AURUM.
By Timothy F. Allen — The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
Aurum foliatum, metallic gold.
Preparation , Triturate pure gold with sugar of milk.
Authorities.
1 , Hahnemann (Chr. Kr., 1, 214); 2 , Franz, ibid.; 3 , Gross, ibid.; 4 , Fr. Hahnemann, ibid.; 5 , Hempel, ibid.; 6 , Hermann, ibid.; 7 , Langhammer, ibid.; 8 , Lehmann, ibid.; 9 , Michler, ibid.; 10 , Rummel, ibid.; 11 , Wislicenus, ibid.; 12 , Schulze, ibid. (reference not obtainable); 13 , Eph. Nat. Cur. Cent. X, ibid. (no observation about Aur. found here); 14 , Eph. N. C., Dec. II, ibid. (a casual mention); 15 , Molin, proving, Bull. d. l. Soc. Méd. Hom. de Paris, 1, 19; 16 , Lembke, N. Z. f. H. K., 11, 17 (took the 100th); 17 , Robinson, B. J., 25, 32 (took the 12th and 200th).
MIND
- Religious excitement, 15.
- In a reverie he says something absurd, 1.
- The child woke after three o'clock, early in the morning, and spoke rapidly in a strong voice, and with red face, thus: "Mother, thou art my jewel of a daughter! What sort of a dog is that? What sort of a head is that at the wall? What is running about there in the room?" and many other such foolish questions, 1.
- Desire for solitude, 15.
- (Loathing of life), 1.
- *Disgust for life, suicidal tendency, 15.
- Good humor the whole day, with talkativeness and self-satisfaction (reaction), 7.
- Tolerable degree of cheerfulness, agreeable ease (after two hours), 3.
- Frequent weeping, 15. [10.]
- She howls and screams, and imagines herself irretrievably lost, 1.*
- *Despondent, 1.
- *Melancholy; he imagines he is unfit for this world, and longs for death, which he contemplates with internal delight, 2.
- *Despondent melancholy, he imagines he cannot succeed in anything, 11.
- Dejected, and full of melancholy, 1.*
- He is dejected, and seeks solitude, 1.*
- He imagines he has lost the affections of his friends; this makes him sad, even unto tears, 2.*
- Discouraged, and out of humor with himself, 1.
- The least trifle makes him discouraged, 1.
- He feels discouraged and despondent; he imagines he does everything wrong, and cannot succeed in anything, 5. [20.]
- He is dissatisfied with everything; he imagines obstacles everywhere in his way, partly occasioned by adverse fate, partly by himself; this latter makes him morbidly depressed, .
HEAD
- Confusion of the head, 6.
- Confusion of the head, early on rising, with heaviness in the occiput, 11.
- When standing, vertigo, forcing him to sit down, 6. [50.]
- Great vertigo, when stooping, 15.
- Vertigo, when stooping, as if turning in a circle; it goes off on raising the head, 7.*
- When walking in the open air, vertigo, as if he were drunk, and would fall to the left side he was forced to lie down, but even the for some time the vertigo returned on the slightest motion (after forty-three hours), 7.*
- His head shakes sideways and up and down, 1.
- Headache as from an incipient cold, 1.
- Pains in the head, caused by intellectual exertions, 15.
- Headache, sometimes as from a contusion, sometimes like a painful pressure in one part of the brain, sometimes like a tearing; it has increased ever since morning, and disappears at 3 P.M. (after twenty-four hours), 1.
- Burning heat of the whole head, worse at the occiput, 15.
- Rush of blood to the head, 1.*
- Great determination of blood to the brain (after three-quarters of an hour), 1. [60.]
- Violent rush of blood to the head when stooping; it passes off after raising the head again (after eight days), 6.
- A kind of hypochondriacal intoxication ; the head feels full of compressed air, especially towards the nape of the neck, 1.
- Boring in different parts of cranial bones, 16.
- The bones of the head pained him on lying down, as if broken, so that all his vital energy seemed affected, 1.*
- Stunning, pressive headache, as from violent wind, 7.
- Pressive tearing in he head here and there, especially in the forehead, with feeling of vertigo, 6.
- Headache, ever since morning, as from a bruised brain; when reflecting or reading, especially when talking or writing, the headache increases to the utmost violence, and a perfect confusion of ideas; when ceasing to reflect, speak, or write the headache ceases, until it disappears entirely at 7 in the evening (after six hours), .
EYES
- Prominent, protruding eyes, 1. [100.]
