Dry- 
ness. 
Stomach: Nausea, with acidity. Vomiting of the Prunus'Spi.] 
MATERIA MEPldA. 
337 
contents of the stomach and of bile, at times mixed 
with blood, or of hot, frothy mucus. 
Abdomen: Flatulent symptoms. Heat and pain, es- 
pecially in the transverse colon, followed by diarrhoea. 
Rectum and Anus: Haemorrhoids, internal and ex- 
ternal. Prolapsus of the rectum. Diarrhoea; < early 
in the morning, either painless or preceded by colic, 
with heat and pain in the anus. Evacuation yellow, 
undigested or green, at times mixed with mucus; < 
immediately after eating and drinking. Dysenteric 
stools, with prolapsus of the rectum. Evacuations fol- 
lowed by faintness and a feeling of emptiness in the 
stomach and abdomen. Sensation of prolapsus of the 
uterus, with pain in the sacrum ; flatulence, and numer- 
ous abdominal symptoms. Pain and soreness in the 
right ovary; pains extend up and down. 
Back: Pain under the right scapula, in the sacral 
region, with dragging in the uterus and rectum. 
Sleep: Overcome with sleep in the day time, but 
restless the fore part of the night. 
Head: Pressing pain beneath the skull. Shooting 
from the right side of the forehead through the brain 
to the occiput. Twinging in the right temple from 
within outward; and into the ear. Jerking, thrusting, 
shooting, bursting pains through the right hemisphere 
of the brain. 
Eyes: Pain through the right eyeball, as if the eye 
would burst (at times extending through the brain to 
the occiput). 
Mouth: Violent shooting or wrenching pains in the 
teeth, < anything warm. 
Abdomen: Cramp-like pain in the region of the 
bladder; must bend double as from pressure of gas. 
Rectum: Cramp-like pain as from an angular body 
in the right side of rectum, just above anus. 
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A PRIMER OF 
[Psorinum. 
Urinary Organs: Tenesmus of the bladder. Burning 
pain in the sphincter. Burning biting in tlie bladder 
and urethra, with frequent efforts to urinate. Burning- 
pain with ineffectual efforts to urinate; has to bend 
double. On urinating the urine seems to pass into the 
glans penis and then return, causing extreme pain in 
urethra. 
Respiratory Organs: Short anxious respiration ; often 
with palpitation and suffocation. Tightness and heavi- 
ness of the chest, obliging deep breathing. 
Back: Stiffness as from an injury, especially when 
sitting. 
PSORINUM. 
Generalities: Exhaustion and emaciation. Greatly 
affected by stormy weather. General anaemia, with 
aversion to food. 
Mind: Melancholy; inclined to suicide. Despair. 
Ill humor. Constant thoughts of dying. 
Head: Pain as from the beating of a hammer in the 
head. General dullness, > nose-bleed. A feeling of 
heaviness in the forehead in the morning on rising, >> 
washing. A feeling of a piece of wood, lying across 
the occiput. 
Ears: Fetid, purulent discharge; with headache. 
Hose: Obstruction, with dryness or with discharge of 
thin mucus. 
Face: Pale, sickly look. Swelling of the upper lip. 
Lips dry and burn, painful. 
Mouth: Teeth loose, gums ulcerated. Tongue coated 
yellowish-white or ulcerated; at times dry, especially 
at tip as if burnt. 
Throat: Sore, with adhesion of tough mucus to the 
posterior wall of the palate, with constant hawking. 
Throat feels dry, especially in the morning, with 
scraping. 
Stomach: Excessive hunger, though with diminished Pulsatilla.] 
MATERIA MEDICA. 
339 
relish for food. Eructations tasting like foul eggs. 
Nausea and sour vomiting. 
Abdomen: Bloated, with flatulent symptoms. Ag- 
gravation from lying on the right side. 
Stool: Diarrhoea; thin, dark brown, of a horrible odor. 
Respiratory Organs: Cough from tickling in the 
trachea, with soreness under the sternum and heavi- 
ness on the chest, at times with expectoration of green 
mucus. Sense of suffocation in the larynx, with par- 
oxysmal, dry, hacking cough. Shortness of breath on 
walking in the open air. Ulcerative pain under the 
sternum or soreness as if everything were torn in the 
chest. 
Neck and Back: Swollen glands on the nape, with 
bruised pain, extending into the head. 
Extremities: Weakness as if the joints would not 
hold together. Pain in the legs as from too much 
walking, with restlessness. 
Skin: Itching eruption, vesicular, painful. Skin yel- 
low, dirty, and greasy; unhealthy eruptions. 
Fever: Sudden outbreaks of sweat on slight effort, 
which is generally offensive, followed by debility and 
easy taking cold. 
PULSATILLA. 
Generalities: Jerking-tearing in muscles as if they 
were pulled; < night and during rest. Pains rapidly 
jump from place to place, with swelling of the affected 
part. Attacks of weakness, particularly on lying in 
bed in the morning, with desire to sleep longer. 
Tremblings, with cold sweat and drawing pains. Pains 
are usually associated with chilliness, but without 
thirst; a feeling as though the painful part were dashed 
with cold water. Generally profuse secretions, par- 
ticularly from mucous membranes; discharges not ex- 
coriating. Aggravation of all symptoms in the even- 
ing before midnight, also during rest and when warm, 340 
A PRIMER OF 
[Pulsatilla. 
especially in a warm room. Amelioration in the open 
air; from lying on the back and on moderate exercise. 
Mind: A very depressed and weeping mood; at times 
ill humored and morose, even to hypochondria. A 
restless, irresolute mood. Generally indicated for per- 
sons having a mild, yielding disposition; inclined to 
weep. Thougts wander. 
Head: Vertigo on stooping, or in the morning on 
rising, with nausea; as if intoxicated, with whirling, 
even when lying down, with nausea. General confused 
dullness of the head; < warm room. Head very heavy. 
Dull aching, extending into the eyes in the evening; 
as from eating too much. Pulsating pain; > pressure. 
Pains < in temples and occiput. Shooting pain in the 
temples. Pain as if the brain were torn. A feeling of 
emptiness in the head. Headaches < evening and in 
a hot room. 
Eyes: General inflammation, with burning and itch- 
ing, at times with dryness, but usually with free secre- 
tion of bland mucus; agglutinated lids when asleep. 
Lachrymation in the open air. Inflammation of the 
margins of the lids, with development of styes; with 
biting or burning itching in the evening. Vision dim, 
as from accumulation of mucus; with vertigo and 
nausea, particularly during menses; < a warm room. 
Ears: Forcing-outward pain; at times jerking or 
shooting. Sensation of stoppage and roaring ; difficult 
hearing. 
Clinical. Inflammation and swelling of the outer ear, with profuse, 
thick, purulent discharge, not excoriating, with pains, aggravated in 
evening. Severe earache, not ameliorated by warm applications; 
pain involves the whole side of the head and throat. 
Nose: A feeling of stoppage, < evening before mid- 
night, with discharge of thick, yellow mucus. Sneez- 
ing. Pains in the bones, as if they would be forced 
asunder. Very free mucous discharge, at times offen- 
sive, usually bright yellow, with disordered smell, as in Pulsatilla.] 
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341 
old catarrh. The discharge is not excoriating, is gen- 
erally thick. 
Face: Boring pains in the left malar bone. Painful 
sensitiveness of the skin of the face. Swelling of the 
lower lip, which is cracked in the middle, with tensive 
pain. 
Mouth: Jerking and tearing toothache, < the 
warmth of the bed and warm air, > cold and cold 
water. Gums sore, with gnawing pain. Tongue 
covered with tenacious mucus. Blisters on the sides 
and tip of the tongue. Tongue feels burnt and insen- 
sible. Whole mouth and throat dry and covered with 
insipid mucus, with offensive breath. Increased saliva, 
of sweet taste or watery saliva. Taste bitter, espe- 
cially after eating and smoking, though food tastes 
naturally. Slimy taste in the morning, with nausea. 
Disgusting taste in the morning, with white tongue 
and nausea. 
Throat: Throat covered with tenacious mucus. Raw- 
ness and scraping, with dryness in the mouth. Scrap- 
ing causes coughing. Feeling of a worm crawling in 
the oesophagus, with nausea and retching. 
Stomach: Aversion to bread and butter. No thirst. 
Food and drink have a diminished taste. Bitter taste 
after eating or drinking or vomiting. Eructations, 
tasting of food or bilious and bitter in the evening, 
tasting rancid, or like bad meat, with nausea. Desire 
for alcoholic drinks (thirst, with foul eructations). 
Persistent nausea (with nearly all symptoms), < night, 
in women during menses, with retching and uprisings. 
Vomiting, especially at night, of food that had long 
been eaten, with chilliness or with distention and pain 
as of flatulence. Distention in the stomach, coming on 
an hour or more after eating. Scraping and burning 
in the stomach and oesophagus. Gnawing like a rav- 
enous hunger; sensation as if one had eaten too much ; 
the food rises up, with nausea and vomiting. General 342 
A PRIMER OF 
[Pulsatilla. 
indigestion from fat food. Pressure in the stomach, 
especially from bread. A feeling of coldness in the 
stomach. 
Abdomen: Rumbling, gurgling, flatulent colic moving 
about. Cutting or drawing, tensive pain, often drag- 
ging downward. Abdominal pains, flatulent or neu- 
ralgic, with nausea, especially with chilliness, extend- 
ing to the back. Abdominal walls sensitive and 
swollen. Drawing pains, extending through the 
spermatic cords to the testicles, which seem relaxed. 
Cutting pains in the lower part of abdomen, extending 
into pelvis. Constriction, extending into bladder as 
from a cold stone. 
Rectum and Anus: Haemorrhoids; both internal and 
external, with itching, especially in the evening. 
Haemorrhoids protruding and painful, often bleeding 
during stool. Frequent need to evacuate the rectum, 
but with only mucous discharge. Profuse bleeding 
from the anus during or after stool. 
Stool: Diarrhoea, with much mucus; green, acrid, 
watery; green mucus, preceded by flatulent pains, with 
pressure and backache. Constipation and diarrhoea 
alternate. Dysentery, with bloody and mucous stools 
at night burning like fire. 
Urinary Organs: Sharp pressure at the neck of the 
bladder as from flatulence. Tenesmus, with frequent 
desire, often ineffectual. Involuntary micturition at 
night or when coughing; sometimes dribbling when 
sitting or walking. Urine usually profuse, at times 
acrid, causing cutting; brown or bloody. 
Sexual Organs: Pain and swelling in the testicles and 
spermatic cords, especially on the right side. Tearing 
pains in the testicles, extending upward. Nocturnal 
emissions, without dreams. Menstruation too late and 
too scanty, discharge thick, or, at times thin and 
wuitery. Menses suppressed. Drawing pains in the 
pudenda, extending toward uterus, with nausea. Labor- Pulsatilla.] 
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343 
like pains in the uterus; must bend double. Leucor- 
rhoea; milky, or thin and acrid, with swelling of 
pudenda, < lying down. 
Clinical. Orchitis. Epididymitis. Pains not ameliorated by warm 
applications, with pains in the small of the back, chilliness and nau- 
sea. Dysmenorrhoea, especially from cold and wet, with concomi- 
tant symptoms. Irregular uterine contractions during labor. Uterine 
inertia, palpitation, nausea. 
Respiratory Organs: Tickling and scraping in the 
larynx, causing dry cough, lachrymation. Cough 
short, dry, < becoming warm and after sleeping. 
Morning cough with expectoration, but day and night 
without. Cough caused by dryness in the larynx and 
trachea, < eating and evening after lying down, pre- 
venting sleep, with dryness of the throat, > sitting up. 
Cough, with much yellow expectoration, tasting bitter 
or with bloody expectoration. Dry cough, often asso- 
ciated with palpitation, nausea, retching, headache, 
backache and shocks in abdomen. Dyspnoea, espe- 
pecially in the lower part of the chest, < eating. 
Chest symptoms < lying on the painful side. Con- 
striction and soreness in the .chest. 
Heart: Palpitation, anxious, <Z lying on the left side. 
Sticking pains in the region of the heart, > walking 
about and pressure. Heart's action generally feeble, 
often irregular. 
Neck and Back: Drawing, tensive pain in the nape of 
the neck and between the scapulae. Pain and stiffness 
in the muscles, as if he had been lying in an uncom- 
fortable position; can move the neck with difficulty. 
Sprained pain in the sacral region; < moving. Drag- 
ging pain, as from constriction or stiffness, as from a 
band, lying down. Pain after sitting, can scarcely 
rise; rather > bending forward and backward ; gener- 
ally < lying on the back and > change of position. 
Extremities: General pains, especially in the joints; 
< morning in bed, must stretch ; the limbs feel beaten 
or bruised. Weakness in the morning after rising, 344 
A PRIMER OF 
[Pulsatilla. 
with weariness. The limbs on which he lies fall asleep 
easily, with crawling. Tearing pains in shoulder 
joints ; must bend the arm. Pain in the middle of the 
upper arm, as if beaten, extending to the hand. Pain 
in the hip joint, as if dislocated. Drawing pain in the 
muscles of the thigh; must move about, with sleepless- 
ness, tossing about and coldness. Pain as though the 
thigh bone would break, extending from the hips to the 
knees; > walking. Painless swelling of the knee. 
Tearing and drawing pains in the knee. Stiffness of 
the right knee when walking. Pain in the bones of 
the leg, below the knee; > pressure. Swelling of the 
veins of the leg, with great soreness and burning heat. 
Boring pains in the heel towards evening. Red, hot 
swelling of the feet, extending up the calves, with 
shooting pain. Swelling of the back of the feet. 
Skin: Biting, itching; < evening in bed; not > 
scratching. Burning over the whole body on becom- 
ing warm in bed; < scratching and returning after be- 
coming heated from walking or rubbing. 
Sleep: Sleeplessness in the evening, falls asleep very 
late; at times with nausea and heat; restless sleep at 
night on account of heat, but very sleepy and heavy in 
the morning; cannot wake. At times, irresistible sleepi- 
ness in the afternoon. Dreams numerous and confused, 
at times frightful, with startings. 
Fever: Chilliness, with thirst from 2 to 4 P. M., or 
without thirst; with coldness of face and hands and op- 
pression of the chest, backache, headache, and nausea. 
Chilliness in the evening, with external coldness. 
Chilliness with pains; with menses. Heat at night 
without thirst; internal, with desire to be covered, or 
at times, with intolerance of external warmth mingled 
with shivering. Anxious heat, with distended veins 
and burning hands, especially at night in bed. Sweat 
only on the face and scalp or partial on the right or 
left side of the body. Ranun. Bui.] 
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345 
RANUNCULUS BULBOSUS. 
Generalities: Bruised feeling over the whole body. 
Symptoms < evening and after eating, also by changes 
of temperature and alternations of warmth and cold, 
also touch, moving about and stretching the body. 
Head: Pain over the right eye, like a pressing 
asunder; < lying down, )> walking and standing. 
Headache particularly < changes of temperature. 
The whole head feels enlarged and distended. Smart- 
ing and burning in the eyes and canthi, as from smoke. 
Eyeballs sore on moving them. 
Nose: Nose swollen and inflamed, red. Nostrils 
scabby. Profuse discharge of tenacious mucus. Ting- 
ling internally from the tip to the root, even extending 
to the right temple. 
Clinical. Attack like hay fever, smarting and burning in the eyes, 
stuffy nose, aggravated in evening; particularly tingling and crawl- 
ing, which the patient tries to relieve by hawking and blowing the 
nose. 
Stomach: Scraping burning from the palate through 
the throat to the stomach. Obstruction by tough 
mucus in the throat and oesophagus, especially in the 
evening. Increased thirst. Nausea and eructations, 
< afternoon and evening. Burning at the cardiac 
orifice of the stomach. Aching and sore pain at the 
pit of the stomach when touched. Gastritis from 
alcohol. 
Abdomen: Sore, bruised pain in the hypochondrium, 
and shooting pains from the liver into the right side of 
the chest. Sticking in the right ribs, arresting breath, 
even extending to the top of the right shoulder. 
Bruised pain in the region of the liver, sore to touch. 
Sharp, pinching pains below umbilicus after eating. 
Sensitiveness to touch. 
Stool: Diarrhoea, watery, painless, (dysentery, with 
pains in the lower rib-regions). 
Chest: Sharp, sticking pains, particularly in the 
o* 346 
A PRIMER OF 
[Ratanhia. 
lower right ribs, extending even to shoulder, or at 
times, above left nipple, all < touch and motion, with 
bruised pain; cannot move the arms or body. Locality 
of pain sensitive to touch. The region of the lower 
ribs on both sides becomes extremely painful to touch, 
with sharp, sticking pains on motion or inspiration, 
with tightness. Pain in the muscles of the chest as 
from subcutaneous ulceration, with soreness and difficult 
breathing. Violent bruised pain in the region of the 
short ribs, with backache, lassitude and ill humor; the 
pain spreads over the whole chest, with short breath, 
can hardly speak, < moving the arms or body or 
breathing. 
Clinical. Intercostal neuralgia. Inflammation of the diaphragm. 
Pneumonia and pleurisy, with the above peculiar pains, aggravated 
by changes of weather; always with great soreness to touch, as if 
bruised. The pains seem rather external, as if in the muscles. 
