Fluoricum Acidum

Hydrofluoric acid, HF.

Preparation, Dilute with water and potentize in silver vials to the fifth centesimal (Hering), (gutta-percha vials are now generally used).

Authorities. (1 to 17 from Hering’s resume, Nenes Archiv. f. Horn., 2,1, 100, and Trans, of Am. Inst, of Horn., 1846), 1, C. Hg, from a man, aged 40, effects of fumes of the acid or inhalations of the potencies; a, from a teaspoonful of the 3d dil. (from silver); b, from the 6th ; c, from the 30th ; 2, Dr. J. Jeans, provings with 1st to 5th dils.; 3, Dr. W. Williamson, provings with 1st to 5th dils.; 4, same, from another prover ; 5, Dr. Neidhard, provings, as last; 6, same, from another prover; 7, Behlert, a girl, effects of 30th ; 8, Campos, 30th dil. on self and four healthy men (repeated doses); 9, Freitag, 30th dil., repeated on third, seventh, ninth, and seventeenth days; on thirty-second day took 6th dil., repeated on forty-third and fortyseventh days; 10, Geist, 30th dil., repeated doses; 11, Gosewitch, 30th dil., a; 12, same, 6; 13, Husemann, 30th dil.; 14, Lippe, 30th dil.; 15, Person, 30th, daily for five days every morning; 16, Reiner, effects of diluted acid (4’gth, yjjth, ith) ; 17, Thenar, general statement of effects ; 18, Ruber, Austrian IMed. lear-Book, 1832 (Frank’s mag., 1, 653), a workman exposed his naked hand to the fumes for a minute; 19, King, suicide of a plumber by half an ounce of the acid, Trans. Poth. Sac., vol. 24, p. 98, 18/3 ; 20, Berridge, Med. Invest., N. S., 3, p. 284, took one dose of 2000th (Jen.).

Mind p. 333

Emotional, Great disposition, wdien alone, to repulsive fantastic imaginations, particularly in regard to persons with whom he stands in near relations, or with whom he is connected ; it seems, for example, as though he must get rid of all the servants, children must go out of the house, a betrothal must be broken off, a marriage should be dissolved, etc.

Aversion to his business

Pie is more cheerful and vigorous (after eight and following da3's)

Uncommonly gay disposition of the mind, the next morning

Feeling of perfect happiness within and without (after eight hours)

Feeling of an interior happy state, never experienced before, next morning after the remedy

Feeling of highly enjoying everything (after twelve hours)

All nature seems to smile, in the morning (after sixteen hours)

Satisfaction, he desires no better state of things; all is right (after ten hours)

Disposition to anxious ideas, frequently to such a degree that a perspiration breaks out (second day)

He does not become anxious so easily as formerly

During the tottering sensation he has a decided though not anxious expectation, as if there was to happen something awful, but he feels no anxiety

Sensation as if dangers did menace him, but without being afraid; particularly during the pressure in the occiput, during the staggering, the pain in the bladder, etc.

Ill-humor, lasting about twelve hours (after eighteen hours)

During the fourth week very irritable tow^ards people, even to the greatest hatred, which he does not hesitate to give vent to in words, but as soon as he sees them everything is forgotten, and he has an entirely different opinion of them. This does not arise either from hypocrisy or cowardice, but it is a suddenly altered view; mentally the same feeling which occurred to him physically during coryza (see S. 139)

Whilst considering what might happen he gets into a most ungovernable anger, but only in his thoughts; several times during the first days

Easily displeased for half a day (after fourteen hours)

In the evening he is very discontented; he looks at everything in the worst light; in the morning after a restless night, his temper is very cheerful and joyous

He remembers his experimentation only with horror and aversion, particularly the sensitiveness of the region of the stomach to pressure (after several weeks), in one wFo has made numerous provings

The least trifle is with him sufficient to show a bad temper in his features and motion-s, in ten hours; disappears during the next twelve hours

Indifferent, taking no interest in a very sick patient

Intellectual. He has great difficulty in fixing his attention upon anything

A more difficult comprehension of philosophical works ; on the other hand all facts appear clearer to him

* On making his notes he mistakes right and left, a circumstance that does not easily happen to him (second day)

Every morning a peculiar rush of memory, so that a number of symptoms come to him which he had had the day before during the whirl of practice

Though his memory (for symptoms, etc.) is good, yet he daily writes December instead of August (second week)

Forgetful; he does not recollect sometimes the most common things

He forgets every evening to wind up his watch (second week)

If his ideas are interrupted by other thoughts he is unable to recall the former, or at least only slowly and stupidly

Head p. 334

Confusion and Vertigo. Confusion and pain through the head (after five minutes)

Vertigo and headache (part of S. 251)

When rising from lying, vertigo, which lasted also when walking or sitting; afterwards eructations and slight nausea; in the morning

General Head. Determination of blood to the head, with heat in the forehead, gradually increasing to a headache in os frontis (after a few minutes)

It appeared to him to proceed from the throat to the head ; he felt as if he would be struck by apoplexy; a kind of determination of blood to the head and loss of consciousness could not recollect where he was (after smelling the acid),h

A stunning sensation in the head, mostly in front, immediately

Dulness in the head, in the morning until breakfast (from third to eleventh days)

Dulness of the head in the morning, with slight drawings in the right side of the head (fifth and seventh days)

Dulness of the head, immediately; sensation as if the brain was pressed upward (after four weeks)

Dulness and painful tension in the head towards the right (after several hours),'b

Heaviness of the head, with a dull pain deep in the middle of the forehead (after two hours)

Pain in the head, a sensation as if the head was too heavy and would drop from one side to the other, a pressing outward from within (part of S. 191)

The feeling of heaviness in the head continues in diminished degree until going to bed; he awakes with it in the morning, and it only leaves him at 9 a.m.,®.

Contractive pain, first in the head, then beneath the right scapula

Headache, with nausea and vertigo ® ®.

Pressure in the head from within outward

Pressure in the brain, extending from below upward

Headache from the nape of the neck upwards, a dull pressure; it appears to proceed from the nape of the neck through the centre of the head towards the forehead; it concentrates gradually more towards the left, as if a throbbing would arise there (two hours after fifth dose)

A kind of shaking in the head, particularly in the back part of it, and more towards the right; at first whilst sitting, then particularly on every quick, short movement, on rising, turning, during walking, in the forenoon after 10 oclock (first week)

After breakfast the pains cease, except in the head, on quickly moving it from one position to the other, which continues the whole day (second day)

Forehead. Painful determination of blood to the forehead, like a quick jerk, at the beginning of walking after standing, not after sitting ; in the evening (after three or four hours)

Pain in the forehead and eye towards the right, after lying down in the evening (second day)

Pain in the right frontal protuberance, in the evening (fourth day)

He awakes in the morning with a slight pain in the forehead, which soon passes away (after taking, in the evening)

Pain of short duration in the right side of the forehead, the next forenoon

Dull heavy pain in the forehead

A dull heavy pain in the upper part of the forehead, passing sometimes to the upper part of both temples, but more particularly to the left; this pain is increased on stooping; in the evening (after one hour and a half)

Heat in the forehead, increasing to a headache

Compressing pain in the right frontal protuberance (after fifteen minutes)

Headache in forehead and temples

Headache in the upper part of the forehead and vertex, towards the right (after five minutes)

Headache in the left side of the forehead, in the evening

Pressing pains in the forehead, as if it were in the hone, at the same time also in the parietal bones; on lying down she feels it all over, but it soon passes away ; at noon

Pressing pain in the forehead, on stooping, also pressing on the right eye (third day),'I

Shooting pain in the left side of the forehead

Temples. Pain in the left temple, proceeding from within

Severe pressure in the left temple (after two hours)

On bending the head, as in the act of stooping, a dull quick throbbing pain in the right temple, lasting only for a short time, at 8.30 p.m., soon

Pressure in both temples (a quarter of an hour after fifth dose)

In both temples, pressure from within outward (after one hour)

Pressive pain in the left temple

Headache, pressive, in both temples (after four hours)

Immediately in both temples a severe pressing from within outward, (or half an hour; after that a pinching pain in the left deltoid muscle

Sudden, very transient, pressing pain in the left temple (part of Si 506)

Vertex, Pain, at first like a contraction on top of the head towards the right, and afterwards under the right shoulder-blade (next forenoon)

Parietals. Pain extending from the parietal bone to the right mastoid process

In the forenoon, in the room and open air, a headache, a partial fulness, as if something were lying on the left parietal bone on a spot which he cannot designate very clearly (eighth and ninth days)

Painful tension in the right side of the head

Slight drawing in the right side of the head

A violent pressive pain in the left half of the head in the course of the coronal suture (next morning)

Sharp darting pain from near the posterior superior angle of the right parietal bone to the mastoid process of the right temporal bone; the pain was different from any other; much worse than a prolonged electrical shock or compression of the ulnar nerve (after three days)

Sharp, shooting, undulating pain ; it arises on the left side, about the middle and near the suture interparietalis, and proceeds with the quickness of lightning to the left temple near the exterior part of the orbital cavity; this pain shoots about for two seconds, but the undulation lasts a little longer, and it is only when the undulation is nearly over that the mind takes cognizance of the whole of it; the shooting and painful undulation and the quickness, are of such a nature as to produce immediately in the mind a very disagreeable idea of some impending danger; the undulation may be best compared to that of the streak left on the wall, in darkness, by the friction of a phosphoric match

Occijnit. From the nape of the neck to the occiput, a feeling like a warm breath

Dimness of the occiput on^y, immediately after repeated doses

Dulness towards the right in the occiput (after one hour)

In the morning, shortly after awakening, a cramplike pain in the very lowest part of the occiput towards the left

F. G., aged 25, after taking it thirty evenings, had the next morning cramp deep in the left side of the occiput and in the right arm (it was the new moon), (Hering).

