Aqua Calcis (in part).

Preparation , To one part by weight of quicklime (CaO), add five parts of distilled water (to be securely corked in a warm bottle); when quite cool, add five parts of alcohol, shake frequently for several days, after which, decant the clear liquid.

Authorities.

1 , Dr. A. W. Koch, prize essay, Hygea, 5, 270, a man thirty-one years old, took 3 to 6 drops of the tincture; 2 , Ibid., took the 1st and 2d dilutions; 3 , A married woman, twenty-six years old, ibid., took 2 to 6 drops of the tincture; 4 , Ibid., took the 1st and 2d dilutions; 5 , A maid, seventeen years old, proved the tincture, ibid.; 6 , Ibid., proved the 1st and 2d dils.; 7 , A man, forty years old, proved the tincture, ibid.; 8 , Ibid., proved the 1st and 3d dils.; 9 , Wife of last, forty years old, proved the tincture; 10 , A maid, seventeen years old, proved the tincture; 11 , Ibid., proved the 1st dil.; 12 , A man, twenty-five years old, proved the tincture; 13 , Ibid., proved the 1st and 2d dils.; 14 , A maid, sixteen years old, proved the tincture; 15 , A maid, twenty-five years old, proved the tincture; 16 , A woman, thirty-two years old, proved the tincture; 17 , A maid, twenty years old, proved the tincture; 18 , Dr. Keil, Zeit. f. H. Kl., 3, 149, a woman took a spoonful of Aqua Calcis, night and morning, for several days (as a tonic!); 19 , Liedbeck, A. H. Z., 42, 26, proving of Aq-calcis.

MIND

Thought very difficult (second day), 7.

HEAD

Confusion.
Confusion of the head (first day), 2, 7, 14.
Confusion of the head (second day), 13.
Confusion of the whole head (first day), 9.
Head very much confused (after two hours), 12.
Head very much confused, especially on the left side (first day), 2.
Confusion in the head (in the evening, first day), 7.
Head much confused (in the evening, when drinking beer), (first day), 1.
In the evening, after drinking his usual beer, the head became so confused that he could scarcely hold it up (second day), 1. [10.]
Head much confused, evenings, in bed, especially on the left side (after drinking beer), (first day), 1.
Head confused, the whole afternoon, as after intoxication (second day), 2.
Confused head, in the forenoon, especially on the left side, with periodic stitches; the headache is pressive, so that mental labor is very difficult (third day), 1.
Head very much confused; dull pressive pain in the forehead, extending to the occiput, so that he could scarcely attend to his business (second day), 1.
Confusion in the head, with pressure in the forehead, and transient stitches in the temples (second day), 2.
Feeling in the head as if she were foolish (fourth day), 15.
Headache, so that (as she expresses it), she cannot think any more (third day), 14.
Vertigo.
Vertigo (first day), 12, 15, 16.
Vertigo, as if the room were turning in a circle; she thinks she will fall from the chair (first day), 5.
Vertigo (in the evening, first day), 13.
Sensations. [20.]
Severe pain in the head (first day), 17.
Heat in the head (first day), 10.
Stitches in the head, from before backward (second day), .

EYE

A pain in the right eye, as if a foreign body were under the upper lid; stitches extend thence to the forehead, and the conjunctiva of the lids is red (sixth day), 2.
Feeling in the left eye, on rising in the morning, as if a thorn were in it, so that she must rub it; she was unable to open it (second day), 6.
Burning in the eyes, in the evening, by candlelight (second day), 3.
While reading in the evening, at 10, burning of the eyes (second day), 1.
Tearing in the eyes (in the afternoon, first day), 13.
Orbit.
Paroxysmal boring pain on the upper orbital border of the right eye (first day), 3.
Stitches along the course of the supraorbital and supratrochlear nerves (immediately after taking), 2.
Transient tearing pain from the supraorbital border of the left orbit to the inner canthus, and down to the wing of the nose, at 6 P.M. (first day), 3.
Lids.
Violent pains in the upper lids, so that every motion is painful (first day), 3. [60.]
Severe pressure and heaviness in the lids (first day), 9.
Tearing pain in the inner canthus of the right eye, extending down to the upper lid, with a feeling as if the eyeballs would become swollen (first day), 9.
Lachrymal Apparatus.
Lachrymation of the right eye (fifth day), 2.
Lachrymation in the open air (third day), 2.
Conjunctiva.
Redness of the conjunctiva of the lids (first day), 3.
Ball.
Pain in the eye, as if the ball would be pressed out (first day), 12.
Stitches in the eyeball (first day), 12.
Tearing stitches through the eyeballs (first day), 12.
Vision.
Photophobia (first day), 3.