Back: Stitches in and between the scapulae. 
Extremities: Sudden jerking or tearing pains in the 
forearms. Sticking burning pains in the sciatic region ; 
< morning and stormy weather. 
Skin: Vesicular eruption; blisters,often dark blue,in 
groups or along the course of nerves, with burning, 
shooting pains (herpes zoster). 
Fever: Frequent chilliness after dinner. Chill in the 
evening, with heat of the face, but without general 
fever. 
RATANHIA. 
Rectum and Anus: Dry heat and burning, with cut- 
ting pain. Burning, with protruding haemorrhoids. 
Clinical Fissure of the anus, with constriction, pain after stool, 
burning like fire, temporarily relieved by cold water. 
RHEUM. 
General Action: An active cathartic, stimulating per- 
istaltic action. Catharsis followed by constipation. 
Stomach: Aversion to ordinary food, yet with certain Rhododen.] 
MATERIA MEDICA. 
347 
desire to eat, but food is repulsive. Fulness, as if he 
had eaten to satiety. Nausea, with colic. 
Abdomen: Griping pain, particularly in the umbili- 
cal region, with ineffectual desire for stool, > bending 
over after the stool. 
Rectum and Anus: Frequent urging and ineffectual 
straining, < motion. 
Stool: Stool pasty or brown, frothy, always of a very 
sour, fermented odor, preceded by colic and chilliness; 
constriction in the bowels, accompanied by shivering, 
often followed by tenesmus. Diarrhoea of varying 
color and consistency, usually frothy and of a sour 
odor. 
Back: Cutting pain in the lumbar region, with dig- 
ging pain in the bowels. 
Fever: Easy perspiration, particularly of the fore- 
head and scalp. Cold sweat on the face, particularly 
about the mouth and nose, with the abdominal symp- 
toms. 
RHODODENDRON. 
Generalities: Rheumatic-like tearing pains in the 
limbs as if in the periosteum, particularly of the fore- 
arm and lower leg, <Z during rest and cold weather 
and always reappearing before a storm. Drawing 
pains in the joints as if dislocated. Gout-like nodes 
form on the joints. Pains are < morning, in cold, wet 
weather and during rest, > motion. 
Head: Aching in the fore part of the head and 
temples as if in the bones. Tearing pains in the 
bones. Headache < wine and cold, wet weather. 
Eyes: Burning dryness of the eyes. Violent tearing 
or boring pains before a storm. 
Ears; Earache, with tearing jerking pains or a rush- 
ing like water; general aggravation on swallowing. 
Mouth: Toothache, with pains in the ears; < change 348 
A PRIMER OF 
[Rhus Tox. 
of weather and touch, > warmth and eating. The 
pain and swelling may involve the face. 
Stool: Diarrhoea, in damp weather, from fruit; stools 
undigested, soft, but difficult to evacuate, with pains in 
the limbs. 
Urinary Organs: Micturition frequent, with drawing 
in the bladder; urine increased, pale, acrid, offensive. 
Sexual Organs: Inflammation, enlargement and pain- 
ful drawings in the testicles. The shooting, tearing 
pains extend along the spermatic cords to abdomen 
and thighs. Pains, especially in the right testicle as 
if crushed, often extending to perineum and thighs or 
to abdomen. 
Clinical. Orchitis, especially of the right side, sometimes left. 
Hydrocele. 
Neck and Back: Rheumatic tension in ethe cervical 
muscles, with stiffness of the neck in the morning, in 
bed or after rising. Tearing drawing pains in the 
lumbar region; < during rest and in wet, cold weather, 
as if one had lain too long upon it; > motion, < 
stooping. 
Extremities: Pains, cramp-like, drawing, apparently 
in periosteum, mostly in the forearms and lower legs, 
change of weather, > motion. 
RHUS TOXICODENDRON. 
General Action: Dermatitis, with vesicular eruptions 
or erysipelas with phlegmonous infiltration and ab- 
scesses. Diarrhoea, dysentery, nephritis, cystitis, etc. 
Neuritis and rheumatoid pains. Low type of fever. 
Generalities: Pains drawing and tearing or as from 
sprains, < during rest, > motion. Weakness, espe- 
cially while sitting. Constant tossing about in bed. 
In the morning in bed the limbs upon which he has not 
lain feel bruised. Stiffness on rising from a seat, > 
walking. Aggravation from cold air and during wet 
weather; amelioration from warmth and motion. Rhus Tox.] 
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Clinical. Muscular and neuralgic pains, ameliorated by motion. 
Effects of strains from lifting. Effects of working in water. Gen- 
eral numb, stiff feeling, especially resulting from getting wet or 
lying on wet ground. Suppurative forms of erysipelas. Hemiplegia. 
Chorea. 
Mind: Apprehension, <Z night, cannot remain in bed. 
Sadness and weeping, > walking in the open air. 
Impatient and restless mood. Delirium, usually of a 
mild, inoffensive type, with mental dullness and con- 
fusion. 
Head: Vertigo on rising up as if intoxicated. Dull 
headache, even on turning the eyes. Disinclination 
for mental labor. Head feels heavy and hot. Brain is 
sensitive to every step. Occipital headache in the 
protuberances. Headache after taking a cold bath. 
Scalp sensitive ; moist or suppurating eruptions de- 
velop, becoming crusty, with itching at night, causing 
the hair to fall out. 
Eyes; Inflammation, . with biting and redness. 
(Edematous swelling about the eyes. The eyes feel 
sore when moved. The lids are inflamed. Styes or 
abscesses form. Paralysis of the upper lids from expos- 
ure to cold and wet (cellulitis of the orbit.) 
Ears: Swelling of the external ears (erysipelas). 
Yellow, thick discharge from the canal. Swelling of 
the glands beneath the ears. 
Nose: Nostrils ulcerated, with discharge of offensive, 
purulent matter. External nose red and painful (ery- 
sipelas). Nose-bleed at night and on stooping. 
Face: General pale, sickly look, with sunken eyes. 
Swelling of the face, with shining redness (erysipelas), 
with formation of vesicles. Swelling of the glands 
under the jaws. Lips cracked, dry, covered with crusts. 
Vesicular eruptions around the corners of the lips, 
with biting soreness on touch. Cramp-like pain in the 
joints of the jaw, as if it would be wrenched out, es- 
pecially when yawning. 
Mouth: Toothache; shooting, jerking, evening and 350 
A PRIMER OF 
[Rhus Tox. 
night; teeth feel elongated and loose; usually > hot 
applications. The lower incisors become loose, so that 
she cannot bite with them. Tongue sore, tip red. 
Blisters on the tongue; coated yellowish-white at base; 
dry or with brown fur. General dryness of the mouth, 
with thirst. Salivation at times. 
Throat: Symptoms of paralysis of the muscles of the 
pharynx, with dryness and inability to swallow on ac- 
count of choking. 
Stomach: Loss of appetite; aversion, especially to 
bread and meat. Unquenchable thirst, apparently 
from dryness of the mouth and throat; < night. 
Eructations seem to stick in the right side of the chest. 
Nausea after eating and drinking. Vomiting of food, 
especially on coughing when lying on the back. 
Abdomen: Distention after eating. Fermentation. 
A feeling of a heavy lump. Swelling of the inguinal 
glands. Pain in the region of the ascending colon, 
with soreness of the whole abdomen, particularly of the 
right side; < lying on the left side; > lying on the 
back. 
Stool: Watery diarrhoea, < night, with colic. Diar- 
rhoea of thin, red mucus or of bloody water or jelly- 
like mucus, even involuntary; at times, with tenesmus 
or pains in thighs. Diarrhoea alterating with consti- 
pation. 
Urinary Organs: Frequent discharge of copious 
watery urine. Involuntary micturition when at rest. 
Urine dark, scanty, turbid, hot. 
Sexual Organs: Prepuce swollen, inflamed, with moist 
eruptions. Scrotum swollen, thickened, with intoler- 
able itching and moist eruptions. Menstruation early 
profuse and prolonged, discharge causes biting pain in 
the genitals. 
Respiratory Organs: Tickling dry cough in the even- 
ing until midnight, and again in the morning on 
waking; with stitches in the chest or pain in the Rhus Tox.] 
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stomach and perspiration; caused by tickling behind 
the upper part of the sternum. Cough shattering the 
head, < wet weather. Expectoration bloody. A feel- 
ing of constriction of the chest in the upper part. 
Stitches in the chest, < when at rest. 
Heart and Pulse: Trembling and palpitation when 
sitting still; the body moves with each pulse. 
Neck and Back: Pain in the nape of the neck as if it 
had been lying in an uncomfortable position. Pain in 
the back, with stiffness and tension, < cold, > bend- 
ing backward. Bruised feeling in the sacrum when 
sitting as after long stooping. Stiffness of the sacrum. 
With the pain in the sacrum, wants to lie upon some- 
thing hdrd. 
Extremities: Tremblings and numbness, with weak- 
ness, stiffness and paralyzed feeling, with heaviness. 
Rheumatic gnawing pains, with desire to move the 
limbs frequently, which affords relief. Limbs on which 
he lies fall asleep. Numerous pains, tearing or draw- 
ing; <Z lying still, >• motion. Weakness and heavi- 
ness in the legs, with unsteadiness on walking. Pains 
in the bones of the legs at night; must constantly move 
them. 
Skin: Inflammation like erysipelas, with burning, 
smarting, and itching. Vesicular eruption, followed 
by desquamation, with itching, stinging, and great 
heat. Indurated swellings, especially of glands. Vesi- 
cular eruptions often become pustular and ulcerate. 
The skin is painfully sensitive to cold air. Itching, 
associated with burning and smarting, with a feeling 
as if pierced with hot needles. 
Sleep: Sleepy during the day, but sleepless at night, 
with inability to remain in bed. Sleeplessness at night, 
with burning of the whole body; constant tossing about. 
Persistent, anxious dreams of business immediately on 
falling asleep, followed by fatigue, cannot lie on the 
back at night. 352 
A PRIMER OF 
[Rumex Crisp. 
Fever: Chilliness towards evening, with stretching, 
cold hands, < every motion. Rapid alternations of 
burning heat and shivering. Sudden flushes of heat 
follow or alternate with the chills. Sudden outbreak 
of sweat while sitting, often with violent trembling. 
At night burning heat, often with sweat and cough on 
putting the hands out of bed. Teasing dry cough fre- 
quently precedes or accompanies the chill. 
RUMEX CRISPUS. 
Generalities: Sensitiveness to open air. General 
aggravation in the evening, especially restlessness and 
weakness. 
Head: Headache, with a bruised feeling in the fore- 
head < by motion; better in the afternoon. 
Nose: Coryza, with a watery discharge; sneezing; 
with headache. 
Mouth: Various toothaches with the acute colds. 
Tongue coated yellow. 
Throat: Scraping, soreness worse in the evening. 
Stomach: Flatulence, distention with sense of reple- 
tion. Heaviness in the pit of the stomach, worse after 
eating; with pressure extending up to the pit of the 
throat frequently returning. 
Clinical. Gastric disturbances, particularly from tea drinking; often 
associated with acute colds. Gastralgia; pains extending to the chest 
and pit of the throat, aggravated by motion, relieved by rest. 
Abdomen: Flatulent pains in abdomen followed by 
diarrhoea. 
Stool: Evacuations watery, brown in the morning. 
Clinical. Early morning diarrhoea, urgent, associated with dry 
cough from the throat, aggravated at night or from 5 to 9 A. M. 
Respiratory Organs: Irritation in the larynx, a collec- 
tion of mucus removed by hawking; constant desire to 
expectorate tough mucus, worse at night. 
Cough: Aggravated when eating, on breathing cold 
air, especially in the evening on lying down. Cough 
caused by tickling in the pit of the throat (supra-sternal Ruta.] 
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fossa), or behind the upper part of the sternum. Cough 
usually dry, spasmodic associated with headache or 
wrenching pain in the chest, particularly < in the 
open air and on lying down. 
Chest: Aphonia. Sticking pains at the left side of 
the sternum, in the morning; better before rising or 
on coughing, or on deep inspiration, especially when 
riding in the open air. Pains seem to be in the centre 
of the lung, with rawness, even burning, < by inspira- 
tion or by lying on the back or the right side; > lying- 
on the left side. Cutting pains in the interior part of 
the lung, especially with gastric disturbances. Sore- 
ness in the left lung on lying on that side. 
Extremities: Various pains, < motion, relieved by 
lying down, apparently muscular. 
Skin: Violent itching, worse at night on undressing, 
on any part of the body which is exposed to the air; 
relieved in the warmth of the bed. Prurigot Urti- 
caria. Eczema with violent itching, < when undress- 
ing. 
Sleep: Restless sleep, frequently disturbed; short, 
broken naps. 
Fever: General sensitiveness to cold. Chilliness in 
back and lower extremities. Heat also local, in the 
back usually associated with gastric disturbances. 
Sweat especially on the lower extremities at night. 
RUTA. 
Generalities: Bruised pain as from a blow in all parts 
on which he lies. Great restlessness; cannot keep his 
legs still, with heaviness. A painful sensation of 
weakness even after slight effort. Symptoms << dur- 
ing rest, relieved by motion. General aggravation in 
cold, wet weather. 
Head: Heat in the head, with anxious restlessness. 
Shooting pains in the forehead, extending to temples. 
Pains in the temple, as from a blow, extending to occi- 354 
A PRIMER OF 
[Ruta. 
put. Headache, as from a nail being driven in. Head- 
ache after use of alcoholic stimulants. Pains exter- 
nally, as from a fall. 
Eyes: Spasmodic drawings in the lower lid, which 
move it back and forth. Lacrymation in the open air. 
Heat in the eyes by the light, with aching when read- 
ing. Pain as if one had looked too intently. Fatigue 
after reading too long. Dim vision from much reading, 
like a mist before the eyes. Green circle around the 
light in the evening. 
Ears: Pains from a bruise in the cartilages of the 
ears. 
Nose: Bleeding of the nose, with sensation of pres- 
sure at the root. 
Face : Pain in the face, as from a blow, seeming to be 
in the periosteum of the zygoma. 
Mouth: Boring pain in the lower teeth. Gums bleed 
easily;'dryness in the mouth and throat; feeling of a 
lump in the throat on empty swallowing. 
Stomach: Appetite disappears immediately on begin- 
ning to eat, with aversion to food; unquenchable thirst 
in the afternoon. Food tasteless. Eructations with- 
out odor; pain, especially after eating raw or indigesti- 
ble food. Soreness over the pit of the stomach. Gnaw- 
ing sensation of emptiness in stomach. 
Clinical, Dyspepsia from eating meat, with distress in the stomach 
and eruption like nettlerash. 
Abdomen: An aching gnawing in the region of the 
liver. Painful swelling of the spleen. Gnawing and 
tightning in the region of the navel. Bruised pain in 
the region of the loins, while sitting after walking. 
Rectum and Stool: Tearing stitches while sitting, fre- 
quent urging to stool, ineffectual, with prolapsus of the 
rectum. A slimy diarrhoea alternates with constipation. 
Stool constipated on account of inactivity of rectum. 
Urinary Organs: Pressure in the neck of the bladder Ruta.] 
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after urinating, as if it were still full. Urging with 
scanty micturition. Persistent urging to urinate im- 
mediately after micturition. 
Clinical. Irritable bladder with constant urging to urinate, reten- 
tion of urine. Involuntary micturition at night and even during the 
day on motion. Frequent micturition at night. 
Sexual Organs: Menses very irregular. Menses 
scanty, lasting but two days, preceded and followed by 
leucorrhcea. Corrosive leucorrhcea follows the menses. 
Respiratory Organs: Cough wakes him about mid- 
night. Violent cough with continuous expectoration 
and efforts to vomit. Expectoration of thick, yellow 
mucus, with a feeling of weakness in the chest. Gnaw- 
ing, biting and burning in the chest. ' 
Neck and Back: Tension and pressure in the nape and 
shoulders. Pain in spine as if beaten. Stitches in the 
small of the back when walking or stooping. Stitches 
in the small of the back while sitting, relieved by pres- 
sure and by lying on the back. Bruised pain in the 
sacrum when sitting after walking, relieved by walk- 
ing. 
Extremities: Bruised pain in the muscles and joints; a 
feeling of paralysis and stiffness of the wrists, worse in 
cold, wet weather. The wrist is painful when lifting 
anything. Pain in the hip as if the bones were beaten 
after a blow or fall, worse on motion. Weakness and 
weariness in the limbs after walking. Feeling as if 
the tendons under the knees were shortened. 
Skin: Corrosive itching over the whole body, relieved 
by scratching. 
Sleep: Yawning and stretching, especially after eat- 
ing; frequently waking at night as though he had 
slept enough. 
Fever: Coldness and shivering, with great thirst, heat 
of the face and dull head. Cold shivers run over the 
back. Heat without thirst, with restlessness, anxiety 
and short breath. 356 
A PRIMER OF 
[Sabadilla. 
SABADILLA. 
General Action: An acrid emetic and cathartic. It 
produces also symptoms of violent influenza, but lacks 
thirst, even with the fever. 
Generalities: Bruised pains in various parts of the 
body, extending mostly from right to left. General 
weakness and sensitiveness to cold. Symptoms are 
forenoon and before midnight, also when at rest. 