- Sensation of weakness and pressure in the eyes, 1.
- A kind of burning in the eyes, 1.
- Tension in the eyes, which makes seeing difficult (after one hour), 6.*
- Excessive tension in the eyes, with diminution of sight; more violent when fixing the eyes upon something; less when closing them (after nine days), 6.
- Pressure in the eyes , as from a foreign body, 1.
- Pressure upon the left eye from without inwards (after eight days), 6.
- Sensation in his eyes when looking, as of violent heat , as if the blood pressed upon the optic nerve, 1.
- Constant feeling of sand in the eyes, 15.
- Burning, stitching, drawing, and itching in the inner canthus of the eyes, 15.
- Drawing above the right eye, 16. [110.]
- Excessive spasmodic pressure in the posterior segment of the left orbit, 3.
- Fine tearing in the right orbit, close to the external canthus (after five hours), 6.
- Dull stitch in the lower part of the left orbit, from within outwards, 1.
- Redness of the lids at the approach of the menses, 15.
- Bluish appearance of the inner canthi, 1.
- Swelling of the lower lids, 4.
- Morning agglutination, 15.*
- Burning , stitching, and itching of the eyelids, 15.
- Biting pain in the left upper eyelid, 1.
- Several single stitches in the internal canthus and lid of the left eye (after thirty-six hours), 6. [120.]
- Itching and burning in the right canthus, 1.
- Constant lachrymation, 15.*
- Redness of the sclerotica, .*
EARS
- Moisture behind the ears, 15.
- Burning, pricking, and itching behind the ears, 15.
- Boring behind the left ear, 16.
- Burning and stitching in the ears, 15 . Tension in the ears, 1.
- Pressive tearing in the left meatus auditorius externus, 6.
- Hardness of hearing, 15.
- Sense of deafness (12th), 17. [140.]
- Crackling in the left ear, 1.
- Humming before the left ear, 1.
- Humming, whistling, and ringing in the ears, 15.
- Raging and roaring in the head, as if sitting close to roaring water (after fourteen days), 1.
- Roaring in the ears, early in the morning, in bed, 1.
NOSE
- Redness and swelling of the nose, 15.*
- *Ulcerated, agglutinated, painful nostrils, so that he cannot breathe through the nose, 1.
- Swelling and redness of the right nostril, and underneath, 4.*
- Swelling of the nose , in the room, after walking in the open air, 1.
- Dark, brownish-red, slightly elevated spots upon the nose, which ache only when touched (after twenty-four hours), 6. [150.]
- Crusts in the nose, 15.*
- Crusts, as from ulcers, in the right nostril , yellowish, almost painless, and dry, 4.
- Frequent sneezing, 15.
- Coryza, 4.
- Violent fluent coryza, 1.
- Coryza, with thick discharge like white of egg, 15.
- The nostril appears obstructed, although air passes through it, 4.*
- Sense of obstruction of the nose, as in dry coryza; nevertheless, the air passes freely through the nose (after two and a half hours), 7.*
- Burning and itching on the exterior of the nose, 15.
- Violent burning in right wing of nose, 16. [160.]
- Burning, itching, stitching, and smarting in the nose, 15.*
- Boring in cartilage of nose, 16.
- Boring in left side of nasal bone, toward upper maxilla, 16.*
- Feeling of soreness in the nose, 4.*
- *Soreness in both nostrils, especially when touching them, 1.
- *The right nasal bone and the as adjoining part of the upper jaw are painful to the touch , especially at the place where the infraorbital nerve comes out, .
FACE
- (When speaking, he smiles involuntarily), 1.
- Redness of the face, 15.
- Flushes face, 15.
- Red and blue spots on the face, 15. [180.]
- Bloated face, shining as from sweat, with prominent protruding eyes, 1.
- Drawing tearing on the left side of the face, 11.*
- Itching pricking, as from pins, on the right side of the face, 1.
- Swelling of both cheeks, with swelling of the lips and nose, early in the morning, 1.
- Swelling of one cheek, with drawing and tearing in the upper and lower jaws , and sensation of hacking, and grumbling pain in the teeth, which appear too long, 1.
- Tension in the malar bone and ears, 1.
- Violent tearing in the zygoma, 3.
- Painful stitches in one cheek (after first day), 1.
- Burning stitches in the zygoma, 1.*
- Violent boring in right zygomatic process, when walking, 16.* [190.]
- Burning vesicle upon the vermilion border of the lower lip, 1.
