Aurum Metallicum

Gold. Au., the element.

Gold, the common metal, proved and introduced by Hahnemann in 1818, in Materia Medica, Val. IV (95 and 138) ; 2d ed., 1825 (151 and 201) ; in Chronic Diseases, 2d edition, 1835, 404 symptoms. The last proving was made by J. C. Burnett, in 1879. No preparation ought to be used except such as has been made from the precipitate,

Mind

Active memory.

▌ Weak memory. θ Puerperal mania. θ Neuralgia of face.

Loss of memory. .

▌ Absence of mind, forgetfulness. θ Ozsena.

Mental dullness.

Feels stupid. See 35.

Inability to reflect.

▌ She thinks she feels depression of spirits in the chest. θ Induration of uterus.

▌▌ Looks on the dark side, weeps, prays, thinks she is not fit for this world, longs for death, strong inclination to commit suicide; desperate, desires to jump from a height, θ Prolapsus or induration of uterus, θ Pregnancy.

Imagines he is neglectful and deserves reproach in consequence.

Imagines he cannot succeed in anything, and he does everything wrong ; he is in disunion with himself.

Imagines to see obstacles in his way everywhere, occasioned partly by contrary fate, partly by himself; makes him feel desponding.

He imagines he is not fit for this world and longs for death, thinking of death gives him intense joy.

▌ He imagines he has lost the affection of his friends ; this makes him sad even to tears.

Delirium.

▌ Inclined to be delirious. θ Headache.

▌ Violent, gay, loquacious delirium, with exaltation of strength. θ Typhus.

Insanity more frequent than imbecility.

▌ Suicidal mania or melancholia, tedium vitae, with genital symptoms.

▌ Religious mania ; prays all the time.

Desire to be active, to move about.

Thoughts of suicide, with feeling of desperation, which inclines one to jump from a height; to throw himself down in bed violently ; to dash himself down into a chair, θ Induration, prolapse, or other disordered condition of the uterus, and in pregnancy.

Longing for death.

▌ Mind constantly turns toward suicide. θ Prolapsus uteri.

Childbed p. 262

6 Amenorrhoea.

▌ Disposition to commit suicide, θ Chronic hepatitis. θ Headache.

▌ Hysterical mood, laughing one minute and crying the next.

▌ Constant complaining. θ Adiposis.

Inclined to weep.

▌ Weeping and praying, θ Melancholy.

▌ She howls and screams and imagines herself irretrievably lost.

▌ Sudden screaming from earache, θ Ozsena.

Uneasy, hurried, desire for mental and bodily activity ; cannot do things fast enough.

Taciturnity.

Desire for solitude.

Mood changing, cheerful or despondent ; irritable ; no unconsciousness.

▌ Remarkable changeability of mind, now impulsive, rash, now very merry, now sad, anxious longing to die, soon after laughing loud. θ Hysteria.

, Lachrymose mood, θ Heart disease.

▌ Very sad, could cry all the time. θ Hemiopia.

Melancholy, disposed to weep ; imagines he is unfit for this world, that he never can succeed.

▌▌ Melancholy, feels hateful and quarrelsome; anxious palpitation and desire to commit suicide.

▌ Great depression of spirits, accompanied by sterility.

▌ Great depression of spirits, θ Old age.

▌ Melancholic mood, disposed to shun people; if meeting some one it gives him a nervous trembling and has to weep.

▌ All the time a dark, hopeless mood, frequently anxiety and despair ; life is a burden to him.

▌▌ Terrible melancholy after abuse of mercury ; patient pining away on account of bodily and mental anxiety.

▌ Is very unhappy ; continued thought of suicide, θ Puerperal mania.

▌▌ Hopelessness.

▌ Hopeless and despondent. θ Headache.

▌ Hypochondriasis, with longing for death.

A kind of hypochondriacal drunkenness ; the head feels full of compressed air, especially toward the nape of the neck.

Apprehensiveness, full of fear ; a mere noise at the door makes him anxious.

▌ Fearfulness, a longing for death, θ Hypersemia of brain.

Dread of men.

▌ Anxiety and dread. θ Valvular heart disease.

▌ Anguish of mind and great grief, θ Headache.

Excessive anguish even to self destruction.

Great anguish increasing unto self-destruction, with spasmodic contraction of the abdomen.

Frequent attacks of anguish about the heart, with trembling fearfulness.

Excessive anguish with palpitation of the heart, weariness in all the limbs and sleepiness.

▌ Great anguish coming from the prsecordial region, and driving him from place to place, so that he can remain nowhere. θ Palpitation.

Despondency.

Despair of self and others.

▌▌ Weary of life; especially in the evening, with longing for death.

▌ Disappointed love with weeping and inclination to commit suicide.

▌ Has no confidence in herself, thinks others have none; this makes her unhappy.

Sensitiveness of disposition.

Extreme disposition to be offended; he was extremely affected and provoked by the least circumstance which had the appearance of hurting his feelings.

Choleric and quarrelsome.

▌ Disposed to grumble and quarrel. θ Headache.

▌ Quarrelsome disposition when displeased, θ Prolapsus uteri. θ Amenorrhoea.

▌ Alternately peevish and cheerful.

▌ Whining mood. θ Obesity.

▌ Peevish and vehement, the least contradiction excites his wrath ; he trembles when he cannot satisfy his anger.

▌ Suffers constant vexation and torment, θ Jaundice.

Becomes angry at absent persons while thinking of them.'

Chagrin, violent anger and vehemence.

▌ Vehement and disposed to fly into a passion, θ Headache.

Contradiction excites wrath.

Distrust.

▌ Very sensitive, easily frightened, especially when falling asleep. θ Hysteria.

Prostration of soul and body.

Better from entertainment.

Worse from mental exertion.

▌▌ Mental labor fatigues ; headache from least mental exertion.

Feels weary and exhausted from performing mental labor.

▌ Worse after emotion. θ Palpitation.

▌▌ Ailments from grief, disappointed love.

Ailments from fright, anger, contradiction, mortification, or vexation with dread, fear, reserved displeasure, or vehemence.

