Lilium Tigrinum

Lilium tigrinum, H. K.

Natural order, Liliaceae.

Common name, Tiger Lily.

Preparation, Tincture of the flowers only (provings Nos. 2 and 3), or tinct. of stalks, leaves, and flowers, gathered in August (subsequent provings).

Authorities. 1, Dr. R. T. Warren, a little girl put an anther of a lily into her right nostril, after four hours paregoric and brandy were administered, death after fifty-nine hours; Bost. Med. and Surg. Journ., 1862, vol. 67, p. 279; 2, Dr. S. P. Graves took at two different times 5 drops of 3d dec. dil. ( from Dr. William E. Payne's collection of provings, Trans. Am. Inst, of Horn., 1867, and 1870, p. 94); 3, Dr. J. W. Savage (Note: subject to nervous headaches but otherwise healthy) took 30 drops of tinct. at 3.30, 7.30, and 9.30 p.m. (first day), at 11.30 and 11.45 a.m. (second day), at 7.30 p.m. (fourth day),/rom Dr. Payne; 4, F. G. Barker, aged 30, took 6 drops of tinct. at 8 p.m. (fourth day), 8 drops twice p.m. (second day), same at 5.40 a.m. (fourth day), 12 drops at 6.30 A.M. (fifth day), from Dr. Payne; 5, Miss Y., aged 42 (Note: had not menstruated for two years past, but had enjoyed uninterrupted good health), took 5 drops of tinct. at 8.30 a.m. (first, second, and third days), 10 drops daily (fourth to thirteenth days), 25 drops (fourteenth day), 30 drops (eighteenth day), same (twenty-fourth day), from Dr. Payne; 5a, same prover took 1st dec. dil., 15 drop.s (first day), same twice (second day), 20 drops twice (third day), 5 drops (fifth to sixth days), 30 drops (tenth, eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth days), from Dr. Payne; 6, Miss F., aged 55, took 300th dil. (first, eighth, eleventh, and fifteenth days), 5th cent. dil. (twenty-first, twenty-third, twenty-fifth, and twenty-ninth days), from Dr. Payne ; (Nos. 7 to 12 fide Dr. C. Dunham); 7, Miss N. W., took 3 drops 3d dil. twice daily (first to fourth days), 30th dil. (seventh to tenth days), from Dr. Payne’s collection ; 8, Miss S. A. F., took j ounce (no symptoms for two weeks, from Dr. Payne) ; 9, Mrs. C. L. B., took 3d dil. two doses daily for six days,/ro?n Dr. Payne; 10, Mrs. B., took 5 drops (?) daily for five days then after a mouth took one dose of 12 drops, from Dr. Payne; 11, Mrs. J. F., took 3d dil., 5 drops twice (first day), 8 drops twice (second day), 16 drops three times (third day), 12 drops (fourteenth day), from Dr. Payne; 12, Mrs. L. B. C., took 3d dil., 5 drops night and morning for a week, then doubled the dose for a week, from Dr. Payne; 13, Dr. Samuel Lilienthal, took nearly an ounce of tinct. in a few days, and ^ ounce, fifth day; from Dr. Payne; 14, Dr. L. M. Kenyon, effects on Mrs.-, aged 48 {Note: Menstruation irregular for a year; has had for many years unpleasant pressure, fulness and palpitation of heart, much increased during the past year; symptoms now, dull pressing pain in region of heart nearly constant, increased by eating even lightly, frequent palpitation, constant apprehension of serious trouble; no valvular disease, impulse of heart over a larger space than normal, contractions seemed at times incomplete), took 30th dil, three doses a day, for four days; 15, Mrs. M., aged 28, took 1st dec. dil., every two hour-s (first day), every six hours (second and third day), 6 drops (fifth day), 10 drops (sixth day); from Dr. Payne; 16, MS. proving of Dr. George C. McDermott, on i\Liss U. (doses not given).

Mind p. 561

EtnotioiKil. The most marked effect was exhibited by the mental aud reproductive organs

Excitement, weeping, feeling as if she were two persons, at night (sixty-fifth day)

A sense as if she were going to be crazy, if she did not hang on to herself, and hold tight

Slight delirium aud startings (third day)

Aversion to being alone, and yet no dread felt; tranquil, but liked to see others and hear them talk (twentythird day)

Taciturn and reticent, during the day (third day)

Depression (forty-second day)

Depression of spirits, disposition to weep (tenth and twelfth days)

Depression of spirits; constant inclination to weep, with fearfulness, and apprehension of suffering from some terrible internal disease, already seated (very marked symptom observed by two provers), (after forty-three days)

Profound mental depression; to the prover “the heavens seemed brass and the earth iron;” an apprehension of moral obliquity weighed grievously upon her, for about ten days after the sexual excitement, and continuing in alternation with the sexual excitement for more than four months after the proving

Depressed (forty-second day)

Despondency, with aggravation at night and diarrhoea in the morning,and great feeling of slowness and inability to get at her work (sixty-fifth day)

Low-spirited (sixth day)

Low-spirited, and not relieved by work (eighth day)

Low-spirited ; can hardly keep from crying frequently, which is the opposite of her natural disposition

Worse on going to bed ; can’t go to sleep; wild feeling in the head as though I should go crazy and no one would take care of me; thoughts of suicide; how much Opium would put me to sleep forever, and who would find my body, and who would care; a new train of thought for her (eighth night)

A good deal of mental anxiety throughout the proving; despondent; gloomy; difficulty in expressing her thoughts ; of recollecting ; of selecting words; and expressed to her sister great fear of insanity

Constantly troubled in mind (thirty-first night)

Apprehension of some calamity or serious disease very much increased

Awoke in the morning, irritable (fourteenth day)

Irritable, in the evening (first day)

-Irritable, depressed in body and mind, aud unfit to work, in the evening (seventh day)

Irritable, impatient (twenty-ninth day)

She wants somebody to talk to her aud entertain her (a feeling quite unusual with her) ; feels quite nervous; wants to cry from a feeling of irritation and of something wrong in the abdomen aud pelvic organs; feels hurried aud yet incapable, as if she had a great deal to do and cannot do it (twenty-second day)

While attending a lecture, desire to hit the lecturer, and in the evening desirous of swearing and damning the fire and things generally, and to think and speak obscene things; disposed to strike and hit persons ; as these feelings came, the uterine pains passed away (forty-third day)

Cross, having no patience with anything or anybody (thirty-third to forty-fourth day)/.

Symptoms came down on her like a sudden cloud, when she was feeling quite well (thirty-sixth day) ; she lost vigor and snap, and could sit down and cry, or be impatient with herself and tear about, but feels hurried ; could walk or run aimlessly for an indefinite time; with all this depression comes a desire for fine things of all kinds; she is dissatisfied with what she has and is envious of others (thirty-sixth day)

Vexed feeling towards everybody; don’t want to be spoken to (eleventh night)

Do not want to be pleased; don’t care to talk or read (sixth

Intellect ual Constant hurried feeling as of imperative duties and utter inability to perform them; during the sexual excitement

Stupid feeling (fourth day)

Perceptive and reflective faculties seem benumbed, whereas at first she was overactive and seemed to be two individuals (twenty-fifth day)

Wits and intuitions dull and languid (thirty-second day)

Obtuseness; cannot find the right word; forget what I want to say; in the afternoon (fifth day)

Disinclination to work (seventh day)

Disposition to muse and dream; is awake, yet seems asleep and afar off; not disposed to mental or bodily work (twenty-fifth day)

Inability to apply the mind, depression, disposition to weep (third day

Inability to apply the mind to any subject steadily; could not think clearly, could not readily recall facts perfectly familiar (one hour after second dose, second day)

Want to be let alone; don’t want the trouble to answer questions (second day)

Feel like sitting quietly in chair, without speaking or being spoken to, or compelled to think ; I can see around me any number of things I must do, but cannot force myself to do anything

Great difficulty in keeping my mind fixed upon the subject of my lecture; could not think of the right words to express my ideas (twenty-fourth day)

She came to me to state her symptoms, her mind being in such a state that she could not herself record them (twenty-second day)

She cannot record her symptoms; don’t want to complain, and yet don’t avoid people (twenty-second day)

Don’t want to read (sixty-ninth day)

She can’t think; acts without thought; keeps walking fast as though by instinct; feels hurried, but don’t know why; is forgetful; can’t decide for herself, must depend on others (twenty-eighth day),’

Impossibility to get a clear idea, at 8 a.m. (seventh day)

Everything seems unreal to me

During the whole day make mistakes in speaking, using wrong words (fifteenth day)

She dreads saying anything to anybody, lest she should say something wrong, and yet she wants to talk (forty-second day)

Head p. 562

Gout usioti and Vei'tUjo, Slightly confused feeling in head, with little pain; had been reading and writing (after one hour) ; confused feeling increased, after going to bed (first night)

At times slightly confused, then almost crazed feeling in the head

Head so muddled that I feared to lecture, nevertheless the more I spoke the better I was able to concentrate my mind upon the subject of my lecture (seventh day)

The head grows wild after she has been quiet for a short time (tenth day)

