Sabina

Juniperus Sabina, Linn.

Natural order, Coniferse.

Common names, Savin ; (G.), Sadebaum ; (Fr.), Genevrier saviuier.

Preparation, Tincture of the stems.

Authorities. (Nos. 1 to 10 from Stapf’s Compilation, Archiv f. Horn., 5. ) 1, Hahnemann; 2, Gross; 3, Fr. H—n; 4, Herrmann; 5, Hartmann; 6, von Pleyel; 7, von Sonnenberg ; 8, Roch ; 9, Staph; 10, “W.”; 11, Hartlaub and Trinks, R. A. M. L.; 12, Mohrenheim, Versuch, II, p. 245 (from Wibmer), effect of an infusion in a pregnant woman; 13, Bell, On Venereal Diseases, 1, 350, effects of the powder inserted into the urethra (from Staph); 14, Kopp, Denkwiirdigkeiten, a. d. a. Praxis, Bd. I. (from Staph) ; 15, Home, Clinical Exper., p. 419, effects of doses of the herb from a scruple to half a drachm, twice daily (from Wibmer); 16, Haller, Hist. Stirp. Helv., II, p. 321, No. 1662 (from Wibmer), effects of the herb taken to produce abortion; 17, Sauvages, Nosologist (from Stapf’s collection); 17 a, Dr. C. Hering, Prakt. Mittheilungen, 1827, p. 84 (original not accessible), from Notch and Trinks ; 18, Buchner, A. H. Z., 20, 304, a healthy girl took 100 drops of the tincture, four times; 19, Deutsche, Preus. Ver. Zeit., 1851, a pregnant woman drank about 6 drachms of an infusion ; 20, Dr. E. wander Warker, “The Detection of Criminal Abortion,” p. 67, experiments, took at 2.10 p.m., 10 minims of Oil Savine ; at 4 p.m., 5 minims; at 8.55 p.m., 10 minims ; 20 «, same, second experiment, took at 10.30 a.m., 15 minims, and again same, at 1 p.m.; 21, Leathery, Lancet, 1845, 1, 677, effects of an unknown quantity upon a pregnant woman, aged twenty-one (followed by death) ; 22, Loud. Med. Gaz., 1845, p. 646, effects in a woman, aged twenty-four, pregnant (fatal); 23, May, Assoc. Med. Journ., 1854, p. 224, effects in a pregnant woman, aged eighteen (fatal).

Mind

* Great anxiety, as if he apprehended some evil

* He is despond ing and hypochondriac

Great ill-humor; not disposed to talk

Illhumored ; indifferent to a jest

Irritable nerves ; music was intolerable, it penetrated marrow and bone, with aching pain in the occiput, feeling of weakness, debility, and inclination to sweat, especially on the back ; these symptoms disappeared in half an hour, when taking continuous exercise in the open air (after one hour)

Out of humor several days; she is not disposed to speak ; she is desponding, joyless, with a sense of debility in all the limbs

Ul-humor, with sensation as if he had taken cold

Vexed; she weeps aloud

Indifferent, but not ill-humored ; unsolicitous, but not dissatisfied (after several days)

Disinclined to talk, in the morning, while walking

Confusion of ideas (after five minutes)

Ideas slightly confused, as if from several drinks of whisky (after ten minutes)

Weakness of memory ; he could not recollect what he had done during the day

Perfectly insensible

Head

VevtiffO Violent vertigo, when, standing, as if he would fall forward

Violent vertigo, even when sitting, with great weakness, as if he would fall over, and as if his eyes would close

Continual vertigo, with mist before the eyes (after two hours)

Vertigo on rising, she was obliged to lie down again

* Vertigo, as if he would fall

* Vertigo, with obscuration of vision,K.

Vertigo, with stupefaction

Dizzy, with orgasm and heat in the head

General Head. Stimulant effect on brain, evinced by serai-intoxication (after twenty-minutes)

Dulness of the whole head, especially in the forehead, extending down towards the nose, in which it became a sort of drawing, causing a sensation as if blood would flow from the left nostril (after one hour)

Dulness of the head after dinner

* Pressure and dulness in ihe head, especially in the forehead, as after intoxication (after one hour)

Oppressive heaviness in the head, as if she had taken much spirits; all the forenoon

Feeling of heaviness and pressure in the left side of the head ; shooting stitches sometimes dart through the left hemisphere (after one hour)

Oppressive and painful heaviness in the whole head, continuing until she goes to bed (after six hours)

Most severe headache the following day, with slightly congested conjunctiva

Intense headache (after two hours and ten minutes)

Severe headache through the day (second day)

Headache (after five minutes),20; (after one hour)

Headache early in the morning, as if the mastoid processes were pressed towards one another (after two days)

Pressing pain in the whole head, from within outward, resembling a wind, which rushes in suddenly, and disappears again slowly

Drawing headache

Stitching pressure darting into the left hemisphere of the head

Sticking pain through the brain, with pressure

Tearing in the whole of the right hemisphere, from the occiput to the forehead

Digging-boring headache

Beating headache, with heaviness and stupefaction

Forehead. Boring pain behind the right frontal eminence, in the coronal suture

Raging pain in the forepart of the head

* Painful sensation in the right frontal eminence and in the right temple, as if the parts were pressed asunder; it comes suddenly, disappears gradually, and recurs frequently?.