▌ Pain makes her desperate so that she would like to jump out of the window, or dash herself down, θ Parturition.

Sensorium p. 264

▌▌ Vertigo. θ Syphilis.

▌ Head giddy, full, hot. θ Melancholy.

Vertigo : I when stooping, as if turning in a circle ; goes off on rising ; las if drunk, when walking in the open air ; feels as if he would fall to left side ; must lie down, even then for some time it returns on the slightest motion.

▌ Feels stupid, a dazed feeling in the head, θ Chronic hepatitis.

Inner Head p. 264

▌ Congestion of blood to head.

▌ Rushes of blood to head with violent palpitation, great anxiety and fainting.

Uncomfortable feeling in forehead.

▌ Violent pain in left forehead and eye. θ Melancholy.

Pressure in 1. temple, < on being touched.

▌ Severe frontal headache. θ Corjza.

Heat of head with cold hands and feet.

Rush of blood to head with tumult and waving of the head.

││ Tearing headache deep in brain, in forehead, temples and vertex, abating in open air.

▌ Rush of blood to head ; sparks before eyes, and glossy, bloated face ; worse from mental exertion.

▌ Bruised pain, especially early in morning or during mental labor, ideas become confused ; roaring in head.

Megrim, stitching burning pains, beating in one side of forehead ; nausea, even bilious vomiting.

▌ Fine tearing from right side of occiput through brain to forehead ; worse during motion.

One-sided boring, severe throbbing ; begins on awaking mornings.

Tearing in head, teeth and ears ; worse left side, θ Heart disease.

Headache as from incipient cold.

Sensation as if a current of air was rushing through the head, if not kept warm.

Outer Head p. 264

Pricking as from pins in forehead externally.

Boring in 1. side of frontal bone.

Pressive pains in 1. temple externally.

Pains in bones of head on lying down, affecting vital energy.

Pains in bones of skull, morning in bed.

▌ Syphilitic exostoses on skull.

▌ Skull bones painful, as if broken ; worse lying down.

Severe, constant burning heat on top of head.

▌ Exostoses on skull ; boring pains; worse from touch.

Caries of mastoid process,

▌ Tinea capitis.

Eruption of small white pimples all over the hairy scalp, with heat and itching.

▌ Portions of frontal bone had exfoliated, θ Syphilis with mercurialization.

▌▌ Falling out of hair, especially in syphilis.

' Sight and Eyes- l Photophobia, profuse scalding tears on opening eyes ; eyes very sensitive to touch.

▌ Photophobia ; lids cannot be even forcibly opened.

▌ Weak sight and eyes.

▌ Vision gro"' ^^^^^ Aurunf° ▌^, and in eight weeks more,

▌ g^^. θ Tumor in eye.

▌ By gas-light, a number of bright, floating specks and dots are seen.

▌ Eyes better by moonlight, and after active muscular exercise.

▌ Objects seem smaller and more distant, θ Hemiopia.

▌ Sees a little better on looking intensely and steadily on an object, though he sees no trace of the upper half of an object.

▌ Large letters cannot be distinguished, seems only something blank upon a white ground.

▌ Yellow, crescent-shaped bodies floating obliquely upwards in the field of vision.

Fiery sparks before eyes ; optical illusions in bright colors.

▌ Everything looks blue.

▌ Color of the optic nerve-entrances of a greenish hue, except round the periphery, which was yellowish-white, with a slight trace of pigmentary deposit on lower outer edge of optic disc in left eye.

▌ Fog or smoke before his eyes, to this, at a later period, black spots were added, and for the last few weeks he can only see upper half of objects, their lower half seems to be covered by a black veil. θ Hemiopia.

▌ Black spots floating before eyes, θ Hemiopia.

▌ Tension in eyes ; sees things double or mixed up.

▌ Objects as if divided horizontally ; sees only half of an object, other half as if covered with a dark body.

▌ In upper dark section of field of vision occasional showers of bright, star-like bodies, the lower half looks lighter, and he can distinguish color, light or dark.

▌ Hemiopia of 1. eye; 2" cured.

▌ Could not see the upper half of a room or any large object, though the lower half was clear, with the left eye.

││ Hemiopia from straining the eyes.

▌ Strong pressure from within outward and from above downward in both eyeballs, accompanied by dull, heavy aching deep in both globes.

▌ Pressing in eyes as from acrid dust, θ Hysteria.

Cutting pain through eyes.

Pains in eyes > by blowing the nose.

│ On using the eyes, sensation of violent heat in them.

▌ Central portion of retinal vessels strongly pulsating.

▌ Chorio-retinitis chronica, with an accumulation of fluid beneath the retina, which settled to the lower portion of 1. eye, causing a large detachment of retina, θ Hemiopia.

▌ Large black subchoroidal tumor behind the lens in the fundus, growing from the inner side.

Iris blackish-brown mixed with blood-red, in place of the pupil, and encroaching upon the iris a nodular new growth of a mixed black and red color, filling the whole anterior chamber, without, however, displacing the cornea, on which formed a vesicle discharging fluid ; the sclerotica sprinkled with blackish spots ; the conjunctiva pale-red and swollen ; slight lachrymation ; pressing and slight burning in and about the eye; later drawing in the surrounding bones. θ Melanotic tumor.

▌ Vitreous hazy from infiltration. θ Hemiopia.

▌ Anterior chamber contracted.

▌ Protruding eyes. θ Headache.

▌ Staring, dreary look. /? Melancholy.

▌ On pressure eyeball more tense and firm than usual.

Interstitial keratitis and kerato-iritis, even in atonic cases, with infiltrated cornea and fine interstitial vascularity.

▌▌ Cornea opaque; leukoma; gray or yellow spots, always marked by a network of enlarged blood-vessels around ; after keratitis, syphilitic or scrofulous cases.

▌ Iritis marked by much pain around the eye, which seems to be deep in the bone, extends from without inward, and is aggravated by touch, θ Mercuric-syphilis.

Pupils generally contracted.

Amaurosis.

