Bufo

Eaua Bufo, L. Nat. order, Bufonidse, of the Batrachian family of vertebrate animals. Common names, Toads; (German) Die Wrote; (French) Le Crapaud common. Preparation, Trituration of the poison from the cutaneous glands, obtained by irritating the animal.

Authorities. 1, Desterne, Journ. d. 1. Sac. Gal., 2d series, 4, 289 (symptoms without reference to cause or time) ; 2, Aetius, " De nox. animal, morse," effects of bite, from Desterne's compilation ; 3, Sennert, " La Med. du Prophete," effects of eating toads (ibid.) ; 4, Ambrosia Pare, " De la Morsure du Crapaud," xxxi, 773, effects of taking the poison in wine (ibid.); 5, J. L. Hahnemann, effects of venom applied to the sound skin (ibid.) ; 6, Standigelius, " De la traite," etc., effects of venom spirted into the eye ; of bathing in water taken from a pool frequented by toads (ibid.) ; 7, Schelammer, effects of momentarily introducing a toad into the mouth, without touching (ibid.); 8, Paulinus, " Ephemerides," effects of toads taken into the stomach, by eating the spawn on herbs, also effects of the venom injected into the eye, also effects of the bite, also effects of an infusion of roasted toads powdered (ibid.) ; 9, Brandelius, effects of a toad jumping into the mouth and entering the stomach during sleep (ibid.) ; 10, Schrceckius, effects of swallowing the ovules of a toad in muddy water (ibid.); 11, Gavini, Correspondence Scientif., effects of venom injected into the eye; 12, Hout, Nouvelles Donnees de Mat. Med., I, p. 41 ; 13, Archive (Homceop.), 14, 2, 102, effects of repeated doses of the 30th potency of the venom ; 14, Struvius (from Desterne), effects of a live toad in the stomach ; 15, Hence, A. H. Z., Mon. Bl., 1, p. 18, effects of 30 drops (of the tincture?).

Mind

Emotions. Constant feeling of intoxication

After eating he is always as if intoxicated

Paroxysms of fury, which cease as soon as he sees any one

Propensity to bite

The child runs like mad

Inclination to get drunk, and he takes pleasure in being intoxicated

Desires solitude, and yet is afraid of being left alone and dying forsaken

Aversion to strangers

Dislike to conversation

Howling, constant crying

Sadness, full of restlessness and apprehension

He is anxious about the state of his health ; is afraid he will die or that some other misfortune will happen to him

Excessive anguish

Very easily frightened ; a bird or iuseet flying by causes a start

Fear of animals

Fear of catching diseases

Very sensitive disposition

Choleric disposition

Nervousness ; excessive irritability

Irritable, impatient humor

He is irritated and weeps about the merest trifle

He is irritable, anxious about his state of health, with great dread of death

Impatience and ill-humor

Ill-humor when going to sleep at night, and on waking in the morning

Defiance, duplicity, spitefulness

Anger, with desire to strike and destroy

Alternate complaining and crying in the case of a child

Varying mood ; taciturn, hypochondriac

Apathy, sort of stupidity, with regular pulse

Intellect. Enfeebled intellect

Little disposed to work

Great difficulty in collecting his ideas

He mistakes words ; often he only half pronounces a word and gets angry when not understood

After an attack, imbecility, palpitation of the heart, trembling of all the limbs, spasmodic movements of the intestines, colic and pains, which extend into the groins

-Idiocy, mania, furious insanity

Absence of mind ; want of memory

After the dizziness, stupefaction, sometimes lasting for a minute, and obliging him to seek support

Coma, which lasts two days

Stupor and inability to speak, which last two years

Head p. 304

Vertigo and General Sensations. Vertigo

Vertigo with tottering, so that he requires support

Dizziness; the head is as if carried along by the motion of waltzing

Dizziness, especially in the morning, with weakness, as after losing blood

The dizziness appears only in the morning, three or four times, especially after a meal

Constant shaking of the head and arms

Numbness of the head, with sensation of intoxication and great somnolence

Heavy, stupefying headache, with sensation as if the scalp and ears were burned by an acid

Heaviness and weight of the head, so that he has to support it

Heaviness of the head

Pains in the head, extending to the maxillary sinuses

Neuralgic pains running through the whole head, and affecting, the eyes and nape of the neck

Headache with vertigo, trembling of the whole body, dimness of sight, eructation, nausea, and vomiting

* Great heat in the interior of the head, with sensation as if the brain were boiling

Sanguineous congestion, with deepseated pains in the brain

Sensation as if the cranial bones were separated

Pressive and contractive pains in the interior of the head

Pressive and throbbing pains in the head, with frontal heaviness

Sensation of a great weight on the head, with lancinating pains in the sinciput and eyes

Stitches and prickings in the brain

Sensation of shaking, as if a heavy ball was in the head

Hammering pains from the eyebrows to the cerebellum

Hammering sensation in different parts of the head, with commotion of the whole brain

Throbbing and lancinating pains, as if there were an abscess in the head

Sensation of shivering and of vibration in the head, accompanied by fluent coryza

Sensation as if the head were full of water

The pains in the head increase for three or four minutes, and then diminish during the same time

Headache on waking, at 3 a.m., for two days in succession

Headache in the afternoon, after breakfast, continuing into the night and preventing sleep

Headache in the afternoon and at night, preventing sleep

Headache in the evening towards 5 oclock, for an hour and a half, obliging him to lie down

Aggravation of the head symptoms by movement

Excessive headache after drinking spirits

The beating of the heart increases the headache and seems to correspond with it

Headache during work, when sitting

Headache better at night and by lying down

The epistaxis relieves the headache

Forehead, Temples, and Vertex. Weight in the forehead and eyelids ; disturbed vision ; sparks before the eyes, pain at the heart ; cold sweat on the head and in the hair ; coldness of the body, especially the feet, and such piercing colic as almost to cause fainting; at the same time burning thirst, vomiting after drinking; vomiting of food, then of bitter and acrid matter; the least movement aggravates the headache and brings on the nausea and vomiting

Headache in the forehead and vertex, with soreness of those parts when touched, during eight days; the soreness is worse in the evening towards 4 or 5 oclock

After a hard and curled stool, accompanied with protrusion of haemorrhoids, headache in the forehead, heaviness in the eyelids, and nausea