EARS

Tearing in the right mastoid process (first day), 8.
Dull pain in both ears (second day), 2. [70.]
Bursting pains within the left ear (at 9 P.M., first day), 1.
Severe tension and pressure in the internal portions of the ear (first day), 12.
Pinching-sticking pain in the left ear, extending to the opening of the Eustachian tube, in the throat, at 5 P.M. (second day), 2.
Violent sticking-drawing pains within the left meatus auditorius, extending outward (immediately), 1.
Violent sticking, pressing-out pain in the internal portion of the left ear; this continues, more or less severe, some time, 1.
Sticking pains through the left and right ears (evening, second day), 1.
Dull sticking in the left ear, as from a foreign body (first day), 2.
Tearing through the inner portion of both ears (first day), 7.
Hearing.
Ringing and roaring in the ears (third day), 13.

NOSE

Coryza, especially of the left nostril (second day), 2. [80.]
The nose has been dry for two days; it discharges a thick tough mucus (third day), 1.
Stitches from the left wing of the nose, at the angle extending to the internal canthus (first day), 4.

FACE

Tearing in the right cheek-bone (first day), 8.
The inner surface of the lips very red, with injected vessels, 18.
Stiffness in the joints of the jaws (first day), 10.
Very violent pain in the right articulation of the jaw, which was somewhat swollen, fourth day; the next day the joint was immovable, and the cheek swollen; the third day, violent pain on moving the jaw; the pain was relieved in the evening, and the night was quiet; the right cheek was still greatly swollen; disappeared after two days, 3.
Rheumatic nervous pain in the right articulation of the jaw, on pressure (this might be attributed to the fact that the person had worn a neck cloth through the whole winter, and had left it off the last three days), 4.
Tearing in the left half of the lower jaw (second day), 8.

MOUTH

Teeth.
Severe toothache, every night, at 2 o'clock, as it the tooth was fuzzy and too large, together with tensive pain in the left ear, as if something was sticking in it (fourth to sixth day), 2.
Dull tearing toothache in a hollow tooth (first day), 2. [90.]
Transient tearing pain in the left lower incisors (first day), 1.
The back teeth feel fuzzy (first day), 9.
Severe pain in the hollow back teeth; they seem too large (third day), 1.
The back teeth seem too large, and are somewhat painful (first day), 10.
Drawing pain in an upper hollow back tooth of the left side, and a feeling as if it were too large (first day), 2.
Dull tearing-sticking pain in two hollow back teeth, which seemed enlarged (first day), 1.
Tongue.
Tongue greenish-yellow, and thickly coated (fifth day), 12.
General Mouth.
Offensive mouth (fourth day), 1.
Mouth offensive, especially the posterior portion, on the arches of the palate, with mucus (fourth day), 2.
Dryness of the mouth, 18. [100.]
The palate feels as if mucus was upon it but none is expectorated (first day), 1.
Taste.
Mouth bitter (fifth day), 12.

THROAT

Mucus in the throat, which is difficult to raise, almost causing vomiting; for two days (second day), 9.
Hawking of granular glutinous material (like cooked rice), which collects in the larynx and trachea (for fourteen days), 4.
Pain in the throat, on rising; swallowing is difficult (second day), 5.
Burning in the fauces and œsophagus, caused by water, 18.
A feeling in the pharynx as if a bone were sticking in it (first day), 1.
Was scarcely able to swallow (first day), 17.