Drawing headache, first in the forehead, afterwards in the occiput

Drawing headache in the forehead and temples, only in the daytime

Pressing in the left side of the forehead

Sudden pressure in the left frontal eminence, from without inward

Sensation of pressure in the forehead, it stupefies him

Painful pressure in the left frontal eminence, affecting the eyeball, which feels compressed

Tearing, with pressure in the right frontal eminence

The forehead was painful on motion, she could scarcely wrinkle it; a pain as if the skin had grown fast to the skull

Smarting-stabbing pain, as if a sharp knife were plunged several times into the right frontal eminence, deep into the brain (after seventy-two hours)

Temples, Aching pain in the region of the left temporal bone, from within outward

Aching pain in the region of the light and left temporal bone (third hour)

Transient aching above the right temple (after three hours)

Transient pressive pain over the right temple (after three hours)

Sensation in the right temple, as of a weight pressing inward, with frequently an acute sticking in the left frontal eminence, coming and going suddenly

Painful pressing sensation in the right temple, from within outwards

Painless drawing from the right temple to the forehead (after four hours)

Painful drawing in the left temple, when closing the eyes, accompanied with a painful pressure on the left upper eyelid (after one hour)

Sense of painful stricture over the temples (after twenty minutes)

Circumscribed pain in each temporal region (after ten minutes)

Vertex. The vertex is sensitive to touch, and when touched an aching pain is felt in the head

Aching pain in the right sinciput

Pressure under the vertex, at dinner

Occiput. Heaviness of the occiput and nape of the neck, descending along the whole of the back down to the small of the back

Pressing heaviness in the occiput, acutely painful, and relieved by strong pressure upon a hard cushion

Dull pressure on both sides of the occiput (after half an hour)

Painful pressing sensation in the right occiput, appearing and disappearing gradually (after three-quarters of an hour)

Pressive-tearing pain externally in the left occipital bone, as far as the left side of the frontal bone, in a curved direction across the left temporal bone, more violent when touched

-Sensation in the left side of the occiput, as if a sharp wind penetrated it, after which the sensation changes to a pressing-boring pain

Eye_Blue rings around the eyes

Eyes shut

Tensive pain in the eyes; sensation when looking up, as if the internal and inferior muscles were too short

Pain in the eyes, and discharge of smarting water

Feeling of heat in the eyes

Pressive tearing in the left eyebrow

Twitching in the upper eyelid

[80.p Pricking below the cartilage of the lower lid (after seven hours)

Conjunctive congested (after two hours and ten minutes)

Pupils of the eyes slightly dilated, but contracted readily on a candle being placed near them

Pupils much contracted

Tremulousness and a sensation as if clouds were rising before the eyes, disappearing in the open air

Fever p. 460

Pressure externally above the right ear

Stitches behind the ear, even during rest

Burning sensation in the border of the left ear and lobule, which looks a little redder than the other, but is not warmer to touch (after one hour and a half)

Tearing in the left ear, almost like otalgia (after one hour and a half)

Pinching deep in the ear

Hardness of hearing

Nose p. 460

Frequent sneezing (the first three days)

Dry coryza,1 G.

Dry coryza in the right nostril

Face p. 460

Face painfully flushed and congested (after forty minutes)

Countenance turgid

Pale face, with lustreless eyes, as on recovery from severe illness, continuing several days (after one hour)

Dryness of the lower lip for several days

Aching in the left malar bone, aggravated by touch

Paralytic pain in the right malar bone

Pain in a small spot behind the angle of the lower jaw, when touched and pressed upward

Pressive-drawing pain in the angle of the right lower jaw, in the masseter muscles, aggravated by touch (after two hours)

Single jerks through the left lower jaw into a hollow tooth, when walking in the open air, after a meal

Dull sticking pain the left side of the lower jaw (after four hours)

Stitches from the lower jaw into the malar bone

Mouth p. 460

Teeth. Toothache, excited almost only by chewing; it commenced in a hollow tooth, and afterwards spread to other teeth ; lasting five or six minutes

Toothache evening and night, which wakes him, as if the tooth would be shattered ; pressure from within outward, relieved after rising, aggravated by drinking and smoking ; he is unable to bear the warmth of the bed two evenings in succession

Front teeth on edge

Drawing pain in all the teeth

Drawing in the root of a hollow tooth, when drinking or eating either cold or warm things, and when breathing through the open mouth

Pain in the lower row of teeth, when eating or chewing, but especially afterwards, as if the gum were swollen, and as if the teeth were elongated and loose

Tearing pain in the roots of the molars, near the gums

Gums. Swelling of the gum around a hollow tooth, whitish, painful to touch, early in the morning, when waking; accompanied with heaviness in the tooth and jaw (eighth day)

Ulcer on the gum of a front tooth, painful on touch

The gum around the roots of a broken-off hollow tooth is painful when touched

Tongue. White and brownish coating of the tongue, with flat taste

Every morning the tongue is thickly coated yellow, especially posteriorly (twelfth day)

Fine pricking in the tip of the tongue

General Mouth. Foaming at the mouth

Peculiar odor of drug very evident in breath

Putrid smell from the mouth, not noticed by herself

Scraping sensation in the palate and uvula, aggravated by swallowing saliva (after half an hour),8. Dryness of the mouth and throat

Saliva. Accumulation of water in the mouth, with frequent yawning

Increased secretion of saliva

-*1 he saliva is quite white, and becomes frothy while talking

Taste. Disgusting taste in mouth and throat, like old catarrhal mucus, especially on hawking

