Iris Versicolor

Iris versicolor, Linn.

Natural order, Iridacese. Coinmon name. Blue flag.

Authorities. 1, Dr. J. G. Rowland, Thesis Phil. Horn. Med. College, 1852, effects of 3d dil.; la, same, effects of 1st dil.; 1 b, same, effects of nearly 1^ ounces of tinct.; 2, another prover, effects of 1st and 3d dils. and tinct.; 3, another prover took 1st and 3d dils. and tinct.; 4, another prover took 1st trituration ; 5, Dr. William A. Burt, proving with 3 grains green root (twice) first day; 10 grains of green and 20 of dried root, second day; 30 drops tinct., third day ; 4 grains of green root, fourth and fifth days, Hale’s New Remedies, 2d ed.; 5 a, same, subsequent proving with 50 grains of green root; 5 b, same, proving with “ Irisin;” Note: Probably the mongrel so-called resinoid, there being no alkaloids known to exist in the natural order Iridacese.—T. F. A.; repeated doses of 1st dec. trit. to 20 grains of crude; 6, Dr. William A. Holcombe, proving with 2 or 3 drops of strong tinct. four times a day for five days, Hale’s New Remedies, 2d ed.; 7, Dr. Sandford ; a lady took 2 or 3 one-grain pills of Irisin for several days (for constipation, without relief); 8, Berridge, N. Am. J. of Horn., N. S., 2, 57, Mrs.-took repeated doses of 6th dil. for eleven days ; 9, Dr. Croker took 6th dil., H. Am. J. of Horn., N". S., 2, p. 58; 10, Wesselhoeft’s provings, Trans. Am. Inst, of Horn., 1868, effect of chewing fresh root; Note: Was suffering from severe habitual headache at the time; this headache disappeared entirely in half an hour, though hitherto it had invariably lasted till he went to bed; 10 a, same, took repeated doses of 5th dil. for three days; Note: The prover had been suffering from sore throat for five days, with irritation of the larynx in the evening, and dryness and burning along the edge of the soft palate, which awoke him nights; the tonsils were swollen and painful on swallowing; this sore throat did not trouble him throughout the first day of the proving, better second day, well forenoon of third day; 10 b, same prover afterwards took 2 daily doses of 3d dec. dil., beginning with 10 and ending with 25 drops, for six days; on seventh and eighth days took 1st dec. dil. twice daily 10 to 20 drop doses; 10 e, same, proving with the tinct. doses 10 to 50 drops; 11, Mrs. N. (from same), a dose of Iris (?); Note: She had been troubled for the past few days with nausea and disordered stomach, but after taking the medicine it passed off, and she ate a hearty dinner; she afterwards took a dose of 5th dec. dil.; 12, Mrs. S. (from same) took 5th dec. dil., first and second days; 13, Dr. Squire (from same), provings with tinct. in doses of 1 to 20 drops; 14, Dr. Burman, provings with 1 to 20 drops of tinct. (from same); 15, Mrs. D. B. H., took 5th dec. dil., night and morning (same) ; 16, Mr. D. B. H., took same (same); 17, Mr. C. B. Fox, took same (same).

Mind p. 154

Emotional, Much mental depression

Great depression of spirits, with the headache

Despondency; thinks he is going to be very sick, then a disposition to laugh at his fears, which, however, soon return

Nervous fretfulness, lasting all day

Vexed, irritable mood, disposed to find fault

Feels irritable, cross with her children, dislikes every one (third, fourth, and fifth days)

Very irritable through the day (sixth day)/-

Awoke feeling very irritable (fourth morning)

Ill humor

A disposition to feel displeased with everything and everybody, which gives place to a feeling of liveliness and activity

Intellectual. Inability to fix the mind on any subject; when writing mind will wander to other things

Cannot fix my mind on my studies (fourth day)

Dulness of the head (mental faculties and special senses), (five minutes after 3d dose)

Weakness of memory (in twenty-four hours)

Head p. 154

Vertigo. Immediate dizziness,”; with pressure in forehead

Sudden dizziness, immediately, soon passing oft

Slight giddiness, coming on suddenly while walking within doors,’®._General Head. Slight momentary dulness of head (resembling vertigo),’®._ Lightness in the head, after the giddiness

Head feels very heavy, eyes dull, with pain directly over the left superciliary ridge,’'’._Sensation of fulness of the head

Headache, with pain in the bowels,®._ Headache, much aggravated by coughing

Slight headache

Headache is very troublesome (eleventh day)

Headache occurring irregularly several days

Headache, gradually diminished (five minutes after 2d dose, first day)

Dull, heavy headache (twelfth day); all day (sixth and seventh days)

Stupid and stunning headache, with the neuralgia (fourth day); violent headache (fifth day)

Slight, dull, stupid headache (second day)

Headache for two days ; the third day he was seized with a peculiar headache; the pain shot, as he describes it, like an electric shock, from the right temple to the left part of occiput, and continued for about half an hour; headache with great depression ’of spirits and general debility