Dizziness, continuing very severe for about two hours, and gradually subsiding (twenty-fourth day)

Dizziness and faint feeling all over; blur before the eyes; fear of falling, aggravated in a close hot room, and ameliorated when the fresh air strikes the uncovered head and face, although the cool air produces a feeling of chilliness; better also when walking in the street; these symptoms continued very severe for about two hours, then gradually diminished (twenty-fourth day)

Reeling and staggering when walking, with inclination to fall forward (first day)

Feel as if intoxicated, staggering forward, the whole afternoon (fifth day)

General Head, Absence of feeling in the head (twenty-eighth day)

Dulness in the head, in the afternoon (fifth day)

Dulness of head, a kind of dizziness, more in the eyes, at 8 a.m. (seventh day)

Heavy feeling in the head,'*; (twenty-third day)

Continued heavy feeling in the head (after nine hours and three-quarters, first night)

Dull heavy feeling in my head, as though it would weigh too much

Pain in the head (eleventh night)

Head very hot (thirty-first day)

Severe hot pain through the whole head, continuing about two hours, then almost wholly relieved by frequent sneezing, which came on about 10 p.m. ; the head suddenly became quite clear (twenty-sixth day)

Headache (third day)

Trifling headache every evening for three evenings (fourteenth day)

Dull headache, early in the morning (twenty-first day)

Dull headache, on waking (sixteenth day)

Dull headache, beginning in the forehead, going all through the head, worse on the left side (second day) ; the same headache, mostly confined to the forehead (third day); same headache, stupid feeling (fourth day); same headache (fifth day)

Dull headache; the pain moves continually from the sinciput to the occiput, left side, and concentrates in the left temple (fifteenth day)

Head feels full, especially over the eyes (first day)

Fulness in head and pressing from within outward, as though the contents would issue through every aperture (eyes, ears, etc.), (seventh and ninth days after 12 drops)

Headache ; heaviness, as if the head were too full of blood; congestion; blood would issue when blowing the nose; pains in the head all over; heaviness; wants to support the head with her hands; relieved only at sunset; worse when walking in open air; continuing for two days (after more than three months)

A crowded feeling of the head and face

Rushing as of some fluid through the head, generally from right to left

VecnWvLV pressing headache (fourteenth day)

Darting pains in different parts of the head (after a few hours, seventh day)

(I am subject to sick headache, but had none while under the influence of the drug)

Forehead. Pain in the forehead above the eyes, severe for more than an hour, then gradually abating (after two hours, fourteenth day)

Between 5 and 6 p.m. an intense blinding headache came on, confined to the forehead, lasting about two hours (after nine hours); then changed to the back of the head, and extended down the neck, leaving a strange muddled feeling about the head, with general weakness and desire to lie down (eleventh day)

Heat and pain in forehead over eyebrows, extending to eyes (first to eighth night)

Hot pain about the forehead and eyes, in the evening (thirtieth day)

Severe hot pain in the forehead, with prostration, coming on between 6 and 8 p.m. (fourteenth day)

Burning headache through the front part of the head (after six hours, fifteenth day); continuing into the night, but not so acute as after previous doses (fifteenth night)

Wakened this morning unrefreshed, with fulness and heaviness in the forehead, especially the left side (fifteenth day)

Outward pressure in the whole forehead (first day)

Dull pain in forehead, continuing about two hours (after one hour, tenth day),A

* Dull pain in the forehead over the eyes (sixth day)

Dull pain through the forehead, in the morning and evening (twelfth day); headache, which had been moderate through the night (twelfth night), increased at about 5 oclock in the morning, and continued till 9 oclock, leaving a heavy dull feeling in the head (thirteenth day)

Dull frontal headache all day (first day)

Dull frontal headache, more on the left side, came on in the afternoon, increasing in the evening, with lachryraation in the left eye (ninth day); in the evening (tenth day)

Tight painful drawing through the forehead and eyes (twenty-sixth day)

Pressing pain and heat in the forehead, lasting for several hours (after six hours, twenty-third day)

Pressing pains at the angle between the forehead and left temple, digging down into the orbit, making me wink, an hour after rising in the morning; the pains spread over the whole left hemisphere of the brain (eighth day),’®. Increase of headache, in the morning; it took a severe turn towards noon, passing from forehead and temples to the protuberances of the occiput; the pain is dull, pressive, and heavy, continuing the whole evening and through the night (fourteenth day)

Sensation as if a rubber baud were stretched tightly from temple to temple, with the old pricking sensation in the forehead, in the evening in a warm room (sixth day)

Burning in the forehead, with burning-pressing pains, especially over left eye, in the evening (second day); the burning-pressing headache returns between 5 and 6 p.m., more in right side of forehead, increasing in strength as the evening passes on, though it does not reach its former severity (third day); old headache returned, with some lachrymation, in the evening in a warm room (sixth day)

Headache becomes worse in the fresh air, at 8 a.m. (seventh day)

Frontal burning-stinging headache, with the feeling of an elastic band stretched over it (seventh day)

Sore pain through the forehead and eyes, a feeling as if the parts had been beaten (twenty-fourth day)

Temples, Pain in the temples increased by pressure (seventh and ninth days after 12 drops)

Pressing sense of fulness in the temporal and frontal region of the brain, a bursting as it were, which was relieved by pressure

Pressing sense of fulness in the temporal and frontal region of the brain, a bursting as it were, which was relieved by pressui'e; my ears and the region surrounding them felt as though something must be pressed out from within

Dull pain in left temple, extending thence to the forehead, with vertigo, especially when walking, in the forenoon (fifth day)

Dull pain in left temple, on rising in the morning, changing to right temple, and alternating between the two; headache worse towards evening (seventeenth day)

Momentary twitches in left temple, during the day (sixteenth day)

[HO.] Shooting pain in the right temple, passing over to the left, affecting the whole front part of the head by a dull heavy sensation (after eleven hours, twenty-fifth day)

Tevtex, Pressure and a crazy feeling upon the top of the head, so that she cannot write her symptoms (twentieth day)

Tavietals. Dulness of the right side of the head, increasing to a sensation of pressure, inclining the head over to the left side

Grumbling pain in right side of head and teeth (twenty-second day)

Old pain in left side of head, temple, and parietal bone, and malar bone, when sitting and not at work; relieved by motion and occupation ; followed by diarrhoea and pressure on the bladder (sixty first day)

Severe left-sided headache, continuing about two hours and gradually subsiding, in the afternoon (twenty-fourth day)

Dull pressing-aching from the left temple over the ear to the occiput in paroxysms, with steady, dull, frontal headache, especially over the left eye (first day)

Shooting in the right side of the head (forty-second day)

Oeeiput. Headache in occiput and over eyes (twenty-fifth day)

Screwing pain in protuberance of left occiput, with drawing pain on left side of nucha ; after going to bed the pain in neck increased to a burning sensation, as from applied electricity; the whole neck feels lame and tired (fifteenth day)

External Head. Some tenderness felt in left side of head, forehead, and temple; this is the place where the excessive heat of the sun produced congestion. still I never suffered from it before in winter (it is now December 1st), (after one month) ■

Eyes p. 565

Objective. My eyes look wild, and my husband fears I may become insane

Dull reddish injection of eyes (second morning),b

Outer canthus of right eye much inflamed, extending to inner canthus (seventyfourth day) ; inner corner of right eye still feels raw ; aggravated by fresh, especially damp cold air; sight not affected (after three months)

Subjeeti ve. Intense pain in both eyes, extending back into the head, worse during the night (after eleven hours, twenty-fifth day)

Burning feeling in the eyes after reading or writing; eyes feel very weak (twenty-third day)

Eyes feel as if full of tears the whole day (seventh day)

Severe pressure in right eye, lasting two hours (second day)

Erow. Dull pain over the eyes, continuing for about two hours (after three hours, twelfth day)

Pain over the eyes

Sharp pain over the left eye, at 6 p.M. (three hours after second dose), abating after about an hour, but continuing all the evening; it disappeared after sleeping (third day)

Sharp though not severe pain over left eye, almost continuously through the ibrenoou; increasing after the dose (second day)

Lids. Eyes heavy and eyesight dim (fifteenth day)

Lids agglutinated (seventyfourth day)

Lachrymal Apparatus. Eyes full of water, in the afternoon (fifth day)

Lachrymation of the left eye (ninth day)

■ Vision. Eyesight dim (fifteenth day)

Vision was impaired, the dimness continuing for several months

Great dimness of sight (after eleven hours, twenty-fifth day)

Blurred vision, cannot see objects distinctly (after forty-three days)

Blur before the eyes, very severe for about two hours, then gradually subsiding, in the afternoon (twenty-fourth day)

Blurred sight, \with heat in eyelids and eyes; this was constant and very troublesome

Confusion and dimness of sight, with a disposition to cover the eyes and press upon them (fifth day)