▌ Pupils irregularly dilated; cornea dull, with loss of usual lustre.

▌ Macula cornese.

▌ Red sclerotica; burning, stitching, drawing and itching at inner canthus.

▌▌ Scrofulous ophthalmia, with great photophobia.

▌ Twitching in upper lid. θ Hemiopia.

▌ Pains of a burning or dull character, compelling one to close the lids ; >< in the morning and > by the application of cold water, θ Trachoma.

││ Eyelids red, suppurating; stinging, pricking, itching; agglutination in morning ; cilia fall out. θ Mercurio-syphilis.

▌ Pannus, with ulceration of the cornea ; pains from without in ; worse from pressure.

▌ Large bony tumor on left eye, with boring, aching pains, worse at night.

Little blisters turning into crusts on edges of lids, with some trichiasis.

▌ Bones around the eye feel bruised.

▌ Styes on eyelids.

Hearing and Ears p. 267

▌ Humming, buzzing and rushing in ears. θ Hysteria.

▌ Roaring in ears. θ Cerebral hypersemia.

▌▌ Oversensitive to noises ; but music relieves.

││ Annoying dryness in ears and nose, with difficult hearing.

▌▌ Caries of the mastoid process ; obstinate otorrhoea ; burning, pricking, itching ; boring pain behind left ear.

▌ Congestion to the ears.

▌▌ Fetid otorrhoea; especially with caries of the ossicula. θ After scarlatina.

▌ Parotids swollen, painful to touch, as if pressed or contused.

Smell and Nose p. 267

Nosebleed.

▌ Excessively foetid discharge from nose, θ Ozsena.

▌ Scrofulous and syphilitic affections of bones of nose and face.

▌ Caries of bones of nose and palate.

▌ Complaints caused by strong odors.

▌ Sensitive smell; everything smells too strong.

▌ Putrid smell when blowing the nose.

▌ Want of smell.

Pain in nasal bones.

▌ Boring pain in nasal bones, θ Ozaena.

▌▌ Nasal catarrh, with melancholy, or even suicidal mood.

▌▌ Ulcerated, agglutinated, painful nostrils, cannot breathe through the nose.

▌▌ Crusts in the nose, θ Ozaena.

▌ Nose feels obstructed, as in dry coryza, yet air passes through freely.

▌▌ Ozaena, excessively fetid discharge ; severe frontal headache. θ Scrofula, θ Mercurio-syphilis.

▌ Coryza, thick discharge, like white of egg ; frequent sneezing.

▌▌ Caries of nasal bones; right nasal bone and adjoining parts of upper jaw painful to touch.

▌ Nose sunken in. θ Caries of nose.

▌ Boring in left side of nasal bone, toward maxilla.

▌ Burning, itching, stitching, smarting; feeling of soreness in nose, especially when touched.

▌ Mucous discharge from posterior nares in morning.

▌ Brown-red spots on the nose; nostrils chapped.

▌ Yellow, thick discharge from the nose, or dry, firm pieces are blown out, always of an offensive odor.

▌ Tip of nose "knobby," red.

▌▌ Nose red, swollen, θ Scrofula. θ Abuse of mercury.

▌ Swelling of the nose, like erysipelas.

Swelling of the nose in the room, after walking in the open air.

Eruptions on the nose.

▌ Cancer of nose.

^ Face. ▌Puffy under eyes. θ Endocarditis.

In the groove between nose and cheek a cutaneous lump of the size of a split pea, which irritates, gets picked, scabs over, and persists.

▌ Anxious expression of face. θ Endocarditis.

Feels ill, and looks pale.

Heat only in face.

▌ Face pale. θ Valvular disease of the heart.

▌ Blue about nose and lips, θ Typhus.

▌ Face cyanotic. θ Asthma.

▌ Face glowing red. θ Headache.

▌ Face bloated, glossy; worse from mental exertion.

▌ Swelling of one cheek, with drawing and tearing in upper and lower jaws ; teeth feel too long ; swelling of both cheeks.

▌ Erysipelas of face.

▌ Acute cutting, stinging and tearing, now in nerves of left side of head, now of teeth, coming and going, preventing sleep.

▌▌ Inflammation of bones of face; caries, with tearing, boring and burning stitches.

▌ Violent boring in right zygomatic process when walking.

▌ Fine pimples on the face. θ Prolapsus uteri.

▌ Lichens on the face.

▌ Red eruption on forehead and nose, often peeling.

Fine pimples on the face, their tips are filled with pus.

▌ Corona veneris. θ Syphilis with mercurialization.

Lower Face p. 268

Tensive pain in lower jaw.

▌ Dull, pressive pain, either with or without swallowing, in a gland below the angle of lower jaw.

▌ Painful swelling of submaxillary glands.

▌ Trismus. θ Typhus.

▌ Lips bluish. θ Endocarditis.

Teeth and Gums p. 268

▌ Toothache caused by drawing air into mouth ; when chewing, suddenly a painful dullness in one of the upper molar teeth.

▌ Toothache from congestion to the head.

▌ Carious teeth. θ Faceache.

▌▌ Toothache at night. θ Heart disease.

▌ Violent tearing toothache, affects the heart.

││ Gums swollen, darker red, sore when touched or when eating ; gums bleed easily.

Taste and Tongue p. 268

Metallic taste in mouth ; tongue slightly coated with brownish fur.

Milky taste.

▌ Loss of taste. θ Melancholy.

▌ Flabby taste with clear tongue. θ Hysteria.

▌ Bitter taste in mouth, with sensation of dryness.

▌ Foul taste of even the water.

▌ Putrid taste in mouth, as of spoiled game, between meals.

▌ Loss of taste; tongue hard as leather and immovable.

Tongue swollen with scirrhus-like hardness ; after biting the tongue in sleep.

▌ Tongue trembling and dry. θ Typhus.

▌ Tongue dry and coated. θ Endocarditis.

▌ Tongue coated at the back. θ Pining boys.

Ulcers on the tongue.

Inner Mouth p. 269

Four)reath. θ Girls at puberty.

