Apis

Apium virus. Poison of the honey-bee. Preparation, Tincture of the working bees (made by putting them alive into alcohol), or of the poison sac, carefully extracted.

Authorities.^; 1, Effects of the sting; 2, F. Humphreys ; 3, L. B. Wells; 4, Bishop ; 5, Hays ; 6, Bigelow ; 7, Green ; 8, Kellogg ; 9, Hering, crude virus ; 10, Hering, <?; 11, Hering, from a woman, " Th." oOth ; 12, Hering, from a girl, " O." oOth ; 13, Helmuth, crude; 14, Kindermann, crude; 15, Langstroth, from the poison; (16 to 23, new symptoms obtained from patients), 16, Marcy ; 17, Bishop; 18, Blcede ; 19, Hering; 20, Berens; 21, Washburne ; 22, Marcy ; 23, Humphreys; 24, Symptoms from sting of the humble-bee.

Mind

Excitement, with heat at night

Laughs at every misfortune

In the daytime, he danced with excessive joyousness ; performed all his antics singing and dancing ; was affability itself; and utterly unable to walk slowly. He laughed at the greatest misfortune, as he would at a comedy

She feels like crying about everything

Sad thoughts, with longing for death (third day), forenoon

Dejection, with great prostration

Anxiousness, with tension on the vertex,'l

Great anxiety and excitement; must lie down; wants to get up and go again, just before death

General anxiety and distress

[lO.j Great anxiety in the head and swelling of the face

Anxiety, excitement, and fear increase until death

Dread of death, or sensation as if he should not be able to breathe again

* Premonition of death arose after a few minutes ; " he believes he is going 'V-

Feels that he must succumb, after a few minutes, and dies ten minutes after being stung

She thought she must die, she left so strangely

He says, after a few minutes I am a dead man

Is himself conscious of an extremely disagreeable, violent, and sensitive mood ; would have liked to kill a dog that barked at him, etc. ; everything went wrong ; nothing could be done to please him

Became more angry than ever before ; (in a female scold)

Irritable mood (fifth and sixth days) ; nothing appeared to satisfy him ; everything out of place (eighth day), (2d dil.),l

Mental restlessness, during uterine hemorrhage

Confusion of niind (A. R. M.).

Confusion when attempting to read a study (A. R. M.).

It seems to her as if she did not know Avhat to do, as if she had no volition of her own, her head feels so stupid

Stupid, sleep, and headache

Unfit for mental exertion

Inability to think clearly, or express himself (A. R.M.).

Inability to concentrate the mind (A. R. M.).

Mind bewildered (A. R. M.).

Head stupid

Torturing sensation in the head, during which he becomes wholly incapable of mental labor

Inclination to change his occupation ; will not keep steadily at anything, with dulness of the head (second day)

She was partially conscious, and continually moaning (J. P. D.).

Was unconscious of what passed about him

Complete loss of consciousness,'. (A. R. M.).

Perfect insensibility, with vomiting, desire for rest and sleep, slow beat of the heart, and scarcely perceptible radial pulse (Wasp).

Sank into a state of insensibility in fifteen minutes (five minutes before death)

Head p. 401

Dulness of the head, with restless condition

Gloominess of the head and some confusion

Head confused and gloomy (first day), (2d dil. ),■.

Confusion of the head with the pains,l

Head dull and confused

Head is dull and slightly confused

Head feels big, confused (A. R. M.).

Confusion of the head, with pain in the forehead,'''. (2d dil.l

Pain in sinciput, and confusion of the head,'-.

* ffead confused and dizzy, with constant pressive pain above and around the eyes, that is somewhat relieved by pressure of the hands

Vertigo. Confused vertigo, very violent at times ; worse %vhen sitting than %vhen walking; extreme when lying down and closing the eyes. (During several days, and after several strong doses)

Attacks of vertigo and nausea (fifth day, and lasting into the second week)

Vertigo, with headache (evenings, after sleeping),'-.

Vertigo, with blindness ( A. R. M.).

Headache, with vertigo

Vertigo, and pressure in the forehead, after sneezing

Vertigo, when pressing the head

Vertigo

After sleeping on the sofa, evenings (second day),'-.

Dizziness in the head, during the whole second day

Whirling in the head, with weakness

She grows dizzy and faint, while standing

Headache and chilliness, from 8 to 10 in the evening, with some toothache ; pain in the forehead, first left side, then right, thus alternating ; afterwards, in the vertex, right side, where it is also sensitive to the touch; then in the temples, and, at last, again in the forehead, right side (second day) ; morning of the third day, pain again in forehead, left side

Her whole brain feels as if tired, gone to sleep and crawling; she feels it at the same time in both arms, especially the left, and from the left knee down to the foot

During toothache, she feels it in her head, when biting her teetla together

Headache, worse when reading, increased in a warm roora,'l

Pain spreading from the gums into the head

With cough, in single shocks, all the evening (first day)

With suppressed menstruation

Burning, piercing in the head

Burning and throbbing in the head, increased by motion and stooping, relieved for awhile by pressing the head firmly with the hands ; with occasional perspiration (f some hours)

Very violent headache, and sensation of a great pressure, as of congestion to the head, with throbbing and painful burning in the temples, redness and smarting of the eyes

Bursting, expansive pain in the head, attended by vertigo and confusion of the mind (A. R. M.).

Inflammatory swelling, and twitching so violent that an apoplectic attack Avas feared

The head seems as if too large, swelled to the size of a bushel-basket, causing him to look into the glass, involuntarily

Swelling of the head

Head feels too large

She feels as if her head were too large ; with sore throat

Fulness and pressure in the head and stomach

Head as if too full ; it seems as if there were too much blood in it ; heaviness, pressure, and sometimes a sudden rush of blood to the head, during which warm, close rooms are perfectly intolerable

Great rush of blood to the head

Dulness, and the head feels compressed

Head pains, as if pressed together

Throbbing in the head, worse when moving and stooping, relieved for awhile by pressing the head between the hands

* Dull pain over the whole head, relieved by pressure

Dull, heavy headache, on rising, lasting till 3 in the afternoon (second day),l

Dull pressure in the head, when rising from a reclining position, or from sitting

Heaviness and pressure in the head, one hour after taking one drop, lasted three and four days

Oppressive headache, when in a warm room, and reading

Oppression of the head

Frontal headache

(Piercing)

Violent headache, mostly confined to the forehead, with fever (second day)

Headache in the forehead, left side, with single stitches under the left ear, lachryraation of the left eye, chilliness, yawning, and some pain in the umbilical region (evening of eighth day)

Particularly disagreeable pain in the forehead with dulness and confusion (first day), (2d dil.),l

[90-] Sensation of dulness across the forehead, just over the eyes (third day)

Pressing pain in forehead, with vertigo, after sneezing (at once),l

Pressive pain in the sinciput, with vertigo, immediately

Heat in the forehead, during headache

Prickling in the forehead (6th dil.),l

In glabella, tensive drawing of the skin up toward the forehead

Dull confusion in both sides of the forehead, exactly from the supraorbital ridge to the frontal protuberances, fifteen minutes after taking, lasting about two hours, and ceasing after breakfast

Headache in the left side of the forehead, with lachrymation

Pain in the organs of causality, comparison, and ideality

Dull, heavy pain in the forehead and sides of the head (temples ?) that is relieved by pressure with the hands (St.)

Dull pressive headache in the upper part of the forehead, as if it would burst, extends to the temples

Violent, pressive pain for several days, in forehead and temples.

Headache, in single jerks, from the temples to the middle of the forehead ; therewith, exterior head sensitive to the touch ; increases at 10 in the forenoon ; the eyes burn ; the nose itches; (second day), the same ; likewise, the sixth to the tenth day,'l

Stitches in the forehead and temples

Pain in both temples ; the whole head heavy, sleepy, and stupid (after one hour),'l

Bursting in the temples

Pressing

Violent aching pains through the temples and organs of causality, comparison, mirthfulness, and ideality

Throbbing and painful burning in the temples

Throbbing, painful sensation in the temples

Boring pains in the temples, every morning, on waking (for three mornings)

Boring pains in the temples, continued for several days, at intervals, lasting only a few minutes at a time ; beginning the third day (after taking three drops of the 3d dil., every morning)

Dull, pressive pain in the right temple, on waking in the morning, soon changing to the left

Slight aching in the left temple

Violent, sharp pain in the left temple,l

Stitch in the left temple (evening of sixteenth day)

Pain in the vertex, evenings

Violent pressure in the top of the head, left side, deep inward, when drawing on boots (after an hour) ; afternoon, a pain in a little spot, inwardly, in the left front corner of the head, above the extreme end of the left eyebrow ; lasts all day ; worse when coughing (after several days)

Weight and fulness in the upper part of the head

Heaviness and fulness in the vertex

Tension in the scalp, on the vertex, as if everything were violently drawn apart there ; not painful, but with great anxiety

Sensitiveness to toucii,''^; on the vertex and forehead

Tensive, drawing pain over the left side of the head

Headache, with fulness and heaviness in the occiput

Violent, dull, heavy pain in the right parietal protuberance, as if the surface of the bone were being pressed in ; not relieved by pressure (soon)

Dull ache in the occiput

Aching in the occiput, increased by shaking the head

Pressure in the occiput, very soon

Tension from the back of the neck,l

Violent drawing from the back of the neck, extending behind the left ear ; spreading over the left half of the head