Lancinations from the interior of the head to the forehead and eyes

Clawing-digging pain in the left temple when walking, lasting one hour (after three-quarters of an hour)

Alternate movements of traction and relaxation in the temples

Stitches in the temples, with constriction of the throat

Headache on waking, towards 3 a.m. ; the pain affects the left temple and vertex ; those parts are sore to touch

-Pressure in the temples, as if the head were compressed by bands of iron

Sensation as if a hot vapor rose to the top of his head

Parietals, Occiput, and External. Hemicrania of the right side, ceasing when the nose bleeds

Semilateral headaches, with nausea, depression, and inclination to lie down, especially in the evening

Headache, sometimes on the right side, sometimes on the left

Lancinations in the cerebellum, making the head fall backwards ; loss of consciousness and falling down ; tonic and clonic spasms ; turgescence and distortion of the face; convulsive agitation of the mouth and eyes; bloody salivation ; involuntary emission of urine ; repeated shocks through the whole body ; the lower extremities are in more violent motion than the upper; face bathed in perspiration

Falling off of the hair

Complete baldness

The hair changes color and decays

A great deal of dandruff and scales on the scalp and all over the body

Copious sweat of the hairy scalp; all the head is soaked with it

Frequent and oily sweats on the head, especially in the evening

Sour and disagreeable smell of the hair

Great sensitiveness of the scalp

Burning-itching and shuddering in the scalp

Eyes p. 305

Frightful and squinting look

The eye is somewhat bloodshot from the penetration of the venom

Inflammation of the eyes and lids

Sensation as from cold water on the eyes

Spasmodic pains in the eye

Drawing in the eyes, with dimness of vision

Pressive and crampy pains in the eyes, with dazzling and vertigo

Lancinating and drawing pains in the "eyes

Lancinating and beating pains in the eye, which had been poisoned by the venom

Sensation as if the eyes were full of sand

Directly after the poison has been cast into the eye itching, redness, swelling, dimness of vision ; very painful lancinating pains ; stinging; these last two symptoms last a long time

A whitish-looking crust over the brows

Ulceration of the lids

Large scabs on the eyelids

Swollen and burning eyelids

The eyes open more widely

Inability to keep the eyelids open

Continual winking

Convulsive beating of the eyelids

The eyelashes fall out

Burning pains at the corners of the eyes, with ulceration and suppuration of these parts

Considerable lachrymation

Ulcers on the cornea

Pupil with red

Ears p. 305

20 and white reflections

Pupil dilated and apparently vacillating

The sight, previously at times weak and disturbed, becomes excellent, and this condition lasts ten months

Myopia

Presbyopia

Dimness of vision

Loss of sight

Photophobia

He cannot look at bright objects

All objects appear crooked

Appearance of a veil before the eyes at exactly 3 or 4 oclock p.m., with smarting in the eyes and lachrymation

Muscle volitantes

Ears p. 306

Ears swollen and scabby

Inflammatory swelling of the ears and parotids

Warty excrescences on the ears

Desquamation, ulceration, suppuration, and bleeding of the concha of the ears

Ulcers and abscesses in the ears

Herpetic eruption behind the ears, with intolerable itching

Purulent discharge from the ears

Sensation of burning heat in the ears

Distensive pains in the ears, as if an animal was trying to force its way out

Feeling as if the auditory canal were stopped up by concretions

Crampy pains in the interior of the ears

Stitches and digging in the ears, as from a foreign body in them

Pulsative pains in the right ear, with a sensation as if there was hot vapor in it

Pressing on the submaxillary glands relieves the internal pains of the ears

Very sensitive hearing

The least noise annoys him; even music is unbearable

Attacks of deafness

Hardness of hearing; he hears, and especially understands words, with great difficulty

Crackling, roaring, and tingling in the ears

The symptoms of the ears often coincide with those of the eyes and of the head

The contact of water aggravates all the ear symptoms

Nose p. 306

Nose swollen, red, and covered with pustules

After coryza, crusts in the nose

Liability to cold in the head

Stoppage of the nose, with sensation as if it were clogged up

A great deal of sneezing in the evening, on going to bed

Frequent sneezing in the evening ; obstruction, with heaviness in the head and eyelids

He blows clear water from the nose

Fluent coryza, with frequent sneezing

Coryza, with great dryness of the nose

Coryza in the morning, with sneezing three or four times in succession

The secretion from the coryza has a bad smell

The coryza ceases after a sweat, in the morning, in bed

Considerable mucous secretion, which is dry or soft, and extremely fetid

The secretion of mucus, of an exceedingly offensive smell, continues for twelve days

Discharge of yellowish, greenish, and grayish mucus, of a putrid odor, especially in the evening and after being in the open air

Blowing of blood from the nose

Epistaxis

Epistaxis, principally morning and evening

He bleeds from the nose nearly to fainting

Heat and great itching in the nostrils ; constant desire to bore in the nose

Burning in the nostrils

Burning, lancinating pains in the nose, extending to the forehead

The cold air, when breathed, seems to corrode the nostrils

Ulcerated nostrils, as if burnt

Throbbing and gnawing pains in the nasal bones

Strong odors are annoying, especially that of tobacco

Loss of smell

Face p. 306

Altered expression

Thin, bony face, with large eyes, rerl,or sunken, and with circles round them

Face pale, yellow, or gray

Face in places white and pale, or red and gray

Face every now and then flushed with heat

After an attack of dizziness the face becomes flushed, the heart feels compressed, the chest seems squeezed in a vice

Red face, as after a vapor-bath

Inflammation and puffiness of the face ; the eyes appear lost in their orbits

Inflammation, swelling, and caries of the facial bones

Lancinating pains in the face, with bruised sensation in the bones

Throbbing and heat of the face, as from being too near the fire

Water and dampness are very disagreeable to the face, and cause pricking

Very painful cramps felt from the head to the cheeks, and vice versa

Swollen, thick, hanging lips

Lips contracted, dry, chapped, bleeding, very painful

Mouth p. 307

Teeth and Ganis. The teeth decay and break easily

The teeth fall out

The teeth feel long and loose

The teeth seem to sink into the gums when eating

Toothache, especially in the evening and at night

Boring pains in the teeth

Pulling pains in the teeth, with contraction of the jaw and compression of the teeth

