Calcarea Phosphorica

Authorities. 7, S. M. Cate, M.D., Trans. Am. Inst, of Horn., 1858, p. 54, took 4 grains 1st trit. at 12 M. (first day); 5 grains at 8 a.m. and 12 M. (second day) ; same at 9 p.m. (fourth day) ; same at 6 a.m. (fifth and sixth days); 6 grains at 6 a.m., 10 grains at 9 p.m. (seventh day); 8 grains at 6 A.M., 10 grains at 10 p.m. (eighth day); same at 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. (ninth day); 6 grains at 6 a.m., 8 grains at 9 p.m. (tenth and eleventh days) ; 8, W. B. Chamberlain, M.D., ibid., took 6-grain doses of 1st trit. ; 9, E. N. Jones, M.D., ibid., took 3 'grains at 9 a.m. (first day) ; 4 grains (second day); 4 grains at 6 A.M. (third day) ; same at 7.30 a.m. and 4 p.m. (fourth day); 6 grains at 7.30 a.m., 4 grains at 4 p.m. (seventh day).

Mind

Gloomy and discontented (seventh day),b

For the last two days an obtuseness of the intellect; difficulty of performing any ordinary intellectual operations; when composing would write throat for tonsils, red for swollen, etc.; not clearly distinguishing the things under consideration (ninth day)

The mind is less dull and muddy than for several days (twelfth day)

I have noticed too a great lack of definiteness in my memory; an inability to remember common symptoms of common remedies (twelfth day)

Head p. 401

Heavy confused feeling in head as if about to ache (ninth day)

No headache this A.M., though a feeling of fulness and confusion continues, which has been an accompaniment of the headache all along (eleventh day)

Fulness and pressure in the head, aggravated by pressure of hat, lasting at intervals all day (after half an hour, first day)

Dull heavy feeling in the head (second day)

Dull pain in the head all clay, increased towards night (second day)

Pain in head relieved by food (second day)

Dull pain in the head at times through the day (ninth day)

Dull pain in the head, with confusion; pain increased on stooping ; pain worse at times (eleventh day)

The headache has continued at intervals throughout the proving, generally being aggravated by eating. Yesterday and to-day the pain has been a beating pain, extending through both parietal bones (eleventh day)

Dull, sleepy, oppressive pain, embracing the whole head, but most in the cerebellum

Dull, pressive, frontal headache, lasting all day (third day)

Slight momentary hea,ache in forehead over left eye (third day)

12 M., sharp shootings through the temples, leaving a momentary soreness of the right temple after the pain had gone (eighth day)

Throbbing headache behind left ear (going off soon), (tenth day)

12 m., headache principally on left side, pressive, occasionally throbbing, aggravated by stepping or quick motion (fifth day)

Eyes p. 401

Itching of the edges of the right eyelid for a short time (eleventh day)

Occasional aching pain in right eyeball (eleventh day)

Ears p. 401

Shock of pain in left ear (third day)

Nose p. 401

Fluent coryza during the forenoon, with dull pain in the head from 11 to 12 oclock (sixth day)

Biting stinging in front corner of left nostril, succeeded by sneezing, and lachrymation from left eye, at 4 p.m., whole group disappeared within thirty minutes (second day)

In an hour biting stinging in front of corner of right nostril, accompanied by slight sneezing and lachrymation (seventh day)

Face p. 401

Yellowness of complexion and sclerotica, with sleepiness (ninth day)

Mouth p. 401

Bread had a bitter taste (second day)

Throat p. 401

Dryness of the throat last night (twelfth day)

Yesterday, soreness of the throat; to-day, tonsils, uvula, and pharynx red and swollen, with pain increased by swallowing (ninth day)

Soreness of throat and fauces on swallowing (tenth day)

Inflammation of the throat continues; yesterday, moderate pain most of the time when swallowing; this morning the pain more marked, and inflammation gradually increases (eleventh day)

Sensation of emptiness or faintness in pharynx, continued from last night (third and fourth days)

Stomach p. 401

Feeling of great hunger, at 4 P.M., very unusual (second (3ay),k

Increased appetite (third day)

Appetite diminished in morning, but good at noon (seventh day)

Rather less appetite than usual for three days past (twelfth day)

After breakfast, much loud belching of wind from the stomach (eleventh day)

Heartburn, lasting for some time after dinner (twelfth day)

Heartburn commencing about au hour after each meal, and lasting for an hour (thirteenth day)

Nausea, from 4 to 6 p.m. (second day)

Nausea and pain in the head increased during pain in stomach (second day)

Sensation of fulness and repletion of stomach (second day)

Feeling in the stomach as if distended by food

An empty sinking sensation at the epigastrium, at 7 p.m. (seventh day)

From 8 to 9 p.m., burning at the stomach, and rising of water into the mouth (waterbrash), (tenth day)

Sharp pain at pit of stomach, from 5.30 to 6 oclock (second day)

Pain in stomach relieved by food (second day)

Dull pain in the epigastrium (ninth day)