Falling out of the hair, all through the proving

Itching on the head

Itching of the scalp (afternoon of third day)

Eyes p. 403

-'Swelled about the eyes

Swelling that entirely closes the eyes

-^Redness of the eyes

* Eyes red and itching

Redness of the eyes, with headache

Tremulous twitching in the left eye, for several days, more at night

Pain round about the eyes

Pains in the eyes,'l

Eyes burn,^l

Burning in the left eye

* Baring stinging in the right eye, beginning with a dull heaviness, and causing flow of water (repeated twice)

Burning stinging and sensation of swelling around the left eye and in the superciliary ridge

* Sniarting and sensation of burning in the eyes, with bright redness of the conjunctiva; very sensitive to light

Boring and piercing in the eyes, forenoons; lachrymation, all day (third day),'l

Piercing itching around the eyes, in the brows, lids, and in the eyes themselves, more in the left, especially in the inner canthi, with a desire to rub the eyes while pressing them hard; with this, soreness and smarting on the margin of the lids, in the canthi, and in the eye itself; quivering of the eyeball, and a feeling in the eyes all day as if there were mucus in them, especially in the left

Piercing itching in the eyes, lids, and around the eyes; more in the internal canthi

Slinging itching in the eye, eyelids, and around the eyes, on the left side, and more at the internal canthus

Piercing itching in the left eye, in the lids, and around the eye, mostly in one corner, and in the throat at the same time (first day)

Piercing in the eyes; was obliged to remove her spectacles while reading and writing (nearsighted woman), (evenings, seventh day)

Prickling under the eyes

Sore pain in the orbits of the eyes, as well as in the bones, after every sting of a bee

Eyes painful, when sewing, evenings

Sensation of swelling around the eye

Sensation of fulness in the eyes

Dull, heavy feeling; inclination to close the eyes; desire to rub them forcibly, and making pressure with the fingers, when closed for some time

Inclination to close the eyes

* Violent shooting pains over the right eye that extend down to the eyeball (6th dil.)

Desire to rub the eyes hard

Desire to rub and press the eyes

Itching around the eye,l

Eyelids much swollen, red, and (Edematous

* T/ic upper lids so swelled that they hang like little sacs over thence

Twitching of tho right eyelid

Burning in the margin of the lids; causes lachry motion

Sensation of heaviness in the eyelids

Smarting on the margin of the lids and in the canthi

Violent stinging in the right lower lid, in the morning

Itching and prickling of the lids of the right eye (first day),l

Itching of the right eyelid, at intervals, all day (repeated in several provings)

Itching of the right eyelid in paroxysms, during the second day/.

Itching and irritation of the left eyelids for several days

Itching in the inner angle of the left eye

Aching pressure in the orbit of the left eye, mostly the lower part, continuing for several hours,l

Worse itching in the inner canthus of the left eye

Agglutination of the eyes

Itching of the eyelids and some agglutination (first day),l

Slight agglutination of the eyes at night; had to pick them open in the morning I

Agglutination of the eyelids, with soreness of the margins and canthi

Sore elevations of the skin, like the stings of insects, at the external corner of the eyebrow, very tender to the touch,l

If stung over the eyebrow, he had worse results

Pain over the eyes

Pain in the superciliary ridges

Burning piercing in the region of the left eyebrow

Dull, heavy, tensive pain over the eyes, with pain through the orbits, lasting but a short time (this pain occurred in three provings)

Transient biting itching in the right, and sometimes in the left eyebrow

* Lach(jmatio>iJ''^-.

* With burning

Lachrymation, morning of third day

Lachrymation and pain in the eyes (in the second week ),'l

Lachrymation, with piercing in the eyes

'■■'Lachrymation o f the left eye, and some burning in it, and a sensation of a small foreign, body there, during which the eyes are weaker ; painful, evenings, when sewing, and sensitive to light (lasting into the fourth week)

Lachrymation of the left eye, with pain in the forehead, left side (evening of eighth day)

Lachrymation of the left eye

After frequent lachrymation of the left eye, it seems to her, very often, as if there were a small foreign body in the external canthus of the left eye (tenth and following days)

Tears stand in the eyes on account of nervous restlessness

Tears flow involuntarily from his eyes, very soon; al 50, stinging in the tip of the nose

Eyes water and are painful when she looks at anything light (fifth day)

The right eye filled with tears that are shed from time to time (after three hours)

Biting piercing sensation in the right eye, causing copious lachrymation

Flow of mucus and lachrymation of the right eye, at night, in bed

Violent pain in the left lachrymal duct and around the opening

Sensation as if there were a mass of mucus in the left eye, continuing all day (fourth day)

Sensation all day as if there were mucus in the eyes ; worse in left

Pain through the eyeballs, dull, heavy, and dragging

Piercing in the eyeballs (second day )

Pressing pain in the lower part of the eyeball

Quivering twitching of the left eyeball

Pains around the left eyeball (first day); later, around both

Aching pressure in the left eyeball, mostly in the lower part, for several hours ; repeated twice

* The eyes are weak, with disinclination to exert them ; they are painfid and easily fatigued avhen used; only regain their strength and vigor the tenth or twelfth day (this was experienced by one who had never had weakness of sight before or since),l

Weakness of sight, with sensation of fulness in the eyes

* Weak eyes ; for several days the light is painful

Sensitiveness to light

Must take off her spectacles (a short-sighted woman)

Blindness, with vertigo (A. R. M.).

Growing dark before the eyes

It grows dark before his eyes when stooping (afternoons, fourth day)

Sensation of whirling around in the sight, with difficult vision at the same time, lasting for only a moment

Ears p. 404

Ears purple (A. R. M.).

A small, rough, reddish tetter in the centre of the lobe of the left ear, extending somewhat back ; remained in the antrum after an eruption caused by preparing Rhus; was entirely removed after Graphites; after five months, appeared again, a week after

In the inner cai-tilage of the left ear, a little pimple, painful when pressed (tenth day, and longer)

Tension behind and under the ears,%- behind the left ear, extending up from the back of the neck,^; behind the right ear,^; behind the left ear,l

Pains in the inner right ear (second day)

Similar pain behind the left ear as over the eyes; violent drawing from the back of the neck, extending behind the left ear

Burning in the upper part of the left ear

Stitches under the left ear

Frightened starting from sleep at noise/

Nose p. 405

Nose swollen

* Nose much swollen, red and (edematous (Bell).

Nose swollen ; red stripes under the eyes, extending across the cheeks

Entire stoppage of the nose, from swelling of its mucous lining (Bell).

Nose affected, as if it would swell

Violent sneezing, immediately,l

Frequent sneezing, for many days (eleventh day), (in "two provings)

Sudden coryza, afternoons, 4 oclock, with dryness of the nose; then burning of the lips, and sensation as if they would chap (fifth day)

A kind of coryza (after four hours); worse evening, second day, with dull sensation in the nose ; now and then some dropping ; dry on the morning of third day ; moisture only when blowing the nose ; more affected outwardly, and feels as if it would swell

When blowing it some blood comes from the nose (mornings, second and third days), and afterwards, sometimes even in the fourth week

(Blood flowed from the nose, after death)

Dryness of the nose in catarrh

Tip of the nose cold, with chilliness in the evening

Itching of the nose,'l

Itching on the left nostril, is painful, with redness (fourth day), 'I

Face p. 405

Paleness of the face

Paleness of the face ; trembling of the hands and feet

Very pale and seemed ill, but without any swelling (badly stung child)

Paleness of the face, with faintness,'l

Pallor of the child

Countenance assumed a pallid, deathlike look, frightening those around with the thought that he was about to die (E. U. J.).

His face grew pale (E. E. M.).

Red face ; wants it bathed

Her face became red, then purple (J. P. D.).

* The face is red and hot; pain, burning and p)piercing , and swollen so as to be unrecognizable (not gone after eighteen hours)

The face becomes purple (Bell).

Face livid

Livid, blue-reddish color of face (two weeks)

(Color of face very dark, almost blue-black, after death)

The face is swollen to blindness, and, for a week, he goes about blinking like an owl

The face swelled so that he could hardly see (after a sting in the face)

Inflammatory swelling of the face; the right eye completely closed, the left eye almost; the cheeks hang down to the breast (after being stung in the right corner of the mouth)

Nose and face swell immediately after being stung in the tip of the nose; continues several days

Face inflamed

* Erysipelas of the face; over the whole face light redness, swelling, heat, with burning fever, coated tongue and thirst (in a girl of nine ; sixth dilution every two hours)

Nettle-rash in the face

Burning in the face, with sensation of fulness, as if the bloodvessels were overfilled; very much aggravated when stooping

* Peculiar burning and a heat in the face which he cannot describe ; it lasted twenty-four hours, and for more than tivo weeks left behind a livid, bluish-red color of the face

Heat of the face, with chilliness

Sensation as if face would swell, left side, especially about the eye (after one hour)

Tension in the face waked him at 1 oclock at night; the nose was swollen and the right eye and cheek ; stinging pain when touched ; under the right eye, beginning at the top of the nose, red stripes crossed the cheeks, lasted till 4 oclock ; the following day, again, after midnight, rapid swelling of the upper lip, with heat and burning redness, lasting till toward morning ; third night, a sudden running across the right cheek, like a little insect, and stung him beside the nose, upon which the cheek and upper lip swelled

Prickling in the face,l

Burning cheeks, with cold feet

Red stripes down from the nose across the cheeks

Ulcer on the cheek, lasting three months

Heat of the cheeks and hands

Stinging pain in the left malar bone (fourth week)

Running as of an insect over the cheek,'l

Dark streak along the vermilion border of the lips; they are rough, cracked, and peel off (second day), (sixth dilution) (etc.).

