Natrum Phosphoricum

Allen, The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica, 1874, Vol. VI, p. 601

Sodium phosphate, Na2HP0^12H20.

Preparation, Triturations.

Authorities. (Dr. Farrington’s provings. Hahnemannian Monthly, 12, 172.) 1, “A.,” proving with the “10m.;” 2, Dr. D., proving with the “10 m.;” 2o, same, proving with the “c.m.;” 3, Miss F., proving with the 30th dil.; 4, Dr. H., proving with the “Im.” 5, Mr. H., proving with the “lOra.;” 6, Dr. Hu., proving with the 30th; 6 a, same, with the “lOm.;” 7, Mr. J., proving with the “ 1 m.;” 7 a, same, with “ 10 m.;” 7 b, same, with “50 m.;” 8, Dr. K., proving with “1 m.;” 8 a, same, with “10 m.;” 9, Mr. M., proving with the “ 1 m.;” 9 a, same, with the “ 10 m.;” 9 b, same, with “50m.;” 9c, same, with “c.m.;” 10, Mrs. P., proving with 6th dil.; 10a, same, with the 30th; 10 5, same, with “2 c.;” 11, Dr. S., proving with the “70m.;” 11 a, same, with “c.m.;” 12, Dr.V., proving with “1 m.;” 13, E. R. Carson, Thesis, Hahn. Med. Coll., 1877 (kindness of Dr. Farrington), took 20 grains crude (first day), 2 grains (thirty-seventh day), 6 grains 10 A.M., and 2 grains at 11 A.M., 12 M., 1, 4.30, and 5.30 p.m. (thirty-eighth day), 4th dec. dil. at short intervals (forty-second day), 6th dec. every fifteen minutes (fiftieth day), 200th dil. (fifty-eighth day), 9th dec. (ninetythird day), 200th dil. (one hundred and eighth day), “1 m.” (one hundred and thirty-sixth day), “30 m.” (one hundred and forty-first day).

Mind

Fnifkional. Awakes in night, and imagines pieces of furniture are persons

Melancholy, especially after emissions

Frequent attacks of gloominess, evening

Depression ; too apt to dwell on annoyances

Despondent in evening; could not study (one hundred and thirtyninth day)

Very despondent; imagined he was going to be sick, to have typhoid fever (one hundred and thirty-seventh day)

Felt anxious about home; had misgivings; feared bad news (one hundred and thirtyseventh rlayh

Worries about his health, about the future

Apprehensive of some approaching evil,’h

Awakens; fears his child, who has a trifling ailment, is dead ; he goes to her room to relieve the otherwise ineffacahle impression (never nervous before in sickness)

Easily startled by the least noise, especially at night, causing palpitation

Irritable

Nervous, irritable (sixtieth day)

Vexed at trifles; disposed to be irritable

Ill-humor, mostly forenoons

Intellectual, Inclined to study in the evening

No ambition to do anything

Mental dulness; forgot what I bad just committed to memory (one hundred and fiftieth and one hundred and fifty-first days)

Study is burdensome; it is difficult to remember what is read

Head p. 602

YeetUfO. Dizzy, as if he would fall; objects turn around, on rising in morning

Slightly dizzy (after four hours, first day)

General Head. Dulness in head and at root of nose, during the morning (fifty-eighth and fifty-ninth days)

Heaviness and fulness of head, with flashes of heat in afternoon, followed by sweat,”h

Empty feeling in head

Fulness in head, towards evening (thirty-seventh day)

Fulness in head, with throbbing pain (one hundred and thirty-seventh day)

Fulness and heaviness in head, and slight dizziness, while studying (soon after first dose, thirty-eighth day)

Frequent sensation of fulness in head, with pulsating pains on stepping

Tensive headache, with dulness and heaviness, accompanied by dim sight, as from a veil before the eyes

Headache 9 a.m., preceded by gagging and faint feeling; pain all over head, better at first from pressure; no better after dinner or siesta, but suddenly leaves at 8 p.m.