Dull pain in the stomach, with soreness on pressure after dinner (fifteenth day)

Pains in the stomach still come on about an hour after each meal, with soreness of the stomach to pressure, and accompanied at times with loud belchings of empty tasteless flatus from the stomach, which affords relief (sixteenth day)

Abdomen p. 402

Escape of considerable flatus, during the whole forenoon (third day)

Abundant emission of flatus (seventh day)

Emission of fetid flatus during the day (eighth day)

Frequent emission of fetid flatus (eleventh day)

Flatus still fetid and abundant (sixteenth day)

Sharp pain in abdomen around the navel, with a slight feeling of soreness, at 9 p.m. (second day)

Severe pain in region of transverse colon, for half an hour, at 3 p.m. (seventh day)

Pain in the middle of the abdomen, while and after eating, lasting half an hour; this pain abated after a copious emission of fetid flatus (ninth day)

Pains in the bowels to-day, most in the region of the ascending and transverse colon (sixteenth day)

Pains in the bowels still present, at times through the day, lasting a few minutes, and generally followed by flatulent emission, showing that the pains were caused by flatus (sixteenth day)

Sharp pain in the left hypogastrium, lasting a short time (eleventh day)

Shooting through the periuseum and into the penis (eighth day)

After movement of the bowels, pain in the rectum, extending up five or six inches, lasting some ten minutes (ninth day)

Stool p. 402

In the morning after rising, a thin, copious, fecal discharge (seventh day); diarrhoea early on rising (eighth day)

Stool soft, but otherwise natural (second day); soft pappy stool (third day); soft stool, but difficult of expulsion (fifth day) ; stool rather costive, expelled with difficulty (sixth day); painfully hard costive stool (eleventh day); stool soft (twelfth day)

Bilious, slimy, offensive fecal evacuations, lumpy and covered with mucus, as many as twelve stools a day, with little pain. Seemed to be more of a dysenteric character as the disease progresses. Stool in the morning, soon after rising, mostly bloody mucus. Slight pain, low down in the bowels. Frequent urging to stool, with small discharges, attended with pain in the head

Urinary Organs p. 402

Frequent profuse discharge of clear urine from 12 M. to 9 P.M. (fifth day)

The urine has continued profuse, frequent, and watery,since the filth day; but no unusual thirst (ninth day)

Frequent and urgent desire to urinate, in the forenoon. The water pretty clear, and the aggregate quantity large. From 12 M.,.till 5 p.m., no oppor unity to pass water. By 2 p.m., the desire was urgent, and the pain in the bladder considerable; the pain kept increasing from 2 to 5, at which time it was very severe in the bladder above the pubis, and in the prostate gland and neck of bladder. The water passed in a feeble stream, occupying considerable time. After all had passed, considerable soreness of the bladder, followed by frequent micturition. Though the urine had often been retained much longer without difficulty, it was evident that this group of troubles of the bladder arose from overdistension, and that the medicine affected the bladder only through the increased secretion of urine (fourteenth day)

Sexual Organs p. 403

Diminution of the sexual desire since the commencement of this proving (tenth day)

Diminution of the aphrodisiac sense still continues, and the whole function seems so weak as to be wel 1- nigh removed, and has been since the second day of the proving. The excitement reaches a low pitch, at which it culminates from a slight cause, assimilating impotency (sixteenth day)

Respiratory Organs p. 403

Dry hacking cough of a few minutesduration, at 8 P.M. (seventh day)

Hacking cough and fluent coryza with the chill (tenth day)

Involuntary sighing at times, for the last three days (eleventh day)

Inclination to sigh continues, and is still marked ; I find myself making frequent involuntary inspirations ; this has been for a number of days (sixteenth day)

Chest p. 403

Dull pain in a small spot in right chest, near mammary gland, at 5 P.M., lasting half an hour (seventh day)

Considerable pain in right chest when pressed upon ; some, but less in the left chest (ninth day)

A sharp pain about the sixth rib of the right chest, a little to the right of the mamma, worse on inspiration, lasting ten minutes; 5 p.m., a like pain at a corresponding part of the left chest (ninth day)

The pains above described in the chest felt very often through the day (tenth day)

Sharp pain for a short time in the region of the heart (8 p.m.), (tenth day)

The sharp pain in the left chest, about the seventh rib, and to the left of the mamma, followed by a dull pain, felt more when inspiring deeply, and this still continues (8 p.m.), (tenth day)

Pain in the region of the heart, violent at times (eleventh day)

Sharp pain in the region of the heart, when making an inspiration ; most marked when taking a deep inspiration (eleventh day)

Sharp pain between the fourth and fifth ribs of the left chest, a little to the left of the heart, occurring frequently during the forenoon; so sharp and severe as to cut off the breath at times. The sharp pain would last ten or fifteen minutes, leaving a soreness for a longer or shorter time, and then come on again. The pain in the left chest has been troublesome through the afternoon; felt most during a deep inspiration, though not all the time present. Sharp pain in the right chest by turns during the same time (eleventh day)