Swelling of the lips, and sensation as of swelling for several days; then a fine eruption about the lips, aud dryness and desquamation of the lower lip (sixth dilution) (and others).

Lips swollen and everted

Swelling of the lips and tongue, after being stung in the temples

The upper lip as much swollen as if it were turned inside out (after being stung on the neck)

The lips are dry, with a black stripe in the red portion

Lips cold (after eight to ten minutes)

Raging, violent pains in the lips, then extending into the gums and head, and finally over the whole body (directly after taking, in a woman)

Burning in the lips, with catarrh

Roughness and sensation of tension in the lips, especially the upper one (sixth dilution) (and others).

Roughness and tension in the lips, especially tbe upper one

Prickling in the lips, and sensation as if they had received a severe contusion, with swollen feeling (after a few hours),l

Sensation as if the lips would chap, in catarrh

Upper lip swollen ; grew red and hot, almost brown,'l

Chapping of the lower lip

Burning on the chin

Burning stinging, as of fire, on the chin and malar bones

Drawing in the lower jaw, extending from the chest

Mouth p. 406

When biting the teeth together, in swallowing, after yawning, aud otherwise, a kind of grinding the teeth, only a single, involuntary jerk ; is repeated very often (seventh and following days)

Toothache

Toothache with headache

Twitching toothache in the left upper back teeth

Jumping pain in the left upper molar teeth

Toothache in the upper jaw, right side, during which she feels the biting together of her teeth in her head; with chilliness, evenings (second day)

Violent pain in the first left upper molar; seems connected with the headache (after five hours)

Heat, with toothache

Easy bleeding of the gums (sixth day)

Very troublesome pains in the gums

Violent pains spreading through the gurus

Swelling of the tongue, then of the whole body, after a sting in the vertex ; he could neither speak, nor move his tongue, nor swallow the least morsel

Swelling of the tongue and lips (after a sting in the temples)

Burning from the tongue down the whole throat into the stomach, and eructation every four to five minutes, with gathering of tasteless water in the mouth ; the eructations increased very much after drinking water, it almost suffocated her

Burning stinging on the tongue

Prickling heat on the tongue

Tongue very painful, after seven hours; the burning rawness increases; vesicles rise along the edge ; stings with the pain

Rawness, burning, and blisters, along the edge of the tongue, which are very painful, with stinging (after eight hours), (6)

Extreme sensation of rawness and scalding, all around the margin of the tongue ; little pimples on the edge {6 after four hours)

* T/ie whole margin of the tongue feels as if scalded, as if quite raw; little papular elevations appear along the edge of the tongue (after two hours),l

Tongue as if burnt

Mouth very dry

Dryness in the mouth and throat ; the tongue feels as if burnt (second day)

Dryness under the tongue, disappears after moving the tongue a great deal (6 oclock, evenings, after ten hour-s)

* Dryness of the tongue; red, fiery appearance of the buccal cavity, with painful tenderness

Tongue and palate sore

Sore pain of the palate and longue,l

the tip of the tongue, somewhat to the left, a roiv of small vesicles, painfully sore and rat

A number of vesicles and redder spots on the tip of the tongue, and on the left edge of the tongue

In the mouth, on the inner checks, fiery redness

Dryness in the mouth and fauces

Sensation of dryness in the mouth and throat (second day)

Burning in the mouth, as if the whole mouth were hot inside on the lips and palate; she has more thirst during this than usual, and drinks frequently (forenoons in the fourth week)

Scalding in the mouth and throat (for two days),l

* Painful sensitiveness of buccal cavity

lutlammation and swelling of the palate, that obstructed breathing, so that he died (wasp)

Dryness of the palate, which, when touched by the tongue, feels rough and scratchy (early the second day),'-

Flow of saliva (Swainmerdam).

Copious accumulation of soapy saliva, iu the mouth and throat, mornings (second day)

Tough, frothy saliva

Stringy saliva adhering to the tongue

Thick, tough, adhesive mucus in the mouth and fauces

Bitter taste iu fauces

Took the poison of the queen bee; first, I had a bitterish taste, which afterwards became more sharp and pungent, spreading over the whole fauces to the jaws, forcing the saliva from its channels. The tongue was affected as after chewing the Spanish Bertram root, but in a less degree. There was at the same time great activity iu every part of the mouth, as if I had taken ten to twelve drops of the strongest alcohol. Emboldened by this, I tasted the poison of the common working bees, and that of wasps. It was the same, only that of the working bees was milder and less than that of the wasps (Swammerdam).

Bitterish taste at the back of the tongue and in the fauces (after two minutes)

Lost his taste

Throat p. 407

The glands of the throat swollen on the injured side

Great accumulation of viscid mucus deep in the throat, compelling frequent hawking (mornings, eleventh day)

* Dryness in the throat without thirst,^'-

Dryness in the throat,'^; in the fauces ; of the palate

Dryness and heat in the throat (first day)

Burning iu the throat, extending to the stomach

Sensation of rawness in the throat, with viscid saliva, that adheres to the hard palate, velum, and tongue

Sensation of rawness in the throat, with inclination to frequent hawking

Frequent inclination to clear the throat

Sore throat, accompanied by a hoarse, hard, spasmodic, and somewhat hollow cough, caused by a sensation of filling up in the throat, as though he needed to raise something. Does not recollect, however, raising anything (E. U. J.).

Sensation of soreness in the fauces and throat, extending downward through the chest to the pit of the stomach. He described this feeling of soreness as one of erosion, excoriation, or rawness, aud supposed it to be such as a consumptive might feel, who had a violent and hard cough for a long time (in a few minutes;,' ( E. U. J-).

* Sensation of fulness, contraction, and suffocation in the throat

* Throat felt constricted, and as if a foreign body was lodged in it ; deglutition was painful

* Sensation of constriction and erosion in the throat, iu the mornings, after fifteen minutes; increases to such a degree, in eight hours, that swallowing becomes difficult,l

Disagreeable oppression in the throat (iu one hour) (Dean).

An aching pressure, as if from a hard body, back in the upper part of the throat and fauces ; continuing for some hours (at half an hour), (occurred in two provings)/.

* Stinging itching deep in the throat, at the lower part of the neck, accompanied xvith a sensation of constriction^K

Pressure in the fauces as of a foreign body,l

Roughness and sensitiveness of the pharynx (every time after smelling the poison)/

Difficult swallowing

Liability to swallow a single drop, with swelling of the tongue

Not until some hours after the sting, the throat swelled inwardly, then outwardly ; voice grew hoarse ; breathing and swallowing very difficult ; difficulty of swallowing not caused by the swelling in the throat, but by the irritation of the epiglottis, for every drop of liquid put upon the tongue nearly suffocates him. Small ivhite spot, aboxd half an inch to the left of the glottis. (Death after twenty-seven hours, after a sting iu the throat)

Stomach p. 408

Entire loss of appetite, 'I

No appetite, nor desire for food, though it was not repulsive to him (E. U. J.).

Lessening appetite, for several days, although the coated tongue grows cleaner

The first mouthful of food he took "seemed to drive the soreness downward, and each succeeding mouthful to drive it further down and he continued eating, until the soreness and cough quite left him, and did not return (E. U. J.).

Thirst, with burning in the mouth

Burning thirst, seems to rise from the stomach, with dryness in the throat ; without thirst ; burning cheeks, and cold feet, without increased pulse

Great thirst, when working at night, after diarrhoea

Asks for a drink of water

Asked for water, and drank some

* No thirst, with dryness of the throat

No thirst with the dryness in the throat, but she drinks very often, although it relieves her but little

* No thirst, with heat

Violent eructation

Eructation tasting like yolk of eggs,l

Eructation tasting of the ingesta

Eructation, with copious accumulation of tasteless water

Increased eructation after drinking water

Violent eructation of wind during headache

Eructation relieves the pain over the left hip

Aversion, with chilliness and cold limbs

Gagging, after a sting in the temples

Nausea, apparently from the throat

Nausea seems to come from the throat

Sickness at the stomach, and pain over the whole body so severe as to cause crying (C. C. C).

Was obliged to go home and lie down, on account of nausea

Nausea and inclination to vomit iu the night, with a disagreeable rumbling in the abdomen, as if diarrhoea would set in, mornings ; loose, urgent stool

Nausea to vomiting, with fainting

Nausea, followed by yellow and bitter vomiting (after forty-five minutes) (A. R. M.).

Some nausea and vertigo

Nausea and vomiting

Nausea and vomiting

Nausea and vomiting, with swelling of the head

Nausea and vomiting of food, with diarrhoea, after repeated vomiting ; first, bile, afterwards a thin, very bitter-tasting liquid, with violent pains across the lower abdomen

Vomiting (wasp)

Vomiting of ingesta

Vomiting of bile

Vomiting and diarrhoea

Severe vomiting and profuse diarrhœa (E. E. M.).

For several days, he was troubled with a morbid excitement of the digestive apparatus (E. E. M.).