Headache, at 10 a.m.,®*; every afternoon, after menses

Headache after dinner

Headache better before breakfast

Headache better after breakfast, worse after dinner

Dull heavy headache, with dim sight

Rheumatic drawing up left side of occiput into forehead

Throbbing headache (one hundred and thirty-eighth day)

Forehead. Fulness in forehead, over eyes, in morning (one hundred and twenty-seventh day)

Through the morning, at times, while studying, fulness and dull aching in forehead (forty-first day)

Fulness in forehead, with cutting pains in right temple (one hundred and twenty-sixth day)

Frontal headache, sharp over left eye, every forenoon

Headache over left eye (during menses)

Headache returns every afternoon, now over one, now over other eye (after menses)

Throbbing in forehead, lasting almost all day ; worse suddenly raising the head, and when ascending (one hundred and fortieth day)

Temples, Pain in right temple, extending to eye and ear, at noon ; better by 5 P.M. (after eating grapes); in evening, pain over left temple while riding in street-car

Pain in right temple (one hundred and thirty-seventh day),”; coming and going (ninety-ninth day)

Very severe pains in temples nearly all morning

Pinching in left temple, descending to left ear and nostril

Sharp pains in right temple, several times during day (forty-seventh day)

Momentary cutting in left temple, at 3 p.m., while walking (one hundred and first day)

Sharp cutting in right temple (one hundred and twenty-fifth day)

Farietals. Sharp cutting in right side of head, with, at times, a dull aching over the eyes (one hundred and fifty-ninth to one hundred and eighty-sixth day)

Sharp tearing in left side of head, front of ear and temporal region particularly

Face p. 602

Eyes bloodshot

Eyes felt weak, worse from gaslight, at 8 P.M. (one hundred and third day)

Slight burning in eyes, producing slight lachrymation, and exciting rubbing of the eyes (forty-eighth day)

Eyes as if bathed iu hot water

INIotuentary cutting in right eye (one hundred and sixth day)/

Fine stitches iu eye, inducing winking and slight lachrymation (one hundred and twenty-ninth day)

Eyes feel sore when reading iu evening

Eyes feel sore, weak

Inner canthus of right eye feels sore ; he wants to rub it; slightly injected

Soreness and shooting iu inner right canthus (one hundred and thirty-sixth day)

Eyes feel as if sand was in them, mostly the left eye

jirow and Orbit, Pain over the eyes

Pain over each eye; worse closing eyes, on retiring (fiftieth day)

Pain in centre of left eyebrow

Pressure over right eye (during menses)

Pressure over right eye, with sighing, as if room were too close; later over left eye ; worse before and after, better during menses

Acute pain over left eye, lasting but a moment (one hundred and twenty-second day)

Pain in left orbit, with pain iu bowels, extending up into chest; flatulence

Dull aching pain in orbit above ball, on using eyes

Infraorbital neuralgic pain on right side (one hundred and thirty-seventh day)

Lids. Quivering of right eyelid while reading, before sleep and on awaking

Lids feel heavy and itch along margins

Eyelids feel sore, itch, and burn

Lachrymal Apparatus. Burning lachrymation

Hall. Dryness of left eyeball, with pain iu same, as if bruised

Aching in right eyeball

Vision. Dim sight, as from veil over eyes, with dull heavy headache

Mist before eyes

Flickering of sight in left eye, on rising, at 5 a.m.