Fetor of breath like old cheese.

▌ In the morning offensive breath, reddish tongue, and copious salivation, θ Melancholy.

Saliva copious, sweetish.

Aphthae on the tongue and in the mouth.

Palate and Throat p. 269

▌ Caries of palate. θ After abuse of mercury. θ Syphilis.

▌ Red, swollen and ulcerated tonsils; difficult deglutition.

▌ Boring in the hard palate ; caries of roof, palate and nose. θ Abuse of mercury, θ Syphilis.

▌ Stinging soreness in throat only during deglutition.

Difficult raising of phlegm.

▌ Dull, pressive pain, with or without swallowing, in a gland below the angle of jaw,

▌▌ Syphilitic ulcers in palate and throat.

Appetite, Thirst. Desires, Aversions p. 269

Violent hunger and thirst.

▌ Hunger, immoderate; relishes his meal, but hunger not appeased.

Immoderate appetite and thirst, with qualmishness in stomach.

Desire for milk and coffee.

▌ Desire for alcoholic drinks, which are easily borne, θ Typhus.

Loss of appetite.

▌ Want of appetite. θ Jaundice.

Aversion to food, especially meat.

▌ Appetite poor. θ Hemiopia.

▌ No appetite for plain food, θ Pining boys.

Eating and Drinking p. 269

After dinner : discomfort in abdomen ; sleep.

After eating : colic ; inclined to vomit ; pressure in hypochondria ; sense of suffocation.

Worse after drinking ; after wine.

Worse when hungry ; pain at the stomach, etc.

Colic even after the simplest food.

Drowsy after dinner.

Hearing and Ears p. 269

▌ Sour belching.

Eructations of gas relieve attacks of palpitation.

Nausea from mental labor.

Scrobiculum and Stomach p. 269

Burning sensation at stomach, with hot risings.

▌ Pressure in region of stomach at noon.

▌ Pressure to the left of the scrobiculum, below the cartilages of the upper false ribs ; worse during expiration.

Swelling of pit of stomach and hypochondrium, with stinging pain when touching the parts.

^^Hypochondria. Swelling of the liver consecutive to cardiac hypertrophy.

▌ Burning heat and cutting in right hypochondrium.

Jaundice, with pain in liver and pit of stomach ; greenish-brown urine ; bad breath and putrid taste.

▌ Chronic hepatitis, with aversion to life; suicidal mood ; averse to exercise, feels stupid.

▌ Painful accumulation of gas below the left ribs, causing stitching pains.

Pressure in the hypochondria, as from flatulence ; worse after food or drink, and motion.

Abdomen, Loins and Groins p. 270

Distended abdomen.

Nightly flatulent colic.

▌ Ascites: from disturbances of abdominal organs; with albuminuria ; with melancholy.

▌ Abdomen puffed up. θ Hysteria.

Colic, frequent discharge of wind. ' '

▌ Tabes mesenterica.

Spasmodic contraction of abdomen, with great anguish; inclined to suicide. See Heart, 29.

▌▌ Inguinal hernia; also with children.

Heaviness in abdomen, with icy cold hands and feet.

Intolerable itching in r. groin in its inner third, could not resist scratching ; later inspection showed a wheal, tender from the violent rubbing ; even after the wheal is gone, the part remains tender.

Scrobiculum and Stomach p. 270

││ Proctostasis.

Copious stool.

▌ Passes fetid flatus.

▌ Stools: offensive, painful; grayish, ashy; offensive in pregnancy.

▌ Nightly diarrhoea, with burning in rectum.

▌ Hard, knotty or large stools; constipation, worse during menses, with prolapsus uteri.

Piles with rectal catarrh; costive; external piles bleed during stool.

Constipation ; stool very large in size and very hard or knotty.

▌ Obstinate constipation, θ Jaundice. .

▌ Looseness and costiveness in alternation. θ Melancholy.

Urinary Organs p. 270

For many days great morbid activity of uropoetic system.

▌ Urination frequent with painful retention. θ Prolapsus uteri.

▌ Albuminuria consecutive to heart-disease.

││ Kidneys hyperaemic, with pressure around the waist and increase of urine ; consecutive to cardiac hypertrophy.

Passes more urine than corresponds to the quantity of water drunk.

Constant urging to urinate.

▌ Urine scanty, greenish-brown. θ Jaundice.

▌ Urine clear, gold colored, θ Dropsy.

▌ Turbid, like buttermilk ; much mucous sediment.

▌ Urine ammoniacal, decomposes rapidly, smells like the otorrhoea.

▌ Ischuria and constipation, worse during menses. θ Prolapsus uteri.

Suppression of urine.

Painful retention of urine with pressure in bladder.

▌ Frequent painful retention of urine.

▌ Urethritis.

Renal secretion much less in quantity.

▌ Haematuria.

Male Sexual Organs p. 271

▌ Testes mere pendent shreds. θ Pining boys.

▌ Chronic induration of testicles.

▌ Testes indurated ; also after abuse of mercury.

Testes a little swelled and hard.

▌ Frequent nightly emissions. θ Melancholy. θ Neuralgia of face.

▌ Onanism. θ Faceache. θ Melancholy.

▌ Nightly erections without emission ; or nightly erections and pollutions, without subsequent weakness.

▌ Discharge of prostatic fluid from a relaxed penis ; settled melancholy, with suicidal mania.

Sensation as if a knife was drawn through the swollen testicle.

▌ Right testicle swollen ; pressive pains when touched or rubbed ; pressure and tension as from a bruise.

Itching of the scrotum.

▌ Ulcers on the scrotum, after gonorrhoea.

▌ Cutting and stinging in the perineum.

▌ Inguinal glands suppurate. θ Mercurio-syphilis.

▌ Hydrocele. θ Child eet. 6 months.

▌ Chancres.

▌ Hunterian chancres.

▌▌ Secondary syphilis; also infantile; especially after abuse of mercury (and probably of potash).

Affections of the prepuce.

▌ Balanitis.

Condylomata around the anus; around the corona glands.

▌ Sarcocele.