STOMACH

Appetite.
Severe hunger three hours after eating (first day), 1.
Loss of appetite (third day), 12. [110.]
Loss of appetite for beer (second day), 2.
Eructations.
Many eructations (first day), 1.
Eructations tasting of the food, and also sour and bitter (first day), 1.
Nausea.
Nausea (second and fifth days), 12.
Nausea, with eructations of frothy fluid, after eating some bread (after one hour), 4.
Nausea, which is followed, after half an hour, by vomiting of sour fluid, half an hour after dinner (first day), 6.
Stomach.
Burning in the stomach, 18.
Tensive feeling in the stomach (first day), 1.
Spasmodic contraction of the stomach (second day), 12. [120.]
Oppression above the epigastric region, and in the hypochondria (first day), 7.

ABDOMEN

Hypochondria.
Sticking pain in both hypochondria, especially severe in the left (first day), 1.
Pain on the left side of the region of the spleen, as if a ball were turning on its axis (second day), 4.
General Abdomen.
Rumbling in the abdomen (first day), 5.
Rumbling in the abdomen (fifth day), 12.
Constrictive pain in the abdomen, extending towards the uterus (first day), 5.
Griping in the abdomen (first day), 14, 15, 17.
Griping in the abdomen (first day), 17.
Griping in the abdomen (fifth day), 12.
Griping in the abdomen, with flatulence, at noon (second day), 2. [130.]
Violent stitches in the intestines, like fine knife-stitches (he often had this symptom when not proving), (second day), 1.
Violent stitches in the small intestines when bending forward (second day), 2.
Tearing in the abdomen (after half an hour), 12.
Slight tearing pain in the abdomen (after one hour), 12.

RECTUM AND ANUS

The usual hæmorrhoids seemed to be smaller (second day), 1.
Hæmorrhoids trouble (first day), 13.
Sticking-tearing motions in the rectum, extending towards the anus (first day), 12.
Crawling in the rectum and anus (second day), 13.

STOOL

Diarrhœa.
Stool twice and painless (second day), 2.
Three thin stools before breakfast, and one again after breakfast (second day), 5. [140.]
Stool always very painful, as if a nail were scratching in the anus (since the beginning of the proving, until the last two days, when it was no longer painful, and the hæmorrhoids were very small), 2.
Thin, pasty stool, with much mucus, immediately after breakfast (second day), 1.
Passed many pieces of a tapeworm (first day), 15.
Constipation.
No stool (first day), 1, 2.

SEXUAL ORGANS

Male.
Emissions in the night (first day), 1.
Female.
Menstruation eight days too early, 4.

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

Larynx.
Stitches in the larynx (first day), 14.
Dull stitches in the left half of the larynx (third day), 2.
Voice.
Hoarseness (first day), 14.
Hoarseness with pain in the throat (first day), 17. [150.]
Hoarseness; a feeling of rawness in the trachea; cough (first day), 15.
Cough and Expectoration.
Cough, with stitches in the chest (first day), 17.
Cough, with expectoration of mucus and blood (third day), 13.
Cough, with some expectoration of blood, hoarseness, and pain in the throat (first day), 16.
Expectoration of mucus streaked with blood (fourth day), 13.

CHEST

Pressure on the chest, which disappeared after half an hour; it felt as if all the blood had stagnated in the abdomen, as after nightmare (third day), 1.
Pressive pain in the chest (third day), 13.
Sticking pain in the region of the sixth and seventh ribs, increased by inspiration, without cough; it changes to a tearing, its seat being in the intercostal muscles and pleura costalis (first day), 1.
Stitches in the chest (first day), 16.
Stitches in the chest, on inspiration, with some cough at noon (second day), 14. [160.]
Biting in the nipple, without eruption (first day), 4.
Sternum.
Oppression across the sternum (second day), 13.
Pressive sticking pain beneath the sternum, above the præcordial region and the hypochondrium (fourth day), 1.
Stitches across over the breast-bone (second day), 2.
Sides.
Sticking pain, in the left side of the region from the fifth to the seventh rib, after dinner (first day), 2.
Stitches in the right side, in the lowest ribs (first day), 8.
Stitches below the right short ribs (third day), 6.
Stitches in the left side of the chest (second day), 2, 14.
Stitches in the left side of the chest (second day), 14.
Stitches in the left side of the chest, between the sixth and seventh ribs (first day), 1.