Lancinating, boring, and digging pains in the teeth, excited by cold air, change of temperature, and movement

Swollen gums, bleeding very easily

Hard swelling of the gum, with pain as if forcing out the back teeth, which seemed too long, with increased secretion of saliva at night ; the symptoms prevented sleep ; laying the arm hard on the cheek prevented the pain for a short time (after fifty-three days)

Inflammation, abscess, and ulcers of the gums

Pains as if the gums were burned

Tongue covered with a loose, pasty, yellowish coat

Black tongue

Tongue cracked, and often of a bluish color

Tongue thick, hard, and full of small burning pimples

Large pimples like abscesses under the tongue, with great difficulty in eating

Tongue difficult to move

Easy biting of the tongue, which bleeds readily

Desire to drink and moisten the tongue, although it is covered with saliva

Mouth ill General and Saliva. Cracks and exfoliation of the walls of the cheeks

Erysipelatous inflammation of the entire mouth

The mouth smells offensively

Very bad-smelling breath, especially in the morning

Pain in the palate and in the right margin of the tongue, with complete aversion to tobacco

Mouth burning, as if from an acid

Scraping dry sensation on the palate and back of the mouth, painful on empty swallowing, lasting three weeks (after three days)

Cold liquids aggravate all the symptoms of the mouth

Very copious salivation

Abundant, frothy saliva

Mouth full of thick mucus

Taste and Speech. Insipid and disagreeable taste of the food, especially in the morning

In the morning, nauseous, sweetish taste, for a quarter of an hour, with clammy mouth, continuing while he remains in bed

Bitter taste (not of food)

Peculiar, biting, bitter taste, as from radishes, in the back of the mouth (immediately, lasting several hours)

Salty and bloody taste in the mouth

Constant taste of blood in the mouth

Bitter, sour, bloody, nauseous, coppery, insipid, salty, strong, or oily taste in the mouth

Desire for milk, dainties, even brandy, to remove the bad taste in the mouth

Tobacco does not taste as good as usual ; nausea and vomiting after long smoking ; smoking in the forenoon caused overpowering desire to sleep, lasting six weeks (after three days)

Stammering

Difficult, impeded, and unintelligible speech

Hears what is said without being able to answer or move

Throat p. 307

Inflammation and swelling of the throat and tonsils

Convulsive movements and constriction of the throat, with sensation as if there was a stone there

Something seems to come down from the head into the throat

Mucus descends from the nasal fossae into the throat

Accumulation of much viscid mucus in the throat, with constant taste of blood

Constant inclination to hawk

Dryness of the throat in the morning

Raw feeling and lancinating pains in the throat

The air, in passing through the throat, seems impregnated with a corrosive acid

Throbbing pains, as from an abscess, in the tonsils

Inflammation and dryness of the pharynx and oesophagus

Difficult and painful deglutition ; he can hardly swallow his saliva

Painful swelling of the submaxillary glands of the right side

Stomach p. 308

Appetite and Thirst.

Excellent appetite

Violent hunger, even after eating, especially in the evening

In the morning after breakfast, often feels hungry, as if he had eaten nothing

Would like to be in the country and eat pot-herbs

Desire for pastry and dainties

Desire for confectionery and acid fruits

Fastidious in eating

Dislike to salted or hot food

Loss of appetite, with thirst

Aversion to food and drinks

Loathing of food

Irregular appetite, which ceases after the first mouthful

Slight thirst during a meal, while the cough continues

Urgent thirst for cold sugared water

Eructations, Hiccough, Nausea, and Vomiting. Incessant eructations, evening and morning

Eructations tasting sour, bitter, or nauseous

Eructations tasting like spoiled eggs for three or four hours, after eating fresh bread and pastry

Sugar-water and milk cause eructations and nausea

Fetid risings

Risings during the day, with some acidity

Regurgitation and heartburn after every meal

Hiccough

Frequent hiccough

Phlegm, followed, especially in the morning, by bitter, bilious vomiting

Abundant phlegm, which rises, especially in the afternoon, and seems to afford relief

Nausea for five minutes, half an hour, or an hour after a meal, three or four times, on different days

Nausea, with weight and pressure in the epigastric region

Nausea, with feeling of intoxication, especially morning and evening

Horrible loathing

Incessant inclination to vomit

Violent vomiting

Yellow, green, or blood-streaked vomiting

Brownish vomiting, and sometimes of bright blood

Vomiting almost immediately after eating

Vomiting after a meal, especially in the afternoon

Vomiting, with urging to stool

After drinking, vomiting of what has been eaten, followed by two other bitter and acid vomitings, during the headache

Vomiting of food, bile, and mucus, with bloody taste in the mouth, and tensive and crampy pains in the stomach and abdomen

Stomach in, General. Difficult digestion, especially of the morning meal

Feeling of weakness and faintness in the stomach

Sensation of emptiness in the stomach ; also of heat and cold alternately

Burning in the stomach, especially after eating

Burning, crampy, and pinching pains in the stomach

Heat and drawing in the stomach, extending to the back, with scraping in the epigastric region

Fulness, heaviness, and distension of the stomach

Cramps in the stomach

Cramps in the stomach arresting digestion

Cramps in the stomach from the least movement

Pretty severe and prolonged cramp in the stomach, for a quarter of an hour after breakfast

Stomachache, with burning and lancinating pains extending to the liver and heart

Drawing in the stomach, as if from hunger, but without appetite, with very strong beating of the heart, shortly followed by headache

Lancinations, contraction, and shocks in the stomach

Great sensitiveness of the epigastric region

Scraping and excoriating pains in the stomach, with a feeling as if stones were being forced through the cardia

Formication and gnawing sensation in the stomach

Wine aggravates the stomachache, and causes vomiting

Abdomen p. 308

Burning and contraction in the hepatic region

Cramps in the liver, which force him to writhe and to cry out

Digging and gnawing sensation, with neuralgic pains at the liver and stomach, especially at night

Throbbing pains, with sensation of swelling and tearing at the liver

Beating and lancinating pains in the liver, as from an abscess, and accompanied with bilious vomiting

Every movement of the body aggravates the pains in the liver

Inflammation and swelling of the spleen, with pressive and lancinating pains, ineffectual urging to stool, constipation, and disposition to be frightened

Inflammation of the bowels, with distensive pains, inflated abdomen, colic, and diarrhoea