Acute pains in the head, as if the top of the head would come off; felt chiefly in the forehead and vertex, after having been in the cold air, and on making quick motions, in the morning, soon after taking (eighth day).’®

Fovehecid, Pain in the forehead and left temple (second day)

Pain in forehead at intervals (third day)

Slight pain in forehead, and considerable in posterior fontanelle, at 6 p.m. (second day)

Slight pain in forehead, changing from side to side (second day)

Good deal of pain in the forehead and temples (eighth day)

Tightness across the forehead

Whenever attempting to laugh, a sensation as though a baud drawn tightly around the forehead prevents

Frontal headache, with dizziness occasionally, in the evening

Dull headache in the frontal region (six hours and a half after first dose, first day)

Dull, heavy headache iu the forehead (one hour after first dose, first day); (second day)

Dull, heavy headache in the forehead and temples (fourth, fifth, and ninth days)

Temples, Slight pain in right temple (five minutes after third dose)

Slight dull pain in right temple, which in five minutes passed over top of head, behind left ear, and ceased in one minute more (ten minutes after first dose)

At times the pain in the temples is very sharp (first, second, fifth, and tenth days)

By spells the pains in the temples are very sharp and shooting (fourth day)

Severe shooting pains pass through the temples several times a day, for a fortnight

On moving jaws, e. g., in eating or talking, a tender feeling of mastoid processes, extending half way down jaw along edge of bone (eighth day)

Throbbing pain in both mastoid processes; it lasts about fifteen minutes, then there is a tingling there for three or four minutes, then all ceases for fifteen minutes; the warmth of hand slightly relieved pain, in the afternoon (sixth day)

Fcirietals, Dull pain in the right parietal protuberance, which increases steadily until it becomes a hammering pain, and so much aggravated by motion, that for the moment it appears unbearable, but by continuing movement it gradually abates, returning again when at rest

Acute and extremely severe boring pain in right parietal protuberance, causing him to bend down his head

Oceiptlt. Slight dull pain at situation of posterior fontanelle (after first dose); considerable at 6 p.m. (second day)

Severe stitch in inferior part of occiput, more on the right than on the left side (after two hours)

TjJCtevilCll Head, Top of the head has just twenty-six pustules on it, some of them as large as a three-cent piece; the pustule is situated upon an inflamed base of a rose color, with red streaks running from one to another ; they contain yellow matter ; very tender to the touch ; gradually disappearing in four days (after nine days)

Tight constrictive feeling of the scalp (one hour after first dose, first day)

Face p. 155

Eyes much sunken in (second day)

Severe burning pain in the internal canthus of the right eye

Redness of the conjunctiva, as if from cold

Eye filling with tears

Profuse flow of tears (after fifteen minutes, fourth day)

Ears p. 155

Pressure towards and out at the ears (first day)

Nose p. 155

Sneezing, immediately

Face p. 155

General appearance of anguish

Expression of great anguish in the face

Flushed face (second day)

Cracked lips

Dry, cracked lips

* Wahed with neuralgic pains in the right side of the face; darting stitches in two carious teeth; pain affects especially the infra-orbital nerve ; facial neuralgia passed (third day); facial neuralgia, involving the supra- and infra-orbital, and the superior maxillary, and the inferior dental nerves; began after breakfast, with stupid or stunning headache, and lasted several hours, with great severity (fourth day) ; began after breakfast, and continued with terrible severity for twenty hours; violent headache accompanied it, and general malaise (fifth day) ; dull soreness where the neuralgia had been (sixth day)

Mouth p. 156

Teeth. [70.j Toothache

Slight toothache, in a warm room,*!.

Teeth sore (tenth day)

Teeth feel elongated and sore ; back, upper, and lower molars; dull, heavy, aching pain in them for three hours (second and third days)

Teeth feel too long and are very sore (second day)

(jrll'l'US. Swelling of gums on the inner surface of left side of lower jaw, under the molar teeth

Touffue. Tongue coated white (fifth day)

Tongue and gums greasy or slimy, in the morning

Tongue feels thick, at 7 a.m. (second day)

General Mouth. Rugae of roof of mouth appear to sight enlarged, pale, and two on right side are excoriated (sixth day)

Feeling of a greasy coating over mouth and tongue, early in the morning

Burning and smarting of palate and fauces

Mouth and stomach feel on fire (after fifteen minutes, fourth day)

Back part of the mouth and fauces felt on fire all the afternoon, with profuse flow of saliva (first day)

Soreness of the roof of the mouth, with roughness of the hard palate, very painful on being touched with the tongue or solid food, for several days; this is aggravated by a defective filled tooth, painful, feeling too long, and very tender when used

Soreness of hard palate

Great feeling of rawness of roof of mouth just behind front teeth ; worse from hot or cold drinks, eating, touching with tongue, and especially from onions or cheese ; also a feeling as if the skin of that part were hanging loose (third day) ; constant (fourth and fifth days) ; extend down to throat (sixth day) ; the same rawness of roof of mouth just behind the front teeth, but without the feeling of loose skin ; after eating cherries in the morning (thirteenth day)

* Mouth and tongue feel as though they had been scalded, in the morning (second day)

Mouth feels as if it had been scalded, tongue thick and rough, at 4 a.m. (fifth day)

Saliva. "^Increased saliva

* Profuse flow of saliva (immediately); (after three hours, fifth day), continuing all day (after fifteen minutes, fourth day)

* Constant discharge of ropy saliva dropped from my moid during conversation (second day)

Taste. Mouth tastes flat, at 7 A.M. (second day)

Flat taste in the mouth (second, fifth, tenth, and eleventh days),®*>.