Bloody greasy taste in the mouth, the saliva reddish

The food, milk, and coffee taste bitter

Bitter taste in the mouth

Bitter taste in the mouth, after milk

Throat p. 461

Frequent hawking of mucus, early in the morning, the mucus is loose, but does not come up; he feels that some mucus is all the time lodged in the throat, which causes hawking from time to time

* Dryness in the. throat with drawing pain

Heat and weight at stomach (after twenty minutes)

Pressure in the throat when swallowing saliva

Sore pain in the throat during deglutition, in the afternoon

Choking pressive sensation in the left side of the throat, when not swallowing

Contractive and pricking pain through the throat, from before backward, when not swallowing

Drawing pain in the throat externally

Sensation of swelling in the throat, as if he had to swallow over a foreign body

Era wing in the throat

Dull stitches in the throat during rest

Stomach p. 461

Appetite. Desire for milk

* Desire for acid things, especially for lemonade

* Appetite poor (second day),20a.

Loss of appetite; food has a natural taste, but he is immediately satiated

Eructations. Eructations accompanied with nausea (immediately and afterwards)

Frequent eructations tasting of the medicine

Frequent empty eructations

Frequent empty eructations (immediately and continuing)

'■'Heartburn

JVa/USea and Vomit hi (J. Nausea and pain in umbilical region (after forty minutes)

Several short attacks of nausea and disposition to vomit (after a quarter of an hour)

Nausea, as when fasting

Nausea, with cough (after two hours)

Nausea and feeling of fulness

Nausea, and desire to vomit, accumulation of saliva in the mouth

Slight nausea and pain in bowels (after two hours and ten minutes)

Nausea, after breakfast (second day),20-1.

Nausea and vomiting, for a long time, after miscarriage

Nausea, and vomiting of food taken the day before; the milk thrown up is curdled and tastes sour (after half an hour)

Qualmishness, after eating

Acidity in the stomach after every meal; occasional hiccough, then heartburn (first day)

Retching, immediately

Desire to vomit, early in the morning in bed, disappearing after rising

Vomiting; the vomited matter was of a yellowish-green color, and when examined with the microscope, showed the presence of a vegetable tissue, with rectilineal fibres and turpentine cells, it appeared identical with some powdered savin, which w;as compared with it

Frequent vomiting of large quantities of green matter looking like bile

Vomiting of bile

Repeated violent vomiting

Incessant vomiting (the gall-bladder had burst)

Stomach. The whole epigastric region is bloated and distended

Oppressive feeling in the pit of the stomach, unaffected by inspiration and expiration

When sitting bent, sensation in the region of the stomach as if distended with air, which causes a distressing pressure, which is relieved for a short time by eructations of gas; when remaining in that position for a longer time, it becomes very painful, and descends lower down into the left side of the abdomen ; it disappears entirely when sitting erect

Pain in stomach

Violent pain in stomach

Aching pain in the region of the stomach and liver

Sensation as if the stomach were too full, as if she had eaten too much, with rumbling in the abdomen

Pressive pain in the epigastric region ; on pressure it is painful internally, as if beaten,10. Painful, anxious, oppressive sensation in the region of the pylorus, very sensitive to hard pressure, especially before a meal

Pressure in the pit of the stomach, followed by stitches

Pinching with pressure in the right side near the pit of the stomach, in a small spot

Severe stitches from the pit of the stomach through to the back

Sticking tearing in the epigastric region

Feeling of warmth and burning in the stomach, in the cardiac region; desire to eructate, and eructations tasting of the drug; soon followed by frequent tasteless eructations; the burning in the stomach diminishes after every eructation (after ten minutes)

Heat in stomach (after ten minutes)

Abdomen p. 462

Writhing and pinching in the abdomen, in the umbilical region; frequently recurring with increasing violence and a sensation as if vomiting would come on, without nausea (after one hour and three-quarters)

Griping above the navel

Twisting-griping pain about the umbilicus (after one hour)

Pressive pain above the umbilicus

Painful drawing in the right side of the abdomen, towards the genitals

Aching intermittent pains in the right renal region

A kind of bubbling by the border of the short ribs, in the angle beneath the pit of the stomach, as if the cartilages were bent outward, and as if cartilages and muscles were raised ; he is made somewhat anxious and obliged to sit upright

Colic, as if he had taken cold, and would have diarrhoea ; flatus was passed and the colic ceased

The colic, as from taking cold, returns several times a day

The abdominal parietes are very tense (after two hours)

Excessive distension of the abdominal parietes, as if she would burst

Abdomen distended and painful

Flatulence (after five and ten minutes)

Flatulence, with intense taste of Sabina (after one hour)

Rumbling in the intestines (after five minutes)

Rumbling in the abdomen, in the evening, so loud that the bystanders hear it, a very fine high tone

Rumbling in intestines (after one hour)

Inflammation of the bowels

The abdominal muscles feel bruised, in the evening in bed

Griping in the abdomen, especially in the left side, in the morning in bed

Great pain in the track of the colon, with the free evacuation of the bowels (after one hour and a half)

Pain as if the intestines were constricted

Pain in abdomen

Cutting in the bowels, with rumbling

Drawing pains in the abdomen, which is somewhat distended

Painful oppressive heaviness, low down in the abdomen, aggravated by external pressure, to which she is accustomed on the first day of the menses (second day)