General amelioration in the open air. 
Head: Headache ; a painful pressure, with dizziness, 
especially in the forehead and temples; pain generally 
spreads over the right side. Headache caused by 
mental effort; often > heat. 
Eyes: Lachrymation, a frequent accompaniment of 
various symptoms. Pain in the eyeball when looking 
upward. 
Nose: An itching and tickling in the nostrils; a dry 
sensitiveness in the upper part of the nose. Excessive 
sneezing, shaking the whole body, with lachrymation, 
with shooting, contractive headache in the forehead 
and red margins of lids. Coryza, with free secretion 
of transparent mucus, which is sometimes viscid and 
yellowish-gray, more rarely watery. 
Face: Burning heat and redness of the face, espe- 
cially after drinking wine. Cracking in the articula- 
tion of the jaws on opening the mouth wide. 
Mouth: Toothache, < walking in the open air. 
Dryness of the mouth and throat. Tongue sore, cov- 
ered with blisters; coated whitish-yellow in the middle 
and at back. 
Throat: Dryness, roughness and scraping, with con- 
stant desire to swallow. A feeling of a lump, which 
compels swallowing. 
Stomach: General loss of appetite and of thirst. 
Desire for sweets, honey and farinaceous food; aversion 
to coffee, wine, meat and acids. Nausea, with constant Sabina.] 
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spitting of tasteless food. Pain as from a sore spot 
below pit of the stomach. Burning, extending to the 
throat. Gastric symptoms usually > after eating. 
Abdomen: Numerous flatulent symptoms, with a feel- 
ing of emptiness. 
Stool: Violent urging, with scanty evacuation. 
Diarrhoea, thin, fermented, brown or blood and mucus. 
Itching and crawling in the rectum as from worms. 
Sexual Organs: Menstruation delayed, scanty, flow 
interrupted. Cutting pains in the ovaries. 
Respiratory Organs: Symptoms of influenza, with 
short, dry cough at night from scraping in the throat, 
with lachrymation and headache; cough < lying 
down. Suffocative cough, even with vomiting and 
pains in the stomach, stitches on the vertex. Voice 
hoarse, rough. Stitches in the chest from coughing 
and deep breathing, without fever or thirst. 
Extremities: General weakness and heaviness; must 
lie down. 
Fever: Chilliness, especially in the evening; shiver- 
ing, with heat of the face and without thirst. Shiver- 
ing, running downward, especially on the back. In- 
ternal heat at night and in the morning; at times, 
with thirst and desire for juicy things. Sweat even 
during the fever, with sleep. (Intermittent paroxysms, 
recurring at the same hour, without thirst during the 
chill and fever, but thirst between the two.) 
SABINA. 
Generalities: Paralytic, shooting pains in the joints 
after effort. Painful parts become red and shiny. 
Head: Bursting headache, in the frontal eminences 
and right temple, suddenly coming and slowly going. 
Rush of blood to the head and face, in flushes. 
Face: Drawing pains in the masseter muscles, par- 
ticularly of the right side; < touch, > open air; also 
involving the teeth when chewing. 358 
A PRIMER OF 
[Sambucus. 
Throat: Soreness on swallowing, with choking as 
from an internal sw elling. 
Stomach: Heartburn. Desire for acids, especially 
lemons. Bitter taste of food, milk or coffee. Empty 
eructations. Vomiting of bile or of undigested food. 
Abdomen: Writhing in umbilical region, as if vomit- 
ing would occur, without nausea. Colic, as from taking 
cold, and as if diarrhoea would ensue. Abdominal 
pains, mostly in the hypogastric region; bearing-down 
and constrictive. 
Rectum: Bleeding from the anus (bleeding haemor- 
rhoids); blood bright red. 
Urinary Organs: Burning pain in the region of the 
bladder. 
Sexual Organs: Burning pain in the penis. Shooting 
pain, deep in the vagina. Menstruation profuse, bright 
colored; <Z motion. Uterine haemorrhage. Constric- 
tive or bearing-down pains in the uterine region; the 
pains extend into the thighs. 
Clinical. Condylomata. Chronic urethritis. Uterine haemorrhages, 
with bright red blood, aggravated by motion. Uterine pains, extend- 
ing into the thighs. Threatening miscarriage, dysmenorrhoea, exag- 
gerated sexual appetite. Leucorrhoea follows menses, corrosive, 
offensive. 
Respiratory Organs: Dry, hacking cough from tick- 
ling in the larynx. Cough, with expectoration of 
bright red blood. Tight, pressive pains in the middle 
of the sternum or over the chest. 
Back: Dragging pains in the back, extending to the 
pelvic region and thighs, like labor pains. 
Extremities: Pains as from sprains or rheumatism, < 
motion and touch. Bruised pains in the anterior por- 
tion of the thighs. Shooting in the heels and metatar- 
sal bones. 
SAMBUCUS. 
Nose: Coryza, with stopping and suffocative breath- 
ing, nose either dry and obstructed or filled with tena- 
cious mucus; often with puffy, bluish face. Sanguinaria.'] 
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Urinary Organs: Frequent micturition, with scanty 
urine. 
Clinical. Acute nephritis, with dropsical symptoms, vomiting, dry 
heat of the skin. This drug, in such cases, increases the amount of 
urine and relieves the dropsical symptoms. 
Respiratory Organs: Hoarseness, with tenacious, glu- 
tinous mucus in larynx. Oppression of the chest, with 
nausea and weakness. 
Clinical. Suffocative attacks, with stitches in the chest; starts up 
suddenly, with suffocation; cannot expire, especially after midnight, 
with blue hands and face, and heat without thirst. Suffocative 
cough with screaming and rough, hollow cough, with blue face and 
great restlessness. Laryngitis, wtth much tenacious mucus. Spas- 
modic croup, with wheezing, aggravated after midnight. Whooping 
cough, with suffocation, tough mucus; paroxysms aggravated after 
midnight and lying with the head low. Chronic inflammation of the 
lungs, with profuse, exhausting sweats, suffocative cough, etc. 
Fever: Shivering, with cold hands and feet. Burn- 
ing heat of the face, with icy cold feet, without thirst. 
Heat comes on after lying down, without thirst and 
with dread of uncovering. Profuse sweat after mid- 
night. Debilitating night sweats. 
SANGUINARIA. 
General Action: An irritant to mucous membranes, 
particularly of the stomach and air passages. Neural- 
gic pains, particularly in the head. 
Generalities: Pain mostly sharp, involving the upper 
part of left side of the head, nape of the neck, shoulders 
and arms, usually > pressure or change of location. 
Weakness, <Z morning on walking. 
Head: Headache, with nausea and chilliness, burst- 
ing, in paroxysm; throbbing, < stooping, with vomit- 
ing. Rush of blood to the head, followed by nausea 
and vomiting. Vertigo on rising or turning the head 
quickly, with faintness and nausea. Pain in the fore- 
head over the eyes, < motion, bursting. Pain in the 
occiput and nape of the neck, particularly in the after- 
noon, extending down the back. 
Clinical. Periodic, neuralgic headache, beginning in the occiput 360 
a PrImeR of 
[Sanguinaria. 
and settling over the right eye, with nausea and vomiting. Head- 
aches begin in the morning and last all day, profuse micturition. 
Eyes: Eyeballs painful, < moving them upward and 
outward, and touch ; shooting pains extend into the 
head. Inflammation, with dryness under the upper 
lid and pain. 
Nose: Pain at the root of the nose, with symptoms 
of coryza. Sneezing and tingling. Nose alternately 
dry and moist, with frequent sneezing and watery, 
acrid discharge. Loss of smell and taste. 
Face: Pains in the cheek bones, extending to the 
head; > pressure. Lips dry, 
Throat: Dryness, with teasing cough. Burning. 
Swelling, with pain on swallowing as if closed or as if 
he would suffocate. Rawness, with difficult swallowing. 
Stomach: Desire for spicy food. Nausea, with sali- 
vation, chilliness and fever. Vomiting. Burning. 
Emptiness. 
Abdomen: Pain over the region of the liver, involving 
the right side of chest. 
Stool: Diarrhoea, flatulent, bright yellow, undigested, 
watery. With soreness of abdomen. 
Urinary Organs: Urine dark, yellow or red. 
Respiratory Organs: Cough, hacking, in the evening- 
after lying down; dry, from tickling in the throat, 
extending to beneath the sternum. Stitches in the 
right side of the chest, < breathing, extending to 
shoulder or abdomen. Burning and soreness under 
the upper part of the sternum. 
Clinical. The dry cough from irritation in the trachea is aggravated 
by lying down. In pneumonia, it is not infrequently indicated when 
the patient is relieved by lying on the back (hypostatic pneumonia). 
Extremities: Pains, with stiffness, often involving the 
joints. Pain on top of the right shoulder, involving 
the whole right side, < night in bed. Burning in the 
soles of the feet at night in bed. 
Fever: Chills in the afternoon suddenly alternating 
with fever. Heat shifts from head to stomach. Sarsaparilla.] 
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SARSAPARILLA. 
Generalities: Paralytic, tearing pains; gout-like pains 
after taking cold from wet (and from suppressed gon- 
orrhoea), with decreased secretion of urine. Trembling 
of the hands and feet. Paralytic immobility of the 
limbs. Emaciation, so that the skin became wrinkled. 
Weakness and even faintness in the evening during 
stool. 
Mind: The pains seem to affect the mind and cause 
depression. Frequent changeable mood. 
Head: Shooting or throbbing headache, with nausea 
and sour vomiting. Sensitiveness of the scalp. Pain 
in the left side of the forehead. 
Eyes: Dimness of vision; paper looks red in the 
evening. 
Face: Eruption like milk crust. Eruption on the 
upper lip. 
Mouth: Dryness and rawness of the mouth and 
throat. . Bitter taste in the morning. 
Stomach: Lo«s of appetite; nausea, if only thinking 
of food. Food is tasteless. Bitter eructations. 
Urinary Organs: Frequent,ineffectual urging to urin- 
ate. Diinished secretion of urine; or copious, pale 
urine, frequently evacuated. Tenesmus of bladder, 
with discharge of white, acrid urine, containing mucus. 
Burning in the urethra during micturition. Urine 
contains blood and pus. 
Clinical. Cystitis, with bloody urine, pain in the neck of the blad- 
der at the close of micturition and chills from bladder to back. 
Gravel and even calculus in the bladder and kidneys. Urine decom- 
poses in the bladder, with the development of gas. Urine bloody in 
suppressed gonorrhoea. 
Sexual Organs: Erections, with sexual dreams. Dis- 
agreeable odor of the genital organs. (Herpetic erup- 
tion on the genitals.) 
Back and Extremities: Pain in the lower part of the 
back, extending around the pelvis to the genitals ; < 
p 362 
A F RIMER OF 
[Secalth 
night and motion, especially on stooping. Numerous 
pains in the extremities and joints, < motion, with 
weakness. 
Clinical. Pains from suppressed gonorrhoea, syphilitic or after 
taking Mercury, aggravated by night and damp weather, especially 
after taking cold in water. 
Skin: Dry, papular eruption, itching, < warmth, 
evenings in bed and scratching. Moist eruptions, with 
excoriating discharge and tendency to ulceration. 
Fever: Chilliness day and night, especially in the 
forenoon; cold, even when near a stove, except the 
face; heat in the evening, with rush of blood, palpita- 
tion, sweat on the forehead. 
SECALE. 
General Effects: Tonic contractions of involuntary 
muscle, particularly of arterioles, with dry coldness of 
the body and even gangrene of the lower extremities. 
Contractions of muscles of bowels and of the gravid 
uterus. Convulsions of voluntary muscles. Anaes- 
thesia and paralysis, especially tremblings and para- 
plegia. Contraction of arterial system predisposes to 
venous haemorrhages. 
Generalities: Tremblings, with unsteadiness of the 
whole body, cramps, convulsions; epileptiform spasms. 
Wandering pains. Coldness, < heat. Restlessness, 
great debility. All the symptoms < heat. 
Clinical. Collapse, with coldness and intolerance of heat; soreness 
of the body, dry flesh, tending to putrify. Universal aversion to 
external heat, with a sense of internal burning, often with unnatural 
appetite and thirst, but with perfectly clear mind. Aggravation from 
all preparations of Cinchona. 
Mind: Raving delirium (rare). Anxiety, with fear 
of death, restlessness and difficult breath. In general, 
complete consciousness to the last breath. 
Eyes: Sunken, with pale rings, often staring or dis- 
torted (dim vision results from the formation of soft 
cataract, with vertigo, and roaring in the ears, in cases 
of poisoning.) Secale.] 
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Nose: Bleeding. 
Face: Pale, sunken, collapsed face, with anxious 
look. Dark redness, with blue rings around the eyes. 
Formication of the face and whole body. 
Mouth: Formication of mouth and tongue. Tongue 
swollen, paralyzed, speech difficult, imperfect. Saliva' 
tion, with fetid breath. 
Stomach: Unnatural appetite and thirst. Hiccough, 
persistent nausea and vomiting. Painless vomiting, 
without effort, of food, of blood, or chocolate-colored 
matter. Anxiety and burning in the pit of the stom- 
ach, which may be sensitive to touch. 
Abdomen: Tympanitic, burning or sometimes unna- 
tural coldness. Colic, with convulsions. 
Rectum and Stool: Spincter ani paralyzed. Haemor- 
rhage from the bowels. Diarrhoea, exhausting, offen- 
sive, burning or dark olive green, involuntary. Stools 
like cholera, with coldness, cramps, intolerance of heat. 
Urinary Organs: Bladder paralyzed. Micturition 
involuntary. Urine may be suppressed or bloody. 
Sexual Organs: Gangrene of pudenda, with fetid, 
black discharges. Uterine haemorrhage. Violent con- 
tractions of the gravid uterus, followed by haemorrhage 
and miscarriage. Lochial discharge of puerperal women 
ceases, with fever. Metritis. Peritonitis. 
Clinical. Uterine inflammation. Putrescent lochia. Puerperal 
fever. Though producing violent contractions of the gravid uterus, 
it predisposes to general convulsions when there is albuminuria and, 
in general, precipitates puerperal inflammation. It should be used 
during labor in physiological doses only when absolutely required by 
a great emergency. 
Respiratory Organs: .Haemoptysis, usually of venous 
blood, with difficult respiration, heaviness of the chest, 
anxious sighing, respiration. 
Heart and Pulse: Pulse rapid, small, contracted, inter- 
mittent or fluttering. 
Back and Extremities: Pain in the lumbar region, > 
stooping. Formication and numbness of the extremi- 364 
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[Selenium. 
ties. Violent cramps. Tearing, drawing pains. In- 
sensibility of the fingers and toes, with coldness and 
formication: they look wrinkled and pale, as if they 
had been soaked in water. 
Skin: Ecchymoses. Swelling and pain, blue color, 
gangrene, especially of the lower extremities, with 
dryness. Formication under the skin. 
Fever: Predominating coldness, cold dry skin, rarely 
alternating with burning heat, excessive thirst and 
cold clammy sweat. 
SELENIUM. 
Generalities: Characterized by emaciation and weak- 
ness, with irritability, especially after coition. Intoler- 
ance of a draught of air, takes cold easily, followed by 
tearing pains in the limbs. General aggravation after 
sleep, in hot weather and from use of China. 
Head: Violent shooting headache over the left eye, 
<( walking in the sun and by strong odors, especially 
by tea. Headache in the afternoon. Hair falls out 
freely from brows, beard and genitals. 
Abdomen: Pains in the region of the liver on inspira- 
tion (with soreness, white tongue, loss of appetite, < 
morning). 
Urinary Organs: Involuntary dribbling after urina- 
ting or when walking, or after stool. Urine red, with 
a coarse, red, sandy sediment. 
Sexual Organs: Involuntary discharge of glutinous 
fluid, as from the prostate. Loss of sexual power, with 
lascivious fancies. Semen thin, without odor, invol- 
untarily discharged during sleep.. Sexual desire normal, 
but sexual power lost (the effects of sexual excesses). 
Respiratory Organs: Hoarseness, < beginning to sing; 
must clear the throat. Cough in the morning, with 
expectoration of bloody mucus. 
Back and Extremities: Paralytic pains in the small of 
the back in the morning. Tearing pains in the hands Senecio.] 
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at night. Dry, scaly eruption, with itching in the 
palms of the hands. Vesicular eruption on and 
between the fingers. 
SENECIO. 
Generalities: General tendency to catarrhal affections, 
particularly of the larynx and bronchi. Weakness and 
trembling of the limbs, and general paralytic symptoms. 
Faintness in the afternoon on walking in the open air. 
Head: Dull aching in the forehead and orbits, asso- 
ciated with sensitiveness of the eyes; headache gen- 
erally extends into the eyes, is < warm room and > 
cold. Sense of rush of blood to the head, with throb- 
bing, especially on stooping. 
Eyes: Forcing-outward pain in the orbits < evening 
by the light. Sense of congestion of the eyes, with 
burning. Dryness, with smarting, and a feeling as if 
the eyeballs were too large for the orbits. Lachry- 
mation on looking intently or in the open air. Lach- 
rymation when reading, with flickering; must wipe the 
eyes often, with burning. Letters run together when 
reading. Double vision > bending backward. Loss 
or power of the upper lid, with formication and swell- 
ing. 