Prover’s eyesight always weak; she is hj’^permetropic, uses convex fourteen glasses, now sight is much worse (fourth day) ; sight worse, eyes very painful, smarting, must close them often; light painful, darkness pleasant (fifth day) ; eyes very sore, sight dim, must cease the proving (sixth day); eyes no better (eleventh day) ; having suffered as above for four weeks, my eyes returned to their former condition, with one exception; whereas formerly for one year I had a habit of turning my head towards the left when reading, trying thereby to look with the left eye out of the right glass of the spectacles, and this in order to see the whole of a letter, like b, p, d, etc., of which otherwise I could see only the straight part, but not the curve, now I can see distinctly without turning the head and looking sidewise (after about ten weeks)

Eyes very sensitive to gaslight, which causes intolerable burning pain (after seventy-four days); left eye subsequently affected in the same way

An appearance as of a veil before the eyes, at 8 a.m. (seventh day)

Muscae volitantes at various times

Slight rushing sounds in both ears, after going to bed (first night)

Nose p. 565

Rubbed her nose violently

Some discharge of thin clear mucus (from nose), (after twenty-three hours)

Profuse discharge of yellow mucus from the nose (soon)

Right nostril nearly closed ; membrane of both nostrils very pale (after twenty-three hours)

Constant desire to pick the nose, and right nostril dry or closed up

Face p. 565

Face, especially forehead, flushed and hot, and a pricking sensation in the skin of the forehead, in the afternoon (fifth day)

Congestion to the face, in the forenoon (6fth day)

Left cheek of a bright-red color and hot to touch, in the morning when awakening (twelfth day),““. Pain in right side of face, apparently in cheek (malar ?) bone, with stoppage of right nostril, and a feeling in the head like that which proceeds from a severe cold (twenty-ninth day)

Dull pain in the right side of the face (jaw), with a sensation of elongation of the teeth (thirty-first day)

Mouth p. 566

Grumbling in hollow teeth (thirty-first day)

Coated feeling in mouth and throat on waking in the night (first day)

Abundant saliva (twenty-third day)

Bloody taste in the mouth, in the afternoon, continuing two hours, and gradually subsiding (twenty-fourth day)

Stomach p. 566

Appetite. Appetite tremendous, especially for meat, and the more so the more pronounced the symptoms were (thirty-second day); desire for meat returns (forty-second day)

Great hunger, as it were, in the hack, and extending up to the occiput and over the vertex; she ate enormously, yet felt as though she should starve to death (sixty-first day)

Craving appetite for dinner, and also for supper (sixth day)

Increased desire for meat, and has eaten a great deal (twenty-fifth day)

Appetite failed (second day after 12 drops)

Appetite very little, and soon satisfied (twenty-fifth day)

Loss of appetite,'*; (fifth day); (after fortythree days)

Entire loss of appetite

No appetite (tenth day),“*; (twenty-fourth day)

No desire for food; special dislike for bread continues (twelfth day)

She ate as much as usual, but felt no appetite (seventh day)

Disrelish for food, particularly bread, and repugnance to coffee (eleventh day)

Aversion to bread and coffee Fifth and sixth days)

The usual cigar is nauseous, and produces waterbrash (first day)

Thirst. Thirst (forty-second day)

Much thirst; drinking often, and much (twenty-second day)

“Thirsty spells always precede a dull, stupid, and despondent spell, and such always precedes the severe symptoms, during the proving

Aversion to coffee ; nausea when thinking of it, though used as a constant and favorite drink in the morning (after fortythree days)

A great dislike to coffee, co)stinging long after the proving

Eructation, Eructations (fourth day)

Eructations from the stomach, very soon (after first and second doses, first day)

Nausea and Vomitinff. Nausea (third day); (twenty-third day)

Nausea, with great desire to vomit, but unable to do so (after third dose, first day)

Nausea, with inclination to vomit (soon after first dose, second day)

Nausea, and pain in the back (tenth day)

Nausea, coming on suddenly, lasting a few moments, and as suddenly going (fourth and fifth days)

Nausea constant (eighth day)

Constant nausea, with sensation as of a lump in the centre of the chest, which could be moved down by empty swallowing ; nevertheless, it ascended again after the effort was over (fortythird day)

Slight nausea (after second dose, first day)

Considerable nausea at times after eating

Sweetish nausea, with fulness of the abdomen, particularly after eating, even after eating small quantities, but food does not increase the nausea ; no desire to vomit (after four days) ; nausea much increased, with the same bloated sensation in the abdomen, particularly across the hips and in the region of the uterus (after a few hours, seventh day)

Constant desire to vomit, with frequent hawking of mucus from the throat (soon after first dose, second day)

Vomiting at first of chyme, having no appearance of undigested food, followed by vomiting of mucus, colored yellow, the same as the discharge from the nose (soon); the yellowness did not seem caused by bile; the vomiting occurred occasionally, and at last became bloody (after four hours); nausea (third day)

Stomach. Flatulent distension of stomach and bowels, with rumbling, in the evening (fourth day)

Great distension of the stomach, with frequent eructations and escape of flatus from the anus (soon after flist dose, second day)

Very great distension of stomach and bowels, with flatulence, relieved by passing wind up and down

The upward and downward escape of flatus was a very constant attendant while under the influence of the drug

Uncomfortable feeling in the stomach and bowels (after 2 p.m., twenty-fourth day)

Hollow, empty sensation at the stomach and in the bowels (thirty-first day)

Heavy, dull feeling in the stomach (fourth day)

Sensation of unusual fulness of the stomach after eating, with pressure upwards (seventeenth day)

Sensation as if a hard body were rolling around in the stomach, which continued for several hour*s, but passed off during the night (after a few hours, first day)

Abdomen p. 567

Hypochondria, Bubbling sensation in the right hypochondrium (after third dose, first day)

In the middle of the forenoon, intensely sharp pain in right side, between hip and false ribs, extending forward and upwards to umbilicus; felt something like an attack of colic, so severe as to render a deep, full breath intolerable; was almost obliged to stop work (setting type); pain lasted till a little past noon, when it stopped suddenly (fifth day)

General Abdomen Unusual distension of the abdomen and chest during the forenoon (thirty-first day)

Bloating of the abdomen continues (thirty-second day)

A great deal of rumbling in the abdomen (first night)

Much rumbling in the left side of the abdomen (thirtieth day)

Flatulency (third day)

Flatulence and a feeling of bloatedness of the bowels after stool, in the morning (thirteenth and fifteenth days)

Moving of flatus in bowels, with feeling of fulness (half an hour after third dose, first day)

Much flatulent movement in the bowels (thirty-third day)

Violent emission of flatus (first night)

Weakness and trembling of the bowels, with loss of strength (after forty-third day)

Bowels and anus feel weak and tremulous, continuing nearly through the night (seventeenth day)

Bowels feel very uncomfortable (soon after first dose, second day)

A bad feeling across the abdomen, especially on the right side (seventh day)

Dull, heavy feeling in left side of the abdomen (eighteenth day)

Sensation in the bowels as though diarrhoea was about to occur, which, nevertheless, did not (first night)

Slight pain in the bowels all night, with rumbling, more on the right side (first night)

Burning across the abdomen and in both ovaries, in the morning (sixty-second day)

Bowels feel full and distended most of the time, with great weakness and trembling

A little fulness and soreness around the abdomen (twenty-eighth day)

Bowels feel as if swollen (distended?), (forty-third day)

Feeling of great distension of the bowels after the morning discharge and after eating (twenty-fifth day)

Feels bloated, but is not so (twenty-second day)

Griping pain in bowels at 3 p.m. (after seven hours), which gradually increased till evening, when a free, bilious, fecal discharge occurred, followed by an acrid feeling and irritation at the anus and up the rectum (first day). Symptoms passed off with a free evacuation of the bowels, which was followed by an acrid smarting at the anus, and at 8 A.M. griping pain in bow-els returned, with heat and pain in and across the forehead about 5 p.m. (second day), gradually increasing during the evening and night as before, thou-h less severe, abating as before in the morning at about 8 a.m., with a free and loose discharge from the bowels, followed by the same acrid, smarting sensation at the anus and up the rectum (third day), recurring daily till the eighth day, gradually diminishing in severity. Every morning after rising for five days up to the eighth day, there was diarrhœic discharge from the bowels, followed by the same acrid, irritating sensation at the anus and up the rectum as at first; this irritation seemed as if produced by a hot, irritating spray projected upon the parts, and usually continued for about two hours, gradually subsiding

Griping pains after each diarrhoeic discharge (twenty-third day)

Grumbling bellyache (Iris versicolor), with little inclination to stool (usual bowel pains are relieved by stool), (second day)

Dragging-down sensation of the whole abdominal contents, extending to the organs of the chest, feeling greatly the need of support (thirtieth day)

Had to leave company on account of cutting pain in the bowels, so severe that she took Nux, which relieved, at 8 P.M. (after 12 drops)

Sharp, cutting pain in right side, between short ribs and hip, running to centre of bowels

Sharp, lancinating pain, extending from the left hypochondriac region to the crest of the ilium (fifty-third and fifty-fourth days)

Abdomen tender to pressure in the morning (second day)

Abdominal muscles sore just before a stool, but not much during stool; an unbearable soreness; she would like to scream (forty-fourth day)