Halo around gaslight

Ears p. 603

Ejcterual, Lobe of right ear burns and itches so intolerably he has to scratch it until it bleeds

3Liddle. Sensation (in ears) as of water dropping from a height into a long narrow vessel, while lying down

Fulness in both ears (one hundredth day)

Fulness in ear (one hundred and thirty-seventh day)

Full feeling in internal ear, in evening (ninety-eighth day)

Dull aching in right meatus auditorium (one hundred and fifty-fifth day)

Tickling from middle ear into Eustachian tube

Great itching in right meatus auditorium (ninety-sixth day)

Ecarinff. Imagines he hears footsteps iu next room

Nose p. 603

Objectire. Slight epistaxis in morning

Subjective. Left nostril stopped up,’; worse in open air

Fulness at root of nose and in ears, towards evening (forty-second day)

Great fulness at root of nose; skin feels drawn tight over it, in evening (fifty-eighth and fifty-ninth days)

Nose as if full of mucus, and discharge is slight (fifty-ninth day)

Left nostril sore, painful; picks it continually; scabs form

Pricking in left nares (one hundred and fifty-fifth day)

Pricking in right nares, acute enough to bring tears to the eyes (one hundred and fortieth day)

Smell. Offensive odor before nose in morning, tAVO days

Face p. 603

Cheeks. Shooting pain in right cheek (one hundred and fiftyfifth day)

Peculiar stitching pains along cheeks into ears (ninety-eighth day)

Chin. Slight shooting through left lower java (one hundred and twenty-sixth day)

Great soreness in right side of lower jaw, at the angle, Avith occasional slight darting pains thiough java (one hundred and twentyfifth dav)7'*-

Mouth p. 603

Teeth. Teeth in morning, and mouth all day, covered with a brownish mucus

CrUins. Two gumboils, one opposite the left fust premolar, the second opposite the last right molar (third day), . Pain in gum, over last molar of left upper jaw (one hundred and fifty-fifth day)

Tonfjiie. Tongue coated dirty white, with dark-brown centre

Blisters on tip of tongue

Sensation of hairs on tip of tongue, followed by prickling numbness of whole mouth; next day a small pim{)le

Stinging in the end of the tongue, in evening (one hundred and forty-fifth day)

Taste. Bad taste in mouth, morning, on awaking ; gastric symptoms

Coppery taste, 5 a.m.

Speech. Tries to say a word, but it will not come out; feels as if something closed in the throat, preventing speech

Throat p. 604

Objective. Accumulation of mucus in throat

Tough, clear, white phlegm from posterior nares

Dropping of thick yellow mucus from posterior nares ; worse at night; awakens him ; he must sit up to clear his throat

Much hawking from posterior nares (have had this before), (fifty-eighth day)

Subjective. Sensation of lump in throat (one hundred and third day)

Right side of throat sore

Sensation as of a pin pricking right side of throat; worse swallowing liquid ; better from solids

Tonsils. Momentary throbbing in region of left tonsil (one hundred and thirty-ninth day)

Stomach p. 604

Appetite. Canine hunger, with gone feeling in stomach; felt a-! if could not wait until dinner was ready (one hundred and twentysecond and one hundred and twenty-third days\*®.

Not very hungry for meals, yet enjoys them ; most appetite for supper

Desires strong-tasting things

Desires strong-tasting things, even alcohol

Desire for eggs

Desire for fried eggs

No desire for food ; sick, gone feeling

Less relish for dinner (ninety-seventh day)

Aversion to bread and butter, yet formerly fond thereof; very persistent for weeks

Thirst, Desire for beer; it relieves the goneness,®>>.

Tvuetation. Eructations after eating

Eructations frequent, tasteless

Slight regurgitation of food after dinner (ninety-seventh day)

Stomach. Goneness in stomach and abdomen, even in chest

Goneness in stomach and abdomen, with feeling of weight above the ensiform

Gone feeling in stomach (one hundred and twenty-sixth day)

Gone feeling in stomach, on rising in morning

Empty gone feeling in stomach, 11 to 12 oclock, before breakfast

Empty gone feeling all day, but worse after eating

Stomach feels empty

Heavy feeling in stomach, causing a restless feeling, third day after tea

Sensation of heaviness in epigastrium, better after eating

Heaviness in epigastrium and lower third of sternum, worse going upstairs, during menses