Nose: Coryza, with discharge of watery mucus. 
Dryness, with heaviness of the head and vertigo. 
Throat: Roughness and rawness, with inclination to 
clear the throat, < evening, with dry cough and 
oppression of the chest. Burning. Hawking of gray 
mucus in the morning. Burning extends into the 
oesophagus. 
Urinary Organs: Frequent micturition, at times, 
involuntary at night. Diminished secretion of urine. 
Urine mixed with mucus, becoming turbid. Burning 
and stinging in the urethra during and after micturi- 
tion. 
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[Sepia. 
and trachea, causes hacking cough. Constant hoarse- 
ness when reading. Cough from mucus in the larynx, 
< open air or walking; with expectoration of tena- 
cious mucus. Dyspnoea on ascending stairs, with 
oppression of the chest. Pressive pain in the chest, 
especially when at rest. Stitches in the chest on 
coughing and inspiring. The chest feels sore inter- 
nally, on pressure or on sneezing and coughing. Chest 
symptoms are < during rest. 
Clinical. Hydrothorax. (Edema of the lungs, with soreness of the 
chest. Chronic pneumonia, with rattling of mucus, oppression, 
burning. 
Extremities: Weakness and paralytic weariness in 
the lower extremities 
SEPIA. 
Generalities: Tremulous weakness, with weariness, 
sleepiness. Restlessness after sitting a long time. 
Emaciation; takes cold easily. Symptoms are < sitting 
quietly. A feeling of weakness, especially of goneness 
in the epigastric region, particularly during the menses 
and in the morning. Faintness, with heat and cold- 
ness alternately. Jaundiced hue. General aggravation 
both morning and evening, sometimes from washing in 
water. 
Mind: Apathy. Anxiety. Sadness in the morning 
on waking. An irritable, fault-finding disposition. In- 
disposed to mental labor, which aggravates the head- 
ache. Stupid, forgetful; cannot collect thoughts to 
answer the simplest questions. 
Head: Boring neuralgic headaches during rest, > ex- 
ternal pressure, with vomiting. Brain feels loose on 
shaking the head. One-sided tearing or shooting head- 
ache in the evening after lying down. Rush of blood 
to the head on stooping, with bursting pain. Drawing 
from over the left eye to the occiput; > after eating. 
Falling out of the hair; the roots of the hair seem sore 
to the touch. Sepia.] 
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Eyes: Pain as from sand in the eyes; < closing the 
eyes or robbing the lids. Burning, dry, gritty feeling- 
in the eyes. Heaviness, especially when reading. Eyes 
tend to close. Lachrymation morning and evening. 
Scaly eruption on the upper lid. Itching on the mar- 
gins of lids. Development of pustules or vesicles on 
conjunctiva. Vision vanishes, with anaemia, particu- 
larly during the menses, with weakeness; >• lying 
down. Whites of the eyes yellow. Yellow or green 
shimmer around the light in the evening. Black spots 
or a veil seem to be before the eyes. 
Nose: Sneezing, with dry coryza. Tip of the nose 
inflamed and swollen. Nostrils ulcerated. Blows 
blood from the nose, especially in the morning after 
rising and in the evening, particularly during the 
menses. 
Face: Yellow across the upper part of the face and 
around the mouth. Herpetic eruptions on the lips. 
Mouth: Swelling and bleeding of the gums. The 
teeth decay rapidly, with various pains from hot or 
cold things, and from every draught of cold air. Gen- 
eral relief of the toothache from inhaling cold air, 
(though it may be < a draft of air across the face). 
Throat: Difficult swallowing as from a lump in the 
throat. 
Stomach: Appetite, with hasty eating (sometimes 
aversion to all food, especially to animal food). Gen- 
eral loss of thirst. Eructations from eating a little. 
Sour or painful eructations. Nausea in the morning 
or from riding in a carriage. Vomiting, with great 
straining, even vomiting of blood. Gnawing in the 
stomach, > eating, with a feeling of sinking down and 
weakness. A feeling of emptiness, with nausea, even 
on thinking of food. 
Abdomen: Distention, as from flatulence, with burn- 
ing and shooting pains, extending into the chest or 
down the thighs. A feeling of heaviness or of empti- 368 
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[Sepia. 
ness. Pains over the region of the liver, with soreness 
and shooting, or a feeling of fulness. Dragging; the 
pains in the hypogastric region extend into the geni- 
tals in women. Pressing down, as if the contents of 
the abdomen or pelvis would be forced downward, par- 
ticularly during menses. This pelvic distress is felt 
at night on waking, especially during the day when 
standing or walking; even when sitting or lying down. 
Anus and Stool: Haemorrhoids protrude when walk- 
ing or during stool; painful and sore to touch. Con- 
stipation and hard, difficult stool, often mixed with 
mucus. Diarrhoea after boiled milk. 
Urinary Organs: A feeling of pressure on the bladder, 
with frequent micturition and tension. Urging, with 
bearing down in the pelvic region. Urine slimy, offen- 
sive, deposits a yellow, pasty sediment or turbid and 
clay-colored, with reddish sediment. Urine deposits a 
sediment which stains the vessel red, like powdered 
brick. 
Clinical. Cystitis, with constant desire and dragging in the bladder, 
but with slow micturition. Nocturnal enuresis. An adherent red 
sediment seems to be quite characteristic. 
Sexual Organs: Dryness of the vagina and external 
genitals, < after menses. Heavy dragging as though 
the uterus and internal organs would be forced down- 
ward; has to cross her legs to prevent threatening 
protrusion. Leucorrhoea; yellowish, profuse, acrid or 
milky, with burning pain and excoriation; or purulent 
and fetid. Menstruation too late and scanty, or some- 
times early and scanty; at times entirely suppressed, 
giving place to the leucorrhoea, as above. 
Respiratory Organs: Cough in the evening and at 
night in bed, spasmodic, prevents sleep, causes pain in 
the pit of the stomach. Seems to come from tickling 
in the larynx or at times, seems to be reflex from indi- 
gestion or even constipation, often > eating. Rarely 
a loose night cough, < before midnight in bed, with Silica.] 
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oppression of the chest, rattling in the throat. Cough 
< both evening and morning, with nausea and bitter 
vomiting. 
Heart and Pulse: Palpitation in the evening in bed, 
and throbbing through all the blood vessels. 
Neck and Back: Stiffness in the back and neck. Pain 
and weakness in the small of the back, with dragging, 
extending into the hips. Tired pain in the sacrum, > 
pressure. 
Extremities? General heaviness and bruised feeling; 
or lameness and stiffness of the lower extremities. 
Skin: Roughness, herpetic eruptions, with itching. 
Yellow or brownish spots, particularly on the face and 
neck. Itching, particularly in the bends-elbows and 
knees. The skin becomes rough and moist after 
scratching, which somewhat relieves. 
Sleep: Very sleepy during the day, falls asleep as 
soon as she sits down. Sleeplessness at night, but 
wakes late, with difficulty, and has no desire to rise in 
the morning. Waking at night from frightful dreams, 
with screaming out. Sleep disturbed by rushes of 
blood, by heaviness of the legs and by anxious dreams; 
talks in sleep. 
Fever: Shivering through the day, < towards even- 
ing, with thirst. General lack of warmth of the body. 
Paroxysms of heat while sitting down and while walk- 
ing in the open air. Feet are cold and wet, especially 
in the morning and evening, even in bed. Flushes of 
heat as from a dash of hot water, then general sweat, 
with anxiety, without thirst. Sudden flushes of the 
head and face. Sweat in the morning after waking, 
and on moderate exertion. 
SILICA. 
General Action: Irritability and sensitiveness of the 
spine, with numerous reflex pains; irritability and 
p* 370 
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[Silica. 
spasmodic closure of the sphincters; hyperesthesia of 
painful parts. 
Generalities: Emaciation, trembling. Shooting pains, 
< night. Lameness, weariness, paralytic sensation in 
the limbs. Nervous weakness and restlessness after 
sitting a long time. Pains in various parts of the 
body, as if ulcerating, especially in the side on which 
he lies. Bruised pain, as if he had been lying in an 
uncomfortable position at night. Weakness, with 
desire to lie all the time; takes cold easily, and is very 
sensitive to open air. General aggravation at night 
and from cold, amelioration from warm wrappings. 
Clinical. In general hypersesthesia and exaggerated reflexes. 
Pain, as from suppuration has lead to its use in deep-seated abscesses, 
in which it is characterized by the relief from warm applications, 
and the general "nervous" symptoms of the patient. The intol- 
erance of alcoholic stimulants is marked. It has been found 
very useful in diseases of the bones. 
Mind: Very sensitive and annoyed by noise or any 
excitement which causes anxiety. Easily startled. 
Peevish. 
• 
Head: Bursting pain, extending into the eyes, < 
touch. Shattering in brain, < a hard step. Throb- 
bing or bursting headache, with rush of blood. Head- 
ache at night from the nape of the neck to the vertex. 
Heaviness, or shooting pain in the occiput, > wrap- 
ping the head up warmly. Scalp is very sensitive to 
the touch, even the hat causes pain. Pains extend 
from the spine and occiput through the head, becoming 
seated over the eye, > binding the head tightly. 
Eyes: Lachrymation in the open air. Agglutination. 
Biting in the canthi. Inflammation and swelling in 
the region of the lachrymal sac. Vision dim and flick- 
ering, especially after headache. Letters confused 
when reading and writing. 
Clinical. Ulceration of the cornea; suppurative inflammation, in- 
ternally. Inflammation of the lachrymal sac; acute, suppurative, 
even lachrymal fistula, with occlusion of the lachrymal canal. Silica.] 
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Ears: External ears swollen, with discharge of thin 
matter from the' canal and deafness. Very sensitive to 
noise. 
Nose: Obstinate dryness in the nose. Gnawing pain 
or ulceration in the upper part of the nose, with great 
sensitiveness to touch. Discharge from the nose, acrid, 
often bloody. 
Face: Skin cracked, especially on the margins of the 
lips. Ulcers in the corners of the lips, with itching, 
painful. Eruption on the chin. 
Mouth: Tearing pain in the teeth at night. Gums 
very sensitive to cold air. Boils on the gums. Sensa- 
tion of a hair on the fore part of the tongue, with 
crawling, extending into the throat. 
Throat: Sticking pains on swallowing or on touch, 
with a sensation of swelling. Hawking of much mucus 
from the throat, often offensive. 
Stomach: Loss of appetite, with much thirst or at 
times with ravenous hunger. Aversion to cooked, 
warm food; craves only cold things. Aversion to meat, 
milk. Pain, burning, heaviness in the pit of the 
stomach, especially after eating. Eructations; sour or 
tasting of the food. Uprisings of water, with shiver- 
ing. Pit of the stomach painful to pressure. 
Abdomen: Distended, hard, hot. Cutting pains; > 
warm applications. 
Rectum and Stool: Constipation, with constant, in- 
effectual urging; stinging and cutting pains in the 
rectum and anus; discharge of mucus, with chilliness. 
Expulsion of stool prevented by spasmodic contraction 
of sphincter ani. Violent constriction of the anus 
during stool, with burning, stinging pains, followed by 
soreness and oozing of moisture. (Symptoms of fissure 
of anus, with great irritability; > hot applications.) 
Soft, pasty stools, of the odor of Asafoetida. 
Sexual Organs: Sexual erethism, with persistent 
sexual thoughts, often nocturnal emissions. Itching 372 
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[Silica. 
and moisture on the genitals, especially on the scrotum. 
Menstruation early, but scanty; rarely profuse. Sexual 
irritability; desire increased in women. During 
menses, burning, soreness and itching of the pudenda. 
Leucorrhcea; acrid, excoriating. 
Respiratory Organs: Cough at night after lying down 
and also in the morning after waking, caused by irrita- 
tion in the throat. Dry cough, with soreness in the 
chest. Cough, with purulent expectoration or with 
thick, yellow, lumpy expectoration. Bruised pain in 
the chest on coughing; cannot breathe deeply with- 
out pain. Stitches extend from the chest into the 
back. Induration in the right mammary gland about 
the nipple, with drawing and burning pain ; extreme 
sensitiveness. 
Neck and Back: Stiffness of the nape of the neck. 
Swelling of the glands. Various pains in the spine, 
with weakness and paralyzed feeling in the limbs. 
Stitches or tearing pains in the spine. Pain in the 
coccyx on rising, as after a long carriage ride. Bruised 
pain at night in the lumbar region and hips, also < 
stooping and rising from a seat. 
Clinical. It has been found valuable in diseases of the bones, with 
curvature, abscesses, night sweats, spinal irritability; pressure on the 
spine causes pain in the head and remote parts of the body. 
Extremities: Weakness, numerous pains, generally 
< night, > warmth. Nails become discolored and 
powdery, like asbestos. Splinter-like pains in the fin- 
gers, as if in the bones, > warm wrapping; sensation 
as if a felon would form. Pain in the hips. Pain in 
and below the knee, as if tightly bound; the calves feel 
tense and too short. The feet exhale a carrion-like 
odor, even without perspiration. The soles of the feet 
become sore, can scarcely step on them, at times, with 
sharp pains. 
Skin: An unhealthy condition; wounds heal with 
difficulty and suppurate. Painful spots, as if suppura- 
tion were taking place subcutaneously. Sinapis Nigra.] 
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373 
Clinical. Proud flesh forms in ulcers. Abscesses, with fistulous 
openings, offensive discharges, and genera] nervous sensitiveness. 
Swelling of glands, threatening to suppurate. 
Sleep: Sleeplessness at night, with great orgasm of 
blood, uneasiness and heat in the head; frequent 
starting up and jerking in sleep. Numerous anxious 
and frightful dreams; waking in fright. 
Fever: General lack of heat, chilliness all day, espe- 
cially in the afternoon and evening; very sensitive to 
the cold air; creeping shivering over the whole body. 
Cold legs and feet, even in a warm room and in bed, 
preventing sleep. Heat in the afternoon and at night, 
with thirst. Heat of the head. Burning heat of the 
feet. Sweat at night, < towards morning; at times, 
only on the head; on the feet, offensive, the toes 
become sore when walking. 
SINAPIS NIGRA. 
Nose: Stoppage of the left nostril; scanty, acrid dis- 
charge from the nose; sneezing. 
Clinical. Hay fever, with hot, dry nose, nostrils alternately stop- 
ped. Sneezing and lachrymation, with thick, acrid discharge, smart- 
ing, burning and itching of the eyes;.oppression of the chest, aggra- 
vated at night on lying down. Wheezing in the chest and difficult 
breathing. Dryness of the nares and pharynx, with thick, lumpy 
secretion. 
SPIGELIA. 
Generalities: Shooting pains in various parts of the 
body, usually radiating from a single point. General 
sensitiveness to touch, the slightest bruise causes pain 
and shuddering. General weakness after moving 
about in the open air. Painful sensitiveness of the 
whole body to touch, creeping and crawling over the 
whole body. Symptoms < after washing and after 
coition; also < lying on the back and moving the 
arms. 
Head: Burrowing, tearing pains in the brain, par- 
ticularly in the left side of the head on motion, < 374 
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[Spigelia. 
walking or making a false step. Jerking and shooting 
pains, flying about from one part to the other, but < 
right side. Bursting pain in the forehead, so that it 
was impossible to think. Shooting pains in the fore- 
head, extending from the frontal eminence towards the 
orbit and eyes, so that he could not move the eyes 
without pain, < motion and loud noises, >- lying down. 
Deep-seated pains in the right side of the head, involv- 
ing the right eye, < turning the head; the brain seems 
loose, < motion. 
Eyes: Shooting pains extend from the eyes into the 
head, < moving the eyes, often with vertigo. The 
eyeballs feel too large, pain on moving them, has to 
turn the whole head to change the axis of vision. The 
upper lids hang down, as if immovable; the eyes are 
difficult to open. . 
Clinical. Ciliary neuralgia, radiating pains. Ptosis, with sharp 
pains and hot lachrymation. Iritis. Asthenopia. 
Ears: An aching pressure in the ear as from a plug. 
The ears seem stopped, ringing with difficult hearing. 
Face: Tearing pains in one zygomatic process. Tear- 
ing pains in the whole jaw, extending to the ear and 
even to the nape of the neck, < moving the head, as if 
the jaw would be torn out of the joint. Face pale and 
puffy, especially on waking from sleep, yellow rings 
around the eyes. 
Mouth: Tearing, beating toothache, < cold water 
and cold air, and immediately after eating. Tongue 
fissured. Neuralgia of the tongue. Much white, 
frothy saliva in the mouth and fauces. 
Stomach: Soreness, with sticking pain in the pit of 
the stomach, inspiration. Pressure, as from a hard 
lump in the stomach. 
Abdomen: A feeling of a hard lump in the abdomen. 
Bursting pains before stool, followed by relief. 
Rectum and Stool: Boring stitches in the anus and Spongia.] 
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coccyx. Frequent, ineffectual urging to stool. Evacu- 
ation of large pieces of mucus from the bowels. 