Drawing pressure in the hypogastrium towards the genitals, as if the menses would appear

Violent stitches in the lower abdomen, as from without inward, while lying in bed in the evening

Severe stitches from without inwards, in the hypogastrium, in the evening in bed

Compressive pain in the left iliac region

Rectum and Anus p. 462

Haemorrhoidal tumors especially painful, in the morning

* Discharge of bloody mucus from the anus

Transient pains in the rectum during stool (fourth day)

Pressive-burning pain in the swollen periosteum

A pressive, almost paralytic pain in the sphincter of the anus; a kind of urging almost all day, without any evacuation; only after a long time is he obliged to go to stool, the first part of the evacuation being quick and liquid, the second portion slow and hard

Creeping in the anus

Biting sore stinging in the anus at stool

Jerklike stitches in the anus, and in the forepart of the thighs, when walking

Stool p. 463

* Diarrhoea, with emission of much flatus

Painless diarrhoea, with rumbling, for four days

Diarrhoea for a long time after miscarriage

Frequent bloody stools

Free evacuation of the bowels, with great pain in the track of the colon, and burning at the anus (after one hour and a half)

Sometimes the stool intermits for a day ; afterwards, after much pressing, he has several papescent evacuations, towards evening (eighth day)

Liquid, slimy, and frequent stools

The stool comes on eight hours too soon

Stool at first soft, then hard

The stools become harder and painful, followed by discharge of blood from the anus, which is painful to pressure (twelfth day)

No evacuation of the bowels during the day (second day),20a.

Urinary Organs p. 463

Transient burning pains in the vesical region (first days)

The whole length of the urethra is inflamed and painful, with purulent gonorrhoea, from the fourteenth to twenty-first day (from introducing the powdered leaves into the urethra)

Smarting in the urethra, during micturition

Violent desire to urinate, but little urine is passed ; after which she feels as if she would pass more (after a quarter of an hour)

Intermittent, almost painful desire to urinate (after four hours)

Irresistible desire to urinate

Frequent emission of much urine, for the first eight days, with very little thirst; even at night he wakes to urinate; the urine is turbid when passed

Urine passed in small quantities, but frequently high-colored, and highly charged with the odor of Sabina (after one hour and a half); passed frequently, but no strangury (after two hours and ten minutes)

Urine passed twice in an hour, slight increase in amount, and Sabina odor strong

Increased emission of darkyellow urine

Copious emission of urine

Retention of urine, with burning and dribbling discharge

Peculiar odor of drug in urine

Sexual Organs p. 463

Male. Violent and frequent erections, day and night

Visible swelling on the dorsum of the penis, not far from the glans, the skin over which is movable; the swelling feels like a cartilage, is flat towards the median line, but with a swollen border externally, is painless even to pressure, becomes harder during an erection, more manifest, with a peculiar, dull, tensive sensation, for eight weeks

Dark redness of the glans

The fraenum is swollen and too tense

Dull stitches, with pressure from the glans backwards through the whole penis

Violent stinging itching in the glans, early in the morning

Paroxysmal pain in the fraenum

Burning sore pain of the figwarts and g/ans, worse when touched

The figwarts become painfully sensitive

Painfulness of the foreskin, he cannot draw it back

Intermittent drawingpressive pains in the right spermatic cord

Contused pain in the right testicle

Tensive sensation, with pressure in the left testicle, frequently recurring

I moderate irresistible sexual desire

Increased sexual desire, slight excitement brings on violent and continuous erections, with aversion to coition

Female. *The os tincoe is open, the blood looks red, the discharge is profuse and paroxysmal, especially during motion

* Miscarriage at three months and a half preceded by discharge of thin black blood

* Miscarriage, metrorrhagia

Milky leucorrhcea, causing itching

Leucorrhoea, with itching of the pudenda

(Permanent disappearance of leucorrhoea, of a starchlike consistence, yellowish, ichorous, fetid, and of painful discharges of blood, which occurred every fortnight, fetid, resembling meat-washings; the menses then appear regularly), (curative effect)

Haemorrhage from the uterus, at the period of the menses

Haemorrhage from the uterus

* Contractive pain in the region of the uterus1.

Severe stitches, deep in the vagina, from before backward

The menses, generally too early, now came on eight days late,5.f

* The menses appear without pain, but are three or four times more profuse than usual; she passes clots of blood after rising

* The menses continue for nine days very profusely

Violent, menstruation returned three days after the menses had ceased, with violent colic and labor-pains; the blood was partly fluid, partly clotted; there was less discharge of red urine with strangury, and discharge of a slimy fluid from the vagina

The menses, which generally appeared four or five days too early, appeared at the right time for only a few hours, and looked watery, on the next day pure blood appeared, but only for two hours, and so in succession for four days,5.|

Increases the sexual desire to a great degree, and the consequent gratification in females

Respiratory Organs p. 464

* Grinding and tickling in the larynx, exciting cough and a slimy expectoration, sometimes the cough is dry

Crawling in the larynx as if something were crawling out ot it

* Dry hacking cough, and tickling in the trachea; expectoration streaked with blood the next day

Breathing laborious, and with stertor

Asthma, increasing to arrest of breath

Painless shortness of breath, during rest and motion

Chest p. 464

* Haemoptysis

Slight oppression of the chest, with desire to take a deep inspiration, which seems to relieve the oppression ; after awhile when the inspirations are difficult, they cause a stitch on the left side behind the union of the cartilages of the short ribs, superficial (from chewing the berries)

Fulness in the chest, with cough

Pressure rushing into the chest like a wind; the chest feels dilated and nevertheless oppressed (after twenty-four hours)

Cutting in the chest, above the pit of the stomach (after three hours)

Painless trembling in the chest, behind the right side of the sternum, frequently through the day; tremulous motion, sounding like a hollow rattling or snapping, as of electric sparks, somewhat like the creaking of new ice when walking over it (after eight days)2.