Pressure on both sides of the oceipid beneath the protuberances (after one hour)

Suddenly a severely pressing pain on the leftside of the occiput; disappears as quickly, but soon returns again (after one hour)

Dull pressure in the right side of the occiput

Dull pressure and compression in the occiput, particularly towards the right (part of S. 556)

Extemcil Hedd. She is frequently obliged to comb her hair, otherwise it becomes tangled and difficult to comb (third and following days)

(The hair ceases to fall out)

Desires to scratch the head, without, however, any feeling of itching, for the first time (ninth day), and a very great falling off of the hair. the next morning

Itching on the head, Avhich causes him to scratch (after one hour)

Eyes p. 336

Quivering externally in the right eye, and soon after a burning shooting pain at the bottom of the orbital cavity (after several hours)

The vapor affects the eye very much (Liebig).

The eye remains affected for several days, so that he has to wink and rub it

Pain in the right eye

A pain very deep in the posterior part of the right eye, and extending very far into the upper jaw, the same which he had at one oclock in the left side; between 5 and 6 p.m. (ninth day)

Burning in the eyes (after fifteen minutes)

A pressure upon the right eye, while stooping

Has often an itching in the eyes, which makes him scratch (first week)

Painful itching in the left eye, as if from a grain of sand,k

Jivow H'IhI Orbit, Heaviness above the eyes, with nausea; worse on motion (after two and three hours)

Pain over the right eyebrow, which disappears, but a similar pain appears for a short time in the right small toe (next forenoon)

Pain behind the right eye

Drawing around the right eye, in the evening (after fifteen minutes)

Behind the left eye, towards the temple, in the left nostril and forehead, there is a pain, which seems to be in the bone, as if, very deeply in the interior, something sharppointed was moving about (at 1 p.m., ninth day)

Violent jerking internally behind and above the right eyebrow, in the bone (after one hour)

Deep in the bones, superior and posterior to the left eye, a soreness occasionally (evening, ninth day)

Lids [HO.] ^Sensation as if the eyelids were opened by force and afresh ivied were blowing on them; after that sensation like sand in the eyeball, which had the same feeling as if the eyes were inflamed

Pricking and burning in the internal canthus of eye (second evening)

Quivering above the external canthus of the left eye, in one who never had the like (second day)

Itching in the right internal canthus of the eye, in the evening

’‘‘Violent itching at the left inner canthus of the eye, which causes him to scratch very quickly and forcibly (twelfth day)

LacJivymal Appavatus. Increased lachrymation

Hall. Pressure as it were behind the right eyeball (second hour)

Lupil. Pupils contracted

Vision, Pleasant sensation, as if the eyelids were wider opened, or the eyes more prominent, whereby the circle of the vision becomes more enlarged, the sight clearer, and he feels a kind of luxurious enjoyment while looking at the same things he is used to see every day

During the first hours of the morning inclination to go without glasses, though his short-sightedness was no better ; it was very irksome to bring objects near the eyes (second week)

In the evening, after retiring, a jerking light before the eyes, crossing itself like lightning (third week)

In the evening, after retiring, on closing the eyes, red sparklings cross each other in all possible directions; this gradually ceases, and there remains a red, flaming trembling for a few minutes, which disappears after opening the eyes (second day)

On closing the eyes firmly he observes a large bright ring, which quickly van-hes (in the evening of fifth day)

Ears p. 336

External, A pain, extending from below upward, behind the right ear

Behind the right ear a pain which moves upward in the head ; at the same time in the right heel

Internal. Sensation in the right ear as if there would commence a ringing in the ear, in the forenoon (second day)

Pain in the right ear (fourth day)

(A pain, to which he was frequently subject at the opening of the left Eustachian tube, appears after )ne or two hours, and does not recur again afterwards)

Pressing pain in the right ear

A peculiar pressing and itching deep in the left ear ; disappears after stirring with the finger in the ear (after one hour)

Stitches in the right ear

Jerking behind the left ear

Itching first in the right, afterwards in the left ear

Hearing. The sensitiveness of his hearing is very much increased in the morning (sixth day)

Nose p. 337

Objective. Sneezing, in the afternoon (after four hours)

Violent sneezing seven times, with a discharge of a small quantity of thin mucus from the nose, and collection of saliva in the mouth, with that sensation in the nose which is sometimes caused by very cold weather; in the morning (.second day)

(In a case of chronic obstruction of the nose, with a dull heavy pain in the forehead, where Silex 30th, had been of some service, Fluor, ac. 30th, immediately caused a running from the nose, without any other improvement.) (The same in a case of ulceration)

Early in the morning, on rinsing the mouth with cold water, the nose appears suddenly full ot mucus, as if he had fluent coryza, but as quickly passes over again

Frequent attacks of coryza, suddenly appearing and disappearing ; it seems as if excitement removed the coryza

Sudden attacks of coryza, suddenly appearing and disappearing again ; it seems as if excitement removed the coryza (third to fifth week)

Coryza (eighth day); on the right side and fluent, with crawling before the sneezing (ninth day) ; remains semilateral and fluent (tenth and eleventh days)

If he drinks red wine in the evening he has the next morning, or even the next night during sleep, a fluent coryza, with constant dropping and stoppage of the nose, for several weeks, but not from Rhein wine

After drinking ale in the evening, a sudden fluent coryza the next day, from morning till evening, then suddenly disappearing (fourth week)

The next morning after drinking ale in the evening a sudden tickling fluent coryza, which lasts the whole day but disappears the next morning (third week)

Feeling in the nose as from a severe cold

The nose, which for several months had been neither sore nor painful, began again to be painful, more on the left side (ninth day)

The nose was without pain for several weeks, but suddenly after some emissions it began again to pain in the left side (after five weeks)

The nose, which for many months was free from excoriation or pain, begins again to feel sore, more towards the left (ninth day)

Crawling in the nose

Smell, The odor of the acid is very acrid and penetrating

Face p. 337

It appears to him in the morning as if his countenance had suddenly become old ; he looks in the glass and sees beneath the eyes superficial, whitish, puffy folds, extending towards the nose, etc., without being in the slightest discontented thereat (ninth day)

The facial muscles are constantly in motion

Heat of the face (part of S. 153)

In the evening after an animated conversation, heat in the face and headache, like a pressing and forcing deep interiorly towards the left; appearing at times and subsiding again ; it then passes to the left upper jaw, as if the teeth ached, even on those places where the roots of the teeth had been extracted a year ago, so decided that he was obliged to feel with the finger; together with an inclination to bite together teeth which no longer existed (second day)

Longing to w^ash the face with cold water; frequent and repeated washing with great satisfaction ; for two weeks, afterwards more seldom

Painful sensation, as if the right upper jaw were hot and painful; this is, as it were, reflected in the lower jaw ( after fifteen minutes)

Compression in both zygomas, drawing downward towards the larynx, where she is conscious of it during deglutition, and also at other times, at 5 p.m.