Enlarged and hard abdomen

Inflation of the abdomen, with heat and lancinations, especially on the left side

Encysted tumors of the mesentery

Flatulence

Fetid flatulence

Flatulence and eructations for ten days, especially after a meal

Copious emission of flatulence in the morning, preceded by borborygmi, with empty feeling in the stomach

Sensations as if cold balls were running all through the intestinal canal

Burning in the bowels, as from an eruption

Tensive pains, with extreme weariness at the abdomen, extending into the hypochondria

Daily pain in the abdomen, on the fortieth day after taking the medicine, after the ulcers on the finger aud tibia had healed, especially in the morning and after drinking milk, and also from smoking tobacco; it was not very violent, but a very troublesome, digging-cutting pain (so that he thought of being poisoned )

Cramps in the bowels, which seem twisted and knotted up

Colic in the daytime, four or five hours after a meal, with borborygmi, at various intervals and lasting several hours

Violent colic, with convulsive movements of the limbs and jaws

Lancinating colic, so violent as nearly to cause fainting, with burning thirst, cold sweat in the hair, followed by four stools, increasingly liquid

Colic, with tearing sensation in the bowels, borborygmi and flatulence, which often rises from the bowels into the stomach

Pressive pains in the abdomen

Great heaviness of the abdomen, with sensation as if the bowels were pressed and crushed

Great sensitiveness of the abdomen ; the least pressure causes severe stitches

Accumulation of serum, like ascites, in the hypogastric region

Dull colic in the lower abdomen

Inflammation and swelling of the inguinal glands

Swelling of the inguinal glands

Enormous scrofulous buboes on the groins

Rectum and Anus p. 309

Prolapsus recti, even between stools

Erysipelatous swelling of the anus

Blind haemorrhoids, with great pain

Haemorrhoids, with discharge of blood, and sometimes of purulent matter

Frequent protrusion of very painful hemorrhoidal knobs

Reappearance of haemorrhoids, with loss of clear red blood and a feeling of comfort, in the case of a female disposed to piles

In consequence of straining at stool there escapes from the hemorrhoidal tumor a jet of blood, the quantity of which may perhaps be estimated at 150 grammes ; after this trifling haemorrhage sense of fatigue

Itching and burning at the anus

Stool p. 309

Stool every two days

Frequent urging to stool tor three or four days, but resulting in only one very scanty evacuation daily. To this state succeeds, for three or four days, four daily stools, accompanied with colic and flatulence

Five stools in one day

Several daily stools

Two stools in the day, which are yellowish, soft, but consistent

Stools at night, towards two or three oclock, a.m.,1.

Diarrhoea, often accompanied with inclination to vomit

Watery diarrhoea, with copious urination and canine hunger

Dysentery

Diarrhoeic stools, with tenesmus and heaviness

Diarrhoeic stools, sometimes involuntary, with burning in the abdomen, and especially in the rectum

Whitish stools, as in icterus

Yellowish, liquid stools

Yellow diarrhoeic stools mixed with dark substances

Brown stools, of a very bad smell

Bloody diarrhoeic stools, sometimes followed by very liquid whitish stools

Hard, difficult stools

Stool sometimes hard, sometimes soft, sometimes both together

Thin stools

Semi-liquid stools after a meal, for three days; one or two daily, morning and evening, without colic; followed three or four days after by an obstinate hemorrhoidal tumor, the size of a filbert, and situated outside the margin of the anus; the appearance of this tumor is preceded by smarting, three or four days before

Lumbrici in the child's stools

Ascarides and lumbrici

Constipation ; frequent ineffectual urging to stool

Suppression of stools; the whole body is cold, while the head is burning hot

Urinary Organs p. 310

Sensation as if the neck of the bladder were obstructed by polypi

The bladder feels swollen, with constant desire to urinate

Soft concretions in the kidneys and bladder

Nephritic colic

After every urination, painful stitches in the kidneys and bladder; weakness and depression

Pulsative and lancinating pains in the kidneys, often with hematuria

Ulcers in the urethra

Profuse discharge of yellow and gray mucus from the urethra, with painful weariness and weakness in all the lower portion of the body

Cutting pains, as from a knife, all along the urethra, with inclination to apply the hand there

Great smarting in the urethra, especially after urinating

Too frequent urination

Urine frequent and copious, of a normal color

Clear urine with liquid stools

Whitish urine, with chalky sediment

Red urine

Urine brown, smelling strong, like fish-brine

Urine full of glairy mucus

Scanty urine, of a yellow-ochre color, with yellowish sediment, coincident with some pains in the loins; after the pains in the loins, the urine is clearer and very abundant; micturition four times in a night

Urine scanty, thick, yellowish, depositing a sediment, and diffusing a strong ammoniacal smell, during constipation

Turbid and grayish urine

Suppression of urine

Sexual Organs p. 310

Male. He applies the hands to the genital parts

The least motion aggravates the pains in the genitals

Penis swollen, red, and burning

Hardly any erection

Obstinate impotence

Impotence all night, in the case of a man thirty-two years old

Burning pains in the prepuce

Pimples of a tuberculous appearance at the scrotum

Inflammation of the testicles, with sensation as if a tumor were forming there

Atrophy or hypertrophy of the testicles

Pains in the testicles, as if they were pulled and twisted, and sometimes as if they would return into the abdomen

Increased venereal appetite

He seeks solitude that he may abandon himself to onanism

Complete absence of venereal desire

Aversion to coition

Speedy ejaculation Without pleasure, sometimes with spasms and painful weakness of the extremities

The ejaculation is tardy, or altogether wanting

Frequent nocturnal emissions followed by debility

Involuntary discharge of semen

Female. Hard tumor and polypi of the uterus

Ulcers and fissures at the os uteri

Inflammatory swelling of the womb

Metrorrhagia

Liability to abortion

Difficult, painful and tedious parturition

Sensation as if something rose from the uterus to the stomach, with nervous agitation and spasms

Distensive and burning, or crampy, digging, or gnawing pains in the womb

Griping and contraction of the uterus, like labor-pains

Severe stitches, like stabs, in the uterus

The uterine pains are aggravated in the morning, by walking, and by too long sitting

Hydatids of the ovaries

Swelling and great sensitiveness of the ovarian region

Sensation of burning heat, and of stitches, in the ovaries

Violent cramps in the ovarian region, extending into the groins

Itching of the vulva, causing frequent pollutions

Leucorrhcea, without smell, with no itching, and clear as water

Purulent and very offensive leucorrhcea

Leucorrhcea, especially in the evening, with colic, burning in the hypogastrium, torticollis, and general cramps.12.