After eating a little feels full

Fulness in stomach all the time, but worse after eating

Constant feeling of fulness

Pain in bowels ascends to stomach; flatulence; at same time return of pain in left orbit

Pressure from spine to stomach, before breakfast

Awakens 2 a.m., with pressure in stomach ; feels as if a round stick was pressing up and forward from about the last dorsal vertebra into stomach

Pressure in pit of stomach, better eating (after menses)

Abdomen p. 604

Hypochondria. Sharp cutting in hypochondria and left iliac region (fifty-fourth General Abdomen. Flatulence, especially after dinner (one hundred and twenty-ninth day)

Very flatulent, during day (fiftieth day)

Much flatulence after eating, with rumbling in bowels (one hundred and twenty-third day)

Anxiety felt through abdomen, lasting only a few moments

Goneness in abdomen and stomach, with feeling of weight above the ensiform

While at stool, sensation as if a marble dropped in left abdomen (descending colon), two evenings, at 8 a.m.,®

Bloated feeling, worse evening; wind in bowels; must loosen clothing; urging to stool

Colic, as from wind pressing on bladder, causing frequent micturition ; urging to stool

Momentary colicky pains, with discharge of flatus, in the evening, while lying (fiftieth clay)

Slight colicky pains, after breakfast, while walking up and down room (ninety-seventh day); after supper, while walking (forty-ninth day) ; after stool (one hundred and fifty-sixth day)

Hyxmgast riulii (tud Iliac Hey ion. Colic pains in lower part of abdomen, with desire for stool; much flatus before stool, in evening, after supper, while walking (forty-seventh day)

Momentary colicky pains in hypijgastrium, in morning (one hundred and twenty-eighth day).*®.

Soreness in hypogastrium, after passing water; better lying on back, worse on belly, in evening (forty-third and forty-sixth days)

Pain through right groin, day after emissions

Rectum and Anus p. 605

Distressing, burning, contracting pain in anus and lower part of rectum ; feel it after awaking from a troubled dream

Sticking in anus, as from a splinter, on walking (one hundred and thirty-ninth day)

Sore feeling in anus (one hundred and twentyseventh day)

Sore, raw feeling in anus, with desire to retract the anus, which relieves (one hundred and thirty-sixth day)

Felt a rawness in anus on awaking; desire to scratch it, which aggravated (one hundred and thirty-ninth day)

Itching of the anus; soreness

Anus itches and feels raw (one hundred and Ibrty-sixth day)

Great itching of anus (one hundred and fifty-sixth day)

Urging to stool, two evenings in succession, at 8 P.M.,®* ®

Urging to stool ; feels often as if bowels would move, but they do not.

Must bring my will to bear to prevent the escape of faeces (after three hours and three-quarters, first day)

Stool p. 605

Diarrhoea.

Diarrhoea, colicky pains before morning

Three or four diarrhoeic stools a day, with much flatus; crampy ains in stomach and abdomen; is afraid to pass flatus lest faeces escape also

After rising, bowels loose, rumbling in abdomen ; after breakfast, a small, dry, difficult, dark-brown stool, requiring much straining (fortythird day); dark-brown stool after breakfast, requiring much straining (forty-fourth day)

After coitus, urging to stool and urine; bowels loose; stools small

Two small stools during day (ninety-seventh day)

Small stool watery, yellowish-brown (after six hours); stool profuse, thin, yellowish-brown (after ten hours and a half); before each passage, weak feeling in rectum and sphincter ; had to forcibly contract the sphincter to prevent an evacuation (first day)

Small stool before breakfast, soft, yet with eftbrt; sudden urging while eating; afterwards, watery, yellowish-brown painless stool (one hundred and seventh day)

Desire for stool, which was scanty, with flatus, at 7.30 a.m. ; after breakfast, large, soft stool, with much flatus (one hundred and sixth day)