Sensa-

Mouth p. 337

22 tiou of warmth and obtusion in the bone of the right upper jaw (after ten minutes)

A sensation of warmth on the lips, immediately

Very often a burning like a sore on the inside of the lower lip towards the right, very near the edge (after one and two hours)

Slight numbness of the right joint of the lower jaw, a continual sensation of warmth, and as if it would begin to pain (after one and two hours)

In both joints of the jaws (worse in the left), a painful cramplike confusion ; (had the same sensation occasionally before), (eleventh day)

In connection with a drawing in the entire left limb, a peculiar sensation in the right lower jaw, not in the bone, but very close to it, in the evening (after twenty-four hours)

Burning pain on the outside of the right lower jaw on a small spot near the first or second molar tooth (after one and two hours)

In the right articulation of the jaw sensation as if a spasm were to take place (after several hours)

Drawing pain in the right lower jaw-bone, towards the middle (one hour after fifth dose)

Slight gnawing pain in both sides of the lower jaw, in the bone near the angle (soon after S. 33)

Throat p. 338

Teeth) Ohjeetive. (A decidedly improved condition of the teeth ; the carious teeth seem to secrete less, and the gums do not bleed so easily), (after second week)

The right eye-tooth, which was formerly rough, but became afterwards smooth again, is now rough, and commences to ache, particularly at the root of it; in the upper jaw, along the root of the teeth, pressure is very painful, particularly in the evening; it is mitigated temporarily by cold water (third and the following days),*l

Subjective, In the morning the lower incisor teeth feel sharp, as if broken, and the tongue feels painful on touching them for several days (fifth day),*».

Bluntness of the teeth

One drop of the one-sixteenth solution produced in the mouth a bluntness of the teeth, a sensation of sticking, contraction, and tension, after which the mucous membrane of the mouth became whitish and peeled off (after three days)

Teeth feel warm, those of the upper jaw, especially on the left side; the incisor and canine are much warmer than any of the others; a few minutes afterwards there is considerable warmth in the pharynx ; these sensations ceased in the course of an hour; the prover remarked particularly, that the heat or warmth was felt in the teeth, and not in the gums or alveolar processes

All the teeth of the left jaw seem to pain, especially those whose roots have been taken out

Toothache for a short time in the left lower jaw

Toothache on the right side, extending to the left thigh, the outer portion above the knee

The pain in the tooth on the right side disappears for a moment, and jumps to the left thigh, on the outside above the knee (third day)

The cold air in a room causes pain in the carious tooth of the right upper incisor, in the evening (after several hours)

Soon after taking the remedy transient pain in the right eye-tooth (in the evening)

Digging pain in one of the lower incisors, towards the right (third day)

Toothache; drawing in the left lower jaw (after four hours)

(The right upper incisors are very sensitive on drinking cold water, and also on inhaling cold air, particularly the one which is decayed ; the same symptom some weeks before the proving)

Teeth so painful that he could not bite upon them

G^ims. (A painful excoriation near the first lower molar tooth, on the right side), (after five weeks)

Tongue. Prickling of the tongue, and increase of saliva for some hours, and after^ards combined with smarting feeling of the palate as if something very acrid had been gargled; a feeling of tenderness and irritability in the larynx; coughing to clear the throat causes feeling of soreness, which shows an unusual degree of sensibility

General 3Ioilth, *(A very painful little ulcer in the back part of the mouth, on the right side, in the angle of the upper and lower jaw; very troublesome during mastication and otherwise)

Dryness of the left half of the palate and roof of the mouth, in the evening (fourth day),l

Greasy feeling in the mouth, immediately

A solution of one-eighth caused in the mouth a violent pain, as from hot water; the teeth became so painful that for two days he could not masticate

One drop of the one-forty-eighth solution produced in the mouth contractions and pricklings, and a disagreeable sour Saliva. Salivation after five minutes, so that he is frequently obliged to spit, lasting ten minutes, followed by headache, with which the salivation decreases and after an hour disappears

Five minutes after taking, there commenced an increase of the flow of saliva, which caused him to spit constantly for about ten minutes, when he began to feel a pain in the head, a sensation as if the head was too heavy and would drop down from one side to the other, a pressing outward from within ; the flow of saliva after this pain had established itself began to diminish, and in about an hour ceased entirely

Soon after taking the medicine there commenced the same salivation, with a dull heaviness and pain in the whole head

Much tenacious saliva, on waking at night, previous to the diarrhoea

He wakes up after midnight with a large quantity of viscid, tasteless saliva in the mouth, burning-pinching pain in the stomach, and with a sensation of distension from flatulency ; after the passage of some wind the pain is increased, and he cannot pass any more ; after a copious pappy evacuation of the bowels the pains seem to concentrate themselves in the region of the navel; after the evacuation the pain is diminished; on returning to his room, how^ever, it returns again, and he has a second passage, accompanied with pain in the region of the navel; a third passage at 7 a.m. (third day); the same diarrhoea, at 4 a.m. (sixth day); a copious pappy evacuation, after rising (eighth day); several pappy evacuations (tenth day); two watery stools, immediately after rising in the morning (twelfth day); pappy loose passage, in the morning after rising (thirteenth and fourteenth days); none (fifteenth day); two (sixteenth day); one again (seventeenth day)

(The mouth is not so full of mucus in the morning as usual; it is less around the teeth ; in rinsing it there is less blood and viscid mucus than usual), (after several days)

Taste, Sweetish taste in the throat at night (fourth day)

Acid taste, and greasy feeling in the mouth, immediately

The taste is quite intolerable

Acrid offensive taste comes from the roots of the teeth

Acrid putrid taste from the root of the right upper incisor, on which there is fixed an artificial tooth ; (the next morning)

Taste in the mouth of what he has eaten; worse in the afternoon

A saltish taste in the mouth, in the morning on awakening, until breakfast (second day)

Taste like ink; seems to proceed from a lower tooth on the left side; in the evening (second day),*!

Throat p. 339

Objective, Hawking of bloody mucus from low down

Subjective. Feeling of warmth in the throat

Constriction in the throat, with difficult deglutition, at first in the forenoon (after-three hours) ; it begins towards evening (next day)

Constriction in the throat; pressure and sensation of fulness in the region of the stomach ; frequent stale, disgusting eructations, with inclination to vomit; from 1 drachm of 4*yth solution (about 1^ gr.) within one hour and a half, all symptoms disappeared

Constriction of the throat, rumbling in the abdomen, pressure in the stomach and burning, eructations, retching, for two hours, followed by constipation for twm days (after 10 drops of the j*gth solution, about |- gr.)/®.

Constriction in the left side of the throat, with pressure in the right arm

Sore throat, with difficult deglutition ; his throat, as far as below the larynx, felt so sore that the bread, although masticated very thoroughly, could not be swallowed without the greatest pain ; after smelling the acid, 5 P.M., until the next morning after breakfast; the same morning, hawking up of much phlegm, mixed with some blood ; during the day abatement of the symptoms

A singular sensation as though the passage from the mouth to the nose was wide open, during his walk in the open air

FciilceSf FhcivytlXf (Esophcuf US. Sensation of heat in the fauces the next morning

Soreness in the pharynx, extending down below the larynx; swallowing bread is painful

In the back of the throat, low down, at the entrance of the oesophagus, more to the left side, a sensation as if it were somewhat raw, or as though an ulcer would form ; it was indefinite and slightly painful, yet it seemed very troublesome, and twice, while hawking, he thought that blood would come from it, in the morning and forenoon (eleventh and twelfth days)

Sivalloiving. The greatest difficulty was experienced in getting him to swallow anything

Stomach p. 340

Appetite. Appetite increased

Better appetite than usual (part of S. 307)

Extraordinary appetite after diarrhoea

Voracious appetite

Excessive hunger

He immediately began to long for coffee, for which he had lost his appetite, on commencing the proving

With his usual good appetite, he nevertheless is soon satisfied (third, fourth, and following days)

Very soon satisfied ; therewith the food tastes good and is well digested (first week)

Very soon satisfied the first week; the second week, he began to eat more in the evening, and the increase of appetite in the evening lasted for several weeks

The same speedy satiety, without any gastric disturbances, in winter, spring, and summer, during different provings

He is immediately satisfied after a plate of soup, without the slightest sensation of nausea (fourth day)

He eats very little, though his appetite is very good (second and following days)

The appetite is diminished, he wants something piquant

Aversion to coffee (nineteenth day)

He relishes wine no more; the desire for it is decreased for several weeks

Thirst. "^More thirst (part of S. 333)

Thirst at night

Eructation. Eructations (part of S. 257)

Eructations and slight nausea in the evening

Eructations and retching

Eructations and discharge of flatulency, frequently

Eructations of wind and sickness of the stomach, very soon

Frequent stale, disgusting eructations (part of S. 206)

Frequently flat, nauseous eructations, with inclination to vomit

Sour eructations

Twenty drops of the ^*^th solution, taken in water, excited frequent sour eructations; sensation of heat and a disagreeable flat taste in the mouth

Frequent acid eructations, with pyrosis and passage of flatulency, in the afternoon (second day)

Sour, bitter eructations after dinner (in five hours)

Burning eructations (part of S. 207)

Heavthni^n. Pyrosis, with nausea (in two hours and a half)

Nausea and Vomiting. A frequent sensation as though nausea or a kind of vertigo would set in, but which does not (after ten minutes)

Nausea (part of S. 103); (part of S. 257)

Nausea, without inclination to vomit, with dulness of the head

Nausea and heaviness above the eyes

Some sickness of the stomach (after four hours)