Pain in the chest troublesome, though not constant through the day (thirteenth day)

The pains and soreness still felt about the chest, though not as constantly as several days ago (fourteenth day)

A sharp pain as though some round sharp instrument was pushing out the lower end of the sternum, for a short time, at about 12 xM. (sixteenth day)

Pains in the chest still troublesome, passing from lace to place; it is felt in the central part of the left chest in front, and passed thence under the left scapula, but is of a less acute character, but more and more aching. Pains still aggravated by a deep inspiration (sixteenth day)

Before rising in morning, sudden sharp cuttings or stitches in region of heart, continuing about five minutes, and then going ofi. Slight pain of the same nature, preventing a full breath, occasionally during the day (eighth day)

Neck and Back p. 403

Crampy pain in nape of the neck, first on one side and then on the other, lasting for a short time (thirteenth day)

Sharp pain under the left scapula, towards the spine, at 9 A.M., continuing ten minutes, followed by dull pain in the shoulder-joint (second day)

Pain, with soreness, under the left scapula (thirteenth day)

The latter part of the night, and in the morning, dull, or pain as if from a bruise. on each side of dorsal spine (fifth day),h

Pain on each side of dorsal and lumbar spine, as from a bruise, when awakening, on the following morning, disappeared after exercise (eighth day),h

The soreness of the muscles of the back continues on getting up in the morning (tenth day),h

Sharp pain in region of lumbar vertebra, and top of sacrum, lasting a short time, followed by soreness (eleventh day),h

Upper Extremities p. 404

During forenoon, pain in all the limbs, worse in gastrocnemii, as from a cold (second day)

Superior Extremities p. 404

in the right arm, in the left temple, and shoulder-joint, lasting for a short time (second day)

Dull pain in the left arm below the elbow and wrist (ninth day)

At 11.30 A.M., pain in the right arm, from the elbow to the hand, with lameness of the wrist, all lasting till 9 p.m. (tenth day)

Pain in right wrist, with lameness as if bruised, at 7 A.M., lasting half an hour (third day)

Tremulous motion of the hands (eighth day)

Aching in pulp of left forefinger, sometimes extending up the arm, and giving it a sensation of weakness (continually all day), (eleventh day)

Pain in left forefinger to-day, as yesterday; felt more when driving (twelfth day)

Inferior Extremities p. 404

Severe lame or bruised feeling in both nates (tenth day)

Pain in nates better (eleventh day)

Biting stinging in small spot on left nates (second day)

Shooting through the left thigh (eighth day)

Sharp pain in the tendons of the inner hamstrings, when walking, lasting twenty minutes, at 6 p.m. (ninth day)

Aching in outer side of right knee in bed, soon followed by aching in ball of left foot, relieved by motion, lasting about ten minutes (ninth day)

Drawing pains in gastrocnemii (third day)

Slight jerking pain in the right knee-joint

Weakness of legs, especially below knees, as if from severe labor (second day)

Dull pain in the legs, from the knees to the feet, continuing for one-half hour (after one hour and a half, second day)

From 8 to 8.30 p.m., severe pain in front of right ankle, followed by a soreness about the sheaths of the tendons, most on extending and flexing the foot (second day)

Violent pain in the right toes and foot to the instep, lasting half an hour (fifteenth day)

Generalities p. 404

Feeling of languor and laziness in the evening, and aversion to mental labor (thirteenth day)

Took the last medicine on Friday, and the symptoms were at their height on the following Sunday, and continued with a gradual abatement till the last of the week

Skin p. 404

(There is a small white ulcer upon a spot in right cheek which had been irritated by a broken tooth. Am uncertain if medicine had anything to do with it), (tenth day)

Burning itching of the outer ear, in the evening, lasting half an hour (fifteenth day)

Burning itching of the outer ears when in a warm room, after riding in the open air (which was not cold), and on putting the hand to the ears, was surprised to find they were not hot, though they were red. This burning has been troublesome all day when indoors (sixteenth day)

Itching of the left cheek, nose, and chin (second day)

A smart itching vesicle on the left wrist, at 6 p.m. (second day)

Violent itching of left wrist, with burning after scratching, at 9 p.m. (fifth day)

Severe biting itching in outer border of left axilla, momentarily relieved by scratching (ninth day)

Sleep and Dreams p. 404

Sleepiness all day, with yellowness of complexion and sclerotica (ninth day)

Very sleepy in the evening; slept sound for ten hours in succession (fourteenth day)

Restless sleep, disturbed by dreams (ninth day)

Restless sleep last night, disturbed by dreams, amorous and fearful (tenth day)

Amorous dream (fourth day)

Amorous dream, and increased sexual desire (sixth day)

Amorous dream with emission (thirteenth day)

Last night dreams of travelling, of robbers, of an army of cats (eleventh da,}')

Vivid dreams of travelling (twelfth day)

Fever p. 405

After dressing, seized with chills and shivering, lasting half an hour, till after a brisk walk of half a mile; with the chill a hacking cough and fluent coryza (tenth day)