After a light supper, sudden urging to stool, with colic; had to contract the sphincter to prevent escape of faeces; stool watery, gushing, painless (one hundred and thirty-sixth day)

Passage yellowish-brown, watery, containing fecal lumps (after four hours, first day)

Sudden urging to stool, which Was copious, painless, and easy; the first part fluid, the second fecal lumps, at 6.30 P.M. (second day)

Sudden urging to stool, at 6.30 p.m. ; after supper, during a stool, difficult to Ietaiu fseces; when stool passed, it was mushy, yellow-brown, with flatus before and during; momentary colic during stool (thirty-eighth day)

Large, soft stool, in evening (fiftythird day)

Large, soft stool, easily expelled, with feeling afterwards as if much remained behind (one hundred and fifty-sixth day)

2>ation. Costive

One day costive, next day diarrhoea

No stool (thirty-ninth day) ; desire for stool, at 9 a.m., but only passed, with difficulty, two small lumps; normal passage in the evening (fortieth day); normal stool in evening (forty-first day)

Conditions p. 606

LfretJira. Burning during urination; urine apparently normal

After coitus, burning and itching at meatus urinarius

Constant urging to urinate

Awoke in night with distended bladder (thirtieth day),’l

Obliged to urinate, but pressure not thereby relieved,h

Frequent micturition,”*'; from wind pressing on bladder

Frequent calls to urinate, passing but little at a time (one hundred and twenty-eighth day)

Passed a large quantity of urine in the morning, after arising (fifty-first day)

Bladder seems incapable of properly expelling its contents; flow soon stops, and requires straining; each effort resulting in a small spirt of urine (forty-seventh day)

Desire to urinate, but compelled to wait almost a minute before urine will flow ; had to strain at the end of micturition (one hundred and twentyfourth day)

Same bladder-atony remains (one hundred and twentyeighth day)

Urine, Urine dark red, no sediment

Urine increased and pale (fifty-ninth and one hundred and second days)

Urine greatly increased and pale in afternoon (fiftieth day)

Urine scanty and dark (fifty-third day)

Sexual Organs p. 606

Alale. Erections almost every night (married man), preceded by slight pains in the testicles, mostly left

Pain in left testicle, and about the chin

Dull drawing in testicle and cord

Pain in left spermatic cord

Drawing in right spermatic cord

Great sexual excitement

Sexual desire diminished

Sexual desire, but no erections; later, total absence of desire

Seminal emission at night, with dreams (one hundred and twenty fourth day)

Seminal emission at night, with vivid dreams (one hundred and thirty-ninth day)

Emission of semen, some hours after coitus; no dream or erection

Emissions every other night

Three emissions in one week; unconscious thereof until morning

Emissions every night; no lascivious dreams; semen thin, watery, smells like stale urine

Seminal emission during night, without dreams (forty-second day) ; seminal emission during night, with dreams (forty-third day) ; another nocturnal emission (forty-fourth day); still another emission, at night, without dreams (forty-fifth day},*®.

Seminal emissions, without erotic dreams, two in one night

Female, Menses five days too early

Menses five days too early (always regular before); feet icy cold by day, burn at night in bed; flow pale (dark in health), with pressure over right eye, and desire to take a long breath, as if room was too close. Three days later, headache over left eye ; all worse 3 to 4 p.M. Fifth day, flow dark as usual. After menses, much worse. Trembling about the heart, worse walking upstairs ; pressure in pit of stomach, better eating; headache returns every afternoon, now over one, now over other eye; sleep restless, tosses from side to side. Next period three days too early. Same symptoms as before, but flow stopped two days and returned with headache, chilliness, restless sleep, and paralytic aching in right wrist; knees felt as if the cords were shortened. (Was under treatment eighteen months before symptoms were all removed)

Respiratory Organs p. 606

Voice. Hoarseness (following pain from clavicle to stomach)