* Intermittent stitches in the clavicle

Aching pain in the whole extent of the sternum, increased by inspiration; sensation as if the sternum encroached upon the chest and curved inward (after six days)

The sternum is painful to touch

-Tensivepain with pressure in the middle of the sternum, neither increased by expiration nor inspiration

Sharp stitches below the sternum, increasing during inspiration ; sensation as if breathing were made difficult by tightness of the chest

Painful dull stitches below the manubrium of the sternum on the left side (after thirty hours)

Constant sore stinging pain in the xiphoid cartilage, increased by a deep inspiration and touch, most tolerable during complete rest, fora fortnight

Spasmodic pressive pain in the front of the chest, above the pit of the stomach, extending across the chest like a band, and increasing on inspiration, alter a long walk

Burning with pressure in the right lower false ribs

Burning stitches in the left chest

Shooting stitches in the left chest

Sharp stitches in the region of the right last true ribs, towards the sternum, only during inspiration

Prickings in the left side posteriorly, in the region of the two last false ribs (after thirty-one hours)

Perceptible swelling of the breasts

Aching pain near the left nipple (after one hour)

Tingling in the nipples, with pleasurable sensation

Stitches in the left nipple (after two hours)

Heart and Pulse p. 465

The heating of the heart is increased, more violent, alternating with pulsations throughout the abdomen, hut neither in the head nor limbs, accompanied with drowsiness, without ability to sleep, in the afternoon

The beats of the heart are stronger, sometimes more rapid, fuller, and felt over a larger space (after three hours) ; weaker after the siesta

Pulse small, tense, at one time rapid, at another slow (alter two hours)

Pulse beating with great force (after twenty minutes)

Pulse somewhat tense, at times more rapid, at times slower,17a.

Pulse full and strong (after two hours and ten minutes)

Pulse feeble

Neck and Back p. 465

Neck. Bruised pain in the cervical muscles and vertebrae, per se, not aggravated by touch

Rheumatic drawing in the left cervical muscles, frequently returning (after one hour and a half)

Tearing pain, with pressure, in the left side of the neck, between the mastoid process and the angle of the lower jaw

Tearing in the cervical muscles

Pressure in the left cervical muscles

Pain in a small spot on the right side of the neck, aggravated by pressure, continuing a long time aud then disappearing for awhile, while walking in the open air (third day)

Back. Laborlike pains commencing in the back and extending along Poupart’s ligament down the thighs, followed by bloody slimy discharge from the vagina

Creeping over the back, commencing in the nape of the neck

Dorsal. Aching pain in the soft parts, just above the border of the left scapula, during rest; it disappears in the evening during motion

Pressure in a small spot below the left scapula, not noticed when moving the arm (after two hours aud a half)

Paralytic pressing pain in the muscles of the left scapula, with a burning sensation, gradually extending over the left side of the thorax, unaffected either by rest or motion

Stitching pain in the dorsal vertebrae (after three hours)4.

Sharp stitches in the region of the dorsal vertebrae, increased during inspiration

Lumbar Constant pain in the small of the back, obliging him to bend the back inward, when there is a voluptuous pain in the same

* Paralytic pain in the small of the back; he would like to stretch ; bending backward relieved

Paralytic pains in the small of the back, especially on the left side

Painful drawing in the small of the back, especially when bending backward, as she is accustomed to feel previous to the menses (second day)

Drawing pains in the small of the back, extending into the pubic region

Tearing pain, with pressure, iu the region of the lumbar muscles and the lowest dorsal vertebrae, also in the adjacent parts of the ribs, especially when bending the body (after eight days)

Indescribable uneasiness in the lumbar vertebrae ; dragging sensation from behind forward (resembling weak labor-pains), (after two hours)

When stooping, a stitch darted into the small of the back aud there remained a violent tension, as if the parts were torn ; he was obliged to remain bent for some time; afterwards, when in bed, violent chill, without thirst

Upper Extremities p. 465

Limbs convulsed.21.