Respiratory Organs: Paroxysms of suffocation, with 
anxiety and violent palpitation, with pains in the 
chest. Cutting, tearing pains in the left side of the 
chest, below the nipple, extending to scapula and arm, 
< deep breathing. Tearing, boring pains on the right 
side. Cutting constriction about the chest, with 
anxiety. Sticking pains in the region of the heart, 
extending through the whole chest, even to the clavi- 
cle and arm; must stand still. Stabbing pains through 
the region of the heart on deep breathing. Dry. hol- 
low cough, arresting the breathing or with paroxysms 
of suffocation. 
Heart and Pulse: Violent and persistent palpitation, 
with anxious oppression and trembling of the heart. 
Violent beating in the morning after rising, with a 
feeling of weight on the chest. Beating of the heart is 
visible through the clothes, and is heard when lying 
down. Desire for fresh air. 
Clinical. Neuralgia of the heart, involving the chest and arm. 
Irregular and tumultuous action of the heart from slight causes. 
Inflammations of the heart, external and internal, with violent pal- 
pition and severe pain, dry cough; at times with numbness of the 
arm and irregular pulse. 
Back: Bruised pains in the spine, or shooting pains 
in the back, especially when breathing. 
Extremities: Trembling and fatigue. Tearing pains, 
particularly in the hands and lower legs. 
Fever: Chilliness on the slightest motion, in the 
morning, without thirst. Heat, with thirst. Cold 
sweat. 
SPONGIA. 
Generalities: General orgasm of blood in the chest, 
with heat of the face and whole body; vessels become 
hard and distended, with dyspnoea and weakness. 
Head : Pressure of blood to the head, with pain in the 376 
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[Spongia 
forehead, as from too much blood. Bursting headache, 
throbbing and pulsating, <Z forehead. 
Eyes: Protruding eyes. Heaviness and drawing 
together of the lids. Lachrymation and headache 
from exerting the eyes. 
Nose: Fluent coryza, alternating with stoppage, 
dryness, hoarseness and dry, croupy cough. 
Mouth: Painful blisters on the inside of the cheek 
and on the tongue. Tongue dry and brown. 
Throat: Sore throat, with sticking pressure. Swel- 
ling of the thyroid gland, with suffocative attacks. 
Stomach: Insatiable appetite and thirst. 
Abdomen: Pains in the bow. Is and lumbar region, 
seeming to come from the small of the back. 
Urinary Organs: Frequent urging to urinate, with 
scanty discharge. 
Sexual Organs: Swelling of spermatic cord and testi- 
cles, with bruised, pinching or squeezing pain, extend- 
ing into cords, with tenderness. Menstruation early 
and profuse, preceded by palpitation. 
Respiratory Organs: Hoarseness, with a feeling of dry- 
ness and scraping in the larynx; with burning and con- 
striction. Cough dry, croupy, in violent paroxysms; 
at times >> eating or drinking, with burning in the 
chest. In the larynx a feeling of constriction or burn- 
ing dryness. Respiration difficult, as from a feeling of 
a plug sticking in the larynx, like a constriction. Chest 
weak, so that she could scarcely talk, with heat in the 
face; short, panting respiration. 
Clinical. Goitre; with suffocative spells at night or even with 
hoarse cough and staring eyes. Laryngitis, with harsh, croupy 
cough, suffocative spells, arousing from sleep; larynx sensitive to the 
touch. Hoarseness of singers and speakers. Bronchial catarrh, with 
wheezing, asthmatic cough, aggravated by cold air, with profuse ex- 
pectoration and suffocation, aggravated by lying with the head low 
and in a hot room, ameliorated by eating. Pneumonia, with sore- 
ness, suffocative paroxysms of cough, aggravated by dry, cold air. 
Heart and Pulse: Palpitation, with dyspnoea. Ina- Squilla.] 
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377 
bility to lie down, waking on account of suffocation. 
Neck and Back: Painful stiffness of neck and nape, 
noticed especially on turning the head. 
Fever: Coldness, not > warmth of the stove. Heat 
of the whole body; anxious and dry, with weeping and 
depression of spirits; wants to die. 
SQUILLA. 
General Action: Acrid; irritates the mucous mem- 
branes of the air passages and digestive tract. Stimu- 
lates or suppresses the secretion of urine. 
Generalities: Tearing pains, with uneasiness in the 
limbs; pains <C motion. Weakness, especially after 
walking. General aggravation in the morning. 
Head: Pulsations on rising up. Shooting pains in 
the right side of the forehead. 
Nose: Acrid coryza, with ulcerated nostrils and sore- 
ness of the margins. Fluent coryza, with constant 
sneezing and discharge of acrid mucus. 
Stomach: Nausea and vomiting, with salivation. 
Frequent alternations of qualmishness in the pit of the 
stomach, and inclination to diarrhoea in the lower 
abdomen. 
Stool: Diarrhoea, dark brown or frothy, very offen- 
sive, painless, often involuntary. 
Urinary Organs: Great urging, with discharge of 
much watery urine. Involuntary micturition when 
coughing. 
Respiratory Organs: Morning cough, with profuse 
salty expectoration, sudden and violent, with stitches 
in the side, dyspnoea, with involuntary evacuation of 
urine during the cough, < inspiration. At times, dry 
cough, caused by tickling in the trachea, or from 
crawling in the chest; the dry cough is usually violent, 
causing shattering in tlie abdomen and even retching, 
with painful contraction of the abdominal muscles. 378 
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[Stannum. 
Cough provoked by taking a deep breath or from 
drinking cold things or from great effort. 
Clinical. Bronchitis, with violent spasms of cough and involuntary 
micturition; after coughing a long time a little mucus is loosened, 
with relief. The spasmodic cough usually ends in a kind of explos- 
ive choking, often aggravated from 5 to 7 A. M. or evening and night. 
Chest: Sharp sticking in the ribs, especially of the 
left side on breathing, and particularly on coughing 
(an eruption around the sides and on the back, with 
burning, stinging itching after scratching). 
Fever: Internal chill, with external heat, without 
thirst, at night. Cold hands and feet with shivering. 
Dry, burning heat. 
STANNUM. 
Generalities: Paralytic heaviness of the extremities. 
Aching and drawing in the limbs, often with burning 
heat. Extreme weakness, both of body and of mind, 
with tremulousness, especially on moving about. 
Emaciation. Spasms like hysteria, with abdominal 
pains. General aggravation during rest and relief 
during motion (except the weakness). Pains usually 
increase and diminish slowly and gradually. 
Mind: Very sad, anxious, discouraged mood. Dread 
of seeing people and easily vexed. Complete hopeless- 
ness. 
Head: Stupefying pain across the forehead, as if the 
head were constricted by a band, gradually increasing 
and diminishing. Aching in the temples. Constric- 
tion of the whole upper part of the head. Headaches, 
always < motion, gradually increasing and diminish- 
ing. 
Face: Generally pale, with deep lines and sunken 
eyes. Drawing pains in the malar bone and orbits, 
increasing and diminishing slowly. 
Throat: Much hawking of mucus, with soreness; 
mucus greenish or gray, often*bloody, seems to adhere 
tightly to the throat, and is very difficult to expel; Stannum.] 
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tenacious, grayish mucus, expelled with sudden efforts, 
dryness and cutting in the pharynx; rawness; efforts 
to expectorate cause nausea. Dryness and stinging in 
the throat, provokes cough. 
Stomach: Increased appetite and thirst, usually. 
Food has a bitter taste, bitter vomiting after eating, 
of food, of blood. Ulcerative pain in the stomach, with 
soreness to touch, but > hard pressure. 
Abdomen : Painful. Cramplike colic, above and below 
the navel, often with a feeling of emptiness, > hard 
pressure, though < slightest motion. 
Stool; Green mucus stools, followed by constipation, 
with hard dry feces. 
Sexual Organs: Seminal emissions. Bearing down in 
the uterine region, like prolapsus. 
Clinical. Prolapsus of the uterus, with weak, sinking feeling in 
the stomach; early and profuse menses, melancholia, neuralgia. 
Leucorrhoea, with great debility; yellow, transparent, or thin and 
watery. 
Respiratory Organs: Hoarseness, with weakness and 
emptiness in the chest, must frequently breathe deeply, 
hoarseness >> expulsive cough. Violent dry cough in 
the evening till midnight; during the day with copious 
green or sweetish expectoration, at times, salty or sour 
smelling. Mucus in the larynx and trachea expelled 
by a forcible cough, with weakness of the chest and of 
the whole body. Cough fatiguing and paroxysmal, so 
that the epigastric region feels beaten. Cough caused 
by scraping, low down in the trachea, with greenish 
expectoration, of a sweet taste, < evening until mid- 
night. Expectoration of hard globides of thick mucus 
or of thick, viscid mucus, either of food or salty. 
Respiration short, oppressive, with a feeling of great 
weakness in the chest and emptiness in the stomach. 
Stitches in the left side of the chest when breathing 
and lying on the same side. Whole external chest is 
painfully sore. Oppression of the chest when cough- 
ing, with emptiness in the pit of the stomach. 380 
A PRIMER OF 
[Staphisagria. 
Extremities: Great weariness at times, with swelling 
of the ankles. Burning in the feet. Paralytic weak- 
ness, even of the arms, so that things drop from the 
hands. 
Fever: Heat in the evening, especially on the slight- 
est effort; exhausting night sweats, especially after 4 
A. M. 
STAPHISAGRIA. 
Generalities: All the muscles seem bruised and pain- 
ful, especially of the calves, on touch and on motion. 
Weariness and stiffness in all the limbs and joints, 
particularly shoulders, back and hips. Constantly in- 
clined to lie down, but sleep in the middle of the day 
is followed by heaviness of the limbs and general 
weakness. 
Mind: General peevishness, particularly in the morn- 
ing. Disinclined to mental work. An irritable mood, 
with violent temper • tries to destroy things. 
Head: Stupefying headache as if the brain were 
squeezed. Pain on stooping as if the head would burst, 
in the forehead. Itching eruptions on the back of the 
head and behind the ears. Itching and biting, with 
scurfiness; < scratching. Moist, fetid eruptions on 
the occiput and behind the ears, with painful sensitive- 
ness. 
Eyes: Dryness of the eyes and lids. Itching of the 
margins of the lids, especially in the open air. 
Clinical. Little tumors form in the margins of the lids. 
Mouth: Lips become scabby and burn. The teeth 
turn black and crumble; are very sensitive to touch 
and to cold drink. Tearing pains in the roots and in 
hollow teeth; < cold air or cold drink. The gums be- 
come very sore and bleed; swellings form. 
Throat: Roughness and painful soreness on talking 
and swallowing. 
Stomach: Unnatural appetite. Desire for stimulants Staphisagria.] 
MATERIA MEDICA. 
381 
and tobacco. Bitter or salty eructations after eating 
meat. Uprisings of bitter water. Stomach seems to 
hang down relaxed. 
Abdomen: Cutting colic after eating and drinking, 
(or after being angry). 
Rectum and Stool: Soft stool, difficult. Diarrhoea 
after eating or after drinking cold water. 
Urinary Organs: Urging to urinate, with evacuation 
of scanty, dark urine, which does not seem to relieve 
the bladder. Involuntary and copious micturition, 
especially on coughing. 
Sexual Organs: Drawing or tearing pains in the testi- 
cles, with inflammation. Seminal emissions and effects 
of sexual excesses, even with impotency. Great sen- 
sitiveness of the female genitals. Prolapsus, with sink- 
ing in the abdomen, aching around the hips and weak- 
ness of the legs. 
Respiratory Organs: Cough at night, with yellow, 
purulent expectoration. Cough dry and hollow, caused 
by crawling in the larynx. Sense of adherent mucus 
in the larynx and trachea. Pressure and constriction 
in the pit of the throat after vexation, < swallowing. 
Rawness in the trachea, caused by much talking. Sore- 
ness and rawness in the chest on coughing. Palpita- 
tion on motion, from music oi' emotional excitement. 
Back and Extremities: Sprained pain in the back, 
especially on rising from a seat or turning in bed; it 
feels broken. Paralytic tearing pains in the arms, < 
motion and touch. Tearing pains in the muscles of 
the legs. 
Skin: Eruption, with itching, which burns after 
scratching. Dry, scurvy eruption on the joints. Skin 
becomes unhealthy, does not heal. Gout-like nodes 
form on the joints. 
Fever: Predominating coldness and chilliness, with- 
out thirst; heat with great thirst, followed by profuse 
sweat. Heat at night in the hands and feet; uncovers 382 
A PRIMER OF 
[Sticta Pul. 
them. Sweats easily during the day, even when sit- 
ting. Intermittent paroxysm, consisting mostly of 
coldness, preceded by unnatural hunger. 
STICTA PULMONARIA. 
Generalities: Dull pressure in the forehead and root 
of the nose, with sharp pain through the vertex and 
face. Fulness at the root of the nose, with burning 
in the lids, soreness of the eyeballs on closing the eyes 
or turning them. 
Clinical. Nasal catarrh, with profuse discharge, headache, pains in 
the eyes which feel sore; earache, cough and oppression of the chest. 
Dryness of the nose, which feeis as stiff as leather; occasional dis- 
charge of scabs, especially in the evening and night. Hay fever, 
incessant sneezing, fulness in the forehead and root of nose. Cough 
dry, incessant, spasmodic in the evening and night, with splitting 
headache, aggravated by inspiration and lying down. Chorea-like 
spasms in the evening and night, constant jumping about, legs feel 
floating in the air. Inflammation of the small joints. Housemaid's 
knee. 
STILLINGIA SYLVATICA. 
Clinical. Symptoms of influenza, with catarrhal discharges from 
the nose, burning and watery, pains in the bones of the face, smart- 
ing and stinging in the throat. Syphititic eruptions, with bone pains 
and sciatica; nodosities. Dry, hacking cough, caused by tickling in 
the trachea, spasmodic towards evening, with a feeling of constric- 
tion and soreness in the air passages. Numerous pains in the ex- 
tremities, particularly below the elbows and knees. 
STRAMONIUM. 
Generalities: Suppression of all excretions, particu- 
larly of urine. Trembling of the whole body. Con- 
stant restless movements. Subsultus tendinum; face 
constantly changing its expression owing to the invol- 
untary contractions of the various muscles. Convul- 
sions very easily brought on and reproduced; a lighted 
candle, a mirror, running water or the attempt to drink, 
may bring on most frightful spasms. Convulsions 
accompanied by screams, shrieking voice, alternating 
with rage and most violent excitement. Stramonium.] 
MATERIA MEDlCA. 
383 
Mind: Illusions of the most fanciful or frightful de- 
scription ; seems to see frightful images chasing him. 
but especially sees small black animals, such as bugs, 
dogs and all sorts of crawling things. Mental excite- 
ment usually associated with violent spasms of the 
pharnyx, so that any attempt to swallow liquids causes 
choking and screaming. Delirium, with sexual excite- 
ment and ridiculous gestures. Errs in judging of the 
size and distance of objects. With the frightful de- 
lirium, he froths at the mouth, eyes protrude as in 
terror, bites, strikes, and has a squeaking voice. Ap- 
prehension ; starts up in fright, all motions are hasty 
and forcible. Much incoherent talking. Stupefaction, 
with frequent, wild, starting-up. dilated pupils, difficult 
swallowing, terror. 
Head: Great rush of blood to head, which becomes 
Hushed and hot: with vanishing sight and hearing. 
Eyes: Eyes staring and wild, protruded, pupils di- 
lated, with injected conjunctiva. Illusions of vision, 
especially of size and distance; small objects look large, 
even parts of the body seem enormously swollen. 
Eyes distended. 
Face: Face red and swollen: often an expression of 
terror. 
Mouth: Tongue swollen, dry and stiff, bloody froth 
exudes from the mouth. Speech becomes difficult, 
stammering; unintelligible. 
Throat: Swallowing difficult or impossible on account 
of spasm. Dryness and redness, not > water; attempt 
to drink renews the spasms. 
Stomach: Thirst not > drinking, which he dreads to 
attempt. Tastelessness of food. Sour or green vom- 
iting. 
Abdomen: Distended, hard, painful to the touch. 
Tearing in the region of the navel, as if it would be 
torn out. 
Stool: Intestinal secretions suppressed. 384 
A PRIMER OF 
[Sulphur. 
Urinary Organs: Urine suppressed; bladder empty. 
Sexual Organs: Sexual erethism,with indecent speech 
and action; hands constantly kept on the genitals. 
Menstruation excessive, dark and clotted. 
Respiratory Organs: Voice hoarse and croaking, high 
and squeaking. Spasmodic, toneless cough. Suffoca- 
tion. Expectoration difficult, with a tight chest; de- 
sire for open air. 
Heart and Pulse: Palpitation. Pulse rapid and soft. 
Neck and Back: Cervical spine sensitive; slightest 
pressure causes screams. Drawing in the middle of 
the spine. Opisthotonos. 
Extremities: Trembling, twitching of tendons, numb- 
ness. Staggering gait. 
Skin: Scarlet rash over the whole body, of a very 
bright color. 
Clinical. Frequently valuable for the effects of suppressed erup- 
tion in scarlatina, with delirium, suppressed urine, threatening con- 
vulsions. 
Fever: Shaking chill, with twitchings of muscles and 
coldness of the extremities, with heat of the head and 
face. General fever, particularly in the face and head; 
hot, dry skin, which is bright red, with anxiety, thirst, 
often with vomiting. 