Left side of the abdomen still sore to pressure (twentyninth day)

Trembling sensation in abdomen, with chilliness (forty-third day)

Hypogastrium and Iliac Reff ions. Rumbling in the lower part of the bowels, more on right side (after third dose, first dav)

Heat and pressure in the hypogastrium (soon after first dose, second day)

Constant burning pain across the hypogastrium from groin to groin (forty-second day)

Griping pains in the lower part of the bowels, as if diarrhoea were about to ensue, with restless, weary feeling, followed by four loose discharges (sixth day), and continuing the three subsequent days, with great languor

Feeling as though diarrhoea would come on, but passes off by urinating; every day, and sometimes several times a day,". -^Felt as if the menses were coming on, two weeks too soon (sixty-first day)

sensation in the pelvis as though everything was coming into the world through the vagina, very distressing, and not relieved by change of position; the dragging downwards towards the pelvis is felt as high as the stomach, and even the shoulders ; not relieved by lying down, though worse when standing; a disposition to place the hand upon the hypogastrium and press upwards, in order to relieve the dragging sensation (twentieth day); steadily increasing while riding (twenty-first day); when walking, a sensation as if everything Averse pressing down in the pelvis, so that she inhales forcibly, in order to draw up the thorax and relieve the pelvis of AAeight (twenty-second day)

the pelvis, a feeling like a dragging out, as if the whole contents were pushing down into a funnel, the outlet of which coincided with the vagina (twenty-third day)

Pressure downwards, in the lower portion of the bowels, almost constant

* When at stool, severe downward pressure at the bowels and at the anus, with a feeling as if diarrhoea would ensue, but without fecal evacuation (observed by two provers); with every effort, only a small quantity of urine would be discharged (after forty-three days)

Pressing down and burning all around the pubes and genitals, worse from 3 to 5 p.m., and going off before 8 p.m., accompanied by pressure on the bladder, the water being high-colored and scanty; she could pass water every quarter of an hour (sixty-fifth day)

Bearing down in lower part of abdomen continues, now the twentieth day since it commenced, with severe pressure in the rectum and at the anus, and a constant desire to go to stool; bit xvith every effort to evacuate the howeh, tiring only teas discharged; sensation as if a hard body ivere pressing backwards and downwards against the rectum and anus; standing on the feet aggravated and increased the desire to go to stool; these symptoms were somewhat relieved by walking in the open air and riding (forty-third day)

* Bearing-down pains, particularly in walking; pressure and weight low doivn in the vagina, for two days; (she has once or twice before had such feelings, and then from excessive fatigue from walking or working), (after more than three months)

* Bearing-doivn sensation in the pelvis; everything seemed to be pressing oid of the vagina (thirty-eighth day) ; continued like light labor pains; worse afternoon and evening till midnight (thirtyninth day)

* Bearing-down pain, as though menstruation coidd come

She could not sleep for the continued pelvic pain, which resembled that of imminent miscarriage (fortieth day)

The feeling of weight and pressure in the hypogastric and left ovarian region continued to recur at intervals till within a few days (after two months)

Great weight and bearing down in the lower part of the bowels (after 2 p.m., twenty-fourth day)

Increased depressing weight over the pubes (after supper), (tenth day)

Intermittent, sharp pain across the lower part of bowels, seemingly near the bladder (after nine hours and three-quarters, first night),f

Some tearing pain in the lower part of the abdomen from the region of the ovaries down both sides (seventh day)

Left side of the lower part of the abdomen (ovarian region) feels sore to the touch ; darting pains at times in this region, extending to the groin and to the pubes in front (sixteenth day)

Pain in the right iliac region, better during motion (tenth day)

Drawing in the right inguinal region (after 2 p.m., twenty-fourth day)

Painful drawing about the left inguinal region, extending to the pubis (thirty-third day)

From the anterior superior spinous process of the ilium (both sides), a pulling downwards and backwards (twenty-fifth day)

Stinging feeling in the left inguinal or ovarian region most of the time lately, with feeling of fulness and voluptuous itching in the vagina (twentysixth day)

Rectum and Anus p. 569

Anus stiff and painful, with a tight painful drawing through the forehead and eyes (twenty-sixth day)

* Pressing in rectum and anus (twelfth day)

Pressure on rectum and bladder (fortysecond dav)

Pressure in the rectum, with almost constant desire to go to stool

* Constant pressure on the rectum (sixty-ninth day)

Urgent desire to go to stool, cannot wait (forty-third day)

Stool p. 569

Diavrhwa. Diarrhoea; has had four stools, at 11 a.m., the first at 7 A.M., hurrying her; she cannot wait a minute ; stool loose, but not watery, and dark brown ; this attack is like the two previous ones (sixtysecond day)

* The first effect was diarrhoea, appearing the third day, and continuing daily throughout the proving; it occurred directly after dinner, was sudden and peremptory; discharges copious and with burning of the rectum and anus, and severe tenesmus, and followed by extreme exhaustion

Morning diarrhoea, with increased smarting and irritation of the passage; with griping in the bowels, and rasping sensation at the anus and in the rectum after the passages; the diarrhoea returned every morning on rising, followed by an acrid smarting sensation about the passage, for about two months

Some diarrhoeic discharge with acrid smarting of the whole alimentary canal, in the morning on rising (thirty-second day)

The usual diarrhoeic passage from the bowels in the morning, followed by the same acrid, smarting sensation, with great weakness and trembling (sixteenth day)

Several dejections, dark-colored, very offensive (third morning) ; large, dark-colored, very offensive discharge, and immediately began to sink (after fifty-six hours) ; death (after fifty-nine hours),h

Bowels naturally regular; now she has alternately a solid and a loose stool, several during the day, and a constant feeling as though she must have a stool ; this feeling resulted from a sensation as if something were pushing against the anterior wall of the rectum at the anus, and about two to three inches above it (twenty-second day) ; for the last thirty-six hours constant desire for stool from pressure on the rectum ; a stool every half hour, lumpy, small, diarrhoeic, with wind ; constant tenesmus ; she could sit at stool forever, and burning in the urethra; continuing several days; took Helonias'^“, and was greatly relieved (twenty-third day)

Evacuation of the bowels, at first of natural appearance, then followed discharges colored yellow’, the same as the vomiting and the discharge from the nose, and at last bloody discharges; dejection checked (after nine hours),h

A powerful discharge from the bowels this morning on rising, of a dark color, and very offensive, leaving the same acrid, sore sensation at the anus, extending upwards into the middle of the bowels, continuing for several hours (twelfth day),®

Evacuation from the bowels, dark and hard, followed by a great deal of heat in the rectum and anus, with slight pains in the abdomen (very soon after first dose, second day)

Constipation.

Bowels constipated (third day) ; still constipated (fifth day)

Urinary Organs p. 570

Bladder. Pressure on bladder and rectum (forty-second day)

Pressure on the bladder, the water being high-colored and scanty; she could pass water every quarter of an hour, in the afternoon (sixty-fifth day)

* For the last three days more continual pressure on the bladder, wants to urinate all the time, passing bid little, followed by smarting and tenesmus (twenty-fifth day)

Irritation in the bladder continues, but she can control it by determining not to urinate (twenty-seventh day)

Urethra. Burning in the urethra (twenty-third day)

Burning and acrid feeling in the urinary passage after every discharge of urine (fifteenth day)

Acrid, smarting sensation follows every urinary discharge (twentieth day)

Micturition, *Frequent inclination to pass urine, each discharge small in quantity, and followed by smarting burning of the wethra, during the latter part of the night and early morning ; urine milky in appearance, depositing a thick reddish sediment on cooling (ninth to eleventh nights)

Frequent desire to urinate through the day, with scanty discharge and a feeling of irritation and smarting in the urethra after every discharge (second to twenty-sixth days),®.f

Frequent and urgent desire to pass urine, slight in quantity, milky in appearance when passed, but depositing a red sediment on standing, with smarting and irritation after every passage (twenty-sixth day)

* Constant desire to urinate; for several nights had to rise twenty times to urinate (sixty-ninth day)

Fre(]neut urination (fifteenth day)

Frequent but scanty urinating,’*; (after forty-third day); with acrid smarting of the urethra (thirty-second day)

Frequent urination during the day, with smarting in the urethra when passing it

Frequent urination at night, followed by acrid smarting sensation about the passage, for two months

Urine more free and frequent, clear, odor strong, much irritation of the urethra after every passage (twenty-second day)

Must rise twenty times a night to urinate

■}• An entirely new symptom to the prover. (sixty-ninth day)

Bladder evacuated four times in about ten hours, which is very unusual with him during the night (first night) ; several evacuations of bladder during the day (second day)

No urine during last twenty-four hours (second day) ; no urine had been passed (third morning)

JJrine. Increased secretion of urine during the days in which 1 took the medicine

Urine increased and dark-colored (after two or three weeks),k

Urine copious, red sediment; smarting irritation after every passage (twenty-fourth day)

Clear, but scanty urine, and acrid smarting after every passage

Urine remarkably clear and white at every evacuation (second day)

Urine high-colored, with copious flow (second day)