Before and after the menses, yellow, thick, or whitish leucorrhcea ; leucorrhcea like cream, or the washings of meat

Discharge of blood between the menses

Before menstruation, headache, nausea, colic, itching, and burning in the uterus and vagina

Menses too early and too profuse

The menses are only three days too early, in the case of a woman who generally has them eight, ten, and even twelve days too early

The menses are six days too early

The menses, which usually anticipate the regular period by four days, are now eight days too soon

Menses accompanied with headache, during two days, but the pain shifts about a good deal

During menstruation, contractions in the hypochondria, pains in the liver, palpitation, chilliness all over, especially in the legs, strong venereal desire, stitches in the splenic region, painful weariness, weakness, and general malaise

After the menses, heaviness and bad temper

Menses of clotted, or very fluid and pale blood

Respiratory Organs p. 311

Membranous productions in the larynx

Ulcers and tubercles in the larynx

A great quantity of mucus obstructs the larynx and bronchi

Burning sensation, and bleeding fissures in the larynx, with severe, jerking, and suffocative cough

Sensation of contraction in the windpipe, and of heaviness in the chest

Sense of compression of the larynx, with great difficulty in breathing

After having cold feet, prickings in the larynx exciting a cough all day, and especially in the evening ; the cough continues all night

Throbbing, lancinating, and excoriative pains in the larynx

Obstinate hoarseness

Severe cough, excited by a constant tickling in the larynx

Cough caused by a pricking in the larynx, only at night, and for several nights running, towards 1, or 3, or 4 oclock, a.m.,1.

Cough excited by a stinging in the larynx, following coryza

Thick cough, especially on waking, in the morning and in the evening, with cold sensation, followed by great heat, and congestion to the chest

Cough after meals or from any emotion

Motion increases the frequency of the cough, although it is equally troublesome during rest

Violent cough, provoking vomiting

Hoarse cough, with tearing sensation in the chest

Deep, hollow cough, with lancinating and bruised pains, especially in the left side of the chest

Dry, hacking cough, seemingly ameliorated by more frequent alvine evacuations

Dry cough, with burning in the larynx and chest

Cough, with expectoration of mucus and blood, or of blood only

The cough occurs in the daytime, before a meal and in the room ; it ceases during the night

Clear, viscid expectoration, often without cough

Copious expectoration, frothy, whitish, yellow, grayish, or greenish, and purulent

Whistling respiration

Whistling, difficult, rattling respiration

The lungs seem always in want of air

Attacks of paralysis of the lungs, and of suffocation

Gradually increasing difficulty in breathing

Difficult and noisy breathing

Suffocation at night, towards 3 a.m., with restlessness in all the limbs, trembling of the hands, legs, and head ; it seems as if everything, even in the head, were unsteady

The patient cannot catch breath, and pants like a dog after too much running

Dyspnoea, with inability to remain lying down; he is obliged to sit bent forward in order to breathe

Chest p. 312

Inflammation and swelling of the breasts

Engorgement of the breasts

Small knotty indurations and tumors, like scirrhus, on the breasts

Large abscess forming sinuses in the breasts

Milk vitiated, and often mixed with blood

Sensation as if the breasts were drawn towards the abdomen

Boring, lancinating, digging, crampy, pinching, and gnawing pains, in the mammary and axillary glands

Granulations and tubercles in the lungs

Inflammation and swelling of the lungs, especially on the left side, with severe, tiresome cough

Weakness of the chest, with feeling as if it would collapse

Feeling of rumbling and of numbness, beginning at the cardiac region and extending through the chest

Oppression of the chest

Oppression in the afternoon, two days running ; the chest and heart feel tightly compressed

Oppression and loss of breath when going upstairs

Oppression of the chest, with palpitation, especially when walking rather fast, or in going upstairs

Burning heat in the chest, as if there were a furnace in it

Pressive pain in the chest, in a small spot, now here, now there, when walking (after five hours)

Cutting pains in the whole chest, accompanied by tickling and pricking

Painful stitches in the chest, which check respiration

Violent, sharp, short stitches, which impede respiration, as if piercing the deep pectoral muscles and the mammary gland, mostly on the right breast, several times a day at different times, lasting ten days (after twelve days)

Violent itching, which seems to come from the lungs, and often shifting about in the chest

Feeling as if there were two swellings at the upper part of the sternum, appearing to grow larger when in bed, impeding the respiration, and causing pain in swallowing anything, even saliva

Smarting in the upper third of the sternum

Heart and Pulse p. 312

The heart-beats are sometimes quick, sometimes slow, intermittent, or irregular

Palpitation of the heart, at intervals

Palpitation of the heart, sounding in the ears like drum-beats

Palpitation of the heart after a meal, with interval during which the person feels as if going to be ill

Four days after getting chilled, pain at the heart every two hours of the day ; straining to vomit; cough with expectoration, tinged with clear red blood; about 8 oclock the next morning, the cough, the red expectoration, and the pain at the heart return ; towards the fifth day, the sensation of having two swellings ceases, but the cough and hoarseness remain

Feeling as if the heart was very large, and plunged in a vessel of water

Lancinating and pulling in the region of the heart, as if it were being distended

Pains as if pins were thrust into the apex of the heart

Sensation of scraping and weight in the heart

Trembling feeling at the heart

Shocks and digging at the cardiac region, with great oppression, especially in the evening, after meals, and from movement

He has to press upon the cardiac region, to allay the pains

Hard, frequent, irregular pulse, much quicker and more agitated evenings than mornings

Neck and Back p. 312

On waking, stiff neck, arthritic pains, and aggravation of all the pains

The pains in the head affect the nape of the neck, which feels as if compressed

Boring pains, with painful weariness in the loins ; he has to lie on the back for relief