▌ Epididymitis.

▌ Orchitis.

▌ Syphilis.

Female Sexual Organs p. 272

▌ > Sterility after depression of spirits.

▌ Ovarian affections connected with syphilis.

▌ Induration of uterus. θ Prolapsus uteri.

▌ Menses delayed, especially the first. θ Prolapsus uteri.

▌ Menses too late and scanty. θ Prolapsus uteri.

▌▌ Amenorrhoea with great melancholy; her mind constantly inclines to suicide, θ Prolapsus uteri.

▌ Bruised, shooting or drawing pain in uterus. θ Prolapsus.

▌ Drawing pain at the pubes. θ Prolapsus uteri.

Right inguinal region sore to touch ; uterus affected.

▌ Os uteri swollen, hardened.

▌ Prolapsus and induration of uterus.

▌▌ Uterus prolapsed and indurated; bruised pain, with shooting or drawing ; heaviness in abdomen ; after lifting a heavy load ; worse at menstrual period.

││ Menses regular, but with headache and burning on the vertex ; uterus indurated.

Menses too late, scanty ; preceded by swelling of axillary glands ; accompanied by colic, prolapse of the rectum.

Constant oozing from the vulva.

Thick white leucorrhoea ; burning smarting of the vulva ; labia majora red, swollen.

▌ Leucorrhoea profuse and corroding, yellow, θ Prolapsus uteri.

▌ Leucorrhoea thick white. θ Prolapsus uteri.

▌ Prolapsus: with backache, worse during menses ; with heat of vagina; ▌from reaching high ; ▌from straining; I With induration of uterus and bruised, shooting or drawing pains.

Pregnancy. Parturition. Lactation p. 272

During pregnancy : suicidal melancholia; jaundice.

Suppressed milk.

▌ Palpitation following metrorrhagia after a mole or in childbed, after overexertion.

▌ Labor pains make her desperate, she would like to jump from the window or dash herself down ; often with congestion to head and chest and palpitation.

Larynx p. 272

Voice : nasal ; husky, as if he had a cold.

Phlegm deep in larynx, not easily hawked up.

Respiration p. 272

> Morning asthma ; face cyanotic ; light haired persons ; worse after mercury, in wet weather and in warm air.

▌ Marked dyspnoea, anxiety at the heart; stenocardia.

▌ Excessive dyspnoea, with difficult breathing at night.

▌ Cardiac difficulty of breathing, θ Old age.

▌ Dyspnoea: with dull stitches in chest when inspiring; cannot be relieved in any position ; takes deep breaths, from besoin de respire. θ Heart disease.

▌ Asthma from congestion to chest; great oppression at night and when walking in open air ; suffocative fits, with spasmodic constriction of chest; face bluish-red; palpitation; falls down unconscious.

▌ Want of breath, θ Valvular disease of the heart.

▌ Difficult breathing, θ Jaundice.

││ Loses her breath, better from belching or walking, θ Hysteria.

Suffocative fits and constriction of chest.

When laughing difficulty in breathing.

▌ Propped up in bed and breathing very hurriedly, θ Endocarditis.

Cough p. 273

Cough for want of breath at night.

Cough Aith tough yellow sputum on awaking in the morning.

Dry, spasmodic, nervous cough, peculiar to females ; periodically, every night from sunset to sunrise.

Expectoration infrequent, morning and evening.

▌ Moist rales all over chest with cough. θ Endocarditis'.

Inner Chest and Lungs p. 273

G-reat tightness of chest.

Violent rush of blood to chest.

▌ Hypersemia of the lungs.

▌ Shooting through the back when breathing. θ Facial neuralgia.

Shooting pains in chest after attacks of palpitation.

Dull stitches in both sides of the chest, with heat in chest and dyspnoea ; increased by inspiration.

Persistent dry catarrh on the chest, early in morning, on waking; with great difficulty he raises a little phlegm, and this only after rising from bed.

Oppression of the chest with the faceache.

▌ Extreme tightness of chest with difficult breathing.

▌▌ Great weight on chest, especially a heavyweight on the sternum. θ Angina pectoris.

Heart, Pulse and Circulation p. 273

Frequent attacks of anguish about the heart, with tremulous fearfulness ; great anguish increasing to self-destruction, with spasmodic contraction of the abdomen ; uneasiness and hurried desire for bodily and mental activity ; he cannot do anything fast enough, and does not succeed,in satisfying himself; is constantly impelled to be in motion, and is sorry for his inactivity ; he imagines he is neglecting something and deserves reproaches in consequence.

││ Violent heart-stroke not synchronous with the pulse.

Sensation as if the heart was turning around.

Constriction of the chest with a painful spasmodic sensation of the heart ; pulse remits.

▌ Pains wander from joint to joint, and finally become fixed in the heart ; must sit upright ; feels as though heart ceased and then suddenly gave one hard thump.

Pain in region of heart, extending down left arm to fingers.

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Pain in the heart and palpitation of the heart ; jumping feeling of the heart and violent palpitation by motion.

▌ Angina pectoris.

▌ Action of heart floundering, θ Endocarditis.

▌▌ Violent palpitation, anxiety and congestion of blood to the head and chest. θ After uterine hemorrhage.

▌ Palpitation, with great agony.

When riding or walking, palpitation compels him to stop.

▌▌ Violent beating of heart after exertion.

Between the attacks of palpitation, feeling as of a bladder hanging in the left chest ; must often take a deep breath.

▌ Attacks of oppression at the heart at night, with palpitation and great debility, θ Old age.

Blond endocardial bruits. θ Endocarditis.

▌▌ Fatty degeneration of heart.

▌ Violent orgasm of the blood as if it was boiling.

▌ Congestions to head and chest, with anxious palpitation.

▌ Visible beating of carotids and of temporal arteries, θ Heart affections in old age.

Palpitation, with irregular, intermittent pulse ; short breathing.

Pulse small, but accelerated; small, feeble, rapid; irregular.

▌ Pulse quick, full, corresponding to the beat of heart, and vomiting before the single strong beat, θ Heart disease.