- Burning in lips, 16.
- Pain in a gland of the lower jaw, as if swollen, 1.
- Boring in left side of upper jaw, 16.
- Boring in right side of lower jaw, 16.
- Tearing pressure at the right lower jaw, going off by pressing upon it, 6.
- Tearing in the right half of the chin, 3.
- Intermittent, dull stitches in the external border of the lower jaw, 3.
MOUTH
- Looseness of the teeth, even the anterior, in sudden paroxysms, 1.
- Sensation of dulness of the molar teeth (after half an hour), 1. [200.]
- The upper front teeth are very painful when chewing, 1.
- Toothache caused by drawing air into the mouth, 1.*
- Hacking and grumbling pain in the teeth, with swelling of the cheeks, 1.
- Dull tearing in the two posterior; molar teeth of the right upper jaw, excited by touch and eating, with painful swelling of the gums, 6.
- When chewing, suddenly a painful dulness in one of the upper; molar teeth, 1.
- Single stitches in the teeth, 1.
- Shooting pain in the upper row, 4.
- Redness and swelling of the gums, 15.
- Swelling of the gums of the molar teeth of the right upper jaw, with pressive soreness when touched, or when eating, 6.
- Painful pustules on the gums, as if a fistula dentalis would form, 1. [210.]
- Ulcer on the gums, with swelling of the cheeks (after ten days), 1.
- The gums bleed easily, 15.
- Violent burning in tip of tongue, 16.
- Stitching and burning in the tip and on the edge of tongue, and on its under surface, 16.
- Aphthæ in the mouth, 15.
- Mouth blistered inside (200th), 17.
- Smell from the mouth as of old cheese, 1.
- Putrid smell from the mouth, 1.*
- Fetid odor from the mouth , in the evening and at night, unperceived by himself, 1.
- Difficulty in eating, 15. [220.]
- Heat and smarting in the mouth, 15.
- A kind of pressure in the region of the palate, for several hours, 1.
- Agreeably sweetish saliva accumulates in the mouth, 2.
- The taste is insipid, 1.
- Agreeable, milky taste in the mouth, .
AURUM. THROAT
- Frequently, phlegm in the throat, which can be hawked up, but prevents a full inspiration (after two hours), 2. [230.]
- Much phlegm in the throat, for several days, 1.
- Pain in the parotid glands, 15.
- The parotid gland is painful to the touch, as if pressed or contused, 1.*
- Lumpy state of the throat; she wakes at night and desires to moisten it (200th), 17.
- Burning, stitching, and itching in the throat, worse on swallowing, 15.
- Drawing and scraping in the throat, 15.
- Dull, pressive pain, either with or without swallowing, in a gland below the angle of the lower jaw, 1.*
- Throat feels pricked with needles (200th), 17.
- Swallowing food causes a stinging sensation in the throat (200th), 17.
- Stinging soreness in the throat, only during deglutition, 1.* [240.]
- Painful obstacle to deglutition in the left side of the pharynx, 1.
- Attacks of distension of the pharynx, as in vomiting, but without nausea, 1.
STOMACH
- He relishes his meal, but his appetite is not appeased; he could have eaten again, shortly after, 1.
- He is forced to eat hastily, especially at the beginning of the meal, 1.
- Has no appetite for anything; can only eat bread and milk, 1.
- Repugnance to meat, 1.
- Much thirst for six days, 4.
- Burning thirst; desire for cold drinks, 15.
- Desire for spirituous liquors, 15.
- Great longing for coffee, 1. [250.]
- Watery eructations, 15.
- Eructations tasting of the drink (beer), 1.
- Hiccough, 15.
- Nausea, 15.
- Nausea in the stomach and throat, 6.
- Mental labor causes nausea, with affects his whole being, 1.
- Sensation of nausea; discomfort from the stomach and in the abdomen, 1.
- Inclination to vomit after eating, sometimes even while eating, 15.
- Regurgitations as if the person would vomit; with pressure in the abdomen, 4.
- Pain at the stomach, as of hunger, 1. [260.]
- Burning at the stomach, and hot eructations (12th), 17.
- Burning, drawing, and cutting pain in the stomach, 15.
- *Pressure in the region of the stomach, at noon, 1.
- Pressure on the left side, near the pit of the stomach , below the cartilages of the upper false ribs; more violent during an expiration (after seven days), 6.*
ABDOMEN
- Burning heat and cutting pain in the right hypochondrium, 15.*
- Continual pressure in the hypochondria, as from flatulence, especially after food or drink, often increased by motion and walking; goes off without flatus, 1.