Bad taste

Acrid taste of the plant (first day)

Taste so acrid that it was with difficulty that I could get my breath (first dose, second day, after fifteen minutes, fourth day)

Loss of taste (fifth day)

Throat p. 156

Rough throat, running saliva

Burning in the throat, palate, and tonsils, increased by expiration, diminished by inspiration (five minutes after first dose) ; increased (after second dose) ; same symptoms (after third dose, first day) ; increased (third day)

Sore throat

Sore throat, with slight soreness of the chest, after the stiffness and lameness had disappeared

A feeling of rawness in the throat (after half an hour)

Taste at first sweetish, and resembling that of slipperyelm bark; he thought it quite insipid at first, but then began a smarting, burning, and scratching sensation in the soft palate, at first slight, but slowly increasing to a violent fiery heat, spreading over the whole extent of the fauces, upward towards the nares, and far down into the oesophagus ; the throat felt as if it were three times as large as usual, and like a fiery cavern ; drinking water alleviated the burning for a short time only ; many enlarged bright-red bloodvessels became visible on the uvula, palate, and posterior wall of fauces; the heat, redness, and painful burning lasted for two hours and a half, very gradually subsiding (after five minutes)

(Had to run a long distance in the afternoon to reach the cars; got very much heated and into a profuse perspiration ; took cold in the cars; sore throat again in the evening; burning, smarting, dryness of palate and fauces; feeling as if a horsehair were drawn tightly across the left palate, with burning and smarting; then took ten drops in a teaspoonful of water on going to bed ; for half all hour the smarting increased; slept two hours and awoke without the smarting (second night) ; in the morning raised some loose mucus without coughing ; never had the sore throat without subsequent severe coryza and catarrhal cough for several days ; in this instance the affection was decidedly arrested at the outset)

JJviila and Tonsils. Tonsils, uvula, and soft palate bright-red, with engorgement of larger vessels (second day)

Fa uces Pharynx, and (Eosi)1iagilS. Heat about fauces, soft palate and tonsils, soon changing into smarting and burning; relieved by inhaling cold air; deglutition not painful but more difficult; the burning lasted over two hours (after a few minutes, first day)

Burning in the fauces (after first dose) ; some burning in the throat; burning extends down the course of oesophagus to pit of stomach, with slight nausea (after second dose) ; gradually wore off towards evening

Some burning in fauces, palate, tonsils, and back of tongue; increased very much during expiration ; diminished very much during inspiration (five minutes after first dose); almost immediately (after second dose) ; increased (after third dose) ; diminished gradually until evening

Slight burning in fauces, as if from taking cayenne pepper ; only felt in expiration ; continued till he went to sleep (after fifteen minutes, first day) ; the same burning, more severe, extending slightly to tip of tongue ; it was felt slightly on inspiration; quite severe during expiration (second day)

Very frequent spasms of the oesophagus, with inability to swallow ; the food sticks in the throat, with choking and gagging

Burning extends down oesophagus to stomach (eight minutes after first dose, third day)

Swallowing. Difficult deglutition while eating; food sticks in the pharynx requiring several efforts of deglutition to swallow it (after eight hours, first day)

Stomach p. 157

Appet ite. Increased appetite (after larger doses of tincture)

Loss of appetite,*; (second day)

No appetite (fifth day)

No appetite at dinner (third day)

Fvuetation. Empty eructations and pain in the stomach

Frequent empty eructations, in the course of the day (second day)

Constant eructation of gas (seventh day)

Frequent eructations of tasteless gas (third day)

* Constant eructations of tasteless gas (fourth day),**; during the whole period

Constant eructations of sour gas (second day)

Stomach very sour (second day)

Food rises very sour (after seven hours and a half, first day); (four hours and a half after first dose, first day)

Heartbucn. Heartburn, several times in the day ; a hot cramplike sensation rises upward from pit of stomach (second day)

Nausea and Vomiting. ^Nausea (five minutes after second dose, first day)

Nausea and eructations of wind

Nausea, straining, and belching of wind

Nausea, belching of a large quantity of wind (ten minutes after second dose, third day)

Nausea, and vomiting of a thin watery fluid of an exceedingly sour taste; constant nausea for more than an hour, and vomiting several times (first and second day)

Nausea and slight vomiting of watery and extremely sour fluid, immediately

Slight nausea (after third dose)