▌ Pulse rapid, compressible and intermittent, θ Endocarditis.

▌ Weak pulse. θ Old age.

Weak heart.

▌ Sensation as if the heart stood still.

Outer Chest p. 274

A wart, size of a split horse-bean since proving Cundurango, several years since, is beginning to lap over and to catch things and seems flatter ; in the sixth week flatter and much smaller ; on the 80th day, nearly gone ; in the twelfth week increases again.

Neck and Back p. 274

Enormous goitre disappeared long after.

▌ Swollen cervical glands, θ Scrofulous ophthalmia.

Tension in the neck, as if muscles were too short, even at rest ; mostly when stooping.

▌ Spine disease, with gressus gallinaceus.

Pain in small of back as from fatigue.

Tendons of muscles so painfully stiff, that the thigh cannot be raised ; thigh feels paralyzed.

▌ Stinging pains in small of back, θ Jaundice.

Pain at lower part of spine.

Upper Limbs p. 274

' ' Arms start, θ Hysteria.

││ Boring in left shoulder.

▌ Inflammatory swelling of axillary glands.

Difficult movement of arms ; they feel fatigued ; forearms feel heavy.

││ Severe bone pains in right elbow.

││ Boring in the right forearm.

Cramp-like tearing in bones of both wrists.

│ Palms itch.

▌ Herpes of palms.

││ Boring in finger-joints.

▌ Bones of hands swelled; almost immovable and tender. θ Endocarditis.

▌ Large bursa-like swelling on the wrists for a long time. θ Hemiopia.

▌ Flesh of hands puffy. θ Endocarditis.

Finger-nails turning blue.

Lower Limbs p. 275

Coxalgia.

▌ Retraction of the lower limbs, θ Typhus.

All the blood appeared to rush from her head into her lower limbs ; they feel paralyzed ; she has to sit down.

Tottering of the knees ; stiffness, paralytic feeling ; they pain as if firmly bandaged, when sitting.

Right knee becomes weak from walking ; drawing when walking or setting foot on floor.

▌ Weakness in limbs, most in hollow of knees, θ Neuralgia.

Small blotches on the leg and below the knee, when slightly rubbed, they are changed to thick nodosities under the skin.

▌ Nodes on legs, θ Syphilis with mercurialization.

▌ Caries in bones of lower extremities.

Boring in tibiae, ankles and dorsa of feet.

▌ Swelling of legs and feet, when getting up in the morning ; better after walking.

││ Toes red.

Itching on the soles.

▌ Slight dropsy effect. θ Endocarditis.

▌ Swollen feet, θ Valvular disease of heart.

Weary pains in r. tarsal bones, shooting up towards knee, early morning in bed.

Limbs in General p. 275

▌ Limbs go to sleep ; numb, insensible on awaking; more while lying than when moving.

Paralytic drawing in limbs in the morning, when awaking ; also on getting cold.

││ Has to seize hold of the left arm during attacks of palpitation.

▌ Swelling of the periosteum of the forearm and thigh bones.

││ Pain as from bruises in head and limbs, early in bed ; mostly at rest ; passes off after rising.

Sensations in joints and muscles like after unwonted exercise.

▌ Limbs swelled and painful, joints almost as firmly locked as if anchylosed, cannot move hand or foot for pain, from this swelled and inflamed state of joints, θ Endocarditis.

Rest. Position. Motion p. 275

▌▌ Inclined to be active.

Lying down : bones of skull painful ; limbs feel numb.

Must lie down : vertigo.

In dyspnoea no position relieves.

Sitting : knees pain as if firmly bandaged.

Must sit down : paralytic symptoms. See 33.

Must sit erect : heart disease.

Rising : vertigo goes off; raises only a little phlegm, 28 ; pain in head and limbs goes off.

Stooping: vertigo, as if turning in a circle; tension in neck.

Walking : vertigo, as if drunk ; headache worse ; boring in zygoma ; asthma worse ; breathing in hysteria better ; palpitation so bad must stop ; right knee weak ; relieves swelling of feet.

Motion: vertigo, 2 ; headache worse; pressure in hypochondrium worse ; compelled to move, 29 ; relieves numbness in limbs.

Exertion : beating of heart.

▌ From over- exertion during confinement. θ Palpitation.

' Wants to jump out of window : during labor.

Exercise, even fatigue, aids the action.

Nerves p. 276

Increased bodily and mental activity, followed by prostration and melancholy.

▌ Hysterical symptoms, cold hands and feet, θ Prolapsus uteri.

▌ Increased bodily irritability.

▌▌ Hypochondriasis and hysteria.

In the morning completely exhausted, as if he had not slept.

▌ Tremulous agitation, as in joyous hope.

▌ Hysterical spasms ; alternate laughter and crying.

When thinking of a motion, he makes small motions without knowing it ; when speaking he smiles involuntarily.

Sensation of internal emptiness and weakness of whole body.

▌ Great nervous weakness.

▌ Great debility, θ Heart affection in old age.

▌ Convulsive movements of face and limbs, θ Typhus.

▌ Alternate convulsions and stupor, θ Typhus.

▌ Wavering, uncertain walk. θ Melancholy.

Sleep p. 276

Feels fagged in the evening, yet not able to sleep.

Looks and feels ill, and although weary, no inclination for either rest or sleep.

Very wakeful, well up to work ; great mental activity.

▌ Continuing sleeplessness ; if he falls asleep erotic dreams, erection and emission. θ Melancholy.

Frightful dreams.

Narcosis with uraemia.

▌ Sobs aloud during sleep ; frightful dreams about thieves, with loud screams.

▌ Awake all night, no pain; no lassitude or sleepiness in the morning.

▌ Sleep disturbed by sexual excitement, θ Hysteria.

▌▌ Sleeplessness, θ Headache.

Sleepless after midnight.

▌▌ Awakened by bone pains, suffering so great he despairs, does not want to live.

Bruised feeling ; mornings in bed.

Sleep does not refresh.

Two successive nights dreamed a great deal of death.

Early in the morning in bed weary pains in r. tarsal bones.