- Stitches in the left hypochondrium, like stitches in the spleen, 1.
- Painful stitch in the left hypochondrium, 15.
- Rumbling in the abdomen, 1.
- Rumbling in the bowels (after one hour), 6. [270.]
- At night, painful accumulation of flatulence, especially in the left hypochondrium, 1.
- Emission of much flatulence (first day), 1.
- Emission of much fetid flatulence (after eight hours), 6.
- He is much troubled with flatulency; it becomes incarcerated under the left ribs, with lancinating pain, 1.
- Discomfort in the abdomen, with sensation as if he should go to stool, especially after dinner (after thirty-six hours), 6.
- Pains in the abdomen, as from labor, as if the menses would make their appearance, 1.
- Heat and drawing in the abdomen, 15.
- Pinching pain, here and there, in the abdomen (after twelve hours), 6.
- Dull pinching and cutting in the abdomen, then diarrhœa, and after the diarrhœa, distended abdomen, 1.
- Painful feeling of contraction in the abdomen, 1. [280.]
- Heaviness in the abdomen, with icy-cold hands and feet, 1.
- Pressure in the abdomen, 1.
- Tensive pressure in the abdomen and the lumbar regions, with desire for stool (after six days), 6.
- Tensive pressure in the abdomen, just below the navel, and on both sides in the lumbar regions, with feeling of fulness (after fifty-three hours), 6.
- Single tearings in the right side of the abdomen, extending as high up as below the ribs, as if everything there was shattered; forces him to bend crooked, when sitting (after thirty-six hours), 2.
- Cutting pain, heat, and scraping sensation in the groins, 15.
STOOL AND ANUS
- Sharp stitches in the rectum and anus, 6.
- External hæmorrhoids, bleeding during stool, 13.
- The border of the anus is painfully swollen, 1.
- Burning heat and tearing pains at the anus, 15.
- Heat and dull pain at the perineum, 15. [310.]
- Diarrhœa, 4.
- Diarrhœa day and night; green stools, 13.
- Frequent diarrhœa, especially at night, with grayish-yellow stools, 13.
- Nightly diarrhœa, with much burning in the rectum, 1.
- (White-yellowish stool), 1.
- Copious, but normal stool (after sixteen hours), 6.
- Unusually copious stool, in the evening (after ten hours), 1.
- Soft stool every morning, with a little pinching, 1.
- Stool very large; passed with difficulty, 1.
- *Very hard, knotty stool every day, 1. [320.]
- Constipation for three days, 3.
URINARY ORGANS
- Sharp stitches, when breathing, apparently in the side of the bladder, 1.
- Burning, stitching, and smarting in the urethra, 15.
- Dull tearing in the urethra, 6.
- Tearing stitches at the glans, when obliged to urinate (after three hours), 11.
- Dysuria, 15.
- Constant desire for micturition, with scanty but natural urine, 3.
- He passes more urine than corresponds to the quantity he drinks, 1.
- Urine greatly diminished, 15.
- Infrequent discharge of scanty, yellowish urine, 15. [330.]
- Turbid urine, like buttermilk , with mush sediment of mucus, 1.
- Thick urine, having a strong ammoniacal odor, and decomposing rapidly, 15.
- Hot, red urine, containing sand, 15.
SEXUAL ORGANS
- Male.
- Moisture around the glans, 15.
- Painful twitches in the penis, from before backwards, 1.
- Painful erections, 15.
- Nightly erections, without emissions (first night), 11.
- Erections many nights in succession, 1.
- Prickings, as from pins, at the extremity of the glans; every single pricking is followed by a similar one above the navel, towards the pit of the stomach (after three hours), 11.
- Itching of the scrotum, 1. [340.]
- *Swelling of the right testicle, with pressive pain when touching or rubbing it; this symptom came on for several evenings at 6 o'clock, and ceased towards 11 o'clock (after five days), 6.
- *Pressive and tensive pain in the right testicle, as from contusion (after three and a half hours), 7.
- The sexual desire, which had been dormant in him for a long time, is roused, 1.
- Much desire for coition, early, after rising, with violent erections, 1.
- He was unable to sleep the whole night, on account of his sexual desire being roused; he finally had to satisfy it by coition (first night), 1.
- For two nights he is full of lewd fancies, the penis being small and relaxed (second and third night), 1.