Urine milky in appearance, in the morning (twelfth day)

Urine thick, milky, and soiled in appearance, small in quantity, frequent desire to pass it; soreness and burning heat through the whole passage after urinating, which gradually subsided, in the morning (thirteenth day)

Burning hot urine, seeming more like boiling oil than water (seventh day)

Sexual Organs p. 571

ISIale, Seminal emission toward morning (extremely rare), (sixteenth day)

Female. The most marked effect was exhibited by the reproductive and mental organs

* On examination the uterus ivas found low down, the fundus tilted forwards, and the os uteri pressing backwards upon the rectum, allowing but a difficult passage of the index finger between the os and the rechim (forty-eighth day)

introducing the finger into the vagina, she finds the os, which is usually so high as to be almost oxd of reach, now so low as to be only a half-finger high, the os xnxxch tilted back and pressing against the rectxixn, the fundus pxcssing on the bladder (sixty-ninth day)

Extreme pain and beaxing doxvn ixi the uterine region, constant distress as from approaching menstruation

Aching in the pelvis between the promontory of the sacrum and the pubes; it feels to her as if the aching were not ixi the uterus but axoxind it; she feels constantly the two spots corresponding in position to the ovaries, which ache and feel like little coals of fire (twenty-third day); the pain in the right ovary increased, until at last it seemed as if a knife were inserted into the ovary and ripped down the groin and the anterior part of the thigh ; the pain extended over the lumbo-sacral region, and she must cry herself to sleep ; the pain extended up to the right hypochondrium ; somewhat relieved by pressure on the ovary (twenty-sixth day)

Bearing down, with sensation of heavy weight and pressure in the region of the womb, as if the whole contents would press out through the vagina (eighteenth day)

* Great bearing down in the uterine region, and a feeling when on the feet as if the whole pelvic contents would issue through the vagina, if not prevented by pressure upward with the hand, at the vulva, or by sitting down (twentyninth day)

Severe neuralgic pain (I think) in my uterus, so severe that I could not bear to be touched or moved, and even the jar of any one against the bed was torture to me; I could not bear the weight of my clothes upon the pelvic region ; this never lasted more than an hour and a half at a time, and passed off without leaving any lameness; upon the recurrence of the symptoms I found by examination that the womb was anteverted ; this is something that never took place before in my ex peri; euce .

While attending a lecture much irritation in the womb, anddesire to hit the lecturer; and in the evening, desirous of swearing and damning the fire and things generally, and to think and speak of obscene things; disposed to strike and hit persons ; as these feelings came the uterine pains passed away (forty-third day)

While sitting at a lecture felt much irritation in the womb (forty-second day) ; feeling of irritation inside the uterus (forty-third day)/.

Ovaries. When walking, pain in both ovaries, worse in the left, extending down the anterior and inner aspect of the left thigh, as if it would be impossible to take another step; as soon as she extended the limb she must immediately flex it again, and then, because of a restless feeling, must again extend it; at length she went to sleep on the back with knees and thighs flexed (twenty-first day) ; she cannot tell which pelvic region is the worse, that in the back or that in the pubic region; the whole contents of the pelvis seem to drag downwards and forwards and quite from the stomach (twenty-second day)

Pain in right ovary and some backache (twenty-eighth day)/.

Grasping pain in the left ovarian and inguinal regions, with pain in the right hip, extending down the thigh, continuing throughout the day (twentieth day)

Dull, drawing pain in the left ovarian region, relieved by gentle pressure on the part with the hand, disappeared about 10 oclock a.m. (thirteenth day)

Pains in the right ovarian region, a gnawing, dragging sensation, worse on walking, a feeling as if something were shaking loose in that region whenever the right foot was planted firmly (fourth and fifth day)

* Sharp pain in the ovarian region (after six hours, fifteenth day)

Shooting pains in the left ovarian region, bearing down when standing, mitigated by sitting down (twenty-seventh day)

Sharp cutting pains in the left ovarian region, extending across the lower part of the abdomen, relieved somewhat by gentle rubbing with the warm hand, in the evening and at night (nineteenth day)

Stinging, darting pains in the ovarian region throughout the day (eighteenth day)

The left ovarian region becomes sore to pressure, the pain grasping, and extending across the lower part of the abdomen ; the pain was mitigated by rubbing and moderate pressure; the bearing down was so great that the parts had to be sustained by pressing upwards with the hand at the vulva (twenty-seventh day)

Somewhat tender on pressure in the region of the ovaries, especially the rigid (twentysecond day)

Constant feeling of irritation in the ovaries (seventy-fifth day)

Vaff ina. *Leucorrhcea (a thin, acrid discharge, leaving a brown stain; she thought it was the menses, which had ceased the week before) ; she never had any such trouble before ; worse in the afternoon and evening till midnight (thirty-ninth day); the next day it had ceased and she felt better in the morning; but in the afternoon it returned and continued all night, and was more excoriating than before, producing a rash and a little swelling (fortieth day) ; acrid as before (forty-second day)

Discharge of bright-red blood from the vagina (for the first time in two years), with dull heavy pain, and great weakness in the small of the back and loins, continued four following days (after twenty-four days)

A feeling as if the internal sexual organs were swollen ; smarting and irritation of the labia, with heat as though the parts were inflamed ; great tenderness about the whole sexual organs; very uncomfortable pressure downward, and an irresistible desire to sustain the parts by pressing upward with the hand (thirty-third day)

Severe pressing or bearing-down sensation in the sexual organs, with the feeling as if the whole internal parts were being pulled outward or downward from the breasts and umbilical region, through the vagina, with an irresistible desire to press the hands against the vulva to prevent the part from escaping (thirty-first day)

A sensation of pressure in the vagina and a pain at the top of the sacrum extending to the hips (seventh day)

Bearing down in the vagina, or rather a dread of it (twenty-fifth day)/.

Itching and smarting of the labia, with great uneasiness of the parts; sharp pain extending up the vagina (after six hours, fifteenth day)

]}lenses. Menses came at the regular time, more free than usual; relieving headache; after flowing twenty-four hours, ceased twelve, and then recurred

A change in menstruation ; the flow not one-fourth as much as usual, but followed by profuse bright-yellow leucorrhoea, so acrid as to excoriate the whole perineum, a new symptom for me

Menses recurred, after an interval of only two weeks; a slight, dark, thick discharge, smelling like lochia (forty-fifth day)

The first month after taking the Lilium, menses anticipated five days; the second month delayed one day ; the third month anticipated one day

Menses appeared more than a month too late; scanty and of short duration (second day after 12 drops)

Menses occurred as usual, and regularly, and continued normal as long as she kept moving, but as soon as she ceased moving, the flowing ceased (twenty-seventh day); none this morning (twenty-eighth day)

Increased sexual instinct (first four days)

Sexual instincts strong now, whereas formerly she was very free from such feelings ; she says the conjugal instinct is strongly developed (thirty-second day)

Rousing of sexual desire, which had been dormant for years (curative ?), (tenth day)

* The sexual desii’e, dormant hitherto, Was so strongly aroused that the prover said I am afraid of myself, I seem possessed of a demon ;” this excitement continued almost three weeks, increasing in intensity, until an orgasm beyond the control of the prover would suddenly terminate it; during these attacks there was a constant urging to unusual physical exertion, walking, etc., in hope of relief, the mitigation afforded by this, however, ceasing with the effort; there was in this state a constant hurried feeling, as of imperative duties and utter inability to perform them ; for about ten days following this excitement, there was a profound mental depression; to the prover the heaveps seemed brass, and the earth iron;” although convinced that the sexual desire resulted from drug action and beyond her control, an apprehension of moral obliquity weighed grievously upon her; with the sudden passing off of this condition would as suddenly recur the excitement, and this alternation continued for more than four months after the proving

In the first stage of its action, or stage of excitement, a condition of amorous excitement comes on suddenly and anywhere; a disposition to use obscene language, a kind of nymphomania; this stage gives place to sluggishness and despondency, and this to a hurried feeling of being impelled to work without herself desiring to work; it is not herself, but her excited nervous system, which drives her to exertion

Passionate excitement, aching and burning pain in the ovaries (worse in the right), which organs are distinctly defined to her sensation (sixty-fifth day)

The passional excitement, which has abated, returns; this was so great that I gave Platina 200, every three hours until relieved (sixty-ninth day)

Respiratory Organs p. 573

Voice much affected when attempting to sing, could not control it (third day)

A single, dry cough (thirty-second day)

Dry, hacking cough in the evening, better in the open air (sixth day)

Desire to take a long breath, with frequent sighing, which seemed to come from the lower part of the bowels (thirty-first day)

Frequent inclination to sigh, and short breathing, in the evening and night (nineteenth day)

Hard breathing; frequent desire to take a long breath; sighing (fourteenth night),®.- Short breathing,®.-Short breathing, oppression (after 2 p.m., twenty-fourth day)

Chest p. 573

Sensation of great fulness of the chest and abdomen (thirtythird day)

Tight feeling of the chest (twenty-seventh day)

Hot congested sensation in the chest (first day)