Bad nights, dreaming of the dead and of corpses.

Dreams towards morning.

▌ Sleep restless and full of anxious dreams. θ Hemiopia.

Time p. 277

At night: colic and passing wind. θ Melancholy.

▌ Nocturnal bone pains.

Night : boring, aching in left eye worse ; toothache ; diarrhoea ; difficult breathing ; cough from want of breath ; feeling of lump in throat; constantly awake; cold hands and feet;

▌▌ bone pains.

After 3 a.m.: delirious talk.

Morning: headache; confusion of head early, on rising; eyes worse ; mucous discharge in posterior nares worse ; cheeks swell ; eyelids adhere ; asthma ; cough on awaking ; expectoration; catarrh on chest; swelling of legs and feet ; paralytic drawing in limbs ; exhausted, as if he had not slept; no lassitude, though he did not sleep through night ; bruised feeling in bed ; sweat.

Noon : pressure in epigastrium.

Remission during day and evening, until 12 p.m.

Evening: expectoration; satiety of life at 6 p.m.; testicle swells ; chill.

Evening till midnight: violent itching, 46.

Evening and morning : expectoration.

▌ Always worse as day progresses, and better in the morning. θ Hemiopia.

Sunset to sunrise : cough worse.

Temperature and Weather p. 277

In the room : swelling of nose ; stinging, burning pains better.

In bed : shivering, legs cold.

Warm air: asthma worse.

Air : aggravates toothache.

▌ Desire for open air. θ Adiposis.

Open air : vertigo, as if drunk ; swelling of nose ; aggravates asthma, and stinging and burning pains ; ameliorates headache.

Averse to uncover.

Getting cold : paralytic drawing in limbs.

Cold water : ameliorates pain in eyes.

Wet weather : aggravates asthma.

Very sensitive to cold : over the whole body.

▌ Generally better growing warm. θ Headache.

Many symptoms disappear after -washing.

Chill. Fever. Sweat p. 278

Chill predominating.

Chill and coldness of hands and feet, also in bed, often lasting all night.

General shivering, evenings in bed.

Coldness of whole body with blue nails and nausea.

Cold hands and feet; sometimes lasting all night; want of thirst.

Chill lessened after getting out of bed ; shivering in bed ; legs cold as far as the knees.

The severer the pains, the colder she becomes.

Heat only in the face ; aversion to uncovering ; cold hands and feet.

Heat most in face, alternating with chill.

▌ Sweat early in the morning; mostly on and around genitals. θ Melancholy.

▌ Profuse perspiration. θ Endocarditis.

Attacks p. 278

▌ Every day several paroxysms. θ Palpitation of heart.

Paroxysm of palpitation every 2, 3 weeks, coming on when sleeping, walking or riding, lasting half hour.

Pains come and go : neuralgia of head.

Every night, from sunset to sunrise : dry, nervous cough.

Locality and Direction p. 278

Right : pain in side of occiput ; caries of nasal bones ; upper jaw painful ; boring in zygoma ; cutting and heat in hypochondrium ; testicle swollen ; inguinal region sore; boring in forearm; bone pains in elbow.

Left : tearing in head, teeth and ears ; boring tumor on eye ; boring behind ear ; boring in nasal bone ; neuralgia of head ; pressure in scrobiculum ; gas accumulates under ribs ; sensation of a bladder hanging in chest ; boring in shoulder ; seizes arm during palpitation.

Without inward : pains in eyes.

Pains wander from joint to joint.

Rending pain upwards.

Pain pressing inwards.

Pain from within outward, in eye diseases.

Left side worse, with nasal catarrh.

Sensations p. 278

Oversensitive to all pain.

Pains drive to despair, does not want to live.

Susceptible to all sorts of pains; on thinking of them, he imagines he already feels them.

As if a current of air was rushing through head.

Teeth feel too long.

As if the heart was turning around.

As of a bladder hanging in left chest. See 29.

As if firmly bandaged : knees.

Violent pain : in 1. forehead and eye.

Boring:: hemicrania ; behind 1. ear; in nasal bones; in bones of face ; in hard palate ; in 1. shoulder ; in r. forearm ;' in finger-joints.

Cutting : through eyes ; neuralgia in face and head ; in r. hypochonder ; through swollen testicle ; in perineum.

Stitching : megrim ; in nose ; below 1. ribs.

Stitches : in chest.

Shooting : in uterus ; through chest ; towards knee from tarsal bones.

Pricking : in eyelids ; in mastoid process.

Stinging : in eyelids ; neuralgia in face and head ; in throat ; in swelling of epigastrium ; in perineum ; in small of back.

Smarting : in nose ; of vulva.

Soreness : in nose ; in throat.

Burning: megrim; in eyelids; in mastoid process; in nose ; at stomach ; in r. hypochonder ; in rectum ; on vertex ; of vulva.

Drawing : around the eyes ; in jaws ; in uterus ; at pubes ; in r. knee.

Tearing : from side of head through brain ; deep in brain ; in forehead, temples and vertex ; in teeth and ears ; in jaws ; neuralgia in face and head ; toothache.

Cramp-like tearing : in bones of wrists.

Pressure : in 1. temple ; in eyeballs ; in submaxillary glands ; in region of stomach ; to left of scrobiculum ; in the hypochondria ; in bladder ; in r. testicle.

Aching: dull, heavy, in eyeball.

Bruised pain : in head ; in r. testicle ; in uterus ; in limbs.

Weary pains : in r. tarsal bones.

Undefined pain : in nasal bones; in liver and pit of stomach.

Undefined : at lower part of spine ; in r. elbow.

Beating : in forehead.

Uncomfortable feeling : in forehead.

Tension : in eyes ; in lower jaw ; in r. testicle ; in neck.

Constriction : of chest.

Spasmodic sensation : about heart.

Twitching: in upper lid.

Paralytic feeling : in lower limbs ; in knees.

Heaviness : in abdomen ; in forearm.

Numbness : of limbs.

Dryness : in ears and nose ; in mouth.

Heat : in eyes ; in chest.