Cough, Cough, after drinking water

Cough, from tickling in throat

Irritation in throat; dry, tickling cough (one hundred and sixth day)

Constant cough, and hawking pain in chest, in the mammary regions (one hundred and sixth day)

Respiration. Constant tendency to sigh (menses)

Desire to take long breath, as if room too close (during menses)

Empty feeling in chest and abdomen, after a meal

Empty feeling in chest and abdomen, after dinner

Pain through chest and in

Chest p. 607

Pain through chest, after dinner, especially left side, *. Pain from right clavicle, diagonally, to stomach, so intense that it made her start, followed by hoarseness

Burning, deep in chest, worse right side, evening in bed

Sudden feeling of fulness in upper part of chest

Contracted feeling in walls of right chest, lasting only a few moments

Dull aching pains in chest (one hundred and fifty-ninth to one hundred and eighty-sixth day)

Sore, pressing pain, as after a contusion, about cartilages of fourth to sixth ribs, right side, worse from deep breathing, deep pressure ; later in evening, cannot breathe deeply, or move arms, or bend body backward

Intercostal muscles feel sore, and as if drawn, when sitting erect or moving chest, not in ordinary breathing

A spot in right chest feels bruised

Front. Like a weight above the ensiform, with empty feeling in stomach and abdomen

Lower third of sternum pains, as if torn in two

Heart and Pulse p. 607

Frwcordiani. Trembling about heart, worse walking upstairs (after menses)

Feels as if a lump, a bubble, started from the heart, and were forced through the arteries

Heart feels uneasy and pains, especially about its base, when pains in limbs and great toe are better,'®.f

Heart’s Action. Lying down at night, hears heart beat, as though it came from under pillow

Every strange noise causes palpitation

False. Pulse quick, jerking, 11 to 12 oclock; before breakfast

Feels pulse all over body

Pulse felt in different parts of body, as if shot were rolling through the artery

Sleep and Dreams p. 607

^eck. Crick in both sides of neck

Fack. Weakness in back (sixtieth and one hundred and hfty-fifth days) ; towards ev^ening (one hundred and fortieth day)

Weakness in back, requiring an effort to sit erect (one hundred and thirty-seventh day); back weak, worse towards evening (one hundred and thirty-eighth day)

Stitches to right of spine, on taking deep breath, morning

Forsal. Slight pain in left scaj)ula, in evening (one hundred and twenty-seventh day)

Lanihar. Weak feeling in small of back, when lying in bed, at 11 P.M.; most felt when lying on back, but not relieved by lying on side; diminishes in a few minutes, and is followed by an annoying, deepseated twitching in left inguinal region

Shooting in region of right kidney (one hundred and fifty-fifth day)

Fine stitching pains in left renal region

Pain in articulation of lumbar vertebrae and sacrum, left side; pressing the spot causes a pain down thigh to knee,’*; later, this spot grew more painful, and the leg seemed to give way when walking, as though knee was weak

Sacral. Sharp cutting in right sacro-iliac articulation (one hundred and thirty-sixth day)

Extremities in General. Right wrist and left ankle weak, and ache as if paralyzed ; after menses

Drawing in hands, feet, wristjoints, and left shoulder

Superior Extremities p. 607

crepitation (in upper limbs),'® 7a9 9a9u

(left) feels “gone tired

Arms so weak she must let them drop

Heaviness of right arm

Contractions of the extensor muscles on the back of the arm, often, when writing (one hundred and fifty-ninth to one hundred and eighty-sixth day)

Shoalder. Rheumatic pain iu right shoulder; feels nervous

Shooting pains from neck over right shoulder (one hundred and thirty-eighth day)

Slight drawing in left deltoid, Morning

Wvist. Deep-seated pain in right wrist, going to centre of palm

Sudden drawing-cramping pain in left wrist, at various times, extending over dorsum of hand to fingers; index finger intensely painful