Generalities: Emaciation. Sensitiveness to open air. 
Uneasiness in the limbs. Tremulous weakness. Rest- 
lessness, with surging of blood, particularly at night; 
with apprehension. General prostration; < afternoon 
and night; > walking in the open air. Symptoms < 
during rest, > motion; aggravation from change of 
weather and from cold. All symptoms < night. Gen- 
eral amelioration from moving about in the open air, 
from warmth, and after the reappearance of suppressed 
eruptions or discharges (menstruation, stool, skin erup- 
tions, bronchial secretions, etc.). Very marked aggra- 
vation from washing. 
SULPHUR. Sulphur.] 
MATERIA MEDICA. 
385 
Mind: Ill humor, with restlessness; lachrymose, ab- 
sorbed in one's self. Irritable and fault-finding. Hasty 
and fickle. Dread of washing. Quarrelsome and im- 
patient; nothing pleases. Anxiety, preventing sleep 
in the evening, with heat of the head and cold feet. 
Depressed and weeping mood, with restless nights, 
starting up. Distraction of mind. No power of con- 
centration. 
Head: Head dull and confused, with heat and a feel- 
ing of rush of blood. Dull headache, < open air. 
Pain as from a cord around the head, or a weight on 
vertex. A feeling of fulness and heaviness, especially 
in the morning; or in the evening, with pressure in the 
forehead; or at night, with a rush of blood to the head, 
or during menstruation. Vertigo, particularly on stoop- 
ing; did not dare even to look downward. Boring 
pains in the bones of the head; < motion, with rest- 
lessness. The top of the head becomes sensitive to the 
touch, as from pressure. Various eruptions form over 
the scalp, pimples and pustules, with sensitiveness and 
itching and falling out of the hair. The scalp becomes 
dry and sore, with excessive itching at night in bed. 
Eyes: Inflammation, with sharp, sticking pain, as 
from splinters. Pain, as if spiculje of glass were be- 
tween the lid and eyeball, causing cutting, with burn- 
ing and lachrymation. Burning dryness in the eyes, 
with pain and fatigue when reading. Burning, with 
lachrymation in the morning. Smarting sore pain, 
with dryness of the lids and their margins, as if they 
rubbed against the eyeballs, or as of sand in the eyes. 
Vision dim, flickering, of dark spots floating. 
Ears: Sticking pains in the ears. Roaring and hum- 
ming. Sensitiveness to noise. 
Nose: Inflammation and swelling of the external 
nose. Itching and burning, with soreness in the nos- 
trils. Dryness. Sneezing as if a cold were coming 
on; frequent blowing of blood-streaked mucus or of 
Q 386 
A PRIMER OF 
[Sulphur. 
watery'discharge, often alternating with dryness and 
burning in the nostrils. An offensive odor of old 
mucus on blowing the nose. 
Face: Pale, sickly look, as after an illness. Drawing, 
jerking pains in the lower jaw. Swelling of the lips, 
with eruption. Dryness of the lips and margins of the 
nose, with burning and roughness, as if raw. 
Mouth: Toothache, boring and throbbing, or draw- 
ing; < evening and night, from cold water, < heat, 
with sensitiveness. Swelling of the gums, with throb- 
bing pain. Tongue coated, at times, red and cracked, 
burning and rough, red tip and margins; burning pain. 
General dryness of the mouth, with heat and thirst at 
night; more rarely ptyalism; with both aphthae and 
ulcers. Taste pasty, metallic, or bitter in the morning. 
Sour all day, especially after drinking milk, with sour 
eructations. 
Throat: Burning redness and dryness; stitches on 
swallowing. Tonsils feel swollen, with stitches, ex- 
tending to the ears on swallowing. Hawking and 
clearing of the throat. Spasmodic constriction in the 
middle of the pharynx, with difficult swallowing; a 
ball seems to rise and close the pharnyx. 
Stomach: Appetite excessive, must eat frequently. 
Great thirst. Stomach and abdomen seem full as soon 
as he sees food, cannot eat. Empty eructations after 
eating; sour during the day. Nausea. Heartburn. 
Soreness or burning in the pit of the stomach, with 
constrictive cramp after eating. Heaviness and drag- 
ging in the stomach, extending to abdomen. 
Abdomen: Distention; numerous flatulent symptoms, 
with rumbling and gurgling, gripings. Pain in the 
region of the liver, which seems swollen. Abdomen 
sore, with bruised pain in the muscles; cannot easily 
become erect. Colic after drinking. Cutting and 
griping pains in lower abdomen, with pain in the small 
of the back and chilliness. Sulphur.] 
MATERIA MEDICA. 
387 
Rectum and Anus: Sticking or cutting pains in the 
rectum, < evening. Burning during stool. Sensation 
after stool as if it were not evacuated. Tenesmus 
before stool. Constant distress and urging, with stick- 
ing sore pain, cannot lie nor sit, followed by a discharge 
of blood. Haemorrhoids greatly enlarged, with stinging 
itching and burning. 
Stool: Diarrhoea, thin, pasty or fluid, at times, pain- 
less, and so urgent as to be almost involuntary, espe- 
cially early in the morning, driving the patient out of 
bed; extremely fetid. Stool tough, gluey, fetid and 
slimy. Constipation ; evacuations scanty and unsatis- 
factory, preceded and followed by uneasiness in the 
rectum, as if incompletely evacuated. Stool dry and 
constipated, with irritation in the rectum; frequent 
desire, with piles, soreness and burning in the anus. 
Stool often streaked with blood, or even dysenteric, 
with excessive tenesmus. 
Urinary Organs: Frequent urging to urinate at night, 
usually with scanty discharge. Burning in the urethra 
or stinging, especially when urinating. Involuntary 
micturition at night. Urine turbid, offensive, bloody. 
Sexual Organs: Genera] relaxation, with lack of 
power in men. Bearing-down pain in uterine region. 
Swelling and soreness of the pudenda and vagina. 
Menses early and profuse, often stopping suddenly, 
with congestion of other parts of the body. Menses 
preceded by headache; followed by slimy, acrid, milky 
leucorrhcea. 
Respiratory Organs: Rawness in the larynx, with 
hoarseness. Dry cough in the evening, waking at 
night, with dyspnoea, < night when lying on the back, 
with pressure and anxiety in the chest; suffocation. 
Cough dry at night, but loose in the day time from 
crawling in the larynx. Burning in the chest, extend- 
ing upwarp to the face. Sharp sticking pains in the 
sides, often extending to back, < night and lying on 388 
A PRIMER OF 
[Sulphur. 
the back. Anxiety and oppression in the chest. "Weak- 
ness when talking. 
Heart and Pulse: Anxious palpitation at night in 
bed. Sticking pains in the region of the heart. Pulse 
rapid, often hard and full. 
Neck and Back: Backache at night, small of the 
back feels bruised, preventing sleep, < turning in bed, 
must hold the breath. Sticking pain in the lumbar 
region. Bruised pain in the coccyx, < stooping and 
rising. Drawing pains and weakness, extending into 
the legs. 
Extremities: Drawing pains in all the joints, < even- 
ing, causing restlessness. Pains like rheumatism in 
the left shoulder. Tearing in the right shoulder, like 
paralysis. Tremulousness of the hands and arms. 
Sticking in the tips of the fingers. Tearing drawing 
pains in the finger joints. Cramps in the muscles of 
the legs. Drawing or sticking pains in the legs and 
knees. Pain in the knees and legs, as from stiffness or 
as if the muscles were too short on rising or walking. 
Cramp in the calves, as if too short. Stiffness in the 
ankles; heaviness in the ankles and feet. Sticking, 
soreness and pains in the feet, as from tight shoes. 
Sticking, cutting pains in the toes and roots of the 
nails. 
Skin: Various eruptions; black points in the face. 
Dry burning and itching eruptions, either like nettle- 
rash or like fine papular eruptions. Itching vesicles 
form and sometimes pustules. Itching, with burning, 
in various parts of the body; < scratching, which 
causes burning; < night in the heat of the bed, with 
restlessness. Eruptions that are scratched tend to 
ulcerate and exude an offensive discharge. The skin 
symptoms universally < bathing, associated with burn- 
ing itching; scratching is followed by burning; aggra- 
vation at night, especially by the warmth of the bed. 
Sleep: Irresistible sleepiness during the day, but Sul. Acid.] 
MATERIA MEDICA. 
389 
sleeplessness before midnight, after which there is fre- 
quent waking and tossing about till early morning. 
Frequent waking at night, with rush of blood to the 
head; hot, restless hands and feet, frequent turning. 
Dreams vivid; vexatious, frightening, anxious. 
Fever: Chilliness in the evening, with headache; in- 
ternal chilliness, particularly in the back, creeping 
chills starting in the small of the back. ' Chilliness 
often associated with rush of blood. Fever, with heat 
of the head and face, and of the hands and feet; < even- 
ing in bed. Dry heat, with great thirst. Perspiration 
at night, particularly towards morning, often of a sour 
or disagreeable odor. 
SULPHURIC ACID. 
Generalities: Weakness, with tendency to haemor- 
rhages; with a sensation of trembling. Pains gradu- 
ally increase and suddenly disappear. General aggra- 
vation on the left side, in the open air, in the forenoon 
and also in the evening. (Results of bruises, especially 
with blunt instruments). General rapid sinking of 
strength, with desire for stimulants. 
Mind: Fretful or impatient mood. Uneasiness and 
irritability. 
Head: Brain loose. Pain as from the sudden 
thrusting of a plug or as of a dull instrument pressing 
deep into the brain, gradually increasing and suddenly 
disappearing. 
Nose: Nose-bleed, particularly in the evening (in 
old people). 
Face: General paleness. A feeling as if albumen had 
dried upon the face, like a film. Lips are scaly. 
Mouth: Toothache, tearing, < evening and after ly- 
ing down; < cold, > warmth. General dryness of the 
mouth, aphthae. Saliva profuse. Gums swollen, bleed- 
ing easily. Haemorrhage from the mucous membrane 390 
A PRIMER OF 
[Sul. Acid. 
easy. Tendency to unhealthy ulceration, even gan- 
grenous. 
Throat: Inflammation, aphthous ulceration. Swal- 
lowing difficult on account of sense of constriction and 
swelling in the pharynx and oesophagus. 
Stomach: Desire for fresh fruit. Sour eructations 
and heartburn. The region of the stomach painful 
after eating. Intense desire for alcoholic stimulants 
(frequently applicable to the effects caused from taking 
them). 
Abdomen: All drink, except stimulants, seems to 
make the stomach cold. Stitches in both hypochon- 
dria. Weak, feeling, with sinking or dragging, into 
the hips and small of the back. Flatulent colic, and a 
feeling as if hernia would protrude. 
Rectum and Stool: Dragging in the anus during and 
after stool. Diarrhoea of yellow mucus, even frothy, 
fetid, with general sour odor of the body. Stools are 
nodular and black, often streaked with blood. With 
the evacuation an empty, faint feeling in the abdomen. 
Urinary Organs: Pains in the bladder on retaining 
the urine. Urine usually scanty, burning, becoming 
turbid like gruel. 
Sexual Organs: Menstruation early and profuse. 
Acrid burning leucorrhoea, often of bloody mucus or 
milky or transparent. • 
Respiratory Organs: Dry cough in the morning after 
rising; < open air. Cough always followed by eruc- 
tations. Bloody expectoration. Stitches in the chest 
Weakness in the chest. 
Back and Extremities: Pain in the lumbar region, and 
stiffness in the morning on rising. Purpura on the 
arms and thighs. 
Skin: Spots like extravasated blood, as from a bruise. 
Flesh becomes sore from walking or riding. (After 
the slightest bruise, blood settles, and there is tendency 
to ulceration and even gangrene.) Tabacum.] 
MATERIA MEDICA. 
391 
Fever: General lack of vital heat. Dry heat, with 
much thirst. Sour perspiration at night. Perspires 
easily when at work or in the morning. 
Clinical. Low types of fever (typhoid), with drowsiness, stupor, 
sour discharges; tendency to haemorrhages, soft pulse, tremulous- 
ness, deathly paleness of the face, rapid sinking. 
TABACUM. 
General Action: Powerfully depressing; produces 
nausea and vomiting, with feeble heart's action, low 
temperature, vertigo, delirium and collapse. Gastro- 
enteritis. Tetanic convulsions. Persistent spasms of 
arterioles, with cold surface of the body. Degeneration 
and atrophy of the nerves of special sense, and paraly- 
sis of voluntary muscles. 
Generalities: Emaciation. Anaemia. Muscular un- 
steadiness, with trembling, cramps, convulsions. Neu- 
ralgic pains of various sorts, > hot applications. 
Extreme restlessness; must constantly change position. 
Profound prostration, slow, shuffling gait. Sudden 
faintness, even hemiplegia. Aggravation from ex- 
tremes of heat or cold, but amelioration in the open 
air. 
Mind: Nervous excitability. Despondency and mis- 
anthropy. Difficult concentration of mind, and stupor. 
Delirium, like delirium tremens. 
Head: General heaviness, with heat of the head, > 
open air. Vertigo, with nausea, < warm room, fol- 
lowed by vomiting of food and tremulous weakness. 
Eyes: Atrophy of the optic nerve, with various dis- 
turbances of vision. 
Ears: Hearing becomes dull, with various noises. 
Face: Pale, collapsed expression, cold sweat, eyes 
sunken, features drawn. 
Mouth: Tearing toothache in the evening, extending 
to the bones of the face. Mouth filled with white, 
tenacious mucus, causing frequent expectoration. 
Salivation, with burning in the mouth and throat, 392 
A PRIMER OF 
[Tanacetum. 
tickling, dryness, rawness, scraping in the pharynx 
provokes frequent hawking and coughing. Swallowing 
difficult on account of spasms of the pharynx. 
Stomach: Thirst. Nausea like sea-sickness, with 
vertigo and cold sweat; faintness > open air. Vom- 
iting of food and of sour or bitter liquid, with deathly 
nausea, cold sweat and sinking in the region of the 
stomach. 
Stool: Watery diarrhoea, urgent,painless in the morn- 
ing. Evacuations like cholera, with deathly faintness, 
cold surface, irregular pulse. 
Respiratory Organs: Cough, suffocative from irritation 
in the throat and larynx; < night, respiration difficult, 
< ascending, with palpitation and distress in the region 
of the heart. Symptoms of angina pectoris ; feels as if 
a crowbar were twisted in a knot about the heart, 
which seemed to stop, followed by a violent beating 
and intermitting pulse; constriction and tightness 
across the chest, with preecordial oppression. Palpita- 
tion, with pain between the shoulders and the back, < 
lying on the left side. Dilation of the heart, with 
feeble, irregular pulse; pains extend from the heart to 
the arms, pinched features, sense of suffocation. Pulse 
rapid and small. Weak and soft; intermittent. 
Extremities: Relaxed and paralyzed. Gait shuffling, 
unsteady. 
Sleep: Sleeplessness, with uneasy, anxious dreams. 
Fever: Chills, with cold sweat. Cold, clammy sweat 
at night on the hands and face. 
TANACETUM. 
Generalities: Convulsions of the most violent charac- 
ter; epileptiform. Paralysis of voluntary muscles, 
with numbness and sensation as if the limbs were 
enormously swollen. 
Sexual Organs: Profuse menstruation, with labor-like Taraxacum.] 
MATERIA MEDICA. 
393 
pains. During pregnancy it either produces miscar- 
riage or the foetus is not developed. 
Generalities: General amelioration when walking. 
Head: Dull headache, with a feeling of constriction 
of the brain. Shooting pains in the temples, > walk- 
ing about. Tearing pains in the occiput. 
Mouth: Tongue covered with a white fur, but with 
red spots which are sensitive. Taste bitter. Saliva- 
tion. 
Throat: Throat. Hawking of sour mucus. 
Stomach : Bitter eructations, hiccough. 
Abdomen: Pain, especially over the region of the 
liver, with jaundice. Sensations of bubbles bursting in 
the bowels. 
Stool: Ineffectual urging. Evacuation difficult, 
though not hard. 
Fever: Chilliness after eating and drinking. Cold- 
ness of the tips of the fingers. Chill, with headache. 
Heat of the face. Sweat wakes him out of sleep. 
TARAXACUM. 
TARENTULA. 
Generalities: Extreme restlessness; innst keep in 
constant motion, though walking seems to aggravate 
the symptoms. 
Mind: Clinical. Sudden alternations of moods, often with stealthy 
and destructive impulses. Hystero-epilepsy, with shrieking. Hys- 
teria, with constant movement of the extremities, particularly of the 
hands. Paralysis agitans. Chorea. 
Sexual Organs: Clinical. Ovaries extremely sensitive. Dysmenor- 
rhcea. Various forms of organic disease of the sexual organs. Pru- 
ritis. Nymphomania. 
Back: Clinical Spinal irritation, with tremblings of the limbs. In- 
tense pain in the spine and chest, with extreme sensitiveness of the 
spine. 
TELLURIUM. 
Generalities: Restlessness. Weakness. 