If the desire to urinate is not attended to, there is a congested feeling in the chest (tenth day),'®. Congested and constricted feeling of the chest, as if too narrow, and might be relieved by letting out some of the blood; with the chills (fourteenth day)

Severe congestion of the chest, in the afternoon, continuing two hours, and gradually subsiding (twenty-fourth day)

Contracted feeling of the chest (twenty-ninth day)

Constricted feeling in lower third of chest, with oppressed breathing, worse towards morning (ninth and eleventh night)

Compressive sensation in the chest, with a choked feeling, as if he would suffocate, but would be relieved if the blood could be discharged, which seems shut up in the heart; slight relief by deep sighing (eighth day)

Oppression and heat of chest, a kind of ebullition ; must go into the fresh air for relief; at 8 a.m. (seventh day)

Oppressive and congestive feeling in the chest, increased in the evening (seventh day)

Oppression of the chest relieved by sighing (twenty-third day)

Oppressed feeling in the lower third of the chest, with oppressed breathing toward morning (eighth night)

Front. Feeling of lump under breast-bone, moving up and down by swallowing

Dull, pressive pain under the sternum, towards the middle lobe of the right lung, relieved by sighing, and pressure with the hands (fifteenth day)

Hides, Tightness of the left side of the chest, in the evening (thirtieth day)

Constriction in the left side of the chest, at 6 P.M., increasing after lying down (twentieth day)

Constricted feeling in the left side of the chest, under the floating ribs, extending thence up to the neck, and left shoulder-blade (after eight hours, twentyfirst day)

A feeling of constriction in the left side of the chest about the breadth of the hand below the left mamma (thirty-third day)

At two oclock in the morning a feeling of stricture in the left side of the chest, extending across to the other side, and sharp pains running up to the throat, clavicle, aud to the left armpit, ameliorated by change of position, but continued till after rising in the morning (sixteenth day)

Dull pain in the left side of the chest and at the shoulder (after six hours, fifteenth day)

* Dull pressive pain in the left side, apparently about the heart (after one hour and a half)

Constant feeling of load or weight in left chest

Fine pains, sometimes gnawing, in the right side of the chest, with a feeling of lameness and soreness of the muscles, and a desire to stretch the parts ; the lameness extended through to the shoulder-blade of that side (second day) ; the gnawing sensation in the right side of the chest, together with the fine pains increased, and extended over to the side (third day) ; the lameness and fine pains continued (fourth day); but had disappeared, in the morning (fifth day) ; the same pains returned in the right side of the chest, with pressure, and a sensation as if a weight pressed heavily upon the chest (after fifteen minutes, sixth day)

* Sharp and quick pain in left side of chest, with fluttering of the heart (one hour after second dose, third day)

Quick, sharp pain in left chest very frequently

Sharp twinges, followed by a dull, drawing sensation in the left side of the chest, extending upwards to the collar-bone, in the morning (thirteenth day)

3[anim,€e. Pain in left ma?u/na, in the morning (thirteenth day)

Left mamma painful, with drawing sensation in the left armpit and shoulder (thirty-first day)

Severe pain and feeling of heaviness of the left mamma, a sensation of grasping of the part, extending backwards to the left shoulderblade aud down that side to the lumbar region, at 10 p.m., after lying on the left side for awhile (eleventh day)

Pain in left mammary gland. passing around under the shoulder-blade to the spine/.

Dull pain and constricted feeling in the left mamma and side, with oppressed breathing, worse upon lying down (seventeenth day)

Crampy pain in left mamma and shoulder (twenty-fifth day)

Dull aching in left mammary gland, and under the left shoulder-blade, continues in the evening and night (nineteenth day)

Sharp, cutting pains in both mammary glands, extending from the left mamma to the left shoulder-blade, and to the spine, ameliorated by changing position (fourteenth night)

Severe cutting pain in the left mamma, extending through to the left shoulder-blade, increased by lying on that side (eighth and ninth night)

Frequent stitching pains in left mamma, and a drawing sensation, extending to the shoulder and neck; the pain became more severe at 2 p.m., extending to the neck (twenty-fourth day) ; the pains in the left mamma and side and about the left shoulder-blade have been most troublesome, and have continued longest, indeed have not yet wholly disappeared (after two months)

Heart and Pulse p. 575

Preecordlum, Constant heavy feeling in left side, in region of the heart, all the afternoon (second day)

Suddenly aroused from sleep by pain in the left side, as if the heart were violently grasped, and the grasp gradually relaxed, interrupting the pulsations of the heart, and the breathing, relieved by rubbing and pressure

Heart symptoms really troubled her about walking; short of breath, especially on going upstairs, and was obliged to stop and repose (thirty-second day),h

Heaviness and pressure about the heart after eating ; this symptom has increased very much and is sometimes almost unendurable

Heart feels heavy (eighth day)

Pain in the region of the heart all the time, but increased by stooping, leaning forward, or lying down

Dull, heavy, or pressive pain in region of the heart

Heaviness in region of heart, and palpitation when lying on the left side, worse in bed, at night (fourth night) ; the heart symptoms became so troublesome that I was obliged to discontinue further use of the drug (fifth day)

The dull pressive pain in the left side, coldness of the outer side of the left leg, and pressure in the right side of the head, gradually increased for about six hours, then gradually abated, when I fell into a sleep which continued for about four hours, from which I was suddenly aroused by pain in the left side, as if the heart were violently grasped

Pain in the region of the heart, worse when stooping, leaning forward or bowing, in the afternoon, and more particularly when lying down at night; better in the morning and forenoon ; the pain in the heart continued for more than two weeks, gradually abating, and, at last, could be felt only when leaning forward, stooping or bowing; the pain was so persistent and annoying that I abandoned further trial,l

Awakened by distressing pain and pressure, with fluttering of the heart; the pain was not acute, but a pressure (first night),A

Twice a sharp pain in the apex of the heart (thirtieth day)

An occasional quick pain about the heart was felt, with labored breathing when walking rapidly or ascending a flight of stairs

Slight momentary spasmodic twitchings around the heart in the forenoon (fifth day)

Noticed some heart symptoms, not very definite (twenty-ninth day); a sudden fluttering sensation in the heart, after walking; this like other symptoms is less felt if she can busy herself much (thirtieth day)

Very violent feeling of fluttering in the heart; frequently waking up in the night with it; not relieved by changing position

A hurried, forcing feeling about the heart, with faintness and fluttering though she could do nothing, but must put by her work and sit still; relieved by repose; feels hurried as though she must breathe quickly, yet does not (thirtieth day)

HedVt^S Action, Violent beating of the heart, and throbbing of the carotids, preventing sleep, when lying on either side of the body; after the creeping chills down the back ; lasting a month (after two weeks)

Palpitation of heart, and beating of the arteries, felt only when lying in bed, or during a siesta (sixteenth day)

Frequent attacks of palpitation of the heart (fifth day)

Violent palpitations very frequent

Fluttering of the heart, with sharp aud quick pain in left side of chest (one hour after second dose, third day)

Weak beating of the heart, continuing two hours aud gradually subsiding, in the afternoon (twenty-fourth day)

The heart’s action was intermittent; every intermission was followed by a violent throb, causing an involuntary catching of the breath, at the same time the blood rushed up through the carotids, to the head, producing great heat, and a crowded feeling of the head and face ; these symptoms followed me for more than a month, indeed, so constant were they that I became alarmed, fearing I might have misjudged the case, aud, instead of medicinal symptoms, I was really suffering from an organic disease of the heart; but a physical examination of the heart’s action put my mind at rest; at the present time I have no trouble (after fifty days)

J^pulse. Pulse small and weak, as if the blood did not reach the radial artery in the usual quantity (eighth day)

Pulse 76 (before taking) ; 88 (four hours after first dose, aud two hours after second dose, first day); 72 (fifteen minutes after first dose, second day)

Neck and Back p. 576

Neck, Dull pain in back of the neck, with feeling of constriction (twenty-fifth day)

Soreness of the cervical and occipital muscles, always worse when she has thirsty spells during the whole proving

Hack. Pain in the back and nausea (tenth day)

Pain in back all the evening, till after midnight, when it abated somewhat (thirteenth day)

Severe pain in back (third day)

Constant burning in the back (sixty-ninth day)

Some backache and pain in right ovary (twenty-eighth day)

JDorsal. Some pain between shoulders (second day)

Dull pain under right scapula, being weary from attending lectures; have felt it before when tired

Pain in lower dorsal vertebrae, as if the back would break, for two days (after nearly three months)

Lumbar, Steady, though not severe pain in lumbar region (after nine hours and a quarter, first night); continuing though sensibly growing lighter; occasional transfer of pain to between shoulders (second morning)

Pain in lumbar region increasing in severity (after dose, second day) ; much distressed with pain in lumbar region, on rising in the morning, lasting through the day aud not disappearing till evening (third day),’.-^harp pain in the lumbar region, extending thence over the right hip to the umbilical region, relieved temporarily by rubbing (eighth, ninth, and tenth nights)

Gnawing pain in the back, in the kimbar region, lasting all night, worse in bed (fourth and fifth night)