Sickness of stomach, continuing from three to four hours, after taking the acid

Sickness of the stomach, with some desire to vomit, soon after second dose

Continual sickness of the stomach, ^With vertigo and headache (after four hours)

Constant great sickness of the stomach, with general heat (after two hours)

Inclination to vomit (part of S. 206)

Retching (part of S. 207)

Violent and incessant retching and vomiting (immediately)

He vomits several times with difficulty a clear, viscid fluid, with coagulated white pieces, having no connection with the burning in the mouth, nor the symptoms accompanying it; the whole day, he felt nausea, eructations, and lassitude (after 30 drops of y'^th solution, about 2 grains)

Rumbling in the stomach

Rumbling in the stomach and urging, as in diarrhoea, after eating (thirteenth and fourteenth days)

Decidedly uncomfortable sensation in the stomach in the forenoon (after second dose)

Heat in the stomach before his meal, which disappears after it; then heaviness in the stomach, and after some hours again heat; worse during exercise

Burning in the stomach

Burning-pinching pain in the stomach before diarrhoea

Pressure in the stomach, with burning

Pressure in the stomach (about I grain), (part of S. 207)

Pressure and sensation of fulness in the region of the stomach (part of S. 206)

Sensation, between meals, as of pressure from a weight in the stomach, simulating indigestion (after third day)

Sensitiveness of the region of the stomach to pressure

Abdomen p. 341

Ilypoclwndtici. Pinching in the region of the spleen at 11 A.M. (fourth and following days)

(A pain which he has had for six days in the region of the spleen, reaching to the hips, disappears immediately after one drop 30th, and does not return)

JJmbilicill. Sensation of faintness, like an emptiness, in the region of the navel, with a desire to draw a deep breath ; it is relieved by bandaging: in the forenoon before he has eaten anything; it gets better after eating; in the evening, it is more like a slight burning ; when occupied, he does not observe it

During diarrhoea, pain more particularly in the region of the navel (after several hours)

Pinching in region of navel, inclination to diarrhoea, and a copious watery evacuation, at 2 a.m. (seventh day)

General Abdomen. Rumbling in the abdomen,"; (part of S. 207)

Rumbling in bowels, with erratic pain, in the forenoon

Much rumbling from flatulency (ninth day)

Frequent passage of flatus and eructations; it leaves him immediately more comfortable, and with a feeling as if it was the last, but it is not so, for in a few minutes everything is renewed in the same order, succession, and feeling as before; and so on for two or three days, with the only difference of being at longer intervals than it was at first

Passes much inodorous wind

He passes more inodorous flatus, with much noise (after several days)

Offensive flatus, in the morning

Small, very offensive wind precedes the evacuation (second and eighth day)

Small, excessively offensive discharges of wind, smelling like a mixture of carburetted, sulphuretted, and phosphoretted hydrogen; the odor was exceedingly persistent in the forenoon, several hours before his meal, and in the afternoon, two hours after eating (second day)

Inclination to draw up the muscles of the abdomen, with great appetite

Inclination to draw up the abdominal muscles, with great appetite

Sensation in the left side of abdomen as if a pain were about to arise and wind to be discharged, without either taking place (half an hour after fifth dose)

(After eating herring, a very unpleasant sensation in the abdomen, and a very discontented mood), (after several hours)

(Immediately after partaking of some pieces of watermelon, some pain in the abdomen, which is not generally the case), (after one hour)

Pain in the left side of the abdomen, in the region of the spleen (after one hour)

A sensation of warmth in the abdomen, with a pressure towards the bladder, in the night (first day)

Feeling of accumulated flatulence

A pressing pain in the abdomen on the left side, and also in the left arm, in the evening

Suddenly an acute pain in the left side of the abdomen, above the hip, hindering respiration (after two hours)

Shooting pain in bowels, extending toward the right side, as if from wind, sometimes very acute (evening)

Slight colic, immediately after eating fish with vinegar

Jerkings in left side of abdomen (after two hours)

The pain is increased after passage of flatulence, before the diarilicea

Continual dull pain in the inguinal region on both sides, and deeply situated

Burning for a short time in the right inguinal region, in the afternoon

Burning from the left side of the breast down to the groin

Pain from the left side of the chest to the groins, increased by deep respiration, particularly in the groin and back, like a stitch, from 9 to 10 a.m.

Rectum and Anus p. 342

Determination of blood to the anus after drinking wine

(The protrusion of the anus during evacuation, habitual to him, was very quickly, and to a considerable degree, diminished for several weeks), (only returned on resuming coffee and wine)

(A more comfortable feeling in the anus than is usual with him ; in one subject to piles), (second day)

Constriction of the anus in attempting to emit flatulence

He feels as if wind was retained in the anus

Within and around the anus, violent itching (fifteenth and sixteenth days) ; continues around the anus until the fifth week

Indefinite desire, small odorless wind, and pappy evacuation at 10 a.m. (fourth day); after small, excessively fetid discharges of flatus, a sudden urging, then a thin, pappy passage without any odor, and at the same time a very copious discharge of urine, before dinner; he had eaten peaches before, which, however, never acted that way; and after the passage, a better appetite than usual (eighth day); he ob-served the tertian type the second, fourth (sixth), and eighth days; the evacuation is more regular than usual (fifth week)

Ineffectual desire for a passage in the evening (eighth day)

Hasty pressure for a passage, as in diarrhoea, and a soft evacuation, at 2 p.m. (five hours after fourth dose); was formerly very regular in his bowels; passage protracted and very small (next day) on omitting the remedy

Stool p. 342

Diarrhoea. Inclination to diarrhoea, two passages (first day)

(The soft, small passage, which he has every morning after drinking coffee, and again late in the evening, with ineffectual urging and protrusion of haemorrhoids, changes after four to five days into copious natural evacuations)

Free evacuation of the bowels twice a day

Two hard passages (second day)

His passage is more loose than common

A large, pappy, yellowish-brown passage, of a very strong disagreeable smell of faeces, together with tenesmus, to wdiich the prover is liable, although less protrusion of the anus than formerly (second day)

Constipation. "^Constipated (.second day), (part of S. 207)

Constipated for two days (after 10 drops j*gth)

Stool delayed and very scanty (after omitting the remedy)

(The passages (from the bowels) seem to occur every other day, and every day at a later hour)

The evacuation (from the bowels) becomes protracted, insufficient, and lumpy

(During a stool, some nodules were at last pressed out with some difficulty), (seventeenth day)

No passage (third day)

Urinary Organs p. 342

Dladda*. A sensation somewhat resembling numbness or burning in the bladder (part of S. 550)

After urination, a pain as if it were above the neck of the bladder in the afternoon

Before aud after urination, a pain in the lower part of the bladder; there is also pain on pressure (first aud second days)

Dull pains in the region of the bladder (first week)

Dragging towards the bladder, with feeling of warmth in the abdomen

Pressure on the bladder, with sensation of warmth in the abdomen (first day)

Tliethra, An intolerable burning in the urethra, during aud after urination, for five minutes, in the morning (ninth day), (in one who never had gonorrhoea)

Frequent desire to pass water after several days

Allctniition. Free discharge of light-colored urine, very frequent, of sufficiently large, but not increased quantity, leaving him more comfortable; during and after the discharge he feels a kind of elasticity (in the muscles?), of the urinary organs, with a subsequent agreeable sensation; he drinks less than usual

Has to get up twice at night to void his urine, which is quite unusual with him; the night is cooler than the previous ones (fifth day)

More urination, and afterwards more thirst (fifth day)

Urine much increased, and of a clear color, after several days

Copious evacuation of urine, with the diarrhoea

Very copious discharge of urine (part of S. 307)

Less urination the next morning

Decidedly less voiding of urine, but the urine is not of a darker color (second and third days)

The urine has diminished in quantity, aud has a decided fragrancy (like Benzoic acid), in the evening and morning (second day); disappeared fifth day

Tlrhie. Pungent aud strong odor of the urine, which was freely discharged, in the evening (fourth day)

A very acrid and strong odor of the urine (fifteenth and sixteenth days)

His urine frequently smells veiy offensive, as far as the sixth week

His habitual whitish sediment in the urine is also mixed with a very copious purple-colored one (third day); its purplecolored sediment disappeared fifth day

Sexual Organs p. 343

Alale. Erections, with desire and voluptuousness

The first erections again of very long duration, and quite healthy nature, aud without sexual desire (eleventh morning)

Frequently a complete and quite natural erection during perfect health; as soon as his thoughts are removed from it, it entirely disappears more rapidly and suddenly than usual (fourth day)

Sensation of fulness in both spermatic cords (first evening)

Drawing from the left testicle to the spermatic cord

Occasionally stitches and drawing through the left testicle to the abdominal ring and spermatic cord (after four hours)