Pains in the loins so violent that they prevent breathing; they very nearly cause fainting ; a red- Lot iron seems to pierce the loins ; the violence of the pains renders the least movement impossible ; this symptom appears in the morning, two days running ; the first time it lasts five or six minutes, and two or three minutes the second day ; the following day, dull pains in the loins, as from a strain in the back, preventing him from straightening himself, or stooping down ; during the pains in the loins, the urine is scanty, of the color of yellowochre, thick, with a yellowish sediment; the pains in the loins last five or six days

Pains in the loins, lasting six or seven days, followed by a very violent trembling of both legs at once, in the morning, and giving way of the legs, from weakness, for two days together

Distensive pains, with sensation of swelling and discomfort in the loins

Extremities in General p. 313

Trembling of the limbs

In the case of a child the legs are drawn up so as to touch the buttocks

Limbs easy to move

Numbness and deadness of the limbs on waking in the morning

Pinching-digging pains, drawing about as if in the periosteum, not continuing long, and always affecting the middle of the long bones (after five days), lasting twelve days

Contractions and very painful cramps, from the extremities of the limbs to the trunk

Contractions in right arm and leg

Cramps and startings in the limbs

Lancinating, digging, and tensive pains with great weariness in the limbs

Upper Extremities p. 313

Inflammatory tumors on the arms

The upper extremities go to sleep when lightly lying upon them ; after a few days also the lower extremities, lasting fourteen days

Heaviness of the arms, with great difficulty in moving them

Painful weariness of the arms, with violent pain in trying to move them

Paralytic weakness of the arms and hands

Burning, lancinating pains in the bones of the arms

After the poison has touched the right hand sharp burning and swelling of the arm, which is colored yellow on a black ground

Bruised pains in the arms, legs, and loins, especially during movement

Bruised and crushing pains in the arms, especially the joints

Digging, pinching, pressive pain in the right arm, which is seated in the deltoid muscle, on the slightest attempt to raise the arm, though by no other motion of the arm, and not when taking hold of it or during rest, lasting fourteen days (after fifth day)

Digging, throbbing, periodic pain on the inner surface of the right ulna, lasting five days (after second day)

Drawing pains in the arms, especially in the evening, at night, and on waking in the morning

The lightest covering on the arm annoys and feels uncomfortable

Pulsative and lancinating pains, with erysipelatous swelling of the arms and hands

Digging pains in the elbow-joint

Swelling of the wrist and of the finger-joints, with burning pains and strong pulsation in these parts

Hands and fingers often numb and stiff, with disposition to become crooked

Panaritium, attacking even the bones of the fingers

An insignificant bruise of the right little finger, which he got fourteen days after taking the medicine, became on the third day very painful and suppurated ; a few days afterwards the finger became again inflamed, caused tearing-drawing pain along the whole arm and redness of the finger along the lymphatics extending to the axilla, in which small granular swellings appeared and were painful, especially to motion and touch ; in thirty-six hours the inflamed lymphatics become swollen as if they had been injected ; the lymphatic glands in the axilla become hard and painful and swollen as large as beans; the arm was heavy and painful, and had to be carried in a sling; a few olfactions of Hepar sulph. 1st, relieved the lymphatic swelling in one night, and the corrosive pain in the ulcer in the little finger and the ulcer under the nail of the thumb within twenty-four hours

Superficial, slightly developed, hot, bluish-red swelling, painful to touch, on the lower border of the left thumb-nail ; afterwards it suppurates, with throbbing-digging pain ; the suppuration involves half of the nail; the pain afterwards becomes gnawing ; the skin scales off several times ; the throbbing-digging pain of this ulcer extends into the joint of the index finger and metacarpal bones of the left hand (after second day), lasting several weeks

Lower Extremities p. 314

Feeling as if a peg were driven into the joints of the hips, knees, and feet, and prevented them from moving

Staggering gait, more like jumping than walking

Great weakness of the legs, so that on rising up they give way under the weight of the body

Lancinating pains, with painful weariness in the hips and legs, especially when walking or changing position

Aching weariness of the thighs when walking

Cord-like swelling, as in phlegmasia alba dolens, from the groins to the popliteal region

Tophus on the knees and feet

Swelling of the knees, with pulsative and distensive pains

Burning and dryness in the knee-pan

Pains of dislocation in the knees and feet

Lancinations in the knees, especially when walking

Bruised pain in the knees; helms to squat down

Inflammation, swelling, and great brittleness of the leg-bones

Gouty swelling of the legs

Swelling of the legs, especially in the evening and after walking

Deep-red swellings, like bruises, on the legs

Varicose swellings in the legs

Trembling of the legs

Uneasiness and irritation in the legs; he has to move them constantly ; he knows not what to do with them, nor what position to take for relief

Heaviness of the legs, with sensation of pulling in the joints

The legs easily get numb

Feeling of stiffness in the right leg that begins above the right knee, where it is most marked (ten minutes)

Weakness of the legs, even to falling, for more than eight hours

Violent cramps in the legs, which draw up with a start, towards 4 or 5 A.M.,1.

Cramps in the legs and toes, especially on stretching them out in bed at night

Aching in the middle of the right tibia as from a blow, when standing, lasting all day (after one hour)

The weakness is accompanied with a crampy pain in the calf, which is worse when moving and ceases when at rest

Arthritic swelling of the feet

The feet are apt to turn in walking, and the ankles to be sprained

The feet, which were constantly cold, become burning hot

Burning, lancinating, and pulsative pains in the feet, with constant sensation as if the shoes were too tight

Digging pain in the ungual phalanges of the three last toes and on the inner malleolus, with corrosive itching on the inner border of the right foot (after second day)

Generalities p. 314

Inflammations and sanguineous congestions, especially of the chest, throat, and head

Swelling of the whole body

Obesity

Progressive emaciation, even to consumption and death

Constant emaciation, with good appetite

Emaciated body, with bloated abdomen

Swelling and induration of the glands

Swelling, ulceration, and curvature of the bones

Malignant tumors of an erysipelatous character

Arthritic nodes

Nervous attacks, with laughing and weeping together

Pandiculations

Jactitation of tendons

* Convulsions

Epileptic convulsions in the evening, at night, and sometimes in the morning, as well as at the period of the new moon

Attacks of tetanus

Great sensitiveness to cold air and to wind

He has every moment to change his position

Fits of muscular exaltation, in which he has to move the arms about forcibly

Restlessness all over, with great physical and moral agitation

He cannot keep still, is constantly restless, although movement aggravates the pains