Most terrible pains in the stomach appeared immediately after taking the second attend.; the following day, coldness in the middle of the sternum, which, after it gradually subsided, was followed by a burning heat in the stomach

■^Burning heat in the stomach

Heartburn (C. C. C).

Heat and burning in the stomach (first day )

Burning in the stomach, and eructations

* Sensation of soreness in the stomach and abdomen

Crawling, drawing, and gnawing in the stomach ; later, a violent compression in the abdomen

Prickling pain in the stomach, as from needles

Pressure in the stomach

Pressure in the j)it of the stomach/.

Pressure in the region of the orifice of the stomach

Abdomen p. 409

Violent burning pain under the short ribs, on both sides, worse and lasting longest on the left, where it prevented sleep for weeks

Under the right ribs, sensation as if gone to sleep

Pain, left side, under the last ribs

Pain in the abdomen, in the umbilical region, and chilliness

Fulness and evident enlargement of the abdomen. (In a woman, after several large doses)

Rumbling in the abdomen

Rumbling in the abdomen, with a sensation of fulness

Rumbling in the abdomen, as if diarrhoea would ensue

Rumbling in the abdomen, with violent urging to stool,'-

Restlessness in the intestines, and death

Faintness and nausea, from the short ribs across the whole abdomen (soon after a sting in the scrotum), lasting three hours

Nausea in the abdomen, is obliged to lie down

Sickly feeling in the abdomen, which inclines him to continue in a quiet, sitting posture

Pain in the abdomen from the hips towards the umbilical region (forenoons), (second day)

Violent pain in the abdomen, relieved when sitting up

Slight pain in the abdomen, with urging to pass flatus (after fifteen minutes )

Pain in the abdomen, mornings, and urging to stool

Pain in the abdomen, with urging to stool, and pain when straining (mornings, after rising, after dreaming it at night, second day),'l

Sometimes pain in the abdomen again, with a feverish, trembling feeling (second day),'l

Disagreeable sensation and growling in the abdomen, as if diarrhoea were setting in

Frequently, pain in the abdomen, mornings, and very hard scanty stool ; as formerly often (in third week),'l

Sore feeling in the abdomen, in the morning

As if sore in the abdomen

* Soreness of the bowek felt when sneezing, or pressing itpon them

Deep within, below, and beside the right hip, sensation of soreness, burning, and numbness

* Sensitiveness of the xvalis of the abdomen, worse from pressure, even when touched,^-.

* Fulness and sensation of bloated ness in the abdomen, as if she were inflated

* Sensation of fulness in the abdomen

Contractive, painful sensation in the abdomen, when walking

No redness or pain in the part stung, but severe griping pains all over the abdomen (E. E. M.).

Violent griping in the abdomen

Dull pains in the bowels

Heaviness in the abdomen

As if the intestines had been crushed, with stools and tenesmus,'l

Violent cutting pains in the abdomen

Violent pains across the lower abdomen, with bitter vomiting and diarrhoea

Sensation as if diarrhoea were coming on

Aching and pressive pain in the hypogastrium, with bearing down in the uterus, as if the menses were coming on (in two persons)

Aching and pressure in the lower abdomen

Pressure in the region of the lower abdomen

Bearing down

Slow, throbbing, boring pain over the left crest of ilium, relieved by eructations (second day)

Stool and Anus p. 409

Sensation in the rectum like an electric shock, slightly painful, and followed by urging to stool

Sensation of rawness in the anus, with diarrhoea

Throbbing in the rectum, with a sensation in the anus as if stuffed full, and with heat

Excessive tenesmus

Urging to stool,l

Urging to stool, with rumbling in the abdomen,'l

Frequent urging to stool ; pains in the anus after much straining, the following morning

* Passage of flatus before stool

Copious, wafer diarrhoea (A. H.M.).

Copious diarrhoea and vomiting

* Copious evacuations of blackish-brown, green and whitish excrements

Nausea, vomiting, and diarrhoea, first lumpy, and not fetid ; afterwards, watery and very fetid; then pappy, mixed with mucus and blood. Then followed stools like a dysentery, with much tenesmus, and a sensation as if the intestines had been crushed

Several loose stools daily

Two loose stools daily, for five days,l

Loose stools, eight days in succession

* Loose stools in the morning (fifth day) ; loose urgent stool In the morning (sixth day),■

Loose, lumpy stool

* Yellow, watery diarrhoea, with griping (twelve discharges within twelve hours)

* Greenish, yellowish, mucous diarrhoea, without any pain (about twenty-four hours after the first dose (2d) ; and twelve times, the same day ; then ceasing, while she took 2d, and later, after 1st)

Yellowish, slimy, green-colored diarrhoea, with swelling of the labia

Increasing prostration during diarrhoea

* Stools soft and pappy, mixed with serum, as if soft fceces had been beaten in water, but not dissolved; orange-colored

Stool every morning; scanty, pappy, lightyellow; did not begin to grow darker for a week,l

* Several thin, yellow stools, with extreme weakness arid prostration ; the stools occur with every motion of the body, as if the anus were constantly open. (In a woman of forty, with ascites, after 6th dil.),l

Colorless water passes from the anus

Stool natural, preceded by emission of flatulence, and a small quantity of almost colorless water, containing lumps, or fragments of jellylike mucus, streaked with blood

Blood and mucus with the stools,''l

Very hard, scanty stool (mornings),^l

Bowels confined for several days (eleventh day), (2d dil.),l

Bowels confined (from the eighth to the twelfth day),l

No stool for a week (from the third to the tenth day),'l

Urinary Organs p. 410

For several days he was troubled with a morbid excitement of the urinary organs (E. E. M.).

A very disagreeable sensation in the bladder, with a bearing-down in the region of the sphincter, and so frequent a desire to urinate that he not only did so by day, but was compelled to rise ten or twelve times during the night; soreness and burning when passing urine

Burning in the urethra

Burning in the urethra before and after urination (third day)

Burning before and after passing

Burning and soreness when urinating

As if scalded when urinating

* Soreness when urinating, as if scalded

Stitchlike pain in the urethra

When beginning to urinate, the swelling of the labia minora obstructs

Frequent desire to urinate

Frequent desire to urinate, attended with burning in the urethra, with uneasiness in the spermatic cord (sixth day, from large doses)

* Frequent desire to urinate, with some burning before and after emission (second day),l

Frequent desire to urinate, with a disagreeable sensation in the bladder; a bearing down in the region of the sphincter

Almost incessant desire to pass urine ; in passing, the urine seems to him to be unusually warm, even to burning, with sensation as if the flow were obstructed by a contraction in the bulbus ; the quantity of urine is quite as usual

After taking the 6th dilution in the evening, he was obliged to pass urine every five minutes the following day (and others).

Repeated urination every few minutes all day (in a person never subject to such attacks ; day after taking one drop of the 2d dilution, at night)

Day and night, very frequent passage of colorless urine

Frequent and excessively profuse discharge of natural tiring

Frequent and extraordinarily co)>ions discharge of urine, otherwise as usual, day and night, in. a dropsical, pregnant woman (after three doses of the 30th dilution ),'"'•

Enormous secretion of urine (four to six pounds daily), greatest when at some outdoor exercise, with flatulence and some looseness of the bowels (bee-bread), (Whitemore).

Decidedly increased passage of urine (first and second days)

Copious passage of pale, straw-colored urine, with brickdust sediment

The pre viously very scanty urine diminished fo one-half, xvith a violent burning sensation when urinating, as if scalded

* Urine highly colored

* Urine high-colored, and more frequent emission of small quantities (third day)/.

Pale-yellow, with brickdust sediment,^l

Sexual Organs p. 411

A pustule, swe as a boil, surrounded by a red areola, and maturated in the centre, arises in the hair of the pubes, remaining sore and painful some days (eleventh day)

Sensation of weakness in the genitals

Uneasy sensation in the spermatic cord

Frequent and long-lasting erections

The testicle swelled to such a size that it scarcely had room in the scrotum with tension, and the most violent itching (after a sting in the scrotum )

Desire to cohabit during the day, while sitting at home and when driving (after five, six, and eight hours)

Very much increased sexual desire, in a hysterical woman

Hemorrhage from the uterus, occurring in a lady who was always regular and healthy; coming on one week after the cessation of the usual menstrual period, and three days after taking the medicine

She feels as she does in the beginning of pregnancy

* Bearing-down pains in the uterus, as if menstruation were coming on, with aching and pressure in the hypogastrium

Bearing-down pains, as in the early stages of parturition (in several cases)

Metrorrhagia at the second month, with profuse flow of blood, heaviness of the abdomen, great uneasiness, restlessness, and yawning

Miscarriage at the second month (from drop doses of the 2d dilution)

Miscannage at the third month

Abortion in the fourth month, with very copious hemorrhage, in a young, perfectly healthy, recently married woman, during a mild attack of fever, for which Apis^was given

Should be given to pregnant females with the utmost caution

The numbness and dulness, beginning in the right abdominal region (from the ovaries) to the hip, now extends to the ribs, and down over the whole thigh ; better when lying upon it

When stretching in bed, a fine cutting pain in the left side of the abdomen, in the ovarian region, across to the right; first very faint, then stronger and stronger, increased at every repeated stretching; four or five times the same, then ceasing (evenings, seventh day)