Slight nausea, eructation of much wind, at 6 p.m. (second day)

Slight nausea, with much belching of wind (ten minutes after third dose)/

Nauseous feeling in abdomen, like the beginning of seasickness, soon (seventh day)

Sickness of stomach in the evening, obliging him to lie down

Frequent and violent efforts to vomit, resulting, however, in little more than an enormous discharge of air, which seemed to move off the stomach in very great force,b

She vomited up several of the pills before she was relieved of one of the most severe attacks of colic I ever witnessed

Stomach, Rumbling and uneasiness in the stomach, accompanied by diarrhoea, with little pain

Uneasy feeling in the scrobiculus cordis, together with rumbling in the lower part of the abdomen ; increased until the lower part of the sternum seemed protruding (after fifteen minutes)

Great distress in the stomach; lasted two hours (half an hour after second dose, second day)

Great distress in the epigastric region ; the distress is horrible to endure (after three hours) ; increasing (after three hours and a half) ; very restless, cannot be still one moment; think I cannot live; very much frightened ; copious discharge of thin water from the bowels, but no abatement of the awful agony in the epigastric region; inhaled chloroform, which gave a little relief; another large stool of water, tinged with bile; the water ran from the bowels in a continuous stream; nearly two quarts of water passed ; there was great rumbling in the bowels, but no pain; this gave great relief (after four hours and a half, fifth day)

* Great burning distress in the epigastric region, but not much in the mouth; it is awful, cold water does not seem to reach it (immediately), (first day)

One-half hour of great pain and distress in the stomach ; it is awful to bear; continued all the afternoon and evening; it is not a sharp pain, but an awful, burning distress; appears to be deep in the region of the pancreas; cold water does not touch it (after fifteen minutes, fourth day)

Feeling of fulness of stomach, followed by eructations of wind, which relieves it (eight minutes after first dose, first day)

Pinching at pit of stomach (first day)

Aching pain in the stomach before breakfast

Aching pain in the stomach after drinking cold water

Slight twisting pain in the stomach

Abdomen p. 158

Hypochondria, Pain of a dull, aching character, in right hypochondrium, when walking

Umbilical and Flanks. Rumbling all the afternoon in the umbilical region (third day)

Great deal of rumbling in the umbilical and hypogastric regions, with desire for stool; had a soft papescent stool, without pain (second day)

Awoke at 4 a.m., with great rumbling and distress in the umbilical and hypogastric regions, and with great desire for stool, followed immediately by a copious, thin, watery stool, which could not be retained a moment without pain; another thin watery stool, with great rumbling in the bowels, at 8 a.m. (fifth day)

Uterine pain in the umbilical region, passing in successive shocks (like the effects of a galvanic battery) upward to the epigastric region, followed or accompanied by nausea, straining and belching of wind

Severe colic in the umbilical region; pains came on every few minutes ; lasted two hours, at 5 p.m. (eighth day)

Severe colic, first in the right, then in the left flank, with urging to stool, in the afternoon (third General Abdomen. Great commotion and rumbling in the bowels above the seat of the pain, but little or none below, with no desire for stool

Great rumbling in the bowels (eighth and ninth day) ; all the time (fourth day)

Flatulence

For a day or two much fetid flatulence

A good deal of fetid flatulence, in the afternoon (fourth day)

A faintness as if the intestines were being revolved in the wrong direction, lasting several hours, and recurring towards evening (soon) (seventh day)

* Paw in abdomen, which is relieved by discharge of flatus

Slight pain in bowels, with heat and soreness, as after a cold, and with premonitions of diarrhoea; this lasted for three hours (after half an hour)

Flying pains all through the bowels (second day)

* Sharp, griping pain in bowels, for five minutes, at 6 P.M. (second day)

Bowels very tender on pressure (second day)

Sharp neuralgic pains in bowels (eight minutes, third dose, third day)

* Colicky pains during the evening and night, obliging him to bend forward for relief, and attended with loss of appetite and great restlessness during the night; this colic continued the next day, but was immediately removed by a dose of Nux vomica

Colic in the afternoon, ceasing at night

Slight symptoms of colic after each pill

Iliac Region, Pain in abdomen above the crest of the ilium, both sides

Pain along posterior part of crista ihi of the right side

Rectum and Anus p. 159

Anus feels prolapsed; pained all day (fifth day)

* Constant distress in anus, feeling as if it were prolapsed (second day)

* Severe burning in anus after stool (sixth day); diminishing after each stool (seventh and eighth days)

* Anus feels sore, or as if sharp points were sticking in the parts, in the morning (second day)

Some disposition to stool, with burning at the anus (fifth day)

Violent call to a second stool by a sensation as if wind were forcibly distending the rectum ; no wind was discharged, but I was relieved after discharging a little greenish dark water, attended with severe burning in the anus (sixth day)

Stool p. 159

Diarrhoea, Diarrhoea with colic

Diarrhoea with rumbling and cutting in the lower part of the abdomen

* Thin watery diarrhoea, continuing through the day (third day)