Head: Clinical,. Basal meningitis, with extreme hyperesthesia of 
Q* 394 
A PRIMER OF 
[Terebinthina. 
the whole back. Intolerant of the slightest touch; could not lie on 
the back, with motor paralysis of the arms and legs; ptosis. 
Ears: Swelling, with burning and itching, aching and 
throbbing of the external ear, followed by a discharge, 
which is copious, watery, acrid, smelling like putrid 
fish brine, causing vesicular eruption wherever it 
touched the skin. 
Nose: Fluent coryza, with hoarseness and lachryma- 
tion. 
Back: Spine sensitive from the last cervical to the 
middle dorsal region ; could not bear to have the part 
touched or approached; the pain radiated to the neck, 
shoulder and sternum; < fatigue, partially > rest. 
Extremities: Sciatica pains; < lying down at night, 
< right side. 
Skin: Vesicular eruption, in clusters on an inflamed 
base, with itching; < night in bed. Circular, herpetic 
eruptions on an inflamed base, with stinging, prickling 
itching; < when at rest. 
TEREBINTHINA. 
General Action: Inflammation of the kidneys and 
urinary tract, with haemorrhages and strangury. 
Bronchitis, enteritis, with marked tympanitis. Haemor- 
rhages from affected parts seem to be a constant char- 
acteristic. 
Generalities: Weakness. Subsultus tendinum. Con- 
vulsions, with rigid spine and opisthotonos. Stupidity; 
complete coma. 
Head: Dull headache, like a band around the head. 
Vertigo, often with nausea, and sudden vanishing of 
vision. 
Eyes: Clinical. Ciliary neuralgia over the right eye. Episcleritis, 
with intense pain in the eye and side of the head. Iritis, with intense 
pain. Amblyopia, alcoholic. 
Nose: Epistaxis (with albuminuria). 
Mouth: Tongue dry, with tympanitis. Thuja.] 
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Stomach: Nausea and vomiting. Heat in the stomach. 
Abdomen: Enormous meteorismus. 
Stool: Diarrhoea, with distended abdomen; stools 
watery, greenish, fetid. Haemorrhage from the bowels. 
Urinary Organs: Strangury, with bloody urine. In- 
flammation of the kidneys; bleeding. Urethritis, with 
painful erections. Difficult micturitiod, with burning, 
at times, total suppression of urine. Urine bloody and 
scanty or suppressed, of the odor of violets. 
Sexual Organs: Clinical. Metritis, with puerperal peritonitis, in- 
tense burning in uterine region, enormously distended abdomen, dry 
tongue. Small pulse, haemorrhages from the bowels. 
Respiratory Organs: Haemopytsis, with difficult breath- 
ing, a sense of distention of the lungs. 
Heart and Pulse: Pulse rapid, small, compressible, 
thready; intermittent. 
Back: Burning pains in the region of the kidneys, 
with painfulness. Drawing in the right kidney, ex- 
tending to the hip. 
Skin: Ecchymoses. 
Fever: Heat, writh violent thirst, dry tongue, follow ed 
by a profuse, cold, clammy sweat. 
Clinical. Not infrequently indicated in low types of typhoid, with 
abdominal distention, haemorrhages, stupor, delirium. 
Generalities: General one-sided character of the 
symptoms, particularly the left side. Symptoms < 
afternoon and night, particularly about 3 o'clock and 
also evening, and < warmth of the bed, > rest. Gen- 
eral aversion to motion. 
Mind: Ill humor: sadness. Loathing of life. Dis- 
contented and disinclination to talk. 
Clinical. Melancholia, with fixed ideas. Emotional sensitiveness; 
music causes weeping and trembling. Persistent delusions of a living 
animal in the abdomen, or that his soul was severed from his body. 
Head: Headache as though a nail were piercing the 
vertex, or left frontal eminences or right parietal bone. 
A feeling of numbness in the brain; heaviness of the 
THUJA. 396 
A PRIMER OF 
[Thuja. 
occiput. The vertex sensitive to touch, with sharp 
pains at night, extending over the whole head. 
Eyes: Redness and burning; lachrymation in the 
open air. Dryness, with stinging pains. Swelling and 
inflammation of the margins of the lids, with burning 
stinging pains. 
Clinical. Ciliary neuralgia, with soreness. Kerato-iritis, episcle- 
ritis. Iritis, syphilitic pains, aggravated at night. 
Nose: Ulceration in the nostrils. Soreness and 
ulceration of the nostrils, < pressure. Painful pressure 
at the root of the nose. Dry catarrh in the upper 
part, <Z evening and night. Dryness and stoppage of 
the nose, and formation of painful scabs. 
Face: Burning heat and redness of the face. The 
blood vessels of the face and temples become dis- 
tended. Sweat of the face, especially of the side upon 
which he does not lie. Boring pains in the malar 
bone; >> pressure. Toothache, caused by tea drinking. 
Gums swollen and sore. Tip of the tongue painfully 
sore, with blisters on the sides. Mouth filled with 
blisters as if it had been burnt. 
Stomach: Bitter or rancid eructations, especially after 
eating fat food. Eructations of food. 
Abdomen: Flatulent symptoms, with colic ; especially 
a feeling as if there were a living animal in the bowels. 
Indurations form in the walls of the abdomen, as if 
pushed out by a living child in the uterus, without 
pain, Swelling of inguinal glands. 
Anus and Stool: Haemorrhoids. Discharge of bloody 
mucus constantly from the anus. Soreness and shoot- 
ing pain as if skin were cracked. Sense of constriction 
with every stool. Burning and stinging in the anus, 
extending to the small of the back. Condylomata. 
Clinical. Diarrhoea, watery, forcible, aggravated after breakfast. 
Evacuations often greasy. 
Urinary Organs: Loss of tone in the bladder; urine 
dribbles after urinating; must urinate many times 
before the bladder is emptied. Frequent micturition Trillum Pend.] 
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at night. Sensation in the urethra, as if drops of urine 
ran down after urinating. Discharge of glutinous 
moisture from urethra. 
Sexual Organs: Foul smelling moisture exudes from 
the glans. Burning between glans and prepuce. Con- 
dylomata on inner surface of prepuce. Unnatural 
perspiration on the scrotum and inside of the thighs. 
Swelling and soreness of the pudenda ; condylomata. 
Respiratory Organs: Dry hacking cough from becom- 
ing heated, afternoon at 3 P. M. Cough, with yellow- 
ish expectoration, pain in the pit of the stomach. 
Breathing short, oppressed, with sensations of adhe- 
sions in the chest. Stitches in the chest; < cold drinks. 
Sense of rush of blood to the chest, with audible palpi- 
tation. 
Neck and Back: Tension and stiffness of the nape. 
Drawing pains in the back when sitting. Drawing in 
the sacrum, coccyx and thighs, so that after sitting a 
long time he could scarcely stand erect. 
Extremities: Numerous pains in the upper and lower 
extremities; muscular twitchings, weakness and tremb- 
ling. Painful swelling and redness of the tips of the 
fingers, which are often cold and feel dead. Painful, 
inflamed swelling and redness of the back of foot and 
tips of the toes. 
Skin: Wart-like excresences. Painful sensitiveness, 
with stinging itching. The skin symptoms are particu- 
larly < touch. 
Fever: Orgasm of blood in the evening, with throb- 
bing in the blood vessels. Chilliness without thirst. 
Heat in the evening, mostly in the face. Perspiration 
at the beginning of sleep; particularly on the uncov- 
ered parts; covered parts remain dry. 
TRILLUM PENDULUM. 
Sexual Organs: Threatening abortion, with bright 
haemorrhage on the slightest movement. Uterine 398 
A PRIMER OF 
[Uranium Nit. 
haemorrhages, with sensation as if the hips and back were 
falling to pieces; f> tight bandages. 
Clinical. Vomiting of food, with symptoms of ulceration of the 
stomach, with excessive urine. Diabetes, with excessive thirst and 
emaciation and also tympanitis. 
URANIUM NITRICUM. 
USTILAGO. 
Sexual Organs: Tenderness of the left ovary, with 
pain and swelling. A distress referred to the mouth 
of the uterus. Yellow, offensive leucorrhcea. Mens- 
truation free, bright, not coagulated. 
Clinical. Uterine haemorrhage, bright, thin, with soft, spongy 
uterus, pain extending to the knees; with tenderness of left ovary. 
Ovarian neuralgia, left. Membranous dysmenorrhoea. Pain shoot- 
ing down the legs. Persistent uterine haemorrhage, with oozing of 
dark blood in clots. Pain in the left mammary region between per- 
iods, with ovarian congestion and burning pains. 
UVA URSI. 
Clinical. Cystitis; frequent urging, with severe spasms of bladder, 
burning and tearing pain. Urine contains blood and much tenacious 
mucus, which clots in large masses. Uterine haemorrhage. 
VALERIANA. 
Generalities: Tearing pains in the limbs during rest 
and after motion; often > motion. Pains, jerking, 
sudden, > change of position. Drawing pains in the 
muscles of the limbs, extending up and down. Unnat- 
ural excitability and irritability; sensitiveness of all 
the special senses. General aggravation towards noon 
or early in the afternoon, and again towards evening 
till midnight. 
Mind: Hysteria; restlessness. Fear of being left 
alone, especially in the dark. Trembling with excite- 
ment. A vacillating mood. Remarkable alternations 
of moods. 
Head: Drawing sticking pains in the forehead and 
over the orbits, as if they would pierce the eyes, from 
within outward, with heat of the face, in the evening, Valeriana.] 
MATERIA MEDICA. 
399 
one-sided. Frontal pains, extending into the orbits. 
One-sided headaches, caused by a draft of air. Head- 
ache from the sun. A feeling of coldness in the upper 
part of the head from the pressure of the hat. 
Eyes: The margins of the lids inflamed, with biting, 
stinging pains, as from smoke. 
Mouth: Taste flat and slimy in the morning after 
waking. 
Stomach: Eructations often empty, rancid, or foul. 
Qualmish nausea, as if a thread were drawn up from 
the naval to the throat, with free salivation. Nausea 
and vomiting, with chilliness. 
Abdomen: Distended and hard. Colic in the evening. 
Bruised pain in the lower abdomen. Abdominal 
cramps from suppressed menstruation. 
Stool: Diarrhoea, consisting of greenish, pasty feces, 
mixed with blood. 
Respiratory Organs: Stitches from within outward in 
the chest. Pressure across the lower portion of the 
chest, with oppressed breathing. Sudden jerks or jerk- 
ing stitches in the chest. 
Back: Pain as from a strain above the hips, < stand- 
ing or sitting, > walking. 
Extremities: Slow, drawing pains, as if in the bones, 
when sitting quietly, with jerkings, > walking. Tear- 
ing pains in the calf in the afternoon while sitting 
still, > rising and walking. Sprained pain in the 
ankles, < standing, > walking. Pain in the heels 
when sitting. 
Sleep: Sleeplessness and restlessness at night, wide 
awake till towards morning, with great tossing about. 
Fever: Predominating heat, which lasts a long time, 
even after a short chill, with confusion of the head and 
much thirst, < towards evening while still. Perspira- 
tion sudden, disappearing suddenly, particularly of the 
face and forehead. 400 
A PRIMER OF 
[Veratum Alb. 
VERATRUM ALBUM. 
General Action: Weak heart, with profound prostra- 
tion; cold skin, cold sweat, collapse. Vomiting and 
purging, with terrible colic and cramps. Rigid con- 
tractions of muscles, tetanic. 
Generalities: Rapid sinking of strength, as from too 
great heat in the air; as if paralyzed. Faintness, with 
trembling. Numbness and crawling of the extremities. 
Tonic cramps, especially of the palms and soles, which 
seem to be hollowed in; tetanic rigidity of the whole 
body. The pains are < warmth of the bed as well as 
in cold wet weather, usually > walking about. 
Mind: Raging delirium, even with coldness, cold 
sweat on the forehead and vomiting. He howls and 
curses all night; is inconsolable, howls and screams or 
sits brooding in a corner, wailing and weeping. Com- 
plete despair. Anxiety. Anguish. 
Head: Violent pain on the vertex, with heaviness of 
the whole head. The brain feels bruised or torn. 
Pain on the vertex, which becomes a throbbing like a 
rush of blood to the head, even nausea and vomiting. 
Headache, with stiffness of the neck and profuse urine. 
Sensation of the bristling of the hair, which seems to 
be sensitive to the touch. General relief from pressure 
on the vertex. 
Eyes: Eyes staring, protruding or sunken and lustre- 
less. Eyes turned upward. Trembling and paralysis 
of the upper lids. Heat and lachrymation, with a feel- 
ing of dryness. Contracted pupils (hemeralopia). 
Nose: Icy cold. Dryness. Bleeding. 
Face: Sunken, with an anxious expression. Gener- 
ally pale, with drawn features. When lying down the 
face may be red, but pale on rising up. Cold sweat on 
the face, especially on the forehead. Cramps and con- 
tractions of the muscles. Lips blue or black. 
Mouth: Generally dry and sticky, though at times 
there is profuse saliva. Tongue cold, withered. Veratrum Alb.] 
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401 
Stomach: Enormous appetite and thirst, especially 
for cold water. Nausea, with violent and profuse vom- 
iting, usually associated with diarrhoea. Vomiting of 
food, of green mucus, with cold sweat. Painful disten- 
tion in the region of the stomach, extending to the 
sternum. 
Abdomen: Distended, with anxiety. Cutting colic as 
from knives or as if the intestines were twisted. Pain- 
ful griping, with vomiting and diarrhoea. Great sen- 
sitiveness to touch. 
Stool: Profuse evacuations, watery, greenish or even 
black, with faintness and vomiting. Constipation; 
feces hard and large. 
Urinary Organs: Urine suppressed. Involuntary, or 
scanty and dark red. 
Sexual Organs: Menstruation early and profuse, pre- 
ceded by headache. 
Clinical. Dysmenorrhoea, with vomiting, colic, diarrhoea, cold 
sweat. Metritis, with distended abdomen, extremely sensitive over 
the uterus, terrible colic. 
Respiratory Organs: Larynx feels constricted, with 
spasmodic suffocation. Tickling in the larynx pro- 
vokes cough. Voice lost or weak and husky. Cough 
hollow, deep, in shocks. Respiration suffocative, with 
oppression of the chest. Suffocative attacks, caused by 
spasmodic constriction of the larynx or chest. (Whoop- 
ing cough, with vomiting; great prostration.) 
Heart and Pulse: Palpitation, with anxiety, loud 
breathing and suffocation; face becomes pale on rising- 
up. Pulse rapid; generally small and irregular or im- 
perceptible. 
Neck and Back: Muscles of the neck seem paralyzed. 
Paralytic stiffness extends from the back up to the 
neck. 
Extremities: Paralytic weakness and falling asleep, 
as if exhausted by by excessive fatigue. Pains in the 
limbs generally < wet, cold, and also warmth; > walk- 402 
A PRIMER OF 
[Verat. Vir. 
ing up and down. Nails blue with the cold. Cramps 
in the calves. 
Skin: Skin cold and blue, sometimes violet-colored. 
Loss of elasticity; it remains in folds after being 
pinched. 
Fever: Predominating chilliness and coldness. Chills 
creep under the skin from the head to the feet, with 
thirst. Cold skin, even of the vertex; it is cold and 
drawn. Back and limbs, especially hands and feet, 
cold, with cold sweat, particularly on the forehead. 
Heat of the head and face especially. Cold sweat all 
over the body, mostly on the forehead. (Intermittent 
paroxysms of external coldness, associated with in- 
ternal heat and excessive thirst.) 
VERATRUM VIRIDE. 
General Action: Asphyxia. Paralysis of the heart 
and vaso-motor centres, with low temperature, cold 
sweat and collapse. From large doses, convulsions, 
vomiting, but rarely purging. 
Mind: Furious delirium, quarrelsome, striking and 
kicking and screaming; or with incessant muttering. 
Head: Fulness in the head, with heaviness. Vertigo 
in the morning on rising, with photophobia, with vom- 
iting. 
Clinical. Intense congestive headache, with pulsating, double 
vision, numbness of the limbs, nausea and vomiting. 
Eyes: Dim vision, with dilated pupils. Loss of vis- 
ion, with faintness on rising up suddenly. 
Ears: Humming, with sensitiveness to noise. 
Face: Flushed. Lips and mouth dry. 
Mouth: Tongue red in the centre; feels scalded; or 
coated at base. Red, dry strip through the centre of 
the tongue, with bloated, livid face. 
Throat: Burning and dryness in the throat, with in- 
clination to swallow. 
Stomach: Thirst, especially in the morning, with 
nausea. Hiccough, with spasms of the upper part of Verbascum.] 
MATERIA MEDICA. 
403 
the oesophagus. Nausea somewhat > eating and 
empty eructations. Vomiting, with cold sweat, in the 
morning on rising. Twisting tearing pains in the 
stomach and abdomen. 
Abdomen: Pain, particularly just above the pelvis, 
with soreness. 
Sexual Organs: Clinical. Os uteri rigid during labor, with flushed 
face, full pulse, dry mouth. Pelvic congestion or inflammation, with 
tenderness, fever, puerperal fever, even convulsions. Suppressed 
menstruation, with congestion of the head. Dysmenorrhoea. 
Respiratory Organs: Difficult, convulsive breathing, 
amounting to suffocation. A feeling of rush of blood 
to the lungs. 