On changing position in bed, drawing pain in the right side of the loins, near the hip, increased after rising up (fifteenth day)

Pain in the lower part of the back (sixth day)

Constant dull pain low down in the backbone between the hips

Dull and constant pain in the back, between the hips, with pressing downwards at the anus; continuing to tenth day, not much relieved by lying down (sixth day)

Pain in small of the back

Dull, heavy pain and great weakness in the small of the back and loins, continuing four following days (after twentyfour days)

Steady pain in the small of the back, in the spine, spreading both ways to the kidneys, continuing the whole day (seventh day)

Dull pain in small of back and sacrum, all the afternoon and evening (twelfth day)

Dull and occasional shooting pains across the small of the back, lasting a short time (after second dose, first day)

SdCVfll, *Pai7i in sacrum all day (eleventh day)

Pain in the lower part of the sacrum (fifth day)

Fain in the sacrum, with a sensation of weight and downward pi-essmcin liver jmrt of abdomen (hypogastrium), which continued with a good deal of severity for six days, worse when standing (after eighteen days)

Dull pain low down in the back, in the sacrum (fifth day)

Drawing pains in the sacrum aggravated by moving; in the morning (thirteenth day)

Aching and pressure across the him bo-sacral region, and some pressure upon the rectum (twentieth day),b

From the very tip of the os coccygis a pulling upwards and forwards (twenty-fifth day)

Extremities in General p. 577

Severe pain in the second joints of fingers and in the ankle-joint, so that when driving the horse must be stopped, the jolting was so painful (seventeen days after 12 drops)

In early part of night, an outpressing sensation in hands, arms, feet, and legs (first to eighth day)

Quick pain in the ring fingers of both hands and corresponding toes of both feet, at the same time, passing off in a few seconds (after third dose, first day)

Superior Extremities p. 577

Shoulder, Crampy pain in left shoulder and mamma

Arm, Tearing pains in the left upper arm, which seemed to be confined to the muscles (ninth day)

Forearm. Pressing pains in the right arm and wrist (twenty-fifth day)

Wrist, Pain (a hard ache) in the right wust, and great weakness of the part in the morning (twelfth day)

Hand. Tremor of the hands (third day)

Hands and arms stiff and hot as if parched (thirty-first day)

Right hand and arm stiff and painful, abating after 8 a.m. (sixteenth day)

Pricking, painful sensation in the hands and fingers, in the morning (twelfth day)

Fingers, Paralysis or stiffness of the fingers, so that she can hardly hold a pencil firmly enough to write (fourth day)

Fingers of right hand feel stiff, with cramp in the middle finger and up the arm, at 5 p.m. (thirtieth day)

Cramps in the fingers (twenty-fifth day)

Pain in the index finger, beginning at the point, like that produced by an electric current, with throbbing of the pulse (after eight hours, twentyfirst day)

A sensation as of an electric current, beginning at the end of the left index finger, extended to the other fingers of the same hand and up the arm, at 5 p.m. ; then in the right index finger, extending to the other fingers, to the hand and arm, continuing for several hours, with coldness of the feet during the time (twenty-eighth day) ; the sensation as of an electric current has been felt in the left hand occasionally, but has grown less and less at every recurrence; this, together with the burning of the feet and hands, subsided first (after two months)

Pricking sensation in the fingers of both hands, extending up the arms, with a strong outpressing sensation as if the blood would press through the veins, which continued into the night (after seven hours, twenty-ninth day)

Pricking sensation at the ends of the fingers of both hands, and great heat of the palms, at 5 P.M. (thirtieth day),®-

Inferior Staggering gait; have to exert myself to the utmost to walk straight (seventh day)

Lassitude in the lower extremities; especially in the fleshy parts (seventh day)

Legs weak, and feel as if unable to support the body (fifteenth day)

Great weakness in the leo-s (thirtieth day)

When walking, the joints seem to lack synovial fluid ;°can almost hear the crepitus (third day)

Quick pains in the lower limbs (soon after first dose, second day)

Hip. Pain in the right hip and down the thigh (after six hours, twenty-third day),®. Catching pains through the right hip, and down on the outside of the right thigh, worse when sitting up (twenty-second night)

Boring sensation in the right hip-joint, with stiff feeling of the muscles of the thigh (twenty-seventh day)

Severe, drawing pain in the right hip, extending down the outside of the thigh, relieved by moving the limb from place to place (seventeenth day)

Stitches coming and going through the day in right hip-joint (seventeenth day)

Slight stitches occasionally in the right hip-joint (seventh day)

Soreness in the right hip-joint worse when she has thirsty spells during the whole proving

Thif/ll. Lassitude in the thighs (eighth day)

Pain in left thigh, flatulency and lameness in anklejoints when moving, gradually diminishing (third day)

A small spot, about the size of the end of the finger, on the inner side of the left thigh, about half way down to the knee, very painful at times, coming and going (soon after first dose, second day)

Sharp pain in the inside of the left thigh, over the femoral artery, about two inches below Poupart’s ligament (six hours and a quarter after second dose, second day)

Much trembling sensation from the pelvis extending down the thighs (sixty-ninth day)

Knees. Trembling of the knees (second day)

Trembling of the knees and abdomen, and lower part of the back (third day)

Weakness and pain in the knees, when walking (soon after first dose, second day)

Knees feel weak, and are painful when walking, and especially when ascending an eminence (soon after first dose, second day)

Pain in the knees all day (second day)

Grasping pain in the knees, continuing for some time (after eight hours, twenty-first day)

Knees ache (tenth day)

Heavy aching sensation in both knees, after lying down (twentysecond night)

Sharp pain in both knees, on the inside, extending towards the front, at the point of connection of the patella with the tendon of the rectus muscle; the pain seemed to be confined to a small spot; never felt anything like it before (after first dose, first day)

Stinging sensation below the right knee, at 5 p.m. (thirtieth day)

Le(j. Pains in the lower limbs, below the knees, shifting suddenly iron) place to place (after second dose, first day)

Dull, heavy pain from the knees to the ends of the toes

Cramps in both legs and feet after the discharge from the bowels, in the morning (thirty-second day)

The legs ache, causing her to twist and turn (twenty-sixth day)

Swiftly darting pain about the legs for two hours during the evening, going off suddenly as they came on (thirtieth day)

Althle. Pain in the ankle, extending to the toes (twenty-seventh day)

Pain in ankle-joints, worse when moving (after second dose, second day)

Foot. Dull, boring pain on the top of the left foot (soon after first dose, second day)

Pulsation in both feet (after second dose, first day)

Feet have been tender and the ankles swell (forty-fourth day)

Cramp in the toes of the left foot, at 5 p.m. (thirtieth day)

Generalities p. 578

Objective. During the proving she has grown fat, gaining eight pounds (forty-fourth day)

Extreme emaciation and debility

More active; things went easily (first days)

Tremulousness (fourteenth day)

Nervous tremulousness, towards evening (one hour after second dose, second day)

Tremulous and weak as from a fit of sickness, on waking (second morning after 12 drops)

Startings (third day)

Convulsive contractions of almost all the muscles of the body

Hysterics

The muscles of the whole body respond sluggishly to her will (forty-fourth day)

Enervation

Lassitude

General lassitude (twenty-ninth day)

General lassitude and great heat, in the afternoon (sixteenth day)

Languor; lassitude (twelfth day)

Great languor, for three days (after six days)

Languid, slow, and forgetful (thirtythird to forty-fourth day)

Languid, rather sleepy (after nine hours)

Dull, sleepy, and languid (after four hours)

Weakness and irritability during the forenoon (twenty-fourth day)

Loss of strength, with weakness and trembling of the bowels (after forty-third day)

Extreme exhaustion, following the diarrhoea

Prostration

Frequent faintness, especially in a warm room, or after being on the feet a long time,”; with cold perspiration on back of hands and on feet (after forty-three days)

Restless (thirty-first day)

Restless, with a desire to do something, but no ambition (seventh day)

Restless, weary feeling (sixth day)

General restlessness of whole system, at 5 p.m. (after nine hours, eighth day) ; increasing in the evening and after going to bed (eighth day)

Felt hurried ; walked all day ; could not amuse herself by thinking or reading; it was aimless hurry and motion, up and down; could not go to sleep; wanted somebody to be with her and talk to her; felt that she should die, and did not care if she did; wondered who would take care of her body (sixty-first day); same restless desire to keep walking (seventy-fifth day)

Inert, yet don’t want to sit quiet; is restless, yet don’t want to walk ; is cross and pettish (fortieth day)

Much nervousness (third day)

Subjective. She is conscious of feeling nervous and irritable, and yet says she feels jolly (twenty-second day)

Nervous symptoms, commencing after nine hours each day, not very strongly marked the first day, but growing worse and worse each day (after the first five doses)

Irritability of the whole system (eleventh night)

The prover feels that her whole system is profoundly affected by the drug ; “ she is not the person she once was;” feels hurried and yet cannot do much ; no heart nor strength for business, which has not hitherto been a burden to her ; does not like trying to do any work (thirtieth day)