Desire to move about and take gymnastic exercise in the evening

Uneasiness and weakness, especially mornings, with inability to move about

Languor, laziness, no desire for any occupation ; if he does anything it is only mechanically

On waking great lassitude and drowsiness, as if he had not slept

With the headache general feeling of fatigue, nausea, and cold feet

Great fatigue and profuse sweat after the least exertion

General weakness, often accompanied by palpitation and vertigo

Great weakness, with sensation as if the bones would give way under their own weight

In the midst of a meal, sense of general debility, kind of total prostration, with inability to speak or move, dimness of sight, and distress at the region of the heart; this attack lasts five minutes, and passes off without leaving any traces

Gradual failure of strength

Sinks back in an arm-chair motionless, but without loss of consciousness

Faint feeling every now and then ; the head feels the reaction from it; it passes off like an effect of intoxication

Faint feeling, as from hunger, in the morning and during the day, before a meal

Syncope

Fainting fits, especially after meals, and in the evening

Faintness after breakfast

Pains sometimes on the right side, sometimes on the left, but rarely on both sides at once

Frequent cramps, doubly painful in the cold air, in the evening, and in the morning

On going to bed he is attacked with cramps, formication in all the limbs, and with neuralgic pains, especially of the head, which cause anguish and prevent sleep

Frequent dislocated pains

Pains of dislocation, especially in the wrists

Sensation as if bitten in various parts of the body.,12.

Pulsative pains in the joints

Disposition to lie on the left side ; feels better so than when on the right side

Shin, Swelling and redness of the whole body, as in general erysipelas

Skin bloated and tense, or loose and flabby

The whole surface becomes pale and swollen, as in dropsy

The patient becomes yellow

The skin takes on a deep yellow tinge

Skin of a yellow tinge, as in jaundice

Skin greenish, and always looking dirty or oily

Skin moist, or dry and stiff as parchment, and affected by every change of temperature

Every slight injury, even the prick of a pin, suppurates, with corrosive pain

Very unhealthy skin, excoriating and chapping easily

The skin of the face tans quickly, and is easily excoriated and torn

Scabs and cracks in the face

Chaps and fissures on the hands

Excoriation between the buttocks and the thighs

Eruption h, Dry. Acne rosacea

Miliary eruptions and urticaria

Very smarting miliary eruption on the penis, pubis, and scrotum

Burning eruption like nettle-rash on the hands

A large quantity of scales on the face, which are constantly renewed, with intolerable itching

Furfuraceous herpes, with great itching of the legs and thighs

Eruption of little pimples on the skin, after contact with the saliva or urine of the toad

Pimples like small furuncles

Small, white pimples, lasting only for a day

Bed and very painful pimples on the forehead

An erysipelatous attack, in a woman 'subject to the complaint for many years, was on the point of breaking out, when it was cut short immediately by a few closes of the remedy ; subsequently, two pimples appeared on the right temple, on the side most frequently attacked by erysipelas; these pimples, the size of a small lentil, ended in a rounded head ; the whole temporal region in the middle of which they were situated was red and swollen. This redness disappears on pressure with the finger, but returns again immediately; at the same time it is always painfully sensitive to cold, and the sensation it causes is identical with that which marks the onset of erysipelas ; this eruption lasts seven days ; it is accompanied at its first appearance, for two nights successively, by difficult and broken sleep; afterwards return of the pimples on the temples, with sensation when they first break out, as if the skin were pinched

Subcutaneous pimples on the cheeks

After a coryza, small herpetic pimples on the upper lip

Pimples like smallpox on the glans

Warts, mostly on the backs of the hands

JUt'Kjt- Honsf Moist and Pustular. Erysipelatous eruption on different parts

Phlegmonous erysipelas of the face

Phlegmonous erysipelas, which leaves the face disfigured

Erysipelas of the legs

Herpes, furfuraceous, moist, crusty, and yellowish

Acute herpes of the face

Herpetic eruptions, burning, and sanious oozing of the vulva,1-.

A small vesicle, surrounded by an erythematous blush, appears near the left wrist ; this small vesicle excites a burning itching. It discharges a little serum, and is then succeeded by a small abscess like a boil, with fever and lancinating pain of the forearm, and of the corresponding upper arm, extending to the axilla

A corrosive vesicle on the inner surface of the first phalanx of the right index finger, very painful (after seven days) ; it lasts ten days, when the skin in this place scales off',15.

A small vesicle caused corrosive pain in the middle of the right tibia, with a red areola, and after a few days a whitish-gray, thick, fatty scurf formed, which from new exudations enlarged until it reached the size of a quarter of a dollar, and was surrounded with a broad red areola ; at times on touch, and even without cause, corrosive pains attacked this tetter; the crust dried in about fourteen days and desquamated, leaving a reddish-brown spot with shiny scaling skin (twenty-sixth day)

Large blisters in palms of hands and soles of feet, three inches in circumference, yellow ; the fluid was yellow and excoriating; this was repeated in several places

Very painful blisters and corns on the feet

Phlyctena? and pemphigus

Phlyctenoid eruption ; thick and sanious scabs on the scalp

Phlyctenae on the lips

The whole body is covered with pustules like those of a bad case of scabies

Eruptions like the itch, lichen, and prurigo

Boils and abscesses

Eruption like small boils on the cheeks and neck

The skin-symptoms are aggravated in the evening and at night

Sensations. Sensation of tension and of shuddering in the skin

The skin feels as if stretched to bursting

Formication and torpor on different parts of the body

Tickling on the skin, as from insects, or drawing a feather over it

Great sensitiveness of the skin and bones of the face

Intolerable itching, which ends in smarting, all over the body, and is aggravated on going into the open air

The itching is relieved by the friction of the body-linen; it is followed by smarting, especially when it has been thus allayed

Violent itching in the afternoon, towards 4 or 5 oclock, in the whole outer surface of the thighs and legs, for eight successive days, always at the same hour

Great itching of the cheeks

Intolerable itching at the nape of the neck

Corrosive itching on the left leg and knee-cap, which compels rubbing, lasting several days (after second day)

Sleep and Dreams p. 316

Fits of drowsiness coming on after eating, and in the open air

Drowsiness, with agitation and sleeplessness ; he is constantly turning in bed

Great sleepiness, especially in the morning, after breakfast, or after being in the open air

Invincible drowsiness after a meal

Very heavy sleep, with congestion to the head

Sleep tardy, or too prolonged in the morning, with dreams, nightmare, and great fatigue on waking

Insufficient sleep; he awakes too early

Wakes too earl}7, 3 or 4 oclock A.M.,1.