Cracking of the joints

Dull drawing pain in the bones of the upper and lower limbs, commencing in the middle and spreading as far as the joints, where the pain was felt for a long time more violently and continuously, both during rest and motion, while in the house, disappearing in the open air (after four hours)

Paralytic pain in the joints, especially after exertion

Tearing stitches in all the joints, with sensation as if swollen, accompanied with drawing stitches through the long bones

Superior Extremities p. 466

Shoulder. Drawing sensation, with pressure, in the left shoulder (after three-quarters of an hour)

Pressure in the shoulder-joints

Rheumatic pain in the left shoulderjoint

Tearing pain in the left axilla and above the left nipple, increased by touch

Pain, as if sprained, in the right shoulder-joint, even during rest

Stitch from the shoulder to the tip of the elbow, and at the same time a stitch from the wrist-joint to the elbow, like electricity

Arm. Weak feeling and loss of strength in the whole of the left arm, but not lasting

Aching pain in the muscles of the upper arm internally, increased by touch

Pressive pain in both upper arms, near the elbow joint, from without inward, worse on touch and motion (after eight hours)

Paralytic pain in the left arm, around the elbow-joint and in it, worse when leaning the arm upon anything

Drawing paralytic pain through the left arm, from the head of the humerus to the elbow (after half an hour)

Paralytic drawing, with a feeling of weakness, in the head of the left humerus, during motion

Paralytic tearing along the right upper arm as far as the hand (after twenty-eight hours)

Tearing pain in the right arm when lying, so that she stretched it out

Stinging in both upper arms, from within outward, near the elbow-joints (after one hour)

Elbow. Sticking pain in the outer condyles of both elbows (after ten hours)

Sticking in the outer side of the left elbow-joint, not felt on motion (after two hours and a half)

Forearm. Aching pain in the right radius, increased by motion or touch (after six hours)

Heaviness and bruised feeling in both forearms on flexion, and a feeling of anxiety, obliging him to change the position of the arms frequently in order to obtain relief, after coition (after sixteen hours)

Tingling feeling of weakness in the left forearm

Many sudden prickings in the forearm, when sitting

Wrist. Paralytic drawing in the inner side of the left wrist

Pain, as if sprained, in the left wrist-joint, which increased more and more, so that after a few days he could not move his hand (after stripping the plant)

Stiffness of the left wrist-joint, with some luxation pain ; in a few days the pain changed to a tearing-sticking and distension of the joint, with incessant weeping and being beside herself; she had to move the painful hand from side to side with the sound one or to keep it straight; the hand could not be allowed to hang down; continuing several days (Aconitum relieved the pain)

Hand. Weakness in the hands when writing; he was unable to hold his pen, accompanied with chilliness

Spasmodic contractive pain in the palm of the left hand ; upon stretching it out it flexes involuntarily; the pains are worse on stretching out the hand than on flexing it (after ten hours)

Drawing pain in the palm of the hand, extending through the fingers, immediately

Sensation in the palm of the left hand as if it would become spasmodically constricted

Drawing pain in the left metacarpal bone

Tearing pain in the right carpal bones (after two hours)

Burning tearing in the third metacarpal bone of the left hand (after two hours and a half)

Drawing tearing, with pressure, from the middle of the right carpal bones to the wrist (after seven hours')

Fingers. Sticking pain in the tip of the left thumb

The ring finger goes to sleep

Tearing in the finger-joints of both hands (after ten days)

Tearing pain in the second and third joints of the little and in the third joint of the fourth finger of the right hand

Tearing in the knuckles of the left metacarpal bone of the little finger

Drawing tearing in the right fourth finger (after six hours and a half)

Painful drawing in the metacarpal bone of the right index finger

Lancinating pain in the muscles of the left index and middle fingers (after one hour)

Paralytic tearing in the left index finger

- Burning-tearing stitches in the muscles of the first joint of the fourth finger of the right hand (after four hours)

Inferior Extremities p. 467

Hip. Pain in the right hip-joint early when rising; she was at first scarcely able to stand ; the pain disappeared on walking about

Smarting, as of a wound, in and around the right hip-joint, worse when turning and moving the thigh, disappearing after a time by sitting and lying down (after twelve hours)

Aching pain in the region of the right hip

Dull stitches in the region of the left hip, only during inspiration (after four hours)

Thigh. *The middle of the anterior surfaces of his thighs feel bruised and painful; the pain is not felt when stepping up, only when walking on level ground and when descending; when sitting and drawing the legs up, a tension and pain in the thighs on touch

He is unable to crouch down from a tensive pain in the extensor muscles of the thighs, as if they were too short

Paralytic pain in the left thigh, above the knee, internally, but not as if in the bone, drawing from below upwards, coming and going; also once in the radius above the right wrist

Rheumatic pain in the left thigh, then down the left tibia, and thence into the left forearm, during rest

Tension in the inner muscles of the left thigh, several days

Sudden painful pressure shooting down the middle of the right thigh to the knee, where it is most violent, and then gradually disappearing, while sitting

Tensive-tearing pain, only when walking, in the anterior surface of the left thigh, obliging him to limp (after forty-eight hours)

Painful pressure in the middle of the thighs from without inwards (after five hours)

Pushing and drawing in the thighs and knees

Intermittent stitches in the inner surface of the thigh

Burning pain on the inner and lower portion of the thigh

Tearing pain in the soft parts just above the left knee (after four hours and a half)

Knee. Fine drawing pains on the inner side of the left knee (after one hour)

Leg. Her legs feel as if they would break; she must frequently sit down and rest, with drowsiness and yawning; she felt weak, as after a long illness, with trembling of the arms and whole body

Sticking pains in the lower portion of the calves, especially in the morning, as after dancing

Painful tensive pressure in the dorsum of the tibia, above the tarsal-joint (when sitting)

Dull drawing to and fro in the left calf down to the malleoli

Sticking from the lower part of the tibia towards the toe, in the evening, in bed

Sticking tearing in the tibia, below the knee

jLnJcfC. Tingling-drawing tearing, with occasional darting stitches, in the lowest part of the tendo Achillis during rest, disappearing on moving and stretching the tendon (after five hours)