Great increase of pain and tenderness in the ovarian region, in two cases ; one, of large induration, the other, in a supj)used incipient stage of development

In the region of the diseased right ovary, soreness, hardness, and burning heat

Pain in right ovarian region during menstruation

* T/te right ovarian region very sensitive during the period

Drawings in right ovarian region (twentieth day)

Drawing in the right ovarian region (twentieth day)

In the region of the left ovary, pain as if strained, more when walking, evenings at 6 oclock ; after several hours, also, a bearing down on right side, and a lame feeling in the shoulder-blades ; towards 11 oclock, when walking, she is compelled to bend forward, on account of a contractive, painful sensation in the abdomen ; still felt the following morning, somewhat to the left (first day)

A deep, penetrating pain begins in the clitoris, and extends down into the vagina; the labia minora are swollen, and feel dry, hard, and covered with a crust; hindered passing urine at first all day until it ceases, late in the evening, after the application of cold-water compresses

Much flow of mucus from the uterus and the vagina, with cessation of internal burning in the abdomen

Pressure in the abdomen, in the back, and sacrum, as if the periods were coming on ; she distinctly feels it running downward,'l

She feels, for several days, as if her periods were coming near the right time ; but they remain away, and pregnancy has taken place (twentieth and following days)

Bearing-down pains, and sensation as if the menses would come on (in several cases)

As if the periods were coming on

The period flows two to three days, then stops one day, and returns, and so on for ten days (in two cases)

Respiratory Organs p. 412

Sensation as of a rapid swelling of the lining membrane of the air-passages (B.).

Feeling of rawness, with inclination to hawk

Speaking is painful ; she feels as if it wearied the pharynx, in which there is drawing and pain

He grows hoarse

Hoarseness and difficulty of breathing

Hoarseness and rough voice through the day and night (second day) * (and others).

Hoarseness, mornings, with dryness in the throat and no thirst, and drinking is of no use; at the same time, soreness in the suprasternal fossa, and sensitiveness to pressure, likewise, in the region above both clavicles; later, violent stitches through the lungs, here and there, through the hips and sides of the chest, with aching all over, but especially in the left breast; constantly, a peculiar sensation as if cords were being pulled from the suprasternal fossa, downwards and sideways, in different directions

* Irritation to cough in the suprasternal fossa .

Severe cough, especially after lying and sleeping ; the tickling that causes it, in a little spot, very distinctly deep down on the posterior wall of the windpipe (second day, before midnight) ; would like something to reach it with and brush over it; his head aches while coughing; he must bend it back, and hold it so that the shock cannot act with such violence; as soon as the least bit of mucus loosens, he is better

Hoarse cough, with evening heat

Cough prevents sleep, after lying down, and wakens him towards midnight, with the same distinct clicking down back which irresistibly irritates to violent shocks that arc felt in the head ; ceases directly after the loosening of a small lump of mucus, which is swallowed (third to fourth days); cough the fourth and fifth days, only evenings, not at night

-Cough, preventing sleep

When coughing, pain through the chest, from the clavicle

Cough, more in warmth, and in rei)ose, and rousing from first sleep, for several evenings

Cough, when starting in sleep

Violent shocks of cough, from a crawling irritation down in the windpipe, near the suprasternal fossa; and, at every shock of cough, increased headache in the left side and upper part. After half an hour, something loosens and is swallowed, when the cough ceases directly (first day, when roused from sleep before midnight)

Expectoration of a great quantity of transparent, somewhat frothy, bloody mucus (after an emetic) *(B.).

Dyspnoea; it seemed impossible to breathe ; had to fan him to keep him alive (A. R. M.).

Sensation as though he should not be able to breathe again

Sensation as if he would not be able to breathe

* Great feeling of suffocation ; it seems as if she could not long survive, for want of air (B.).

* Intense sensation of suffocation; threw the collar wide open; could bear nothing about the throat; with dusky hue to the face, and bluish lips (C. W. B.).

Can scarcely breathe from swelling of the tongue, so that the laborious inspiration can be heard all over the house

Difficulty of breathing, inclination to sleep, and increasing shortness of breath when walking

Breathing very difficult, and every drop of liquid nearly chokes him

Hurried and difficult respiration, with fever and headache (second day)

Difficult, anxious breathing, with constriction in the throat; worse when lying

Sensation of fulness, constriction, or suffocation in the throat, with difficult, anxious breathing; worse in a horizontal position

Labored inspiration, as in croup

Breathing oppressed in pressure of the chest

Breathing oppressed by pressure in the back

Short breath/

Short, quick breathing, nights

Breathing very slow

Closed rooms, especially if overheated, are insupportable to him

Pain in the heart that interrupts breathing

Chest p. 413

At every pressure, when holding the breath, pain through the chest

Heat in the chest

Sensation of burning heat in the chest and stomach, early in the morning (second day),l

Sensation of warmth or burning in the chest (first day)

Fulness, tension, and pressure in the chest (first day)

Sensation of fulness in the chest

When coughing, and at every pressure, pain above the clavicle, and from there down through the chest

Sharp pains in the chest, at nights (fifth day)

Sometimes, sharp pains and stitches through the chest

Stitches through the chest and back, at night (sixth day)

Stitches through the chest and back, at night

Pressure in the chest

Pressure in the chest (soon)

Pressure in the chest, after pains in the shoulders and upper arms,l

Slight oppression of the chest, with frequent desire to draw a deep inspiration

Like a pressive pain in the upper part of the chest

As if the chest, near the last ribs, were crushed, pressed, or beaten

Sensation of heaviness

Pain, as of a bruise, and sensation of weight in the chest (for several days)

Trembling and pressure in the chest, with oppressed breathing (forenoon, second day)

Sensation of soreness, lame, bruised feeling, as if from recent injury, from being jammed, bruised, or beaten (confirmed in many provers)

Pain in the chest, stinging, first left, then right, where the cartilages of the ribs bend toward the hypochondria; at the same time, everything grew dark before her eyes, in which she felt pain (forenoon, third day)

Trembling in the chest

Stitches in the side

Sticking through the sides of the chest and through the lungs

Pain in the chest, only on the left side, near the last ribs, in or below the region of the heart (second week)

Slight pain in the left side of the chest, under the short ribs

Sense of constriction or lacing from the pit of the throat downwards and sideways

Dull, aching pains in the left side of the chest, near the middle of the sternum, several times during the day, with sedation of fulness in the chest and short breath (first day)

Suprasternal fossa sensitive to touch, as if sore

Sticking under the left arm, near the fourth or fifth rib, when breathing and when not (fourth week)

Tearing drawing from below on the left side, arising next to the sternum ; drawing back and forth in the chest upward, and finally in the lower jaw; at the same time, pain in the back, and sensation as if the menses were coming on (at the monthly period, twenty-first day)

Sensation as if cords were drawn along through the chest

-Stitches in the left side of the chest

Coldness in the middle of the sternum

Suddenly, a pain in a little spot to the left, on the lower part of the sternum (fourteenth day)

Heart and Pulse p. 413

Slow beating of the heart; scarcely perceptible radial pulse (wasp)

Violent palpitation, sensible to himself and audible to those in the room (A. R. M.).

Rapid, feeble beats of the heart (A. R. M.j.

Action of che heart interrupted

Pulse accelerated (first day )

Pulse increased 20 strokes, full and strong (second proving)

^620.] Pulse 95, full and strong

Pulse 88, with sensation of heat, evenings,'-.

Pulse increased from 65 to 77 (first day),l

Pulse decreased very soon

Pulse hardly perceptible (wasp)

Pulse feeble, scarcely discernible at the wrist (E. E. M.).

No pulse at the wrist (A. R. M. ).

Pulseless at wrist fi)r twenty minutes (A. R. M.).

Pain in the heart

Pain near the heart that almost arrested the breathing, continuing, at intervals, for some days

Sudden attack of acute pain just below the heart, soon extenrlinf) diagonally towards the right cJiesf (B.).

Several stitchlike pains just below the heart

Neck and Back p. 414

Nettlerash in the back of the neck

Slight sensation of stiffness in the nape of neck and small of back

Swelling in the back of the neck in gouty patients/.

Swelling on the back of the neck, so that his head is pressed upon the chest

Back of neck stiff

Tension in the right side of the neck, beneath and back of the ear (soon; 6th dil.) (and others).

Rheumatic stitches in the muscles of the right side of the neck; worse when moving the head in that direction ; came on when rising in the morning ; is very painful ; less noticed when moving the head in any other direction (second day)

Rheumatic stitches in the right side of the back of the neck

Violent piercing burning pain in a small spot down on the left of the back of the neck, also on the occiput and left arm (after two hours)

Pains extending from the shoulder up to the back of the neck,l

Sharp, tensive pain from the neck up back of the left ear, extending forward over the left side of the head (first day)

Tensive pain in the left shoulder, extending up into the back of the neck (second day),l

Pain in the back, over the shoulder-blades; worse on the right side (first and second days),l

Lame feeling in the scapulae

Dull pressure under the scapula, with sore feeling on moving the parts

Pressure under the shoulder-blades, painful when moving

Peculiar weakness in the back

Peculiar excessive weakness along the whole back, on both sides of the spine, as if she could not lie upon it for weakness

Burning and heat, like "prickly heat on the back (B.).