Wakes up every few moments

Wakes up sad, or very joyful

Sleep with talking, cries and groans ; he awakes sobbing

Restless sleep, with starting awake, fright, palpitation, etc.,12.

Sleeplessness in the evening and at night

Sense of fatigue during sleep, and of numbness in every limb, obliging him to change his position frequently

Many dreams, fantastic, and generally frightful

Dreams of travel, of projects, and of greatness

Fever p. 317

He desires warmth ; is always cold, especially in the limbs

Obstinate coldness in bed at night

Shivering all over after stool, aggravated in the evening

Coldness, shiverings, trembling, and vertigo, especially on going into the fresh air

Coldness and shivering, with moisture of the skin, nervous excitability, and trembling

Chilly sensation in the calves, which precedes a cramplike pain in that part

Chilliness and numbness of the feet

Alternations of heat and cold rising like waves from the lower part of the body

Heat and burning all over, accompanied by passing shiverings

General sensation of heat and turgescence, followed by contraction and icy coldness of the whole system

Fever with shivering, increase of muscular strength, and delirium, especially in the evening

Feverish heat all over, excepting the feet, which remain constantly cold, day and night, during four days

Calor mordax, with embarrassed head, burning of the neck, throat, and chest; agitated pulse, great thirst

The heat of the fire is distressing to him

Fever is developed, the extremities become burning hot

Quotidian evening fever, with great depression

Tertian fever, with general painful weariness, great hunger, and urgent thirst

Quartan fever, with intense heat and violent delirium

Heat which rises into the face

Great heat, contraction, and digging in the loins

Burning heat of the hands for three weeks

Sensation as if the legs and feet were held over a pan of burning charcoal

Burning hot feet

The skin is burning, red, and crimpled in different places

Aggravation of the fever in the evening, at night, and sometimes in the morning

The body is almost always moist with perspiration

Cold sweats

Sweat in the morning, in bed

In bed, on waking up in the morning, general moisture

Excessive perspiration during sleep, especially towards morning

Debilitating, sour-smelling p -spiration, especially in the morning, in bed

Nightsweats, especially on the head, chest, and back

Copious sweat after the slightest exertion

Copious sweat, with weakness, and often with morbid hunger

Frequent perspiration of the hands

Sweat mostly on the hams

Conditions p. 317

Aggravation.

(Morning), On waking, ill-humor ; dizziness, etc.; after a meal, dizziness; on waking, at 3 a.m., headache; coryza; bad-smelling breath; insipid taste of food; nauseous, etc., taste ; dryness of the throat; after breakfast, feels hungry; vomiting; emission of flatulence; pain in abdomen ; pains in uterus; towards 1, 3, or 4 a.m., cough; on waking, cough; on waking, stiff neck, etc.; pains in loins; on waking, numbness, etc., of limbs; after breakfast, sleepiness ; in bed, sweat; in bed, on waking, general moisture ; in bed, perspiration.

(Afternoon), Alter breakfast, headache; rising of phlegm ; after a meal, vomiting; oppression; towards 4 or 5 oclock, itching.

(Evening), Towards 5 oclock, headache; towards 4 or 5 oclock, soreness in forehead, etc. ; semilateral headache, etc.; sweats on the head ; on going to bed, sneezing ; mucus from nose ; toothache ; hunger ; leucorrhcea ; cough ; shocks, etc., at cardiac region ; pulse quicker; swelling of the legs; fainting fits; skin symptoms; after stool, shivering ; fever, etc.

(Night), When going to sleep, ill-humor; headache; toothache; digging, etc., in liver, etc.; pains in arms; skin symptoms.

(Towards morning), During sleep, perspiration.

(Open air), Mucus from nose ; itching; fits of drowsiness ; sleepiness.

(When ascending stairs), Oppression, etc.

( On going to bed), Cramps in legs, etc.

(After breakfast), Faintness.

(Cold air), The pains; pains in teeth; coldness, etc.

(Cold liquids), Mouth symptoms.

(Dampness), Most symptoms.

(After eating), As if intoxicated ; almost immediately, vomiting ; turning in the stomach; fits of drowsiness.

(After exertion), Sweat.

(Hearty food), Most symptoms.

(Great heat), Most symptoms.

(Strong liquors), Most symptoms.

(Lying on back), AH the pains.

(Before a meal), Cough.

(After a meal), Regurgitation, etc.; nausea; flatulence, etc.; semi-liquid stools; cough; palpitation, etc.; fainting fits; drowsiness.

(Meat), Most symptoms.

(Before menstruation), Headache, etc.

(Daring menstruation), Contraction in hypochondria, etc.

(After menstruation), Heaviness, etc.

(Drinking milk), Pain in abdomen.

(Movement), Head symptoms; headache ; toothache ; cramps in stomach ; pains of liver ; cough more frequent ; pain in calf.

( Odors), Most symptoms ; ( On changing position), Pains in hips, etc.

(On slightest attempt to raise arm), Pain in deltoid muscle.

(In room), Cough.

(Sitting), During work, headache ; pains in uterus.

(Smoking tobacco), Nausea, etc.; pains in abdomen.

(Drinking spirits), Headache.

( When standing), Aching in right tibia.

(Change of temperature), Toothache.

( Walking), Pain in temple ; pains in uterus ; pain in chest ; pains in hips, etc. ; rawness of thighs; lancinations in knees; swelling of cheeks; the pains.

(Walking fast), Oppression, etc.

(Contact of water), Ear symptoms.

(Windy weather), Heat.

(Wine), Stomachache.

(Working in water), Most symptoms.

Amelioration p. 318

(Morning), In bed, after a sweat, coryza ceases.

(Night), Headache ; cough ceases; on stretching out in bed, cramps in legs ; in bed, coldness.

(Keeping bent over on one side), The pains.

(Epistaxis), Headache.

(Friction of body-linen), Itching.

(Lying down), Headache.

(Lying on left side), Feels better.

(Lying on back), Pains, etc., in loins.

(Pressing on submaxillary gland), Pains in ear.