- Pollutions at night (the first nights), 11.
- Nightly pollutions, with voluptuous dreams (after seven days), 6.
- Nightly erections and pollutions, 3.
- Prostatic juice comes out of the penis, which is relaxed, 1. [350.]
- Pollutions three nights in succession, without subsequent weakness, 1.
- Female.
- Drawing pain in the mons veneris, 1.
- Heat, pricking, and smarting of the vulva, 15.
- Redness and swelling of the labia majora, .
RESPIRATORY APPARATUS
- Husky voice (12th), 17.
- Cough, 4.
- Infrequent short dry cough, 15. [360.]
- Frequent severe and racking cough, 15.
- Cough at night, on account of want of breath, 6.
- Splitting cough at night, 13.
- Phlegm deep in the lungs, which is easily thrown up in large quantity; this is succeeded by free and expansive breathing, whereas generally he was asthmatic, 1.
- Difficulty of raising phlegm (12th), 17.
- Adhesive phlegm in the larynx, difficult to hawk up, 1.
- Frequently, phlegm deep in the larynx, which he does not succeed in coughing up, even with the greatest effort, 3.
- Frequent deep breathing, 1.
- Difficult breathing, 15.
- Difficulty of breathing, 1. [370.]
- Severe dyspnœa, 1.
- Dyspnœa , also when at rest, which cannot he relieved by any position; he constantly takes deep breath, and cannot inspire air enough, 3.*
- Severe dyspnœa when walking in the open air, 1.
- Dyspnœa when laughing or walking fast, as if the chest were too tight for breathing and too flat in front (after forty-four hours), 3.
- Dyspnœa, with dull stitches in the chest, when inspiring, 6.
- Excessive dyspnœa, with difficulty of breathing at night, 6.
- Sense of suffocation soon after eating, 15.
CHEST
- During an expiration, râles in the upper part of the chest, descending into the abdomen and groin, succeeded by quick beatings of the heart, with weakness and apprehension; then slumber, 1.
- Persistent dry catarrh on the chest, early in the morning, on waking; it is with great trouble he succeeds in hawking up a little phlegm, and even this only after rising from bed (after sixteen hours), 1.
- Burning, stitching, and pricking in the chest, 15. [380.]
- Tightness of the thorax, with anxiety (after three days), 6.
- Drawing in left side of chest, below nipple, 16.
- Oppression of chest and abdomen when coughing, 1.
- A few very violent stitches in the chest, over the heart (after seventy-two hours), 1.
- Intensely painful stitches under the ribs when breathing deeply (and yawning); they prevent breathing and yawning; cease on going to bed, 1.
- Shuddering in the right chest, when yawning, 1.
- Pressure in left wall of thorax, 16.
- Pressure on the right side of the chest, with extreme anguish, 2.
- Dull cutting pain on the left side, near the sternum; more violent during an inspiration (after nine days), 6.
- Stitches in the left chest when breathing, 1. [390.]
- Stitches under the left ribs when coughing, 1.
- Fine tearing stitches on the right side, near the lumbar vertebræ, going off by pressure, 6.
- Dull painful stitches and lancinations on the right side, near the sternum, under the last true ribs, 6.
- Dull oppressive stitches under the cartilages of the first three ribs on the right side; they sometimes continue as a sensation of a plug inserted there; sometimes they are slowly intermittent and little felt in walking; externally, the place is red (after sixteen hours), 3.
- Dull stitches on both sides of the chest, with heat in the chest and dyspnœa; increased by inspiration, 11.
- Pressure on the sternum, with busy demeanor, as if something very agreeable were about to happen, 2.
- Pressure on the sternum, as of something hard, with drawing tearings towards the shoulders, 2.
- Sharp stitches in sternum (after two hours), .
HEART AND PULSE
- When walking, the heart seems to shake as if it were loose, 2. [400.]
- Sometimes, one single very violent beat of the heart, 1.
- Strong irregular beating of the heart, 13.
- Palpitation of the heart (after half an hour), 1.*
- Violent palpitation of the heart (after four days), 6.*
- Palpitation when lying on the back, 15.
- Frequent attacks of anguish about the heart, and tremulous fearfulness, 13.*
- Heat and itching at the heart, 15.
- Drawings and cutting pains at the heart, 15.
NECK AND BACK
- Difficulty in turning the head, as in torticollis, 15.
- Tension in the neck, as if a muscle were too short, even when rest, but more violent when stooping (after ten hours), 11. [410.]