Diarrhoeic stools, succeeded by pain in the umbilical region (fourth day)

After breakfast a diarrhoeic stool, with subsequent pain in the epigastrium

Sudden diarrhoeic stool after supper

Looseness of bowels

Soft, painless stools, with great rumbling in the bowels (twelfth day)

Six dysenteric stools during the night, with pain and rumbling in the lower part of the abdomen

Two greenish-black stools, with burning at the anus (fourth day)

* Very soft, yellow stool, with great rumbling in the bowels, but no pain (fifth day)

Soft, papescent stool (four hours and a half after second dose, third day) ; (five hours after first dose, fourth day) ; in the evening (eighth day)

Soft, papescent stool, with pain in the umbilical region at 5 P.M. (eleventh day)

Soft, papescent stool without pain, but rumbling in the bowels (six hours and a half after second dose, first day)

Soft, papescent stool, with great rumbling in the bowels, at 8 a.m. (seventh day)

Large, yellow, papescent stool, with great rumbling and no pain (after three hours); another large watery stool; the burning in the pancreas (?) is fearful to endure (after three hours and five minutes); another watery stool, with colicky pains in the epigastric region (after three hours and a quarter) ; there has been severe colic in the epigastric and umbilical region for the last two hours; every few moments copious watery stool, with great rumbling in the bowels (after six hours); great pain and distress in the bowels, followed by a large watery stool, still the pain continues (after six hours and a half); ^another watery stool; anus feels on fire (after seven hours); * another watery stool, with a disposition to strain and bear down; great burning in the anus (after seven hours and a half) ; another watery stool, with straining (after nine hours and a half, first day) ; great rumbling in the bowels, with desire for stool; had a profuse one of a watery nature; followed by great straining, Avith the passage of a little mucus, at 4 A.M.; another watery stool, followed by great straining, with the passage of blood aud mucus, at 5 a.m. ; another stool, of mucus streaked with blood, with great tenesmus, at 5.30 a.m. ; stool of Avater and mucus Avith great straining, at 7 a.m. ; copious stool of Avater aud undigested food, Avith great straining, at 9 a.m. ; another of mucus and water, with great tenesmus and rumbling in the bowels, at 10.30 a.m. ; small stool of mucus, with great tenesmus aud rumbling in the bowels; for the last six hours the mucous membrane of the anus has been prolapsed, with great smarting pains, at 12.45 P.M.; another small stool of mucus, with severe tenesmus, at 3 p.m. (second day)

Soft, mushy stool at evening, Avith great rumbling, but no pain (sixth day)

Stools lumpy, brown, and very offensive

Very hard, lumpy stool (fifth day)

Constipation. Constipation several days

Stools costive, and absent altogether for tAvo days

Urinary Organs p. 160

Kidneys. Pain in right kidney; lasted three hours (third day)

Urethra. Cutting and sticking in the urethra Avhen making Avater, Avith coldness and itching over the genitals, the itching being worse on scratching

Sharp cutting pain in the urethra, when commencing to urinate

Micturition. Very frequent, copious, perfectly limpid urine (third and fourth days)

Passed Avater but twice during the day (second day)

Urine. Urine increased in quantity

Increase of urine ; urinated eleven times profusely (twelfth day) ; voided urine in large quantities (thirteenth and fourteenth days)

Urine more copious

The urine Avas very copious, and had a strongly disagreeable odor, during the proving

Urine scanty and of strong odor; very dark and thick in the morning; it passes without force, and only after some straining, but without pain

Urine very scanty and high-colored (fifth day)

Urine very scanty, red, and burning the whole length of the urethra for half an hour after voiding it (second day)

Great diminution of the secretion of urine ; made a very little Avater morning aud night, followed by great burning in the urethra for half an hour after voiding it (fourth day)

Urine very red (second day)

Urine thick, of strong odor, and deep ambercolor (oAAing to excess of uric acid); it floats without force, and even requires some effort to discharge it, but without pain (eighth day)

Sexual Organs p. 160

Male. Inflammation of the glans penis; it is very much Szvollen aud red (second day)

Discharge of semen (third, ninth, tenth, aud eleventh night)

Discharge of semen, Avith amorous dreams (something I am not accustomed to), (first night); (second and fourth days)

Female, Menses (ahvays regular and profuse) appeared three days later than usual, and Averse scanty

Respiratory Organs p. 160

Larynx, Trachea, and Bronchi. A good deal of haAvking and clearing out of the larynx (first day)

Frequent and painful haAvking (screatus) of a tough mucus from the larynx (seventh and eighth days)

Frequent haAvking; cough Avith soreness in trachea, also tickling Without further expectoration, at 10 a.m. (second day)

Catarrhal mucus in a lump rattled up aud doAvu the trachea; at length it Avas expectorated with a sweetish offensive taste at 10 A.M. (second day)

Obstruction and catarrhal soreness of air-passages, at 10 A.M. (second day)

Voice, Very hoarse (second day)

