Sarracenia

Authorities. 5, Dr. George H. Bute, Hahn. Mouth., vol. ii, 1867, p. 424, partial proving; 6, F. G. Oehme, M.D., ibid., vol. xi, 1876, p. 535.

Age, thirty-five years; great sensitiveness of skin, frequent itching, liability to diarrhoea; piles occasionally. Good health generally. lam not a good subject for proving, as drugs cause but a few symptoms.

Took, several times a day, a few drops of the 1st dec. dil., for a number of days.

Mind

Want of memory

Head

Dull feeling in the head as if stunned or stupefied

Dull pain in the head as if benumbed

Twelve hours after taking (the medicine), a sudden stroke (paralysis) from the right side of the head downwards to the right shoulder, and subsequent feeling of crawling, paralysis, and numbness in the shoulder and arm

Soon after taking (the medicine), headache and want of recollection, with numbness of the arms and weakness of the lower limbs on going upstairs; then a sudden shock through the head like an electric stroke, after which the senses feel as if paralyzed

Pain in the forehead, with stitches above the eyes

Dull pain in the back of the head, in the evening in bed

Ears

By drawing the lower jaw towards the left side, a feeling arises as if the air streamed into the right ear, with whistling therein

Throat

A feeling of pressing inward at the pit of the throat, accompanied by headache

Just after taking (the medicine), a cramplike pressure about the lower part of the oesophagus, as if the medicine remained sticking there

Abdomen

Pain in the umbilical region

Frequently sensation of considerable pressure in the stomach, lasting once for several hours; sensation of fulness in the abdomen, with slight pain in various places, as if caused by flatulency. In a small place in the lower part of the abdomen, a little above the cavity inguinalis, very often a sensation as if a hernia would protrude; sometimes so marked that I examined the place to see if there were any signs of something coming out (I have an incomplete inguinal hernia on the left side, which, however, never caused any trouble or inconvenience). Sensation in the anus as if a stool would come. The same symptoms appeared during a second proving with the 2d dilution, soon after the first proving. Besides these symptoms, bowels irregular, costive. After the close of the proving, bowels very regular. Every morning this call must be anew^ered very soon. During the third proving, a week later, I took the 3d dilution several times a day for several days, whereupon the following symptoms appeared: Slight pain in the bowels as if from flatulency. Costiveness. On various places on the abdomen, a sensation as if a hernia would occur; it felt as if the intestines wanted to come out on a small place; the feeling was very distinct and marked, but not at all painful. Disagreeable sensation in the anus as if it were stopped up with a plug, or as if filled with wind. Hjemorrhoids. Discharge of a little blood with the stool. A proving ten years later yielded the same symptoms as above. At no time the least uflection of the skin

Sexual Organs p. 633

The menses came at once, out of the proper time ; too early

Chest p. 633

Bruiselike pain of the muscles and bones of the chest

Superior Extremities p. 633

Pain extending from the left shoulder downward to the lower ribs

A numbness of feeling in the muscles of the arms and hands

Gnawing pain in the bones of the arms and hands

Inferior Extremities p. 633

Itching stitches on the right shin-bone

Generalities p. 633

In the whole body feeling of being unwell, which causes restlessness

Sleep p. 633

lu his sleep, he dreams that he heai’s music, and thereupon awakens, and still thinks that he hears it