- Drawing in nape of neck towards left clavicle, 16.
- Drawing in left side of nape of neck, 16.
- Tearing pressure in the lower part of the right side of the neck (after fourteen days), 6.
- Jerking, tearing stitches in the left external muscles of the neck (after seven days), 1.
- Tearing pain on the inner side of the scapula and below it, when bending the body backwards and to the left (after eleven hours), 6.
- Early in the morning, such a severe pain in the spine that he was unable to move a limb, 1.
- Heat, pricking, and itching in the back, 15.
- Pain in the small of the back, as from fatigue (after three hours), 1.
- Drawing in the muscles of the back, 16.
- Burning heat, which seems to start from the kidneys and extend to the bladder, 15. [420.]
- Cutting over the small of the back when sitting, as if from pressure with a sharp instrument, 2.
- Heat in the loins, 15.
- Sharp piercing pain in the right loin, only during inspiration, 1.
- Bruised pain in the loins, 15.
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL
- Going to sleep, numbness and insensibility of the arms and legs, early on waking, more when lying still than in motion, 1.
- Shooting and drawing pains in arms and legs occasionally, 10.
UPPER EXTREMITIES
- Fatigue in the arms, 15.
- Difficult movement of the arms, 15.
- Burning, stitching, and pricking in the arms, 15.
- Heat in the axillæ, 15. [430.]
- Tearing tension under the axilla, 11.
- Boring in left shoulder, 16.
- Boring in left shoulder, when sitting, 16.
- Stitching in left axilla, 16.
- Fine stitches upon the shoulder, 11.
- Soreness of the shoulders, even when not touched or moved, 2.
- Burning in skin of right upper arm, 16.
- Drawing in skin of left upper arm, 16.
- Drawing pain down the left arm, on the bone, going off by motion, 2.
- Pressure on the upper surface and in the middle of the right upper arm, 6. [440.]
- Pressure in the left upper arm, near the periosteum (after forty-eight days), 6.
- Tearing pressure in the anterior surface of both upper arms (after fifteen days), 6.
- Fine tearings in the left upper arm, most severe on uncovering it (after three hours), 11.
- Severe bone-pains in the right elbow (200th), 17.
- Boring in right elbow-joints, 16.
- Cramplike tearing in the right elbow-joint, 3.
- The forearms feel heavy when at rest, but not in motion (after twelve hours), 11.
- Boring in right forearm, 16.
- Pressure on the external side of the right forearm (after twelve days), 6.
- Pressure on the anterior surface of the forearm, 6. [450.]
- Intermittent tearing pressure on the inner side of the left forearm, 6.
- Tearing in the bones of the wrist-joint (after eight hours), 6.
- Cramplike tearing in the bones of both wrists , deep in the interior, from the upper to the lower row of the carpus, especially at night, but also by day, 3.
- Stitching and pressure in wrists, 16.
AURUM. LOWER EXTREMITIES
- All the blood appeared to rush from her head into the lower extremities ; they feel paralyzed and she has to sit down immediately, 1.
- Uncommon paralytic pain in the hip-joint, only when rising from a seat and walking, not when sitting, 1.
- Cramplike pain in the region of the hip, on the inner brim of the pelvis, increased by rubbing (after thirty-six hours), 11.
- In the glutei muscles, a fine stitch, several times repeated; winds downwards (after sixteen hours), 11. [470.]
- Weakness of the thigh when walking, 1.
- The thigh feels paralyzed, and the tendon of the lumbar muscles is so painfully stiff, that the thigh cannot be raised, 1.
- Pain in the right femur, as if broken, on laying the right thigh across the left, 2.
- Cramplike drawing in the tendon of the psoas muscle, down into the thigh when sitting, going off when rising, 2.
- Pressive and tensive pain in the muscles of the left thigh when walking in the open air, relieved when sitting, but not when standing or walking, or by touching the parts, 7.
- Tearing in the thigh as from growing, only during motion, not when sitting (after twenty-four hours), 1.
- At night, when lying down, a sore place forms on the external surface of the left thigh, 3.
- When sitting, or laying the left limb across the right, the posterior muscles of the right thigh appear to be twitching, 3.
- Tottering of the knees, 1.
- Painful stiffness and sense of paralysis of the knees, both when at rest and in motion, 1. [480.]
- Simple pain, when walking, in the right knee, 1.
- Boring in left knee, 16.
- Pain in the knees as if firmly bandaged, when sitting and walking, 1.