Sudden flush of heat over the back, as though sweat would break out, with a pain at the left ilio-sacral junction

Chills running over the back

Backache

Stitches in the back and chest

Stitches through the back

Back as if bruised

Back feels bruised near the last ribs, on a place a hand's breadth in extent, as if the muscles internally were sore, especially on the left side (the whole third day)

Pressure behind on the last ribs, on both sides of the spine, which somewhat hinders breathing, about as in anxiety (twenty-first day)

Prickling on the back,l

Sensation of stiffness in the sacrum

Pain in the ilio-sacral junction

Urging in the sacrum, as if to the period

Extremities in General p. 414

Trembling of the hands and feet

He first swelled about the joints, where bunches were forming that looked somewhat inflamed and itched very much

Blood settled under the toe and finger-nails (A. R. M.).

Cold limbs, with chilliness

His extremities grew cold (E. E. M.).

A cutting instrument seemed to penetrate all his limbs at the same time, like an electric discharge (wasp)

Upper Extremities p. 414

Red and white spots on the arms

Burning and heat, like "prickly heat on the arms and hands (B.).

Swelling of the whole arm, so that he could not take off his coat without an effort, in the evening, and was only able to put it on next morning with the greatest difficulty. The arm remained very sensitive for some days (after a sting in the hand)

Unpleasant sensation in the inner side of both arms, reaching from near the elbow to the axilla; also, a similar sensation in the anterior and inner part of each thigh, reaching from near the knee to the inguinal region, which ceased in the course of half an hour (S. D.).

Drawing pains in the arm, that begin in the shoulders and extend to the end of the fingers

Itching, and appearance of blotches, in arms and hands, like nettlerash, on scratching (B.).

Drawing pain through the arm, beginning in the shoulders

Hand and arm swollen and painful for several days/.

Crawling, as if going to sleep, in both arras, especially in the left

Itching stitching in the back of the arm

Left arm affected (after fifteen minutes

Burning stinging on the left arm

The upper part of the arm is painful

-Aching in the right shoulder and upper portion of the arm (soon)

Dull pains, apparently in the bones of the arms and fingers

Aching in right shoulder and upper arm, and pressure on the chest (first day),l

Great increase and intensity of the odor from the axillary glands (fourth day)

Stinging pains in the left elbow, sudden, but not lasting (third day)

* (Edema of the ha)ids

The hand becomes purple (B.).

Nettlerash on the back of the hand

Hands tremble

Hands as if dead, during chill

Hot hands

Burning, as of fire, in small circumscribed spots on the hands (lasting some minutes, second day; first dilution),'-.

Hot hands, during chilliness

Burning and stinging in the hands, especially the palms, that became very red ; half an hour after a sting in the neck. Cold water relieves

Prickling in the hands, palms, and back of the hands

The back of the hand swollen to the finger-tips (after a sting upon it)

Sore and red spots in the palms

Itching in the palms, mostly left, in little burning spots

Itching and burning on the back of the hands, and on the knuckles, also on the first joints of the fingers, especially of the right hand ; the skin begins to chap finally, here and there, as if from cold, to which she had not been exposed (evenings, 9 oclock, fifth day)

The right hand swells as if puffed up, and is slightly bluish-red ; pressure of the fingers makes white spots, that disappear slowly and leave no indentation, without heat and without pain, except some tension; with nettlerash (sixth dilution)

Itching and chapping of the right hand (still felt on the seventh day)

Itching and chapping of the right hand; the lower lip also begins to chap (evenings, eighth day)

The fingers swell and remain very sensitive for several days (after a sting)

The stung finger was swollen little, or not at all

The bones of the fingers are painful

* Very distinct sensation of numbness in the fingers, especially in their tips, about the roots of the nails, with a sensation as if the nails were veiy loose, and he could shake them off

Cold fingers

Cold hands

Drawing pains extending to the ends of the fingers

Itching in the fingers

Tingling of the fingers of the left hand (soon)

Burning twitching, like a pricking contraction, in the right thumb, from without inwardly; also the same in other places (second day)

After many stings, the index-finger felt numb, but was neither sensitive nor swollen ; in several days black spots appear in the skin

Inward burning about a hang-nail, on the outside of the right fourth finger; no redness where it pains, inside, and not aggravated by pressure; continued burning in the tip (fourth and fifth days)

Burning, like fire, in the finger-tips

Fine burning pricking in the finger-tips,l

Sensation as if the finger-nails were quite loose, and as if he could shake them off

Lower Extremities p. 415

Lower limbs feel paralyzed

Dull pains, as if in the bones of the lower extremities

Sore feeling of the flesh of the lower extremities, disappearing on walking, and returning again while sitting

Itching and pricking in the lower limbs

Sore pain in left hip-joint (immediately after every dose of the second dilution); later a weakness, unsteadiness, trembling in this joint

Drawing through the thighs to the tips of the toes, with numb sensation in the latter

An itching stitch posteriorly on the thigh

Burning itching, especially posteriorly, on the left thigh (after four hours)

Violent pain in the left knee, outside, over, and under the knee, mostly half in front (after two and a half hours) ; violent, short pains in front, below (after six hours) ; now and then violent on outside (second day)

Fine burning stinging on the knee (first day)

Crawling, as if from an insect, on the inner side of the right knee (mornings, fourth day)

From the left knee to the foot, crawling as if going to sleep

Darting, transient pains in the external malleolus of the left ankle (for four days

After the sting of bees, the former gouty concretions appeared again, and then disappeared

Red and white spots on the feet

* When taking off the foot-gear, evenings, frequent swelling of the feet

* At night, on removing the boots and socks, he found thai his feet ivere swollen full, xvith a sensation of heavy)less and stiffness; the upper parts of the feet felt bungling and itched, and were of a bright red color; on the soles of the feet and balls of the toes painful fulness, and as if he stepped on cushions when he walked (sixth day, from many large doses)

Feet trembled

Burning of the feet (first day)

Burning and pricking in the feet (after a sting on the neck)

Cold feet, with burning cheeks

Sensation in the toes, and the whole foot, as if too large, swollen, and stiff

Heaviness and stiffness of the feet.l

Crawling and itching of the feet, as if she had frozen them (sixth day)

Sensation of numbness in the toes

Burning of the toes, with erysipelatous redness and heat of a circumscribed patch on the foot, while the rest of the foot is cold (lasting half an hour)

Burning of the toes, with redness and heat in them, while the feet are cold (for half an hour)

Drawing pains, extending into the toes

Pricking in both little toes (first day, second dilution)

Generalities p. 416

Actual swelling, or "puffing up of the wdiole body, without any noticeable change of color, except in the face (E. U. J.).

f No blood, when venesection is attempted)

The blood let from a young, healthy woman, five minutes after she was stung, was colorless, and only red in the centre of the vessel

Twitching of the muscles (A. R. M.j.

Jactitation of ine muscles (A. R. M.).

Trembling

Stretching

She was found to be in a spasm, generally tonic, but in a measure clonic ; her knees were drawn up to her breast, and her hands and arms moved convulsively (J. P. D.).

Convulsions

The whole nervous system seemed most violently affected

Terrified starting during evening sleep,'l

Excessive irritability of the nerves

The sting instantly strikes through his whole frame, like an electric shock, thrilling both ends of his fingers and toes (A. R. M.J.

Restlessness ; would constantly like to go from one place to another

An extraordinary restlessness overcomes him in the afternoon, with as much exhaustion as if he had done very hard manual labor. (After smelling the bee poison, when gathering a swarm)

Nervous restlessness

Nervous restlessness, during the latter half of the night

Nervous restlessness ; she did not know what to do with herself, so that tears came to her eyes

Bodily unrest, as if after hard work

General lameness, especially in the lower limbs (humble-bee)

'■ Tired, as if bruised in every limb, especially in the back, as one feels in the morning, after exertion; especially perceptible on rising after sitting must stretch himself even in the street (after six hours)

* General feeling of lassitude (second day),l

General feeling of lassitude, ivUh trembling-

For several days, totally unfitted for labor of any kind (E. U. J.).

Frequent loss of all strength with a trembling sensation

Great weakness at intervals

Attack of weakness, during which she grows dizzy (evenings, third day),'l

So weak directly, that he was obliged to lie down, and lost his consciousness (after a sting in the middle finger)

During continual diarrhoea, weakness increases, and headache diminishes

Scarcely able to walk ; staggering (A. R. M.).

Truly distressing prostration and lassitude

* With all the rest of the symptoms, a constant feeling of lassitude and great prostration

Much prostration (A. R. M.).

Sudden prostration, with coldness (A. R. M.).

Great prostration for several days

Sudden prostration of the vital forces (shortly after) (E. E. M.).

Sudden prostration of the vital forces; severe vomiting; profuse diarrhaja ; cold extremities ; pale face ; severe griping pains in the abdomen ; pulse weak, scarcely perceptible at the wrist. (From a sting on the eyebrow)

Prostration and depression (soon)

Heavy and prostrate infever

Was obliged to be led into the house ; threw himself on the bed ; unable to hold himself up

Without feeling either weakness or faintness, she is yet suddenly compelled to lie down on the ground

Sinks quite exhausted at stool

Felt as if dying, nor could he describe the feeling in any other language (E. U. J.).