Clinical. Bronchitis. Pulmonary congestion or inflammation, with 
livid face, dry tongue, full, hard or irregular pulse, cold sweat at 
times. Inflammations about the heart, with the above symptoms. 
Extremities: Flying pains in the joints (occasionally 
indicated in arthritic inflammations, with the peculiar 
symptoms of the drug). 
Skin: Clinical. Erysipelas, particularly of the head and face, with 
delirium, dry tongue and mouth. 
Fever: Coldness, with clammy sweat. General feel- 
ing of congestion; fever. Cold sweat, with weakness. 
VERBASCUM. 
Generalities: Shooting pains, cramp-like; pains are 
usually associated with a sensation of numbness ; caused 
or < change of temperature, especially on coming into 
the house or going out of doors. 
Head: Benumbing pain, especially in the forehead. 
Vertigo, caused by leaning the left cheek on the hand. 
Sensation in the temples as if the flesh were pinched. 
Dull, pressing headache on coming into a warm room 
or going out into the cold. 
Ears: Tearing from without inward in the ears. A 
sensation of drawing inward or a stopped feeling in 
the ears. Deafness as if the ears were completly stop- 
ped. (Sometimes associated with stoppage of the nose 
and larynx.) 404 
A PRIMER OF 
[Vibur. Opulus. 
Face: Violent pressing pain in the zygoma and in 
the articular processes of the temple bones; a numb 
pressure and tension in the whole face and cheek, < 
change of temperature and pressure. Facial neuralgia 
of the above character, involving also the chin and 
lower jaw. 
Abdomen: Pain about the navel, < stooping; a sense 
of constriction. Pain as from pressure of a stone in 
the bowels, < stooping. 
Urinary Organs: Frequent, copious micturition. 
Respiratory Organs: Hoarseness on reading aloud. 
Dry hollow cough (especially children), in the evening 
and night, during sleep. 
Chest; Tension across the chest, with stitches in the 
region of the heart in the evening after lying down. 
Extremities: Pain like a sprain in the wrist. Cramp- 
like pains in the muscles of the thighs when walking 
in the open air. Cramp-like pain in the right sole when 
standing, )> walking. 
VIBURNUM OPULUS. 
Generalities: Aggravation from lying on the affected 
side; in a warm room; evening and night. Ameliora- 
tion in the open air, from motion, also from pressure. 
Sexual Organs: Sudden pain in the region of the 
uterus before menstruation. A feeling of heaviness 
and congestion in the ovarian region, as before menses. 
General heaviness and bearing-down in the pelvis, with 
heavy aching in the sacrum and pubes and drawing 
pains in the anterior muscles of thighs; could not sit 
or lie still on account of the pains. Menstruation too 
late and scanty. Light-colored. Faintness on attempt- 
ing to sit up. The above symptoms generally asso- 
ciated with copious micturition, of pale, light-colored 
urine; often with constipation; stools large and hard, 
with cutting in the rectum and soreness of the anus. 
Back: Pain as if it would break during menses; Viola Odor.] 
MATERIA MEDICA. 
405 
usually < evening and a close room; > open air and 
moving about. 
VIOLA ODORATA. 
Clinical. Eczema, particularly of the face and scalp, exuding an 
offensive moisture and matting of the hair. 
VIOLA TRICOLOR- 
Head: Heaviness of the head, > stooping. A press- 
ing-outward headache. 
Clinical. Eczema of the scalp, with swollen glands and matting of 
the hair. 
Urinary Organs: Frequent copions micturition, of a 
very disagreeable, cat-like odor (nocturnal enuresis). 
Extremities: Shooting pains through the limbs and 
joints. 
Skin: Eruptions, particularly over the face and head, 
with burning itching, <( night, formation of thick 
scabs which crack and exude a tenacious yellow pus, 
which hardens. 
Clinical. Eczema-impetigonoides of the face. 
VIPER A. 
Generalities: Swelling, with sensation of heaviness, 
as if the limb would drop off; seems to be quite charac- 
teristic of this drug. It is particularly indicated in 
inflammation of the veins, with very great swelling, 
sensitiveness to touch, but particularly with a sensa- 
tion as if it would burst from the distention of the 
veins, greatly letting the limb hang down. In one 
case following a diarrhoea, there were violent pains in 
the liver, involving the right shoulder and hip, with 
enlargement of the liver, quickly cured. 
WYETHIA. 
Generalities: Prickling, dry feeling in the posterior 
nares and pharnyx, with dryness and constant desire 
to clear the throat. Throat feels swollen, dry and 
burning; constant desire to swallow the saliva to 406 
A PRIMER OF 
[Xanthox. 
relieve the dryness, without effect. Hoarseness from 
talking or singing, with hot, dry throat. 
Sexual Organs: Dysmenorrhoea, with agonizing burn- 
ing pains, extending along the crural nerves, and a 
feeling as if the limbs were paralyzed; usually with 
profuse menstruation, and agonized bearing-down, 
particularly in the thighs, < left side. Ovarian 
neuralgia. Menorrhagia. Menstruation early, pro- 
fuse, painful. Sciatica of the anterior crural nerve. 
XANTHOXYLUM. 
General Action: Emetic. Spasms, tremblings, hyper- 
testhesia and paralysis. Delirium, with spasms of the 
muscles. Inflammation of the serous membranes of 
the brain and spinal cord. Conjunctivitis. 
Generalities: Twitchings of various muscles. Pains 
as if between the skin and flesh. Pains tearing; < 
after becoming heated. Violent trembling and throb- 
bing of the whole body. Sore pains, internal and ex- 
ternal. All the symptoms are < wine, and also by 
Nux Vomica and Chamomilla. General restlessness at 
night, like "fidgets." General aggravation in the after- 
noon and towards evening. 
Clinical. Locomotor ataxia, with trembling, unsteadiness, light- 
ning-like pains. Epilepsy of children. Meningitis (tubercular). 
Varicose veins, without swelling or inflammation. Chorea, with 
incessant movements, especially during sleep (during teething). 
Epilepsy (of children). 
Mind: Fretful, excitable, easily oftended. Very sen- 
sitive to noise. Easily startled, with persistent trem- 
bling, lasting a long time. Becomes stupid and 
thoughtless; forgetful, with general lethargy and 
stupidity, with tendency to spasms. 
Head: Headache, extending from without inward; 
< the customary glass of wine. Vertigo; cannot 
stand, preceded by pain at the root of the nose, fol- 
ZINC. Zinc.] 
MATERIA MEDICA. 
407 
lowed by nausea, faintness and trembling. Heaviness 
and dull feeling in the occiput; > hard pressure. 
Clinical. Meningitis, especially following suppressed eruptions, 
with hyperaesthesia of all the senses, trembling, twitchings, squint- 
ing of the eyes, convulsions. 
Eyes: Pain as from sand, in the evening and night, 
with lachrjynation. Burning, with dryness. Inflam- 
mation of the inner corners, extending across the eye 
to the outer. Catarrhal inflammation; < inner corner. 
Pterygium. Sense of paralysis of the upper lids. 
Ears: Tearing stitching pains, with external swelling 
(of children), offensive discharges. 
Face: Pale; sudden stitches from zygoma to orbit,as 
if in bone, involving the whole upper jaw. Pips cracked 
and ulcerated, or covered with thick, sticky exudation. 
Mouth: Teeth elongated and loose, with soreness. 
Ulcers on the inner surface of the cheek and in the 
throat. Blisters on the tongue. 
Throat: Difficult swallowing on account of sensation 
of a ball rising up from the stomach. A feeling of 
cramp in the oeosophagus by the pit of the throat. 
Stomach: Great appetite, but aversion to meat and 
to sweets, particularly to wine. Sour eructations, par- 
ticularly after milk. Heartburn from sweets. Nausea 
and vomiting, < wine. Sense of burning and heat, 
extending from the stomach up the teosophagus. 
Abdomen: Pains in the hypochondria, particularly in 
the region of the spleen. Flatulent symptoms, with 
rumbling and distention. Cramp-like pains in the 
hypochondria, alternating with oppression of the chest 
and difficult breathing. 
Anus and Stool: Burning, itching, crawling in the 
anus during stool. Stools with the stupor, at times in- 
voluntary, thin. Constipation of hard, small, feces, 
with burning, soreness and itching in the anus. 
Urinary Organs: Involuntary spurting of urine when 408 
A PRIMER OF 
[Zinc. 
walking and coughing. Micturition painful, with dis- 
charge of blood from urethra. Urine turbid. 
Sexual Organs: Testicles swollen; painful. Drawing 
pains in the testicles, extending along the spermatic 
cords. Leucorrhoea; bloody, with burning and itching 
of the pudenda after menses. 
Clinical. Suppressed menstruation, with soreness of the breasts 
and genitals, with restlessness, spinal tenderness, ovarian neuralgia. 
Respiratory Organs: Dry, spasmodic cough, < before 
and during menses, with stitches in the chest and op- 
pression. Cough, with easy expectoration at night 
when lying down; must sit up, with asthmatic breath- 
ing. 
Back: Weariness in the nape and back in the even- 
ing when writing. Bruised or burning pains in the 
spine, above the small of the back. Numerous sharp 
pains in the region of the kidneys, < when quiet or 
on rising from a chair. 
Extremities: Lancinating pains, extending trans- 
versely across above joints. General bruised, darting 
pains in the morning on waking, with weakness and 
stiffness. Trembling of the hands when writing, with 
weakness, < during menses. Extreme restlessness of 
the lower extremities, particularly of the feet at night, 
like "the fidgets." Burning pains below the knee. 
Ulcerative pain in the heel. Pains are < at night and 
walking, often extending the whole length of the limb. 
Sleep: Jerking of the whole body at night in sleep. 
Starts from sleep, with jerking of the legs. Screams 
out suddenly from frightful dreams. 
Fever: External chilliness. Febrile shivers, with 
flushes of heat, trembling of the limbs, short breath- 
ing and pulsation throughout the whole body. Heat 
at night, often with sweat. Offensive perspiration, 
especially on the feet. Febrile paroxysms, <Z from 4 
to 8 P. M. INDEX. 
Abies 5 
Abrotanum 5 
Absinthium 6 
Aceticum Acidum 7 
Aconitum 7 
Actaea Spicata 10 
JEsculus Hippocastanum .... 11 
yEthusa 12 
Agaricus 12 
Agnus Castus 15 
Ailanthus... 16 
Aletris 16 
Allium Cepa 16 
Aloe. 17 
Alstonia 18 
Alumina 18 
Ambra 21 
Ammonium Carbonicum 23 
Ammon. Mur 27 
Amyl Nitrite 29 
Anacardium 30 
Antimonium Crudum 31 
Ant. et Pot. Tart 33 
Apis 35 
Apocynum Cannab 37 
Aralia Racemosa 38 
Aranea -■ -ts 38 
Argentum .. 39 
Argentum Nitricum 40 
Arnica 42 
Arsenicum Album 45 
Arsenicum lodatum 49 
Arum Triphyllum 50 
Asaf cetida 51 
Asarum .... 53 
Asclepias Cornuti (Syriaia).. 54 
Asclepias Tuberosa .... 55 
Asparagus 55 
Aurum 56 
Aurum Muriaticum 58 
Aurum Muriaticum. Nat 58 
Badiaga 59 
Baptisia 60 
Baryta Carb 62 
Belladonna 64 
Benzoicum Acidum 69 
Berberis 70 
Bismuth 72 
Borax 73 
Bovista 75 
Bromium 78 
Bryonia 79 
Bufo 85 
Cactus 85 
Calcarea Acetica 87 
Calcarea Carb 88 
Calcarea Phosphorica 93 
Calendula .... 96 
Camphor 96 
Cannabis Indica . 99 
Cannabis Sativa 101 
Cantharis 103 
Capsicum 107 
Carbo Animalis 110 
Carbo Vegetabilis 114 
Carbolicum Acidum 119 
Carboneum Sulfuratum 121 
Carduus Marianus 123 
Caulophyllum 124 
Causticiiin 125 
Ceanothus 131 
Cedron 131 
Cereum Oxalate 132 
Chamomilla 132 
Chelidonium 137 
Chimaphila 141 
China 142 
Cicuta Virosa 148 
Cimicifuga 151 
Cina ... j 153 
Cinnabaris 156 
Cinnamomum 156 
Cistus 156 
Clematis \. 157 
Cocculus 159 
Coccus Cactus 163 
Coffea Cruda 165 
Colchicum 167 
Collinsonia 171 
Colocynthis 171 
Como'cladia 174 
Conium 175 
Convallaria 180 
Copaiva 181 
Corallium Rubrum 182 
Cornus Circinata 183 
Cornus Florida 184 
Crocus 184 
Crotalus Horridus 187 
Croton Tiglium 190 
Cubeba 192 
Condurango 193 ii 
INDEX. 
Cuprum 193 
Cyclamen 195 
Digitalis/. 196 
Dioscorea 198 
Dolichos Pruriens 199 
Drosera 199 
Dulcamara 201 
Elaps 202 
Elaterium 203 
Equisetum 203 
Erigeron 203 
Euonymus Europseus 203 
Eupatorium Perfoliatum 203 
Euphorbium 204 
Euphrasia 205 
Ferrum 205 
Ferrum lodatum 208 
Ferrum Phosphoricum 208 
Ferrum Picrate 209 
Fluoricum Acidum 209 
Gambogia 210 
Gelsemium 210 
Gentiana 212 
Glonoine 212 
Gnaphalium 214 
Graphites 214 
Gratiola 218 
Grindelia 218 
Guaiacum 219 
Hamamelis 220 
Helleborus 221 
Ilelonias 223 
Hepar Sulfuricum Calc 223 
Hydrastis 225 
Hydrocotyle 226 
Hydrocyanicum Acidum 226 
Hyoscyamus 226 
Hypericum 229 
Ignatia 229 
lodum 233 
Ipecacuanha 235 
Iris Versicolor 238 
Jaborandi 239 
239 
Juglans Cinerea 240 
Kali Bichromicum 240 
Kali Brom 243 
Kali Carbonicum 243 
Kali Chloricum 246 
Kali lodatum 247 
Kali Muriaticum 249 
Kali Nitricum 249 
Kalmia 251 
Kreosotum 252 
Lachesis 255 
Laurocerasus 258 
Ledum. 258 
Leptandra 259 
Lilium Tigrinum 260 
Lithium 261 
Lobelia Inflata 262 
Lycopodium 263 
Lycopus 267 
Magnesia Carbonica 267 
Magnesia Muriatica 270 
Manganum 271 
Marum Verum 273 
Melilotus 274 
Mentha Piperita 274 
Menyanthes 275 
Mephitis 276 
Mercurius 276 
Mercurius Corrosivus 280 
Mercurius Cyanatus 283 
Mercurius Dulcis 283 
Mercurius lodatus Flavus.... 283 
Mercurius lodatus Ruber .... 284 
Mercurius Nitrosus 284 
Mezereum 284 
Millefolium 287 
Moschus 288 
Murex 289 
Muriaticum Acidum 289 
Naja 291 
Natrum Arsenicatum 292 
Natrum Carbonicum 292 
Natrum Muriaticum 295 
Natrum Sulfuricum 299 
Nitricum Acidum 300 
Nux Moschata 305 
Nux Vomica 307 
Oleander 313 
Onosmodium Virginianum... 314 
Opium 314 
Osmium 316 
Oxalicum Acidum 316 
Paeonia 318 
Palladium 318 
Pareira Brava 318 
Paris Quadrifolia 318 
Petroleum 319 
Petroselinum 321 
Phellandrium 321 
Phosphoricum Acidum 322 
Phosphorus 324 
Phytolacca 328 
Picricum Acidum 330 
Plantago 331 
Platinum 332 
Plumbum 334 
Podophyllum 336 INDEX. 
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Primus Spinosa 337 
Psorinum 338 
Pulsatilla 339 
Ranunculus Bulbosus 345 
Ratanhia 346 
Rheum ...... 346 
Rhododendron 347 
Rhus Toxicodendron 348 
Rumex Crispus 352 
Ruta 353 
Sabadilla 356 
Sabina 357 
Sambucus 358 
Sanguinaria 359 
Sarsaparilla 361 
Secale 362 
Selenium 364 
Senecio 365 
Sepia 366 
Silica 369 
Sinapis Nigra 373 
Spigelia 373 
Spongia 375 
Squilia 377 
Stannum 378 
Staphisagria 380 
Sticta Pulmonaria 382 
Stillingia Sylvatica 382 
Stramonium 382 
Sulphur 384 
Sulphuricum Acidum 389 
Tabacum 391 
Tanacetum 392 
Taraxacum 393 
Tarentula 393 
Tellurium 393 
Terebinthina 394 
Thuja 395 
Trillum Pendulum 397 
Uranium Nitricum 398 
Ustilago 398 
Uva Ursi 398 
Valeriana 398 
Veratrum Album 400 
Veratrum Viride 402 
Verbascum 403 
Viburnum Opulus 404 
Viola Odorata 405 
Viola Tricolor 405 
Vipera 405 
Wye thia 405 
Xanthoxylum 406 
Zincum Metallicum 406 T. B. & H. B. COCHRAN, PRINTERS, 
LANCASTER, PA.