Itching : in eyelids ; in mastoid process ; in nose ; in r. groin ; of the scrotum ; of palms ; of soles.

Tissues p. 279

Rheumatism appears on back, sacrum, hands and feet, after the heat is relieved.

▌ Boring pains, mostly in the bones.

Crampy tearing pain in phalangeal bones and joints.

▌ Arthritic deposits.

Bone pains at night.

▌ Osteitis ; caries.

Ulcers after abuse of mercury, which attack the bones.

▌ Erethism or vascular fullness characterizes nearly all complaints ; thus ruddy with scrofula ; vascular leukoma ; congestive asthma ; ebullitions ; erections, congested kidneys and liver — all from hypertrophied, heart.

▌ Violent orgasm ; plethora.

Cancerous ulcers.

External parts become black.

▌ Dropsy; ascites; albuminuria and heart affections ; (urine is clear and gold colored.)

SI Exostoses of the skull and other bones.

▌▌ Boring in bones ; B caries especially after mercury ; B I pains drive to despair.

▌ Corpulency ; fat about the heart ; especially if nervous irritability is present.

▌ Glands painfully swollen; scrofula, ruddy complexion.

▌ Adenitis.

Emaciation ; secondary syphilis ; also in melancholia.

Rheumatism, erratic; attacking the heart.

▌ Indurations.

Scrofula.

▌ Arthrocace scrofulosis.

Touch. Passive Motion. Injuries p. 280

injuries. Has to seize and grasp the 1. arm tightly during the attack of palpitation.

Touch : aggravates boring pains in skull, pains in eyes, pains in swollen parotids, soreness of nasal bones and upper jaw, soreness of gums, pains in testicles, soreness in inguinal region.

Rubbing : causes blotches on leg to feel like thick nodosities.

Pressure: aggravates eye symptoms.

Riding: produces palpitation.

Lifting: causes prolapse of uterus.

▌ After a fall: swelling in groin.

Skin p. 280

▌ Jaundice with greenish-brown urine and costiveness for twelve days.

▌ Skin dark yellow. θ Jaundice.

▌ Patches of a brown hue and some like albugo, θ Old age.

Violent itching, first in soles of feet and then over the whole body, from evening till midnight.

Fine papular eruption on face.

Deep ulcers, affecting bones; after abuse of mercury.

Small and large blotches, stinging burning, feeling like hard knots, of a dirty yellow color; less in-doors than in open air.

Indurations under the skin on the leg, over the heel and behind the knee, itching violently.

BAVarts, scrofulous, syphilitic, mercurial.

Stages of Life, Constitution p. 281

Sanguine people, with black hair and dark eyes, lively, restless, anxious disposition ; disposed to feel anxious about the future.

Headache of people with black hair, dark, olive-brown complexion ; disposed to constipation ; sad, gloomy, taciturn.

▌▌ Constitutions broken down by the combined influence of syphilis and mercury.

▌ Had syphilis ten years ago. θ Hemiopia.

▌ Low-spirited, lifeless boys, their memories bad, lacking altogether in boyish go. See testes, 22.

Carbo-nitrogenoid constitution.

▌ Females: nervous cough ; hysteria.

▌ Girls at puberty.

▌▌ Pining boys. See 22.

▌▌ Often indicated with old people : weak vision ; corpulency, etc.

▌ Scrofula ; light haired ; sanguine temperament ; ruddy complexion.

▌▌ Syphilitic and mercurial patients.

▌▌ Old age.

▌ Man, set. 34, troubled with headache and hemorrhoidal complaints, now tired of life.

▌ Man, ^t. 35, sanguine, nervous, strong; after a gonorrhoea. . θ Melancholy.

▌ Woman, set. 55, after third week of rheumatic fever. θ Endocarditis.

▌ Woman, set. 70, oppression of heart.

Man, get. 85, oppression of heart.

▌ Man, set. 63, florid complexion, sanguine temperament. θ Melanosis of eye.

Relations p. 281

Similar to: Amm. earh. (chest, heart); Arg. met., Arg. nitr., Arsen., Asaf. (pains about eyes ; but Asaf. has relief from pressure ; caries from mercury) ; Bellad., Capsic. (caries of mastoid ; corpulency ; Calc. ostr. (leucophlegmatic, corpulent ; gold has more oversensitiveness and erethism); Calc. j^hosj^h., Coccul.{emj)tj feeling); Cmchon., Coffea (hyper excitation) ; Cuprum (asthma ; Digit, (heart ; inclined to activity) ; Ferrum (hyperemia) ; Glonoine (hypergemia of lung from heart) ; Hepar, Iodum, Kali hiclir. (deep ulcers, scrofulous ophthalmia, ozsena, secondary syphilis) ; Kali carb., Kali hydr. (secondary syphilis; mercurial affections of bones and periosteum) ; Kalihrom. (anguish at heart and desire to move about) ; Laches., Lycop., Mercur., Nitr. ac, Nux vom. (hernia, prolapsed uterus) ; Pallad. (uterine symptoms); Platina (uterine symptoms); Pulsat., Spigel., Sol. nitr., Silic, sepia, Sulphur, Tarantul. (heart as if turned around ; hysteria) ; Thuya (condylomata, 22) ; Ver. vir. (heart).

After Kali hiehr. had been given in vain, Aurfol. cured ozgena, and caries of nasal bones.

▌ Man, set. 52, whiskey drinker, θ Decrease of vision.

S After daily use of whiskey, and not abstaining from its use, got well, θ Hemiopia.

Antidotes to Aurum : Bellad., Cinchon., Coccul, Coffea, Cuprum, Mercur., Pulsat., Spigel., Sol. nitr.

Aurum antidotes : Mercur., Spigel.

Aur. met., 2d trituration, from July 16th to 21st, twice a day ; subsequently, once in four days for sixteen days; cured melanosis of eye, after Thuya, Carh. an., Conium, Bellad. and Arsen. had failed.

▌ Antidote to ill effects of mercury.

▌ After having taken large quantities of iodide of potash. θ Hemiopia.