Cough and Expectoration, Short dry cough, excited by tickling in the larynx

Slight hacking cough in the morning, without expectoration, with soreness in the larynx anteriorly (third day)

Raised some phlegm (second morning)

Chest. Rattling of mucus in the chest, not to he raised by hawking (after twelve hours)

Soreness of the chest, across from nipple to nipple, with a tender painful spot on right border of sternum ; pain on inspiration; in the morning (second day)

Awoke at night with severe tickling under top of sternum, and cough, dry and distressing, because nothing could be raised nor the tickling be reached; rattling loose phlegm low down in the windpipe (first day)

Pain in left side of chest

Pain in the left side, as though the ribs were pressing hard upon the lower portion of the lung; unable to take a long breath, for the pain in the left lung, which was of a sticking and cutting character

Cramp in left side, under the ribs

Cramp in the left side, like a knife, lasting a few minutes, followed after awhile by darting pains in the bowels

Heart and JPalse. Action of heart increased in force and frequency; pulse 89 (normal 72), (ten minutes after first dose)

Pulse accelerated

Pulse somewhat accelerated

Pulse feeble and frequent

Back. Stiffness in the back, increasing on sitting down, remaining all the morning (eighth day)

Feeling of weariness in the back for several days

Pain in the back (second day)

Severe backache (second day)

Very severe backache (sixth clay)

Back pains me very much (twelfth day)

Back pains very severely; very much worse by walking (seventh day),Dorsal. Stiffness in trapezius muscles (first day)

Stiffness of trapezius muscle causes constant shrugging of the shoulders and desire to twist the head from side to side; lasted all the forenoon

Lumbar. Constant pain in the lumbar region, aggravated by motion (fifth day)

Great pain in lumbar and sacral regions; almost impossible to walk (sixth day)

Dull heavy pain in the lumbar region all day (fourth and eleventh day)

Crampy pains in the right lumbar region, in the evening, continuing several hours and causing a, sweat to break out

A violent painful tearing in the lumbar region on rising, making it impossible to straighten the body into an erect posture for several moments; can gain the erect posture only very gradually (eighth day)

Feeling of weakness and weariness in the lower part of the back

Pain in the small of the back, all day while sewing (third day)

Considerable stiffness of latissimus dorsi muscle of right side on moving, but not on touch or pressure (eighth day)

Extremities in General p. 161

Pains through the day in almost all the limbs

Tensive, momentary, and constantly recurring pains in all the joints, but mostly the smaller, which shift rapidly about, mostly in the evening, that is, from supper to bedtime

Neuralgic pains, like severe constriction around left upper arm, forearm, and thigh, several times throughout the day (ninth day)

Severe rheumatic pain in the whole right arm and right knee-joint, worse on motion, and continuing when at rest

Superior Extremities p. 161

Shoulder. *Pams tensive and sticking in right shoulder during motion, particularly on raising the. arm (this symptom set in soon after commencing the proving, continued throughout, and was observed for five or six weeks after discontinuing the medicine)

Rheumatic pain in the right shoulder, worse on motion, especially by raising the arm

Aml. Arms between elbow and shoulder became very lame, as after severe exercise, also sore to the touch (after three hours and a half); the lameness soon extended to the shoulders and back of the neck, like rheumatism after taking cold; the stiffness and lameness disappeared during the night

Sharp pain near outside of left arm Avhen moving it

Elbow. Heaviness of elbows and hands, with pain in the back between the shoulders, which finally settled in right arm between elbow and shoulder (third day),'I

Hand. Heavy feeling in hands and elbows, as if the prover had been drinking wine (second day)

Pains in the metacarpal joints of both hands, muscles of right arm, and pectoralis major, mostly during motion and in the evening

Fin fjevs. Pain in the fingers,'h

Pains in phalanges of right hand, and in the end of the index finger of the same hand, in writing (observed several weeks after proving)

Pain in last joint of middle finger of left hand

Continuous sharp pain along the left side of the first phalanx of middle fingers of right hand; sharp pains in the middle fingers of the left hand, succeeded instantly by a similar pain in axilla of same side, occurring frequently during about five minutes

Sharp, cutting pain, frequent, in the metacarpo-phalangeal articulation of thumb of the right hand

A number of shooting, shifting, and momentary pains in the phalangeal and metacarpo-phalangeal articulations

Inferior Extremities p. 162

Almost impossible to walk, my limbs are so weak and painful (second day )

Hip. Pain in left hip-joint when walking

Slight coxalgia in left hip while walking in the evening (first day)

Slight sciatic pain (after first dose, second day)

Painful drawing and lameness behind left trochanter, extending down to the popliteal space; it lasted for an hour, causing him to limp, in the evening (first day)

* Sciatic pains, as if left hip-joint were wrenched, or forced to remain long in an awkward position, several times in the day (eighth day)

Sciatic (neuralgic) twinges in hip-joint, pain as if wrenched, followed by a burning ache, several times (ninth day)