- The right knee becomes weak from walking, so that a drawing pain is felt in it when walking, and setting the foot upon the floor (after twenty-four hours), 3.
- Pressure in left knee, 16.
- Stitching and pressure in knees, 16.
- Hard, red swelling of the leg, from the malleolus to the calf, occasioned by the rubbing of the boots; going off again after a short rest, .
GENERALITIES
- Tremulous agitation of the nerves, as in joyous hope, 2.
- He trembles when he cannot express his anger, 1.
- (When thinking of a motion, he makes small motions without knowing it), 1.
- Inclination to move from place to place, 15.
- He is constantly impelled to be in motion, and regrets his inactivity, although he cannot do any work, 2.
- At night he could lie neither on the left nor on the right side, 1.
- Suddenly, great lassitude, in the afternoon when sitting or lying down; he fell asleep on account of it; on waking, the lassitude had disappeared (after nine hours), 7.
- Internal emptiness and weakness of the whole body, 1. [520.]
- Early on waking, very feeble, 1.
- Early in the morning, very tired; her legs ached so that she would have liked to lie down immediately, 1.
- Mental labor wears him out; he feels exhausted, 1.
- All his sensations are fine and acute, 5.
- Excessive sensitiveness in the whole body; susceptibility to every sort of pain; on thinking of it, he imagines he already feels it; everything is disagreeable to him, 5.
- Comfortable feeling in the whole body (reaction), 1.
- Simple pain, or pain as from a bruise, early in the morning, in bed, in all the joints, especially the small of the back and knees; the pain increases by lying still; and passes off after rising, 1.
- Great anguish and weakness; they think him near dying, 12.
- In the afternoon, painful drawing in the veins with exhaustion, 1.
- Pressure on the left side, near the lumbar vertebræ, and on the upper border of the os innominatum, 6. [530.]
- Peeking, very rapid, almost stitching, between to thumb and the index, 1.
- Itching and burning shootings, here and there, almost like stitches, 1.
- All the joints feel bruised, early in the morning and the whole forenoon, 1.
- Pain as from bruises in the head and all the limbs , early in bed, most violent when at rest; passes off immediately after rising, .
SKIN
- Large red pimples on the face, 15.
- Painless smooth pimples on the border of the right lower lid, 1.
- Red pimples on the nose, 15.
- Pimples on the lips, with burning, stitching, pricking, and much itching, 15.
- Eruption of small white pimples all over the hairy scalp, with heat and itching, 15.
- Indurations under the skin, like wheals, on the leg, over the heel and behind the knees, with violent itching, which can hardly be borne when walking (eleventh day), 10. [540.]
- Small elevations on the leg and below the knee; when slightly rubbed, they change to thick, hard nodosities under the skin (fifth and eighth day), 10.
- Small and larger elevations on the legs and calves, looking like blotches from the stinging of nettles, burning and feeling like hard knots, of a dirty yellow color, disappearing again after a few hours, and forming less in the room than in the open air, 16.
- Eruption on the face; fine pimples , with tips filled with pus, for some hours, 1.
- Eruption of fine pimples, with tips full of pus, on the neck and chest, for some hours, 1.
- Pustules in the face and on the neck and chest, 1.
- Sensitive pricking, as with pins, just below the right scapula, near the spine (after half an hour), 3.
- Formication, here and there, over the body, 5.
- Itching of the hand between the thumb and the index finger, 1.
- Itching of the joints of the feet, especially when walking (seventh days), 10.
- Itching of the joints and soles of the feet, 10. [550.]
- Transient but intense itching of the abdomen, of the hips, knees, arms and wrists, 10.
SLEEP AND DREAMS
- Continual sleepiness, 15.
- Drowsiness by day, 1.
- Slumber, with weakness of head, when sitting, by day, 1.
- Invincible sleep after dinner; during this sleep his mind was thronged with ideas (after four hours), 2.
- He sobs aloud in sleep, 3.
- Uneasy sleep, during which he feels the pains, 1.
- Frequent waking, at night, as by fright, 7.
- After 4 o'clock in the morning, he cannot sleep well, turns from side to side, because he cannot remain long in one position, and the hand on which he lies soon gets tired, 3.
- Awake the whole night, but without pain; nevertheless, no sleepiness or lassitude in the morning, 1.* [560.]
- Sleeplessness; nightly restlessness, 15.
- Agreeable and sensible dreams, but which cannot be remembered, 1.