Clawing pains in the right tendo Achillis, becoming tearing (after three days)

Foot. Painful feeling of heaviness in the right foot, noticeable a hand’s breadth above the malleolus, and extending downward

Tearing in the dorsum of the foot, aggravated by touch

Tearing pain, with pressure, in the metacarpal bones of both feet f

Burning-tearing pain in the sole of the right foot, during rest

Tingling pressive-sticking sensation on the outer side of the sole of the right foot, when sitting (after half an hour)

Intermittent aching pain in the lower portion of the left heel, in the commencement of the sole (when sitting), (after six hours)

Sharp stitches from within outward in the left and right heel (after twelve hours)

Severe dull stitches in the right heel, bv the sole, in the night

Toes. Painfid draining in the joints of the right toes, becoming more violent during a walk

Tearing in the last joints of the right toes (after twenty-six hours)

Tearing pain in the metatarsal bones of the little and fourth toes of the left foot (after three-quarters of an hour)

Arthritic pain in the great toe of the right foot; it was red, shining, swollen, with violent boringsticking pains; she was neither able to move foot nor toe, nor was she able to bear the least pressure upon it, stocking or bedcover (this continued several days); afterwards this pain appeared in the right wrist, the hand was stiff, and the same pains were felt in it, unable to grasp the least thing with it; afterwards it changed from the right to the left hand

Burning pain in the left fourth toe

Prickings in the great toe

Painful stitches in the ball of the left great toe

Transient tickling stitches in the ball of the left great toe, which shocked the whole body like slight electrical shocks, when sitting

Generalities p. 468

Excessive weariness ; he wakes after midnight, and is unable to fall asleep again ; he is obliged to stretch and move the feet from place to place

* She feels weary and: weak in all her limbs, with great despondency

A short walk tires him so much that he has to lie down (after ten days)

Heaviness and indolence of the body, obliging him to lie down

Restlessness and anxiety, in the evening when in bed, with chill and gooseflesh, preventing sleep

In the evening, when in bed, his blood is excessively agitated ; he is obliged to change his position constantly, and cannot fall asleep

General sick feeling, as if he had been dancing and revelling several nights, with whimsical mood

General discomfort, without ability to state what and where he suffers

Rheumatic pains

Pulsating sensation in all the vessels, almost like jerking

Burning sensation wherever the affected part is touched

All the symptoms cease as soon as he goes into the open air; they recommence as soon as he enters the house

Skin p. 468

Objective. Jaundiced appearance

Odor of oil freely exhaled by the skin, the night-shirt and sheets smelling strongly of the drug, in the evening

Red areola on the cheeks and about the nasal wings, somewhat swollen and painful on pressure

Pimples on the cheeks near the mouth and on the temples, with sore pain, worse when touched

Pimples containing a hard substance between the chin and the lower lip ; after squeezing out their contents, they form small ulcers, which last several days (seventh day)

Papular eruption on the elbows, elevation of the skin without redness, without areola, with violent itching, especially of the tips of the pimples; when scratched off a scab forms, that disappears after five days; preceded by paralytic pain,17a.

A few days after the paralytic pain in the elbow-joint had disappeared, some pimples broke out; elevation of the skin without redness, without areola, violently itching, especially in the tip ; a scab formed when scratching the pimple; disappeared in five days

In the 'morning there was a small spot on the inner side of the left leg scratched raw and ulcerated ; this little ulcer was again painful and itching on the second morning; the scab was scratched off leaving an impure base ; in the evening there was also a slight but painful itching areola; this areola was redder every morning, and the ulcer was painful even when not touched; in the evening the areola was paler and painful only on pressure (it disappeared after stopping the drug)

Small vesicles about the root of the nose

Comedones that can be easily pressed out, in the cheeks and about the nose

On the inner side of the left leg, a small spot, which had been scratched open, looks unclean and ulcerated this ulcer is painful on the second morning, and itches; the scab is scratched off; this leaves an impure base; smaller areola in the evening, but always itching painfully; this areola is redder every morning, and the ulcer is painful without being touched ; in the evening the areola is paler and painful only on pressure ; it disappears after ceasing to take the drug

A lardaceous ulcer which he had on the tibia increased, the suppuration increasing likewise; it became painful, and then healed perfectly and permanently in a fortnight (curative action)

Painful and stinging ulcer on the upper part of the nates

Subjective. Itching of the skin, especially at night, relieved by scratching ; the places scratched raw burn, pain, aud water ; scabs and even ulcers form

Itching of the legs, towards morning, relieved by scratching

Violent itching of one spot on the outer portion of the right leg below the middle, early in the morning; after scratching, the skin is found excoriated, with burning pain and water oozing out; it remains so for three days, and then becomes covered with a thick scab, which lasts about eight days; itching in the border of the scab, aud when this is scratched off, there is much aud ready bleeding ; afterwards a sensitive red cicatrized skin remains for a long while, and is painful to pressure; there are similar spots in the upper and inner portion of the left ear (twelfth day)

Itching, now on the left, now on the right calf, he had to scratch violently; pimples appeared on the scratched places, causing a smarting pain

Itching on the calf, not relieved by scratching

Violent itching on a red spot on the outer portion of the right leg, below the middle, in the morning; after scratching a part of the skin was found to be denuded, with burning pain and watering; this continued, became first covered with a thick scab on the third day, which lasted eight days, with itching about the margins, aud when scratched much, and easy bleeding; afterwards it remained sensitive for a long time ; the scar was red, painful to pressure ; similar spots appeared on the upper and inner portions of the left ear twelve days afterwards