Paralytic aching in right wrist (during menses)

Drawing in right wrist-joint

Hand. while writing, cannot keep hand from trembling; the pen moves further than he designs, thus he makes an “A or a “y too long

Numbness of right hand and arm

Slight crampy pain in left hand, particularly index finger

l^inf/ers. Slight numbness in fingers of right hand, with occasional darts, especially in ring fingers (one hundred and twenty-fifth day)

Pain in right index finger, in an old gouty joint

Pain in little finger of right hand

Rheumatic pain in joints of little finger, left hand

Pains darting in little finger of left hand, then in right, worse riding

Severe shooting pains in the median and index fingers of left hand (forty-sixth day)

Sharp pain, like a needle, in right middle finger

Inferior Extremities p. 608

Synovial crepitation (in lower limbs)

Unsteady gait

Weariness of legs while standing

Sudden giving way of legs while walking, as though they would be paralyzed; fears she will have typhoid fever

Hamstrings feel stiff when he attempts to rise; he kicks out to limber up

Thifjh. Dull, boring pain in left thigh and knee (one hundred and second day)

Dull aching in right thigh, very severe

Drawing in inner side of left thigh

Drawing iu hamstrings of left leg, while walking

Slight drawing in left ischiatic nerve, from foramen to middle of thigh

Sharp shooting in anterior part of left thigh (one hundred and twenty-sixth day)

Bruised pain inside of thighs, when walking upstairs

Knee. On getting up, after sitting awhile, knees tremble

Pains about patella

Pain iu left popliteal space, going upstairs

Knees felt as if cords were shortened (during menses)

Muscles of left knee pain as if hamstrings were too short

Sharp cutting iu right knee, not influenced by motion (one hundred and thirty-seventh day)

Sharp stabbing in left knee (one hundred and fifty-sixth day)

Twitching iu left knee-joint

Leg. After getting up, for several mornings, legs, from knees down, feel heavy, as if paralyzed

Pains between knees and ankles, when walking fast

Slight pains about shin and left testicle

Aching along shins, while walking

Pain iu calf, worse on first rising

Right calf feels as if tightly bandaged

Avhen walking, calves feel as if pulled tight

Sensation as of a needle piercing calf, while walking

Foot. Muscles pain when flexing left foot

Feet felt swollen, and itched (subject to chilblains), (fifty-second day)

Sharp cutting pains in left foot, through middle of instep to toes, lasting but a short time (one hundred and thirty-sixth day)

Pain in hollow of right foot, after going upstairs, also while riding

Pain iu hollow of left foot, worse walking or exercising; alternates from foot to foot

Pain in ball of left foot; walking

Toes. Big toe pains

Right big toe pains ; as this gets better, pain in heart

When rubbing big toe, it prickles as if going to sleep

Generalities p. 608

(Jhjeetive. Tired in morning; weak feeling in legs, seemingly relieved by forcibly stretching

Fatigue from slight exertion (fifty-second day)

Languid (after nocturnal emission (one hundred and twenty-fifth day)

Very languid (sixtieth day)

Lassitude in hot weather (hitherto indifferent to summer heat)

General lassitude

Nervous, on rising in morning/

After breakfast, nervous, went to bed again

Study makes him so nervous he must get up and walk about

ISlervousuess, goneness at stomach, headache, crick in neck, worse in thunderstorm

Subjective. Feels weak and cross, after dinner ; would like to lie down

Sick feeling, nervous ; 11 to 12 oclock, before breakfast

Now ai]d then, slight pains here and there (sixtieth day)

Sore feeling, especially in joints (sixtieth day),'®.^Awakens after 12 p.M.; soon after, a sensation as from an electric shock, through the body; trembling and palpitation as from fright

Skin p. 609

Eruptions, Dry. Itching of skin, particularly lumbar region and hips; rubbing causes an eruption of papules, about the size of lentils, and of the color of the skin

After going to bed, itching here and there, and lumps, similar to hives, raise up; scratching relieves itching, but is followed by burning; could not sleep

Apis removed hives.