Sexual desire increased during the action of Fluoricum acidum

Sexual passion increased, with erections at night during sleep

Increase of sexual desire, with a complete erection, which, however, soon disappeared (third and fourth days)

Elderly persons had often attacks of venereal desire and erections, and the exercise of this function seemed not to be injurious to them

Sexual passion strong, with violent erections all night, and desire to cohabit

Great excitement of the sexual desire (sixteenth day)

Almost irresistible attack of lasciviousness, more in the case of old than young men

Lascivious thoughts now and then during fifth and sixth weeks, so that he must force himself to think of other things

Highly excessive enjoyment and pleasure during coition, which was not the case before

Sexual passion more easily controlled (first week)

Diminished sexual desire in various degrees

Sexual desire lost, or more easily controlled (first week)

It seemed as if his sexual desire was disappearing for several weeks (sixth, seventh, and following days); he is complete master of his thoughts and sensations

While thinking in a perfectly chaste and pleasant way about a girl whom he considers beautiful, there passed some drops of prostatic fluid

Seminal discharge not so quick and early as usual, but free and without any bad after-feeling

Fenidle. The monthly period occurred eight days too soon, and was more copious, but, instead of six to seven days, lasted only five; discharge thick and coagulated. The succeeding catamenia take place again at the regular period, according to the former calculation

Respiratory Organs p. 344

Larynx, Pain in the forepart of the larynx, as if it were in the cartilage, inducing him to swallow (after ninety minutes)

Spasmodic sensation, extending from the malar bone to the larynx,h

Scraping sensation in the larynx provokes hawking and swallowing

Increased irritability of the larynx ; whilst coughing or hawking slightly, there arises a sensation of soreness, which causes an unusual degree of sensitiveness, very soon

Immediately a slight itching sensation in the larynx, which causes him to swallow and to hawk, lasting for hours (2 drops)

Respiration. Breathing continued after the radial pulse had failed, and even after the action of the heart had apparently ceased

Wheezing during respiration, observed more by others than himself, in the afternoon and evening; in the afternoon on the bed, on which occasion he has to bend backwards, if he wants to take a full breath (sixth week)

He often breathes deeply, as if the breast within and below was full, in the forenoon, during sitting and writing (twelfth day)

A kind of oppression of breath deep internally; he is obliged to breathe deeply, which, however, gives no relief (ninth day)

Difficulty of breathing; there seems to be an impediment in the region of the pit of the throat and upper part of the chest, as though he did not get air enough; at the same time itching pimples on the back, and pain in the chest below the point of the shoulder-blade (ninth day)

Chest p. 344

Throbbing, as with the pulse, on feeling the chest,b

Soreness in the chest (after three hours)

The wdiole upper part of the chest, deep internally, though more towards the front, seems too tight, so that inspiration is impeded; deep inspiration does not afford relief; it is not like a pressure and not like a constriction ; it feels as though something remained fixed there (seventh and following days)

Oppression, with pain in the chest (after four hours)

Oppression in the chest on reclining, at the same time a trembling in the lower extremities

Sticking under the ribs to the left of the ensiform cartilage in the evening (after fifteen minutes)

Front. Pressure in the centre of the sternum in the afternoon ; in the evening, at 10 oclock, after retiring, a pressing pain in the middle of the chest, which lasts until he falls asleep (first day)

Sides. Pressing pain in the last rib, towards the right, near the spine (after one hour )

Burning-sticking pain in the left side of the chest, lasting only a moment (after smelling the acid)

A pain, as if a stitch would appear deep in the left side of the chest, posteriorly to the heart (after two hour-s)

Small stitches in the side (after four hours)

Sore pain in the left side of the chest, as if beneath the skin, felt only on moving; a similar pain in the left shoulder at 10 p.m. (after four hours). On rising in the morning, pain again in the left side of the chest, similar to the one he felt the evening before

Slight pain close to the right nipple (after one hour)

Throbbing, like a pulsation, on feeling the breast and abdomen

Heart and Pulse p. 344

Uneasiness about the heart (immediately)

Aching in region 6f heart (after fifteen minutes)

Jerking in the heart (after one hour)

Painful jerking in the heart (after two hours)

Continual soreness in the heart (after one hour)

Pulse small and rapid

Neck and Back p. 345

Stiffness in the nape of the neck soon

Constriction in the left side of the neck (part of S. 435)

Contraction in some muscles of the neck, on the left side and towards the shoulder, during the forenoon, on reposing and whilst rising; after some exercise, it gradually subsides; the pain seems to change from one set of muscles to the other, but is always in more than one; the omohyoideus muscle is decidedly affected, but not the sterno-cleido-mastoideus (fourth day)

Alarm streamings from the right side of the nape of the neck to the shoulder

Pain in the nape of the neck, beneath the scapulae, and in the left side of the chest

Pain in the right side of the neck in the forenoon

A*^ery transient drawing pain along the right side of the nape

Violent drawing pain in the right side of the neck in the afternoon

Soreness in the left half of the nape (first day)

Inclination to wash the neck and behind the ears with cold water

Had*, Pain in the back, sometimes high up beneath the shoulder-blades, sometimes deeply seated, as if in the region of the kidneys (first week)

Tonsil, A pain under the point of the right shoulder-blade, to which he was formerly subject, and which impels him to bend the body backwards and to stretch, appears after a few hours, and returns occasionally for several days, but more seldom than usual after some weeks

Deepseated pain in the back, below the point of the shoulder-blade, more towards the left; it occurs more in a sitting posture, particularly whilst riding (fourth and ninth days)

Pain, like a contraction, under the right shoulder-blade (part of S. 73)

Burning-pricking pain in the left shoulder-blade (after one and two hours)

Lumbar, Deepseated pain in the left lumbar region at night (fourth day)

Sacral, Aching in the os sacrum very soon after taking

Jerkings in sacrum during the first hour, and less frequently the second hour

(His habitual bruised pain in os sacrum and lumbar region (relieved by stretching and bending backwards, but particularly by pressui’e, as well as after fatiguing bodily labor) is much aggravated by Fluoricum acidum 6th, but is removed entirely after Fluoricum acidum 30th; a similar pain, however, returns in the region of the right shoulder, which is also quickly cured after a dose of Fluoricum acidum 3d ; it returns during the fourth and fifth days, in the back below, between and above the shoulder and only disappears in the second week)

Pain in the tuberosities of the ischia in the middle

Extremities in General p. 345

Pain in the bones of the right forearm and knee

Pains of a short duration in the left leg, arm, and hand (after eighth dose)

Different aching pains in the bones of the forearms and legs about the centre, going and coming

Sensation as if the shoulder and hip-joints were being pulled out of joint

Superior Extremities p. 345

[^2Qr Slight lameness in the right arm, so that he has some difficulty in writing (after fifteen minutes)

The right arm, on which he rests, becomes benumbed and feels lame, with a pricking sensation, at 10 p.m.

Sensation of numbness, jerking, and lameness in the left arm, appears in the morning and forenoon, and subsides again between 12 and 1 oclock

Heaviness in the right arm, in the morning on waking, with some numbness, although he only lay on the left side (second day)

A burning, pricking, and jerking pain in the whole left arm, often returning, as if there was passing through the nerves a very painful, but slow electric shock ; most severe on the inside of the left little finger, together with now and then a sharp stitch in the tip of the finger, passing from within outward; at 2 p.m. (second day)

Pressive pain in the left arm, and also in the left side of the abdomen

Pain of a deeply penetrating character, first in the right, afterwards in the left arm, most about the junction of the cancellated with the solid portion of the ossa humeri; even after the disappearance of the pain there is soreness upon pressure of the parts previously affected ; a similar pain in the muscles over the head of the left radius (in forty minutes)

Shoulder, A pain in the right shoulder-joint, which he had felt the week before last, but not the last; returned for a few moments, and extended towards the fingers, as if air was passing doimi, a sensation which he had never experienced before (after one hour)

Sudden jerking pain in the left shoulder, in the bone

Avw.. Trembling in the biceps of the right arm (after fifteen minutes)

Trembling in the biceps of the right arm (fifth day)

Pain in the right upper arm in the bone towards the elbow, in the afternoon ; from the right arm the pain passed over to the left, with the same pain in the bone (second day)

Pain in the left arm above the elbow, appearing after tbe pains on the right side (after one or two hon^s)

Rheumatic pain in the bones of the left arm, from elbow to shoulder, with lameness (after one hour)

Pinching in the left deltoid muscle, after headache

Pressing pain in the right arm, and a constriction in the left side of the neck, at 9 A.M.,®.