Disagreeable itching, as if mingled with fine stitches, in the left heel and sole, obliging one to scratch, and afterwards burning, almost as in frozen feet

Sleep p. 469

Restless sleep, and dreams about several things which he had begun but not completed

Restless sleep, with confused dreams, frequent waking, after which he must toss about a long time before going to sleep again

Restless sleep, with orgasm, heat, and profuse sweat

* Beetles$ sleep

Great restlessness during the night

He tosses about in bed at night, says a great many commonplace things in his sleep, aud snores aloud on expiration

Prefers lying on the left side, at night

Passed an almost sleepless night (first night)

Dreams. Dreams towards morning, with reflection and mental exertion

Dreams in the morning that men are killed by falling from a height

Constant dreams, full of invention and mental exertion

Anxious dreams, which wake him frequently; sleep is especially disturbed towards morning

She dreams that she is disputing with some one ; this wakes her in tears

Fever p. 469

Chilliness. Chilliness, all day

One chill after another, on lying down in the evening

Shuddering over the whole body; it became black before the eyes, followed by drowsiness (after two hours),10. Frequent shudderings all over, and extending across the hairy scalp, in the evening before going to bed

Shuddering with gooseflesh, which does not continue long, but returns frequently

Cold feeling in the right limb, as if it were standing in cold water

Icy-cold feet (after two hours)

Heat. Fever, especially towards evening; first chilliness, afterwards heat in the whole body, followed by profuse sweat, at night/.

Intolerable burning heat in the whole body, with great restlessness; he has to change the position of the limbs constantly, without externally perceptible heat or thirst, after dinner

Temperature of body 100.2° (after two hours and ten minutes)

He feels hot after walking in the open air

Constant flushes of heat in the face, with frequent chilliness of the rest of the body

Heat in the face, with icy-cold hands and feet

Painful heat and fulness of vessels of face (after five minutes)

Heat and flushing of the face (after ten minutes)

Ears hot, in the evening (second day)

Sweat. Nightsweats, several nights

Sweat on the feet, extending above the malleoli, early in the morning in bed (after eighteen hours)

Conditions p. 470

Aggravation.

(Morning), While walking, disinclined to talk ; headache ; tongue coated yellow ; hawking of mucus ; griping in abdomen ; hemorrhoidal tumors painful ; stinging itching in glans ; when rising, pain in right hip-joint; pain in lower portion of calves.

(Forenoon), Heaviness in head.

(Evening), Rumbling in abdomen ; abdominal muscles feel bruised ; while in bed, stitches in lower abdomen ; sticking in lower part of tibia ; in bed, restlessness, anxiety, etc.; chilliness; fever.

(Night), Stitches in right heel ; sweat.

(Bending body), Drawing in small of back ; pressure in lumbar muscles and lowest dorsal vertebrae.

(Chewing), Toothache.

(After dinner), Dulness of the head.

(Drinking), Toothache.

(After eating), Qualmishness.

(In the house), The symptoms.

(Inspiration), Pain in sternum ; pain in xiphoid cartilage; pain in front of chest; stitches in region of right last true ribs ; stitches in dorsal vertebrae; 6stitches in region of left hip.

(Leaning arm upon anything). Pain in left arm.

(During micturition), Smarting in urethra.

(After milk), Bitter taste in mouth.

(After miscarriage), Nausea and vomiting.

(Motion), Pain in upper arms; drawing, with feeling of weakness in left humerus ; pain in right radius.

(Pressure), Heaviness in abdomen ; pain in right side of neck.

(On rising), Vertigo.

(During rest), Pain in soft parts above border of left scapula ; pain in left thigh, tibia, and forearm ; tearing, with stitches in tendo Achillis ; pain in sole of right foot.

( When sitting bent), Sensation in stomach.

( While sitting), Pressure down middle of right thigh ; sticking sensation in outer side of sole of right foot; stitches in ball of left great toe.

(Smoking), Toothache.

( When standing), Vertigo.

(When stooping), Stitch in small of back.

(Swallowing saliva), Scraping sensation in palate.

( When swallowing), Pressure in throat; sore pain in throat.

(Touch), Aching in left malar bone; pain in angle of right lower jaw; pain in gum ; pain in glans ; pain in left axilla and above left nipple; pain in muscles of upper arm ; pain in right radius; tearing in dorsum of foot; pain in pimples on cheek.

(When walking). In open air, jerk through left lower jaw; stitches in anus and thighs; tearing pain in anterior surface of left thigh ; drawing in joints of right toe.

(After walking in open air), Heat.

Amelioration p. 470

(Evening), During motion, pain in left scapula.

(In open air), Pain in bones of limbs; the symptoms.

(During motion), Sticking in outer side of left elbow.

(Pressure upon a hard cushion), Heaviness in occiput. (Scratching), Itching of legs.

(Walking), Pain iu right hip-joint.

Footnotes p. 464

† Curative effect, but the dose being too strong, eight drops of the tincture, the reaction still continued at the appearance of the menses.

† Curative effect, inasmuch as the blood was generally bright-red and passed in large quantities; the scantiness of the discharge was probably owing to the lar^e size of the dose, she had taken six drops; the next period was normal.