She feels that the animal life predominates, and as though her life were going away (sixty-ninth day)

Feeling of great prostration (after six hours, twenty-third day)

Felt for a week entirely incapacitated for mental or physical exertion

Faint feeling all over, very severe for about two hours, then gradually subsiding, in the afternoon (twenty-fourth day)

Was called out in the night, and, after lying down again, was miserable and restless; everything seemed too hot (seventh day)

Severe pain all night (seventeen days after 12 drops)

Sensation of burning, both internally and externally (fourteenth day)

Aching of the flesh and bones throughout the body (seventh and ninth days after 12 drops)

Muscles lame as though bruised, and the soles of the feet so sore that she cannot walk on them; the hands feel as though they had been pounded; every part of the body sore and bruised ; can’t bear pressure of the clothes (eighteen days after 12 drops) ; the train of symptoms did not leave her for nearly four weeks

No pain, but the sore sensation which follows pain, in the morning (twenty-seventh day)

Pulsation of all the arteries (twentieth and twenty-second nights)

Throbbing pulsations over the body, and outpressing sensation in the hands and arms, as though the blood would burst through the veins, in the afternoon (sixteenth day)

The pains all occupy small spots, as if produced by hard pressure with the ends of the fingers on the parts (after second dose, first day)

The symptoms gradually increased in severity, with but little variation up to the forty-eighth day, when internal use of Helonias dioica gave relief in the course of twenty-four hours, and in three days the relief was entire

Skin p. 580

Irritation on the upper part of the chest and arms, and a fine rash about the forehead and around the borders of the hair, with much itching; not subject to anything of the kind (fifteenth night)

At intervals the skin of the abdomen felt stiff and stretched (fifth and sixth days)

tingling in the legs, which disappeared after the second day

Formication below the knees (after second dose, first day)

Itching in right temple, in evening (second day)

In the swell of the deltoid muscle on both arms, a burning itching, compelling to rub and scratch, which relieves for a short time (thirty-fifth day)

Sleep and Dreams p. 580

Sleepiness, Yawning and stretching (third day)

Yawning and stretching all over (thirty-second day)

Sleepy, but easily aroused (after one hour); sleepy (after four hours)

Very sleepy at other times than the usual sleeping hours (after forty-three days)

During evening tried to compose music but could not; for a sleepy feeling which pervaded the whole frame compelled the prover to retire at the unusually early hour of nine (second day)

Desire to sleep (sixth day)

Feel drowsy and retire early (third day)

Slept soundly without dreaming much; about the middle of the night woke suddenly and evacuated the bladder, a very unusual thing with the prover; slept again until a quarter before six, when awoke suddenly and again emptied the bladder; slept again till eight, when the bladder was evacuated again (first night)

Sleeplessness. Sleeplessness

She has not slept for several nights; must rise twenty times to urinate; keeps turning and twisting; likes to have a pretext for getting up; if aroused by anything she can’t sleep again (sixty-ninth day)

Cannot sleep at night, but lies with the eyes wide open (twenty-second day)

Wakefulness (eleventh night)

Wakeful during the night, but when asleep disturbed by bad laborious dreams (thirty-first night)

Unquiet sleep, frequent waking as if from being frightened (twentieth night)

Went to sleep soon after midnight, waking often (sixty-first night)

No sleep after 2 oclock in the morning (fourteenth night)

Restlessness at night-(ninth to eleventh days)

Restless during the night, with lascivious dream toward morning and seminal emission, which woke me (twenty-third night)

Restless sleep (fourteenth night)

Restless sleep, full of dreams, which cannot be recalled (sixteenth day)

Dreams, Dreams all night (eighth day)

Queer, half-waking dreams, with burning heat the whole night; things occurring at short intervals appeared as if very long intervals were between, as, for example, when a child got up to pass urine, the intervals between getting up and passing urine and going to bed again seemed very long (fourteenth day)

Slept well all night, with unpleasant dreams (sixth night)

Sleep broken by disagreeable dreams; arose earlier than usual not refreshed by sleep (first day)

Troublesome and disagreeable dreams (sixth night)

Frightful and laborious dreams (fourteenth night)

Fever p. 580

Chilliness. Chilliness (seventeenth day)

Chilly feeling all over the body (second day)

A little chilly (second day)

Chills running from the face downwards, with a congested and constricted feeling of the chest, as if too narrow, and might be relieved by letting out some of the blood

Sudden chills, not followed by fever, but with fulness of the head (after 12 drops)

Severe chill towards evening, causing great pain in and about the heart, going through into the back under the scapulae; the pain is constrictive, the heart feels as if it were squeezed in a vice; the blood seems to have all gone to the heart, causing a feeling as though I must bend double; I can hardly walk straight going home; the heart fairly shakes with the cold, although the weather is mild (third day)

■ Chilliness over the face, followed by fever, congestion to the chest, and slight momentary spasmodic twitchings around the heart, during the forenoon (fifth day)

Cold chills in the back, particularly after going to bed at night, with hot flushes toward morning (twelfth day)

Cold chills run over the face; chillier than in cold weather, with hot congested sensation in the chest (first day)

Creeping chills down the back, every night on going to bed, for a month (after two weeks)

Extremities cold and clammy (after 12 drops)

Cold feet and hands (forty-third day)

Cold hands and feet, and cold sweat on both most of the time, particularly so when having fluttering of the heart

Cold hands and feet; perspiration, indeed, so profuse that they were constantly wet with cold, clammy sweat

Everything in the least exciting produces cold hands (fourth day)

Coldness of the outer side of the left leg, as though cold wind was blowing upon it,l

Coldness of the feet (twenty-eighth day)

A cold feeling in the back, as if cold water were poured upon it, on going to bed (eleventh night)

ITent. Great heat

Great heat and general lassitude, in the afternoon (sixteenth day)

Burning hot the whole night, with queer half-waking dreams (fourteenth day)

Slight feverish symptoms (second and third days)

Heat, and full bloated feeling of face and head

Heat in the hands continuing through the night, with perspiration (after eight hours, twenty-first day)

Heat in the hands, arms, and lower limbs, with general restlessness; a feeling of outward pressure, as if the blood would burst through the veins (eleventh night)

Heat in the palms of the hands and soles of the feet, extending thence up the limbs, with restlessness through the night (twelfth night)

Heat in the lower limbs, with restless movements (after eight hours, twenty-first day)

Great heat in the hands, arms, feet, and legs, with strong desire to put them out of bed into the cool air (twentieth night)

Great heat in the arms and legs, with pulsation of the bloodvessels, in the early part of the night (fourteenth night)

Burning heat in palms of hands and soles of feet, extending thence up and over the whole limbs, with general restlessness of whole system, at 5 p.m. (after nine hours); greatly increasing in the evening and after going to bed, with constant searching for a cool place in bed, or desire to put them out into the cool air, which temporarily relieved the burning and restlessness (eighth, ninth, tenth, and fifteenth days)

Hot hands (after six hours, twenty-third day)

Feet and hands hot (seventeenth day)

Very hot hands (after 2 p.m., twenty-fourth day)

Fever heat of the extremities through the night (sixteenth night)

Sweat, Cold perspiration on back of hands and on feet, with fainting feeling in a warm room (after forty-three days)

Much sweating in the axillte, especially in the right, a symptom never previously noticed

Moisture of the palms of the hands (fourteenth night)

Conditions p. 581

Aggravation.

(Morning), Diarrhoea; early, dull headache ; twinges, etc., in chest; pain in mamma ; when moving, drawing in sacrum.

(Forenoon), Chilliness over face, etc.

(Afternoon), About 5 oclock, all symptoms ; obtuseness ; towards evening, pain in temple ; from 3 to 5 oclock, pressing down, etc., around pubes, etc.; congestion of chest; lassitude, etc.; pulsations over body, etc.; towards evening, chilly; heat

{_Evening), The symptoms; irritable; headache; hot pain in forehead; frontal headache; in warm room, sensation from temple to temple; burning in forehead; hacking cough ; oppressive feeling in chest; after going to bed, restlessness.

(Night), From about 5 p.m. to 8 a.m., all symptoms; excitement; despondency ; after going to bed, confusion in head ; heat, etc., in forehead ; pain in eyes ; towards morning, feeling in lower chest; in bed, heaviness in region of heart, etc.; when lying down, pain in region of heart; in bed, pain in back; pains through hip, etc.; after lying down, aching in knees; after going to bed, chills in back, etc.; heat, etc.; heat in hands, etc.; heat of extremities.

(Walking in open air). Headache, etc.

(After eating). Nausea.

(Giving up self-control). All symptoms.

(Lying doicu), Constriction in side of chest; pain in mamma, etc.

(Pressure), Pain in temples.

( Walking), Pain in temple.

(After ceasing to walk). The pains.

Amelioration p. 582

(Evening), At sunset, headache, etc.

(Fresh air). Most symptoms ; cough.

(Keeping busy), The symptoms ; pain in side of head; heart symptoms.

(Motion), Pain in iliac region.

(Pressure), Fulness in temporal and frontal regions.

( Warm room). All symptoms.