Burning stinging lump, like hives, on second joint of ring finger

Pimples on left satis, with a broad erythematous base (one hundred and fortysixth day)

Pimple on left leg, itching burning ; loss of appetite

Itching of small pimples near right ear (one hundred and first day)

Small, round, reddish papules about the tendo Achillis, and later, on lower limbs, mostly in bends of joints, itching terribly

Sepia aggravated, but finally relieved, eruption about joints.

EvuptioilSf Aloifit. Itching about mouth, neck; vesicles form; pimples like nettlerash

Itching about the joints, elbows, knees; at same time itching of right external ear; vesicles form

Sensfftious. Itching of nose

Itching about mouth and neck all through the proving

Itching of the prepuce

Itching about the anus

Itching of prepuce, of anus, of coccyx

Joints itch

Great itching of the scrotum (ninety-sixth day)

Intense itching of the face, especially of the nose; also spots on body and limbs itch; feel like insect-bites; she wants to tear the flesh

Sleep and Dreams p. 609

Sleepiness. Drowsy, 10 A.M.,®

Drowsy all day, mostly forenoon

Drowsy, afternoons, must lie down ; after dinner, so sleepy can hardly keep eyes open ; tired, weary, not disposed to do anything

Very tired in afternoon; falls asleep while sitting

Sleeplessness. Great and unusual excitement; not able to get to sleep until near 1 a.m.; awoke at 5 unrested

Could not get to sleep until 4 P.M., then had a tiresome sleep until 5 a.m.

Restless sleep all through the proving

Restless sleep during and after menses

Sleep restless, tosses from side to side tatter menses)

Sleepless, after 12 p.m. until 3 A.M.,®.

Wide awake from the least noise

Sleepy, from 3 p.m. until bedtime, then sleepless from thoughts ; finally, urging to sleep, dreams of these thoughts

Dreams. Troublesome dreams

Sexual dreams, thinks she is with her husband, but the act is prevented by the unbidden entrance of some stranger

Vexing dreams

Dreams of the dead ; tired on awaking

Sits up in bed, seizes the sheet, and folds it precisely along the hems

Fever p. 609

C/hilliness. Chilliness (during menses)

Chilly, felt mostly in chest

Chill, followed by hot flashes around body,f

Cold feet (subject to them, but only in winter), (fifty-second day)

Feet icy cold by day, burn at night in bed (during menses)

Heat. Cannot get to sleep, feels so hot; thoughts crowd on his mind

Flashes of heat and sweat, evening

Flashes, ^very afternoon, headache (lady who, though fifty, never had them before)

Face burns

Conditions p. 610

Aggravation.

(Morning), On rising, dizziness; offensive odor before nose; drawing in deltoid; after getting up, legs, etc., feel heavy; on first rising, pain in the calf.

(Forenoon), Ill-humor; frontal headache; headache over eye; drowsiness.

(Afternoon), After menses, headache; towards evening, weakness of back; flashes.

(Evening), Attacks of gloominess; fulness at root of nose; at 8 oclock, sensation in left abdomen ; bloated feeling; after supper, Awhile walking, colic pains; at 8 oclock, urging to stool; flashes of heat, etc.

(Night), Easily‘‘startled; dropping of mucus from posterior nares.

(Aacencling stairs). Heaviness in epigastrium, etc.; trembling about heart.

(Drinking tvater). Cough.

(Riding), Pains in little fingers.

(In thunderstorm), Nervousness, etc.

(Walking), Pain in hollow of foot.

Amelioration p. 610

(Eating), Heaviness in epigastrium ; pressure in pit of stomach.

Footnotes p. 607

† Twenty years ago had pains in toe and heart relieved by Lycopod.; no return until now.

Natrum Phosphoricum in the other books