Violent tearing pain in the right hip-joint, knee, and shoulders, very severe, the most severe only lasting about two or three minutes (second day)

Sciatic twinges behind left trochanter several times, quite severe, with lameness, in the morning while writing (fourth day)

TMfjh. Sudden rheumatic lameness of posterior femoral region, while exercising in the morning, causing a limp (after twenty-two hours)

Pain in left thigh

In the course of the morning, the pain took the direction of left sciatic nerve; could not walk without limping; pain shooting from behind large trochanter down posterior part of left thigh into the foot on every motion, particularly while walking, till 4 p.m., when it passed off; marked sciatica of left side ; never had anything of this nature before; when he takes cold, it never assumes the form of rheumatism or neuralgia (second day); immediately on rising, severe pain in left sciatic nerve only in walking; pain more acute, and with more soreness than yesterday; pain only on motion, with weakness of the left leg; cannot walk without limping, yet violent exercise, running, or jumping, does not increase the pain more than moderate exertion (third day)

jBCwee. Pains in the right, then in the left knee, when walking

Knees weak and trembling (after six hours and a half, first day),®*.-^ Leg. Calves of the legs pain very much when walking, especially the right (second day)

Shooting, sticking pain in right foot

Toes. Sharp pain in first joint of great toe of right foot when walking, renewed frequently during the day

The pain in first joint of great toe occurs, during walking, for a number of days

Generalities p. 162

Objective. General languor,'®.-Languid and feverish in the afternoon; no disposition to mental or physical exercise

Great lassitude

Debility and loss of appetite (third day),'._ General debility with the headache

Weakness

Weakness and languor, with rumbling in the bowels (second day)

Much prostration

Very much exhausted (second day)/

Worn out by fatigue and suffering ; I got no relief or sleep but by the inhalation of chloroform (fifth day)/.

Faint and exhausted (after six hours and a half, first day)

Subjective. General malaise with the neuralgia (fifth day)

Felt as if he had taken a cold, with lameness of trunk and lumbar region (second day)

Skin p. 163

Several pimples on lower extremities and other parts of the body, like mosquito-bites

A pimple on middle finger of left hand; the next day the inflammation was extended over the hand ; the day after it became more violent, and occasioned great pain, and w^as afterwards opened to obtain relief; no pus was found, but it was subsequently formed, and discharged through the opening, which penetrated as far as the bone; a fungous growth meanwhile had taken place around the edges; pain extended from the hand up the arm; there was much swelling and paint in the part affected, which had much the appearance of a malignant boil; there \vas a disposition to a similar formation on the index finger, but the inflammation subsided after a time, and finally disappeared

Seven small vesicles appeared on the right wrist, which gradually formed into pustules, having a depression in the centre; these dried up in one night, leaving crusts, which remained nine days before disappearing (after taking medicine five days),*®.]

Boils on back, face, and hands/.

Intense itching of the face, as if she could tear it to pieces, worse when warm from exercise, at 11 A.M. (second day ); continues at times (fourth and fifth days)

Sleep and Dreams p. 163

Slee2ness. Sleepy, dulness, and dizziness of head (ten minutes after second dose, third day)

Feeling of sleepiness, with great chilliness, only feeling at all comfortable when near a very hot fire, and even then cold; chilly sensations are felt down the back (second day)

Great desire to sleep in the daytime; fell asleep while reading (third day)

Drowsiness and loss of appetite (second day)

Sleeplessness. Restless night (second night)

Restlessness for five nights in succession

Unusual restlessness during the night; sleep disturbed by startings/.

Restless at night, with troublesome dreams

Restless night; bad dreams (sixth and eleventh days)

Restless night; horrid dreams (fourth night)

Restless night; dreamed of snakes and everything bad (third night)/®.

Restless night; dreamed of digging up dead people, and finally fell into a grave, which awoke me, feeling very much frightened (eighth night)

Very restless at night (first night)/®.

Very restless night; awful dreams of the dead (ninth and tenth nights)

Sleep very restless (fifth day)

Sleep very restless all night, with bad dreams (fourth night)

Woke up unusually early, with dry mouth and general depression

Woke two hours earlier than usual, with no disposition to renew sleep

Dr earns. Amorous dreams, with discharges of semen (fifth day)

Dreams of fighting, etc. (first night)

Dreams of suffocation and fire

Dreamed of dissecting a woman who was hanging up by the heels in my office; awoke very much frightened; made several attempts to get up to shut the door, but could not; it was a real nightmare (third day)

Fever p. 163

Chilliness. Great chilliness over the whole body during the night, although abundantly covered (second night)

Theat, Fever (second day)

Heat over the whole body, then chilliness, with cold hands and feet

Head feels hot, and face flushed

Hands hot and dry all day (third and fourth days)

Heat of tue palms

Swecit, Sweat over the whole body, particularly in the groin

Conditions p. 164

Aggravation.

(Morning), Soreness of anus.

(Afternoon), Colic.

(Evening), Pain in joints; pain in shoulder; pain in metacarpal joints.