Pressing pain in the left arm (part of S. 291)

Pressing pain in the left arm, just above the elbow, in the morning

On awaking, the right upper arm and shoulder feel bruised and benumbed after lying on left side (after several days)

-Elbow. A pain in the right elbow-joint, during the pain in the left side

Aching in the right elbow-joint (second day)

Aching in the left elbow, in the evening (fourth day)

Foveuviti. The left forearm and hand feel asleep, at 5 a.m., whilst lying on the right side (seventh day)

A decided sensation of being asleep in the left forearm, and especially in the hand, more towards the radial side, as if only here and there, more internal, not general, therewith the hand and arm could be exerted as usual; on stretching them out, prickling in the ball of the thumb, and the above sensation in the hand was increased very much, from waking early id the morning, till noon, for several days; again noticed on the morning of the tenth day on stretching out and moving the hand, again somewhat on the eleventh day, at 1 and 2 p.m., and in the afternoon

(Continual internal sensation of numbness in tbe left forearm, and a severe pricking in it whilst stretching it (part of S. 556)

The numbness and paralytic sensation in the left forearm return every forenoon, but every day at a later period, and less decided (fourth, tenth, and eleventh days),Pain in the bones of the right forearm (part of S. 501)

Numb pain in forearms extending to the hands

A slight pinching pain in the middle of the left forearm, lasting only a short time, in the evening

Aching pains in the bones of the left forearm, towards the middle

Pressure and a paralyzed feeling in the forearm

Pressure in the right forearm

Pain of a deeply penetrating character in the muscles over the head of the left radius ; (after forty minutes)

Wrist. Pain about the right wrist and finger-joints (after one hour)

Drawing in the right wrist and forearm, from 8 to 11 oclock (sixth day)

lluild. Both hands are constantly very red (third and following days)

The hands are full and warm, uncommonly red, particularly in the palms, as if finely mottled (fourth day)

Lameness of the right Land

Powerless sensation in the hands

The left hand is asleep in the morning, and remains so the whole forenoon (second day)/

A sensation of numbness, rather internal, in the left hand, extending to the forearm ; the sensation is different from the numbness produced by long pressure, and also more lasting, and does not subside after exertion (second day)

The pains in the hands became exceedingly violent and the hand much swollen ; next day the fingers, and especially the thumb, were violently inflamed ; the hot bright-red skin on the tips was discolored, the last phalanx almost immovable, with violent pains in the hands extending np to the shoulder, and fever; towards evening of the second day the pains became throbbing and the tips of the fingers more swollen; on the third day the tips of all the fingers were white, and the thumb was enveloped by a white blister, upon which the nail seemed to rest, with constant tormenting throbbing pains ; on opening the blisters there was discharged a thick brown, very offensive fluid, which was very acid ; under these blisters was seen on the fingers the uninjured true skin; on the thumb there was underneath a second blister, upon opening which commencing suppuration was found; the fingers healed rapidly; the thumb continued to secrete a thin pus and was only healed after four weeks/

After a cold from exposure to a raw snowy air, pain in the right metacarpus, like that formerly in the right leg, in the evening

The growth of the nails seems to be much more rapid for several weeks

Sensation as if there were a hair on the back of the left little finger; he repeatedly looks to see if it is not actually there, during the forenoon, until 2 oclock (seventh week),'».

In the fingers of the right hand some numbness and rigidity, in the forenoon

* Pain in the left index finger, as if in the bone, n(»w and then during the day; the whole finger is pain ful internally, particular-ly in the evening (fifth day)/

Burning internally about the bone; heat which amounts to painfulness about the first joint of the right index finger, in an undefined spot of the size of a penny, together with an itching prickling sensation in the skin (after one hour)

Slowly jerking, repeated burning in the tip of the left little finger, at 10 a.m. (second day)

* Aching in the left index finger (fourth day)

Pain in the first joint of the right little finger, as if it were being pulled out of joint (after fifteen minutes)

Stitches from within outwards in the tip of the left little finger/.

A violent burning stitch in the fleshy part of the left thumb, often returning and passing out at the tip, at 11 a.m. (second day)

Prickling in the tips of the fingers, which was the forerunner of the most violent pains, together with chilliness of the left arm, and soon afterwards of the whole body (after one hour)

Pricking in the ends of the index-fingers, most in the left; also in the right thumb (fourth day)

Acute prickings, as with a needle, in the fingers

Prickling in the ball of the left thumb

Jerking in the left thumb occasionally, extending to the middle of the forearm, during the forenoon,'*.-

An almost painful electric jerk, along the left radius to the thumb, which moves iinmluntarily, several times, at 12 oclock (second day)

Jerking pain in the left middle finger

Now and then a pain resembling a contusion in the ends of several fingers, as it were in the bones ; when it appears it is frequently repeated, in the evening (fourth and following weeks)

Painless sensation beneath the nail of the left thumb, as if something were working gradually its way out, in the forenoon (second day)

Inferior Extremities p. 347

Trembling in the lower extremities (part of S. 380)/.

Walking is difficult, because the legs feel tired ; he is hardly able to drag them along; they are so heavy that he finds it necessary to hold on to the arm of some one else for support

Drawing pain in the whole left leg,h

Burning, shooting pain, as if in the nerve, from the right hip downwards, particularly on the inside of the knee ; farther down less severe (second day)

Hip, Lameness in the left hip (second day)

Pain in the right hip (after seventy-five minutes)

Acute stitches in the right hip-bone, spreading over the glutei muscles (after one hour)

Soreness and pain, on motion, in the left hip, particularly felt on getting in and out of bed ; worse in the morning (third day)

ThUflh. Slight numbness of the right thigh, only whilst crossing the legs, in the evening (after three hours)

Pain in the left thigh, on the outside above the knee (part of S. 176)

Pain in the inner condyle of the left femur (after eighty minutes)

Pain in the right ischiatic nerve, in the afternoon

A violent, slightly burning, quick, nervous pain proceeds from the region of the bladder, down to the right thigh, whilst lying in bed (first day)

Pressing pain in the fleshy part of left thigh on the outside

Soreness in the muscles of the thighs (second day)

Bruised pain of the thigh, particularly in the posterior and inner portion (second and third days)

Violent pain like an electric shock from the region of the bladder, down into the right thigh (first day)

Burning, itching pain in the back part of the thigh (after olfaction)

Knee. Dead feeling in the right knee-joint (first day)

Pain on the inside of the right knee, in the evening (after fifteen minutes)

Pain in the right knee-joint, with pain in the bones of the right forearm (after four hours)

Severe pain in the left knee, on the outside, disappearing after friction, at 8 p.m.,'®.

Deepseated pain below the right knee, in the evening (after fifteen minutes)

Pressure in the knee

Penetrating pain on the outside of the left knee (fourth day)

Tearing pain in the right knee from below upwards; after that a sudden, very transient pressing pain in the left temple

Leif. Trembling of the lower legs

The left leg falls asleep, easily in the forenoon while sitting after resting it over the right leg, and the back of the foot feels like a cushion, yet motion is unimpeded (ninth and tenth days)

Drawing pain in the left leg and foot

Drawing pain in the calf of the right leg, beginning at the hollow of the knee, and extending to the tendo Achillis; the next forenoon

Anhles. Pain in the right external ankle, in the evening (after fifteen minutes)

In the evening during a walk, drawing pain in the right ankle-joint, spreads gradually over the whole leg, producing a lameness in the knee and ankle, so that he is hardly able to proceed; it disappears during rest, but returns on renewing his walk, when it also affects the right ankle-joint (sixth day); the same pain and weakness during walking, also on the seventh day, but in a less degree

Sprainlike pain in the left ankle joint during walking (sixteenth day )

A sensation of lameness, like a sprain, in the right ankle-joint, for a quarter of an hour, in the afternoon ; it passes all around the joint, and is very painful at every step ; after walking and resting for awhile it gradually disappears; (after a small dose of tinct. Colchicum)

Foot. (Right foot quite lame, and a dull aching pain in the os femoris, tibia, and fibula)

Pressing pain in the left foot

Pain and burning in the right instep (third hour)

A pain in the left instep, in the evening (after two hours)

Heat in the sole of the right foot (after fifteen minutes)

Burning feeling in the sole of the right foot (after two hours)

Crawling sensation in the sole of the right foot (fourth day)

Pain in the right heel (part of S. 124)

Pain like a rush of blood shoots into the left heel, in the evening (after two hours)

Toes. Pain in the toes of the right foot in the first joints (after three hours)/.

Pain for a short time in right small toe (part of S. 104)/

Pain in the right little toe, following pain above the right eye

Severe pains in all the left toes except the large one (after 18th dose),l

Violent burning pain in all the toes, so that he could hardly walk (after three and four hours)

Burning stitches under the toes of both feet, in the morning (fifteenth day)

Very acute pricking pain in the tips of the toes of the right foot (the next forenoon)

Pain in the corns of the right foot

Soreness of all his corns, like a boil (after three hours)

Generalities p. 349

Ohjective. While sitting, pleasurable movenieuts of the whole body, unawares

Hands, fingers, toes, feet, jaws, lips, eyebrows and lids, muscles of the face, etc., all are in motion (in ten hours)

Writhing about in indescribable agony

Increased ability to exercise his muscles without fatigue, regardless of the most excessive heat./.