Must lie down, he feels so unwell

Must lie down

Lies down, but rises again to go to the neighboring brook ; after a le W steps, dies

Goes home and lies down; wants his red face bathed ; wants to be raised up ; asks for water ; lips are cold ; he dies, ten minutes after the sting of an humble-bee, in the temple

Faintness

Fainting; trembling

Faintness (wasp)

Faintness, with nausea

He felt very strangely in an instant ; it seemed to him as if he were going to faint. He asked for water just before death (after a sting in septum of nose)

A faint and deathly feeling came over him (E. U. J ).

Faintness, deathlike prostration, which continued half an hour, accompanied with intense anxiety and distress at the stomach, oppression of the chest, dyspnoea, short, rapid breathing, pulse accelerated (A. R. M ).

Fainting and twitchings, when the pains are violent

She falls down (B.).

She staggered and fell (J. P. D.).

Fell to the ground and died in a few minutes

My flesh was as sensitive as if cut with many lancets (next day, after many stings)

Sensitive to steel points that are directed towards her ; it seems to her as if the skin in the glabella were being drawn up towards the forehead

* The whole surface of the body becomes exceedingly sensitive to the touch ; every hair is painful when touched (6th dil.)

Skin extremely sensitive to contact; painful to the slightest touch ; could not bear the sheet upon him (A. R. M.).

Numbness over the whole body, at once

A very strange feeling, which she could not define (in ten minutes) (J. P. D.).

Violent pain ; for days

Screamed aloud at great pain, that increased with intense rapidity (directly after the sting of a wasp)

Sensation in whole body, as if everything were too large

Sensation as if crushed over the whole body, on the sides, hips, back, in short, everywhere ; with restlessness all night, and loose, urgent stool, mornings. (From several pellets of the 6th, taken evenings, on account of great warmth ; the same symptoms are repeated in the same order, three times, after similar doses)

Felt very sore from head to foot (after first day) (J. P. D.).

Bruised sensation all over; sides, hips, back, in fact, he ached everywhere (after reaction) (E. E. M.).

Trembling sensation, with heat

Skin p. 417

Desquamation of the whole surface of the skin (wasp)

Inflammatory swelling of the whole body; the right eye entirely, the left almost closed; cheek and nose level; the lower cheek hung down upon the breast ; the breast was like a great loaf

* Rapid, considerable swelling

Swelling of the whole body

Spreading, inflammatory swelling (humble-bee)

Inflammatory swelling till death

Painful, red swelling

Diffuse inflammation of the cellular tissues, ending in their destruction/.

Swelling and an erysipelatous redness

* Sharp pain and erysipelatous swelling, very hard and white in the middle

From 1 to 4, mornings, tension and swelling in the face and lips/®.

Hand, arm, face, and head, swell considerably (after a sting in the middle finger), (wasp)

Face, neck, breast, and limbs considerably swollen

Swelling of the whole left side of the body (side of the sting, in the testicle), first in the joints/.

Blotches on the body, and on the back of the hand, with stinging as of nettles

Body covered with large wales, size of a silver half dollar, slightly elevated and white (C. C C.)/-

The whole body covered with red spots, as if scalded, with burning and sticking (after a sting in the neck)

* Red and white blotches over the body and extremities like nettlerash (A. R. M.).

Red place near the sting, with swelling on the stung spot, and red stripes along the fingers and the arms

Erysipelatous redness of the toes ; and the feet

Redness of the stung spot ; not till later, when the attacks were improving

Red lines along the lymphatic vessels, from a sting in the middle finger and the arm (wasp)

Over the whole body, the most violent inflammation and excessive pressure when rubbing; covered with small white spots, resembling mosquito-bites

Large, florid blotches appeared upon the skin, resembling erysipelas. This lasted for something over an hour, but was essentially relieved by a solution of borax/ (S. D.).

Rash ; red blotches, with great sensitiveness of the skin to contact. This sensitiveness extended all over the body/ (A. R. M.).

Spots of the size of a dollar swell up, without changing the color of the skin, and become uncommonly sensitive to the touch, as if sore (0 and lst),l

Sudden, indescribable sensation over the whole body, with a stinging feeling; red and white spots on the palms, on the arms and feet

Her whole body was covered with thickly swelled wales, without itching or burning; whereupon other symptoms disappeared

Light-red, raised, hard swelling of the sting, and a chilly sensation around it (wasp)/.

* Elevations on the skin, as after the bite of insects, painfully sore, sensitive to touchy.

Small elevations on the skin, as after the bites of ants, appear at the extreme end, over the left eyebrow, pain as if soi'e, and are very sensitive to pressure (third day)

In a few minutes after the cessation of the spasms, there appeared all over her body and limbs, and even on her ears, a red eruption ; some of the elevations in circumference the size of a pea, but generally like millet-seed. This eruption continued visible for an hour, and was very itchy while passing away/ (J. P. D.).

With swelling of the face, and the whole body, he is covered with a kind of urticaria, that is somewhat paler than the usual color of the skin

* Itching and appearance of blotches, like nettlerash, after scratching (B.).

* Eruption, like nettlerash, over the whole body, with burning and itching (second day, after 30th dil.)

Nettlerash over the whole body, and lessening of the previous symptoms

-^'Nettlerash after fever}.

Very soon, a dense nettlerash over the whole body, that itched very much, and disappeared after a good sleep/.

Nettlerash (appeared a week after the sting ; the symptoms had disappeared) (C. C. C).

Sensitive pimples (B.).

Red pimply eruption, covering the entire body, but more evident and thicker upon his chest and back than upon his face and limbs (E. U. J.).

Tetter on the lobe of the ear

Eruption around the lips

Inflammation, violent pains, and gangrene/.

Pain of the sting seemed to penetrate deeply, and as if a hook were being drawn out there (wasp)

Violent sensation of burning like fire, in the seat of the sting (wasp)

Sensation of burning heat and stinging, in various portions of the surface of the body, at the same time

Vivid, stinging pain, swelling and inflammation/.

Over the whole body, from head to foot, as if he were being stung by insects, so that it prevented him from sleeping all night

Stinging, prickling, burning, smarting, itching sensation, all over the skin (E. E. M.).

Stitch, as from an insect, and then swelling

Throbbing iu the swelling

Prickling over the whole body, externally and internally

Prickling all over the body, most on the back and palms of the hands, the face, forehead, and under the eyes ; chiefly iu circumscribed points (directly after taking the 6th dil.)

Prickling over the whole body, as after the sting (lasting one to two weeks, returning after every exertion)

Intense burning itching all over his body, so severe that he retired to his room, and rubbed himself vigorously with his flesh brush (almost immediately) (E. U. J.).

* Burning itching in several places

Burning itching places, here and there, especially on the back (second day)

Itching pricking in the skin in different parts of the body, more on the lower extremities, and continued through the day (first day)

In evening, an intolerable itching, attended with a burning, fiery sensation, commencing in the arms, and filially spreading over the tvhole surface of the body, reaching to the feet ( S. D.).

Itching over the whole body (humble-bee)

The most violent itching, like pricking with needles, so that his whole body had to be rubbed with cloths

Itching over various parts, especially on head and fingers (humble-bee)

Itching on the head ; on the forehead and face ; about the eye,^; and about the eyebrows,''; the Hds ^

In the canthi iu the eye,^; on the nose,'^; on the back,^; on the hands ^ " ; the palms,"; fingers ; on the thighs,"; the knees; the lower limbs

Violent itching of the tensive swelled scrotum

Itching of eruptions,^; the bunches on the joints

Stinging itching on the posterior surface of the right thigh, like flea-bites ; directly after, the same on the right arm ; better after scratching, afternoon

Itching of the feet,'l

The itching is relieved by friction (E. U. J.).

Sleep and Dreams p. 419

Inclination to yawn,*; mornings (fourth or fifth day)

Must yawn much, and is often sleepy ; she feels the least interruption of her morning sleep all day (third and fourth week)

Yawning, chilliness, headache

Yawning in uterine hemorrhage

Much yawning after rising in the morning, although she had slept long enough (second day)

Great inclination to sleep; still he walks a tenth of a mile

Great desire to sleep, amounting to most extreme sleepiness,'l

Desire for rest and sleep, but they compelled him to move about (wasp)

When the other symptoms diminished again, the prostration, with great desire to sleep, remained,'l

* Very sleepy, early in the evening (second day)

Sleepiness, prostration, and vomiting of bile

Very drowsy mornings ; will not rise ; back as if beaten ; must extend and stretch himself; is confused in the head (second day),'l

She fell asleep while sitting, evenings, and started several times at a noise (after one hour),'l

* They sleep very long, mornings, for several weeks (with many), (C. Hg.)

Too much sleep (from second to third day)

Frequent waking during the night ^ ; to pass urine

Awaking four times from sleep at night, with great thirst for cold water,'l

* Anxious starting in sleep, with some cough,'-.