(Coughing), Headache.

(Expiration), Burning in throat, etc.

(Motion), Pain in parietal protuberance; pains in joints; pain in lumbar region; pain in arm, etc.; particularly on raising arm, pain in metacarpal joints.

( Walking), Pain in hypochondrium; pain in back ; pain in hip; pains in knee; pains in calves; pain in great toe.

(When warm from exercise). Itching of face.

Amelioration p. 164

(Inspiration), Burning in throat, etc.

(Continued movement), Pain in parietal protuberance.

(After stool). Burning in anus.

Resina Itu.

Aidhority. Mure, Pathogen. Bresil.

Head p. 164

Vertigo, with tendency to fall to the right (first day).

The head is heavy, it falls forward (eighth day).

Stunning pain in head, worse on stooping (first day).

Pressive pain in forehead and on the eyes (second day).

Lancinationiike knife cuts in the right side of the forehead (second day).

Beating in the right temple; the pain extends to the ear and maxillary joint (second day).

Eyes p. 164

Lancinating pain in the left orbit, extending to the eyebrow (eighth day).

Nictitation of the eyes (eighth day).

Heaviness of the eyes when walking (eighth day).

Burning in the eyelids (eighth day).

Muscle volitantes like pins heads (eighth day).

Head p. 164

Earache from the least dampness, descending to the maxillary joint (first day).

Sudden detonating sensation in the ear, with frightful pain extending to the teeth, for two or three minutes; this paroxysm recurs at hourly intervals four times during the forenoon (seventh day); the detonations in the ears occur as often as eight times during the day (eighth day).

Nose p. 164

Frequent sneezing (ninth day).

Coryza (ninth day).

Mouth p. 164

Toothache, aggravated by cold drinks (eighth day).

Red tongue (twelfth day).

Great difficulty in moving the tongue and in speaking (twelfth day).

The tongue feels thick and as if it filled the whole mouth, though really but slightly swollen (twelfth day).

Throat p. 164

Pain in the throat, with sensation of a plus; in the pharynx (twelfth day).

Tonsillitis (twelfth day).

Stomach p. 164

Vvolouged hiccoughing (second day).

Nausea, aggravated by movement (second day).

Abdomen p. 164

Pain in the left hypochondrium on bending forward (second day).

Lancinating pain in the region of the liver, worse when walking or stooping (eighth day).

Pain in the abdomen from within outwards (first day).

Cold feeling in the hypogastrium, especially in the evening (first day).

Antis p. 164

Burning pain at the anus, after sitting (eighth day).

Profuse painless diarrhoea (seventh day).

Copious, yellow, diarrhoeic stools (seventh day).

Involuntary stools (sixth day).

Bright-yellow stool, which cannot be retained when standing up (ninth day).

Sexual Organs p. 165

Burning at the vulva, followed by violent itching (ninth day).

Chest p. 165

Pain in the left breast, worse when walking (twelfth day).

Neck and Back p. 165

Great stiffness of the nape of the neck, preventing him from raising or inclining the head (fifth day).

Pain at the nape of the neck, penetrating to the forehead and causing numbness, and a heaviness which draws the head down (fifth day).

Pain in the left side of the neck, as from torticollis (second day).

Pain in the posterior spine of the ilium, when stretching the leg or rising, for several days in succession (twelfth day).

Inferior Extremities p. 165

Numbness of the legs; he cannot stand upright on rising from a seat (fourth day).

Heaviness in the legs and weariness in the evening (ninth day).

Severe pain in the knee-joint (twelfth day).

Crampy pain from the calf to the heel (ninth day).

Crampy pain at the tendo Achillis (ninth day).

Numbness at the ankle-joint, after sitting (first day).

Great numbness in the ankle-joint, whenever he rises from a seat (seventh day).

Cramps at the left tarsal joint (sixth day).

Skin p. 165

Much itching in the right arm, which is covered with deep-red pimples, rounded like pins heads; the itching ceases in the daytime, but the eruption lasts all day ; pimples on the left side of the neck ; they are less inflamed, but cause the same itching (fourth day).

The pimples on the arm and neck disappear gradually (fifth day).

Violent itching near the sternal extremity of the right clavicle, followed by a moist eruption, which disappears in six hours (third day).

Violent itching on the left breast and nipple, especially in the morning (twelfth day).

Sleep p. 165

Light but unbroken sleep at night (second day).

Fever p. 165

The detonations in the ears are followed by profuse sweat (eighth day).

Conditions p. 165

Aggravation.

(Morning'), Itching on breast.

(Evening), Coldness of hypogastrium.

(Air), The pains.

(Cold drinks). Toothache.

(Motion), Nausea.

(Sitting), Burning at anus ; numbness in anklejoint.

(Stooping), Fam in head; pain in left hypochondrium.

(Walking), Heaviness of eyes; pain in breast.

Footnotes p. 163

† The pain in the finger was accompanied by perspiration, although the weather was very cold. J The prover thinks it proper to state he had been attending a severe case of small-pox.