In summer, or in the cold of winter, he is able to perform with the greatest facility, his usual daily walk of several miles, which everyday previously he thought very fatiguing and annoying; indeed he takes the same walk once again afterwards, and is still inclined to take exercise which is not at all required; he can use the same or other groups of muscles, as it may happen, without being at all fatigued, and without noticing it

(He can bear the summer heat much better, and feels less lassitude than usual ; for several weeks)

Is less tired than usual after a walk in the evening (eighth and eleventh days)

Lassitude (part of S. 257)

Excessively languid, in the forenoon (after second dose)

W weariness while walking at night

Weariness, nausea, and eructations, the whole day

An unusual very great weariness, in the evening suddenly

Weakness, nausea, and eructations, the whole day

Singular indescribable weakness, like a numbness, as if she had received an electric shock, particularly in the head and hands, with nausea in stomach, without desire to vomit; she never experienced a similar sensation ; a few days previously she had taken Acid, nitr., after that Fluor, ac.

Lameness of the whole body

A higher grade of wellbeing; he is more decided in his movements (fourth and following days)

In the morning he feels better than usual, though he had internal fever during the night (first week)

The left side feels stronger than usual (third day), (F. G.), (Hering).

A sensation almost like rush of blood, though rather as if caused by the nerves, somewhat resembling numbness and confusion or burning, first in the right side of the forehead, afterwards in the upper and lower jaws of the same side, and appearing in the lower part of the occiput and in the bladder, and so on in various places (first evening and second morning),**; also *'’, and ', but not so decidedly and not in the head

Slight erratic pain in the left half of the body, in the arm, chest, thigh, etc., with a sensation of slight itching (after half an hour)

Violent but transient jerking, burning, almost boring pains, confined to a small space

Pressure and sensation of lameness, particularly in the hand, arm to the elbow, and in the foot

Pressing pain in different parts of short duration, in the evening; on the chin, neck, in the right forearm, in the left knee, right foot, also in the right shoulder, and left arm, sometimes below, sometimes above the elbow, in the evening

Jerking pains in different parts of the body, behind the left ear, on the left middle finger and in os sacrum (during first hour)

Whilst sitting, a frequent sensation of a general shaking, with a dull pressure and compression in the occiput, particularly towards the right, with the continual internal sensation of numbness in the left forearm, and a severe pricking in it whilst stretching it (first forenoon)

Even a very small, hardly visible quantity would produce the same effects, although only after several hours

Most of the symptoms are on the right side (F. G.), (Hering).

Almost all symptoms appear in the room, while reading or writing

Many symptoms are worse when standing, though better when standing than when sitting

Skin p. 350

Objective. Reddish spots above the eyebrows

Desquamation on the eyebrows

(On the second toe of the left foot, a painful excoriation, which apparently bleeds), (after three hours)

Roughness on the forehead, like a rough line with its convexity upward (fourth and fifth days, and seventh week)

JEvnptionSf J)vy. Elevated red blotches over the eyebrows, most abundant on the left side, but of longer continuance on the right (third and following days)

Elevated red blotches (above the eyebrows, most abundant on the left side, but longerlasting on the right) still continue, whilst the other symptoms disappear, iu the evening (fourth day)

Scaly eruptions, with pricking sensation in the eyebrows (third day)

Pimples on the nose

Pimples on the abdomen, but principally on the thighs and legs, the points of which formed a crust the next day after taking Fluoricum acidum, and which scaled off the seventeenth day after first dose, and the eighth day after fourth dose

In the morning, there appears a pimple of the size of a hempseed towards the right, between the root of the nose and the eye (sixteenth day); several similar pimples in the right side of the face (after five weeks)

In the afternoon, violent itching on the left shoulder; in the evening, on the back, where small pimples arise; worse late at night until he falls asleep (fourth and fifth days)

Violent itching and small pimples on both shoulders and on the back, more towards the left (eleventh and following days)

Violent itching, worse on warm days, and small pimples here and there (twelfth day)

A group of small red pimples on the left hip, in the back, and lower portion of the region of the joint, and below on a spot half as large as the palm of the hand; which have opened during the night after scratching (fourth and following days)

Itching pimples on the back (part of S. 375)

JEvuptionSf 3Ioist. The parts around the spot touched by it become white and painful, forming a dense vesicle filled with matter

There yet arise larger and smaller vesicles, in groups, with very sensitive itching on the ulnar side of the right thumb and the radial side of the index finger, leaving behind them dry scurfy spots (during sixth week)

All his cicatrices, dating from thirty-two to two years, are red around the edges, and covered here and there with itching vesicles (fourth morning) ; those of more ancient date have larger vesicles; those of recent date are filled with very small pimples, but only on the tissue of the cicatrix, and not on the surrounding skin

Several small light carmine-red, round, elevated, blood-vesicles, resembling little flesh-warts; they are very soft and compressible, and by a strong and steady pressure the blood disappears, but immediately returns again ; the largest is the size of a hempseed, the smaller ones like millet-seeds; some are still smaller, but they are very perceptible as light red enlargements of the capillaries, raising up the cuticle; the largest is an inch below the right nipple, and the same distance towards the right of it, a smaller one, one inch below the same nipple; two on the right side of the median line of the abdomen above the navel; a still smaller one on the right side of the chest; five very small ones of light color on the inside of the right upper and lower arm; he noticed them for the first time about the thirteenth day; three weeks later, some of the smaller ones had disappeared ; the larger had become darker, somewhat resembling nevi materia; those above the navel are also larger; after three months they are paler ; they made their appearance and remained without any itching

On the right index finger, violent itching and small vesicles, in the evening (fifth day)

MrnptiouSf Pustular, The smallest quantity applied to the hand excites violent itching, and pustules filled with matter are formed (Liebig).

The itching on the chest, which causes scratching till it is sore, with small, soft pustules and pimples, which he had had every summer, was much increased on the fourth day; during the fourth week there was suddenly a sensation as if the skin were exceedingly smooth, wherewith all inclination to scratch disappeared, lasting one day, then the itching returned, but was diminished and gradually disappeared earlier in the season than usual

Subjective, Some pain, redness, and heat; the epidermis came off in scales after a few days

It acts most powerfully on the animal tissues; on coming in contact with the skin, there ensues a violent pain,'h

Itching all over in different places, but for the most part only in the posterior portions; for five weeks

Itching the whole day in different spots, particularly on the back (fourth day)

Slight itching (part of S. 551)

The itching of the skin is a fine crawling on a small spot, and so penetrating and sticking that he is obliged to scratch several times, when he is relieved; it was somewhat pricking, acute, very circumscribed, and scratching was quite irresistible; usually there were several of these itching points in one group, though they could not always be recognized

(The itching of the skin habitual to him in the month of March disappears)

Burning pains on small spots of the skin on the back of the right hand, angle of the index finger, and here and there on the left hand

Itching-burning on a small spot near the right eye, externally (after several hours)

Creeping and severe itching on the right shoulder in the evening (after five or six hours)

Itching in the brows

Itching in the right eyebrow

Itching in the upper eyelids and the inner canthi

Itching, inducing him to scratch on both upper eyelids (first evening)

Itching on the right side of the face

Itching on the left breast and right side of the nose (after smelling),'®.-

In the evening, itching on the right nipple and around it; the nipple is the next morning much larger, more red, and the areola darker; a thin, brownish crust is formed, as if caused by perspiration and dust, with uncleanliness, on the areola; on the left side there is no trace of it, and it must have formed very rapidly, because of daily washing (twelfth and thirteenth days)

Itching on the left side of the nape of the neck, on top and below the shoulder, and on the back, every morning and evening (fourth and following days)

Itching on the left shin, on the left glutei muscles, and forehead, which compels rubbing

Itching in the small of the back

Itching in the left heel (from smelling)

/i!c/ung of all cicatrices in the evening; they are all on the left side; on the thigh, upper arm, and the most recent on the left hand, cut by glass; this last itches most severely (third day)

In the evening, changing from the top of one shoulder to the other, severe itching, with now and then a single stitch in the skin (first day)

A very severe itching on the throat and chest, in the forepart, so that he was obliged to scratch it during his walk in the evening (tenth day)

Violent itching, which distresses him particularly in the evening, on a small spot in the centre of the perineum (from the second week, increasing until the sixth and seventh)

Violent itching on the cicatrice of an old abscess on the inside of the left thigh (third day)