- Vivid dreams at night, which cannot be remembered, 7.*
- Dreams with constant erection, every night, 1.
- She dreamed the whole night that she was in darkness, 1.
- She dreamed much in the evening, immediately after falling asleep, as if some one were talking to her; she was yet half awake, 1.
- Dreams full of disputes, 1.
- He wakes in violent dreams, 1.
- Troublesome, fatiguing dreams, 15.
- He dreams that he would fall from a great height, 1. [570.]
- Frightful dreams, 1.
- Frightful dreams at night, 3.
- Frightful dreams about thieves, with loud screams while asleep, 1.*
- Horrid dream, at night, 1.
- Dreams about dead men, 1.
FEVER
- Very sensitive to cold, over the whole body, 1.
- Horripilation over the whole body in the evening, with dry coryza, without heat or subsequent thirst, 7.
- Coldness of the body, especially of the hands and feet, 1.
- Coldness in the body, almost the whole day, with blue nails, insipid taste, and inclination to vomit; followed by increased warmth, but without fever, 1.
- Coldness over the whole body, early in the morning, especially of the arms and hands, beginning at the shoulders; with blue nails, but without fever, 1. [580.]
- Chilliness in the evening, in bed, with coldness of the legs as far as the knees; he cannot get warm the whole night; sleeps little, only half an hour at a time, with anxious dreams, which he does not recollect (after sixteen days), 1.
- Chills through the whole body, as if he had caught cold in a draught; could scarcely get warm; evening, in bed (after sixteen and nineteen hours), 7.
- In the evening, chills over the whole body, with coldness of the hands and warmth of face and forehead, without thirst, 7.
- Shivering through the whole body, with gooseskin upon the thighs, and shaking of the brain against the frontal bone, 2.
- In the evening, shiverings and chills after lying down; headache before lying-down, 1.
- Chilliness between the scapulæ, 1.
- Chills in the back, 1.
- Coldness of the hands and feet, in the evening, in bed, 1.
- Coldness of the soles of the feet and patellæ, as soon as he gets into bed in the evening, 5.
- Violent orgasm, as if the blood were boiling in all the veins (after twenty hours), 1. [590.]
- Alternate chilliness and heat, 4.
- Coldness of the whole body, and subsequent increased warmth, without fever, 1.
- Heat in face, with cold hands and feet, 1.
- Sweat early in the morning all over the body, 1.
- Slight perspiration at night; only between the thighs was there real sweat (after ten hours), 1.
CONDITIONS
- Aggravation.
- ( Morning ), Early, after 3 o'clock, delirious talk; early, on rising, confusion of head, etc.; early, shortly after waking, grinding, etc., in side of head; early, swelling of cheeks; soft stool; early, after rising, desire for coition; early, on waking, catarrh on chest; early, pain in spine; early, on waking, going to sleep, etc., of limbs; early, on waking, very feeble; early, very tired; early, in bed, pain in joints; early, joints feel bruised; early, in bed, pain in head, etc .; after 4 o'clock, cannot sleep, etc.; early, coldness over whole body, etc.; sweat all over.
- ( Noon ), Pressure in region of stomach.
- ( Afternoon ), When sitting or lying down, great lassitude; drawing in the veins, etc.
- ( Evening ), The symptoms; fetid odor from mouth; copious stool; when going to sleep, drawing in heels; horripilations over whole body, etc.; in bed, chilliness, etc.; in bed, chilliness; chills over whole body, etc.; after lying down, shivering, etc.; in bed, coldness of hands and feet; on getting into bed coldness of soles, etc.
- ( Every evening ), At 6 o'clock, swelling of testicles, etc.
- ( Night ), Fetid odor from mouth; diarrhœa; diarrhœa, etc.; cough; splitting cough; difficulty of breathing; *tearing in wrist-bones ; when lying down, sore place forms on external surface of thigh; slight perspiration.
- ( After midnight ), Flatulent colic.
- ( Every three or four days ), Megrim, etc.
- ( Walking in open air ), Vertigo; dyspnœa; pain in muscles of thigh.
- ( Bending head backwards ), Grinding, etc., in side of head.
- ( Bending body backwards and to left side ), Pain in one side of the scapula.
- ( When blowing nose ), Putrid smell in nose.
- ( Breathing ), Stitches in left chest; stitches apparently in bladder.
- ( Deep breathing ), Stitches under the ribs.
- ( When chewing ), Upper front teeth painful dullness of a tooth.