Sleeplessness

Was kept awake and restless during the whole night, by loose, urgent stools,'. (E. E. M.)--Nervous restlessness all night, that prevents sleep,l

Nervous restlessness, especially during the latter half of the night,'l

Fidgety restlessness in the latter part of the night (third day, 2d dilution\l

Very restless sleep ; inclination to frequent awaking during the night, and incessant dreaming

Has not the least enjoyment from sleep ; it seems to him as if his brain had no rest at all, either day or night

A burning pain under the left ribs at night, preventing sleep

Stitches in the skin, preventing sleep, as if from insects

Awakes from tension in the face at night

Boring in the temples when awaking ; pressive pain

The symptoms of the sting improve after sleep

Night-sleep full of dreams (third day); still the same, mostly of travelling (eleventh day), 2d dilution * ; repeated at every proving

Sensation as of movement from place to place, mostly travelling by railroad

Dreams mostly of journeys ; long distances

Often dreams of flying far through the air

Dream that he made journeys in great leaps through the air, like a bird

Feels like a bird in the air ; takes great leaps in his dreams

Plagues himself in dreams all night, with a flying apparatus ; tries to arrange the wings, which, however, will not work

Dreams of a great, hot stove ; was obliged to walk over a hot floor ; also, on dirty, wet roads for a very long distance ; then he came to a dinner-table where many people were assembled (first day)

Frequeiipt waking first night, and dreams, with vexatious care about various kinds of business,l

Dreams of a tormenting, active kind, full of care and toil

Dreams of many people who are quarrelling; one among them, who becomes nearly beside hlrahclf, he leads from the room by the arm, whereby he is calmed (humble-bee)

Disagreeable dreams about fiends,l

Dreams she has pain in the abdomen and diarrhoea (first night)

A young man dreams that he is a girl ( R. Brains).

Fever p. 420

Strange, inward trembling feeling, as after a sickness, with a kind of shudder, without coldness or shivering ; down the back, morning ; more in the upper half, afternoons, 3 to 5 oclock (after seven to nine hours)

When she was put to bed at noon she was seized by a violent chill, although it was a warm summer day, during which the face remained red, and the body covered with large, red spots

Chill, with shivering, accompanied by a terrible, racking pain all through the head, with increased prostration (A. R. M.).

Chilliness all over ; unwell feeling, so that he is obliged to lie down

Chilliness while sitting still, caused previously by a spig-ht movement, with heat in the face, and headache, evenings (second day)

Occasional feeling of chilliness

Slight chilliness, soon passing off, followed by fever at night

Frequent chilliness, and hot hands in the fourth week

Chilliness evenings, with yawning and headache, and tip of nose cold (fourth week)

Chilliness, cold limbs, and nausea

Chilliness, with toothache

General creeping chills, repealed at short intervals; something moved over him, rolling like waves (wasp)

Sudden chills, then heat and perspiration

Shaking chills after thirty-six hours of heat

Chill, with cold fingers, especially those of the left hand (evenings, third day )

* Chilly every afternoon at 3 oclock ; she shudders, worse in warmth; the chills run down the back; hands feel as if dead ; feverishly hot after about an hour, with a hoarse cough; heat of the cheeks and hands, without thirst; ceases gradually, but she feels heavy and prostrate

Sensation of cold, without coldness of the skin, with ague

Shudders, and diarrhoea

Coldness of the limbs

Shuddering, and then nettlerash

Cold feet and burning cheeks

Cold feet, with burning toes

Fever

Violent fever

Hot and burning sensation, and oppressive feeling all over ; for several days (E. E. M.).

Sensation of heat and stinging over whole body (C. C. C.)

Sensation of heat through the whole body, without external sensation of heat ; the trembling feeling, as formerly; pulse 88 ; after several minutes she grows dizzy while standing, and as if about to faint ; is compelled to sit; turns very pale, and feels nausea to vomiting ; after lying down on the sofa she fell asleep ; anxious starting in sleep, with some cough ; turns on the other side, and sleeps quietly (evenings, soon after repeated doses, second day),*-.

Feverish, trembling, with pain in the abdomen,*-.

Fever and nettlerash after a sting in the hand

General sensation of heat, worse in the chest and stomach (first day )

Heat, with headache

Heat when breathing rapidly

Heat at night, with agitation (first night),l

Hot flushes (A. R. M.).

Heat

Heat in the face and chilliness, evenings

Heat and difficult breath- [ng

Burning of the skin of the hands,l

Heat on circumscribed s[)Ots on the foot

The heat of the room is intolerable

Burning of the feet

Heat after chilliness, evenings

Heat at night, after chilliness

Flushes of heat mixed with chills (A. R. M.).

Fever-heat increasing for thirty-six hours, then a violent shivering chill, at 5 oclock in the morning, during which she felt very cold herself, but not so to others

As if perspiration would break out

Perspiration breaks out occasionally

Perspiration broke out, so that it penetrated the clothing

Perspiration now and then, with headache and heat

Perspiration after trembling and fainting, then a nettlerash

Dry skin alternating with perspiration

Conditions p. 421

Aggravation.

(Morning), 5 oclock, ague; boring in temples, when awaking; pressive pain ; headache, when rising; pain in forehead ; lachryraation ; adhering lids; sticking in the right lower lid ; swelling of the eyes; blowing blood from the nose; dry palate ; mucus in the mouth; hawking mucus; accumulation of mucus and hawking; pain in the throat; burning in chest and stomach; sensation of soreness in the abdomen ; pain in the abdomen ; after rising, pain in the abdomen and urging to stool; urging to stool and pain; stool; soft stool; diarrhoea; hoarse; when rising, pain in nape of neck; crawling on the knee; drowsy; yawning; heat.

(Forenoon), Sad ; increased headache ; dark before eyes ; pains in the eyes ; burning in mouth and thirst; pain from the hip toward the navel ; piercing in the chest ; pressure on the chest.

(From mornings till 3 p.m.). Headache.

(l/<emoou). When stooping, dark before eyes; increased headache; 4 oclock, sudden coryza; kind of chill in the back; *3 to 4 oclock, chilly; itching; itching of the head.

(ye/iiHgr), Vertigo, Avhen standing; dizzy and weak; vertigo and headache; headache ; piercing in the temples ; piercing in the eyes and weakness ; pain in the eyes, avhen sewing ; lachrymation ; cold nose; coryza worse; chapping of the lower lip; toothache; dry under the tongue ; pain in the abdomen ; pain in the ovaries ; hoarseness, beginning; cough; chapping of the hands; feet swollen; faint; sleepy; sleepy and startled ; increased aversion to cold ; chilliness; chilliness and cold fingers ; sensation of heat.

(iV«yi<), Quivering and twitching of the eyes, worse left ; adhesion of the eyes ; secretion of mucus from the eyes in bed ; aversion and nausea ; disgust, inclination to vomit and feeling of diarrhoea ; short breath ; sharp pains in chest ; stitches through chest and back ; stitches in the chest and back ; heat

(Before midnight), Cough, that awakes.

( Latter part of night), Restless

(During daj). Frequent urinating.

(i)a?/ and night), Frequent urinating.

(Bending head on painful side), Increased pani in nape of neck.

(Gold weather), Weakness and chest troubles.

(Coughing), Headache.

( Closing eyes), Vertigo

(After every exertion and much exercise), The prickling returns all over the body, the same as after the Weakness in back ; increased difficulty in breathing ; wishes to be raised up ; cannot lie horizontally ; increased vertigo.

(Motion ), Chilliness ; increased headache ; pain in shoulder and upper arm.

(Moving head toward right). Stitches in right side of nape of neck.

(Pressure), Sensitive to outward pressure; pain in abdomen; abdomen painful on exterior pressure; little bunches sensitive.

(Reading), Headache.

(irisin^- sitting), Back as if beaten.

(Shaking head). Pain in occiput.

(Sitting), Increased vertigo ; pain as if beaten in lower limbs.

(Sneezing), Sore feeling in abdomen.

(Speaking), Pain, caused by fatigue in the larynx.

(Going upstairs). Difficulty in breathing.

(After long standing). Faint and dizzy ; renewed swelling of sprained knee.

(Stooping), Headache ; darkness before eyes ; sensation of fulness in the face.

(Stretching in bed), Pain in ovaries.

(Touch), Pain in swollen cheeks; scalp sensitive.

( ira^/a?;^'), Soles of feet feel like cushions ; pain in ovaries.

( Warmth), Closed rooms, especially if overheated, are perfectly ^intolerable to him, with fulness and heaviness in the head, and rush of blood ; *headache in warm room ; cough worse ; chilliness grows worse ; *makes him worse, especially in evening, with some coryza and cough.

Amelioration p. 422

(Cold wa/er). Burning in palms; wanted his red face bathed ; pain and burning in clitoris and labia ; best means of relief after a sting.

(Continued diarrhoea). Headache.

(Exercise), Seemed to bring him to himself

(Eating), Soreness and cough.

(Eructations), Pain over left hip.

(Lying on the parts). Going to sleep of the thighs, etc.

(Pressure), *Headache.

(Rubbing). Itching of skin.

(Sitting up). Pain in abdomen.

(Sleep), Symptoms of the sting.

( Walking), Bruised feeling of the lower limbs ; vertigo.

Footnotes

† No. ], obtained from Central N. Y. proving; Hering, Amer. Arzneipruf. ; A. R. Morgan, N Y. St. Trans., 3, 104; Bull, H. M., G, 3(iO ; Samuel Dean, N. E. M. Gaz., 2, '234; Marcy, N. A. J., Ifi, 501 ; E. U. Jones, N. A. J , 2, 409; J. P. Dake, N. A. J., 6, 385; Cropper, N. Y. St. Trans., N. S. 1 (MSS.), and some other scattering observations. Nos. 2 to 8, from proving of Central N. Y. Ham. Soc, 185J; 9 to 24, from Hering's Amer. Arzneipruf. ; (Bee-bread symptoms by Whitmore, Chicago Med. Examiner, 18G5).