Violent itching in the scars on the ball of the left thumb and joint of the index finger, in the afternoon (eighth day)

Itching above the anus, suddenly and most violent, often returning (thirteenth and following days)

Irresistible violent itching in a spot as large as a pea in the middle of the left scapula (sixth and seventh weeks)

A really tormenting itching in the forenoon, almost only on the back, though sometimes on the throat, extending to the chest; he was obliged to undress and rub with a brush, when it disappeared (twelfth and thirteenth days)

Burning itching in the right eyebrow, disappears after scratching (one hour after fifth dose)

Pricking burning-itching near os coccygis towards the right (fourth day)

Sticking itching in the face

Sticking itching on the inner side of the left little finger

Slight itching like fine prickings, on the right side of the face (after one hour)

Violent pricking itching on detached spots, mostly on the left side, particularly on the side of the chest towards the back, and on the thigh, in the evening, about 10 to 11 oclock (third and following days)

The itching is most violent and lasts longest on the back

The itching is always worse in the evening

Soreness of warts on the left hand

Sleep and Dreams p. 352

Sleepiness, Drowsiness

Drowsiness, constant sleepiness, for the first five days after the acid

Periodical attacks of sleepiness, in the afternoon

Sleepiness by paroxysms, in the afternoon (second day)

Unconquerable sleepiness in the morning soon after taking the acid ; after a short and refreshing sleep, it nevertheless returns every two hours until evening

Sleepy earlier in the evening (during the first two weeks)

He is sleepy unusually early in the evening, with sound sleep and early w^aking (eighth day)

Sleepy early in the evening; lies down on the bed undressed, and sleeps the whole night; although the window and door were wide open, and the night was very cold, yet he had taken no cold in the morning, but had had a very good sleep (seventh day)

Sudden sleepiness, in the evening (fifth, seventh, eighth, tenth, and twelfth days)

Sudden sleep in the evening ; he sleeps straight through till morning (tenth day)

Suddenly sleepy after drinking wine in the evening; he lies down and does not wish to rise; on going to bed he becomes wide awake, and the face feels so warm that he is obliged to wash himself (fifth day)

He becomes sleepy every forenoon, or is so prostrated and weary that he is obliged to lie down, about 10, 11, and 12 a.m. (first week)

The last hours before noon he is always sleepy, dizzy, and tired, for several weeks

Suddenly falls asleep in the evening, then sleeps the whole night, and also very long in the morning (twelfth day)

Much more sleep than usual (fourth evening)

Long sound sleep, for several days (second week)

Profound sleep until late in the morning (during first week for several days)

He feels better than usual on waking in the morning, till the fifth day

Snoring in his sleep and exclamations in the dreary

Sleeplessness. No desire to sleep

Sleeplessness, scarcely any inclination to sleep

Sleeplessness from the time he has gone to bed until near morning, when a very short and light sleep ivill be sufficient to refresh him, as if he had slep>t all night

Day and night without his usual sleep; he feels as if he had already slept

Goes to bed sleepy, but is unable to fall asleep on account of his thoughts

He is unusually wakeful in the evening (eighth day)

After a walk in the evening he was wide awake and excited, although he had been sleepy very early the day previous (eighth day)/

He is easily awakened when called at night, but is unusually weary while walking, indifferent, and relaxed (third day)

Restless nights, with many dreams, which he cannot recollect

Frequent waking at night, yet in the morning he had finished his sleep much earlier than usual (sixth to tenth days)

Notwithstanding going to bed very late he wakes frequently, and has many dreams; yet he wakes very early in the morning and feels better than usual (during the first week)

Dreams. Dreams towards morning (for the first time, on ninth and tenth days)

Dreams, particularly towards morning, and generally of a frightful character

Many dreams for fifteen nights, quite ^nusual

Many dreams, but only after midnight (seventh day)

All his dreams were very lucid, as if they really happened; although sometimes disagreeable, were never vexatious

Very vivid and detailed dream at night, which he thought he remembered, but which he forgot; it consisted of the thoughts of the day, with a character of Chinese circumstantiality and useless precision (after a few days)

Restless nights, dreams easy to remember, of the occurrences of the day; in a person who has not dreamed for years

The whole night very vivid dreams, with minuteness of detail ; he forgets them soon after waking (after several days)

Dreams of distant acquaintances and things the whole night (second night)

Soon after falling asleep, anxious, frightful dreams, with waking up at midnight; the rest of the night, many dreams of distant acquaintances; in a person who almost never dreams (first day)

A very vivid dream; sees his nearest relatives die (second day)

He dreams of the sudden death of his little son, and also of the son of one of his friends; thinks that in both cases he has been to blame, because he has neglected physical examination and mechanical remedies; reproaches himself very much and weeps bitterly, and on waking is very happy that it is not true (first day)

Dreams that he was dead, and orders the rapid removal of the corpse out of the house

Fever p. 353

Chilliness. Violent febrile chill, toward evening (first day)

Chilliness in the left arm and in the whole body (after one hour)

General heat (after two hours), (part of S. 252)

General heat, after little exercise (first evening)

General, heat, with nausea

General feeling of heat, heaviness, and lameness of the whole body (after one hour)

He feels warmer than usual, so that the March air is very agreeable (after a few hours)

The first evening, and still more during the next morning, a sensation of greater warmth, with inclination to uncover; cold bathing is more than ordinarily agreeable, especially repeated washing behind the ears and on the nape of the neck (first and the following day, but less)

After becoming cold in the open air, he becomes warm much sooner than usual (after a few days)

Sensation as if a burning vapor was emitted from the pores of the whole body

Heat of the ’face, during an animated conversation in the evening

Heat of the face, after drinking wine

Heat in the palm of the right hand, the succeeding forenoon

Slight fever heat under the eyes, soon after the second dose

Strong heat, extending from the centre of the dorsal region to the loins (after three hours)

A slight glow on the lower part of the right buttock, towards the outer part, in a spot as large as two hands, in the evening

Now and then warm flushes, like a warm breath, from the nape of the neck to the occiput, lasting eight days

Burning, more externally, in different places, but always on one spot; on the right thigh, left upper arm, left thigh, etc., also on the fingers; at 9 p.m. (after fourth dose)

Perspiration, particularly in the face (third and following days)

Perspiration breaks out, with anxious imaginings

Profuse, sour, offensive perspiration; in the afternoon

For several evenings, a glutinous, annoying perspiration, with itching here and there

Unusually profuse, dripping, and glutinous perspiration, Avith itching, for several evenings, in warm weather, while walking

Bathed in cold clammy perspiration,’®

(A perspiration in the palms of the hands, even in cold dry weather, and with the backs of the hands dry and cool, the palms being constantly so moist that every one who shook hands with him observed it, which remained after Lobelia; disappeared on the fourth day of the Fluoric acid proving)

Perspiration and sensation of heat on the upper part of the body towards the right, particularly along the right of the nape of the neck almost to the shoulder, as if in Alarm streams; from 7 to 8 p.m. (second day)

Conditions p. 354

Aggravation.

(Morning), Until breakfast, dulness in head; shortly after Awaking, pain in occiput; sensitiveness of hearing; sneezing, etc.; on waking, taste in mouth; on Awaking, heaviness in arm; particularly on getting in and out of bed, soreness, etc., in left hip.

(Forenoon), After 10 oclock, after quick, short movement, etc., shaking in head.

(Afternoon), Taste in mouth; chilly

(Evening), Discontented ; after lying doAvn, pain in forehead, etc.; pain in fingers; itching.

(Night), Thirst; itching on shoulder.

(Ale), Coryza.

(Cold), Pain in teeth.

(Exercise), Heat in stomach, etc.

(Passage of flatus). Pain in bowels.

(Motion), Pain in left chest.

(Reclining), Oppression in chest, etc.

(Rest), Many symptoms.

(On rising). All symptoms.

(In room). While reading or writing, almost all symptoms.

(Standing), Many symptoms.

(Stooping), Pain in upper forehead ; pain in forehead, etc.; pressure upon eye.

(Sitting and writing). Painfulness of chest; pain in back.

(Beginning walking after standing). Determination of blood to forehead.

(JVann weather). Itching, etc.

( Wine), Heat of face; determination of blood to anus.

(Red wine). Fluent coryza, etc.

Amelioration p. 354

(Morning), Cheerful, etc.

(Bandaging), Sensation in abdomen.

(After breakfast). Pains cease, except in head.

(Cold water). Pain in upper jaw.

(Eating), Sensation in abdomen.

(Excitement), Coryza.

(Exercise), Contraction in muscles of neck.

(Friction), Pain in knee.

(Motion), The symptoms.

( Walking), All symptoms ; pain in anklejoint.

Footnotes p. 349

† The prover resides in Norfolk, Va., situate 36° 50'' of N. latitude.