NECK AND BACK

Neck. [170.]
Stiffness of the neck (first day), 10.
Stiffness of all the muscles of the neck (second day), 1.
Neck stiff from noon till evening (first day), 9.
Stiffness in the back of the neck (first day), 7.
Tension in the muscles of the neck, on both sides (first day), 12.
Aching and stiffness in the neck, half an hour after rising (third day), 6.
Tension and stiffness in the nape of the neck and occiput (second day), 1.
Tearing in the neck (third day), 8.
Tearing in the muscles of the neck (first day), 1, 8.
Sticking-tearing pain in the muscles of the neck; continues the whole day (third day), 2. [180.]
Tearing in the nape of the neck, with stiffness (first day), 7.
Back.
Tearing in the back (first day), 7.
Dorsal.
Violent pains in the shoulder-blades, extending into the small of the back, when sitting (second day), 4.
Peculiar pain like rheumatism in both shoulder-blades (first day), 3.
Rheumatism in the right shoulder-blade, at 10 1/2 P.M. (third day), 2.
Sensation in both shoulder-blades as if they were fuzzy, and had gone to sleep, at 8 P.M. (second day), 3.
Sticking in the shoulder-blades (third day), 6.
Tearing in both shoulder-blades, between the shoulders, then through the neck and occiput as far as the forehead (first day), 5.
Tearing between the shoulders (first day), 8.
Tearing between the shoulders (second day), 8. [190.]
Tearing between the shoulders (third day), 8.
Rheumatic pain between the shoulder-blades, with stitches, on breathing, and oppression, extending forward to the sternum (first day), 9.
Tearing between the shoulder-blades (first day), 7.

EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL

Trembling in the limbs (first day), 12.
Trembling in the extremities (first day), 1.
Trembling in the extremities, and weariness, worse in bed (possibly the result of the day's exertion), (first day), 1. [210.]
Trembling of the limbs, she could not continue her work; the symptom disappeared after eating a piece of bread (first day), 3.
Great trembling in the arms and feet (second day), 6.
Great weariness of the limbs (after one and a half hours), 3.
Rheumatic pain, alternating in all the joints (third day), 2.
Slight rheumatic pains in the left arm and in the feet (first day), 1.
Wandering pains in the extremities (third day), 12.
Pains in the hands and feet, after a foot-bath (third day), 3.
Drawing-tearing pain in a joint, when exerting it, or in an unaccustomed position (seventh day), 2.
Tearing in the right upper arm and right thigh (first day), 7.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

Tearing in the left arm (third day), 8. [220.]
Tearing under the left arm (first day), 8.
Tearing in the right arm (third day), 7.
Shoulder.
Slight rheumatic pain in the right shoulder (third day), 2.
Rheumatic pain in the left shoulder (first day), 1.
Tearing in the right shoulder (first day), 5, 7, 8.
Sticking-tearing pain in the right shoulder, 2.
Slight rheumatic pain in the right shoulder-joint (second day), 1.
Rheumatic pain in the left shoulder-joint, at 10 P.M. (second day), 2.
Aching in the left shoulder-joint on hanging down the arm (second day), 6.
Tearing-drawing pain in the left shoulder-joint, which extends over the whole upper arm and becomes so violent that it is difficult to raise the arm; it is chiefly seated in the deltoid muscle, in the fascia, and in the shoulder-joint, lasting three hours (immediately after taking), 1. [230.]
Tearing in the right shoulder-joint (first day), 9.
Slight tearing in the right shoulder-joint (twenty-first day), 7.
Tearing in the left shoulder-joint (first day), 7.
Tearing in the right axilla (first day), 8.
Tearing in the left axilla (first day), 7.
Arm.
Rheumatic pain in the biceps, deltoid, and elbow-joint of the right arm (first day), 2.
Stitches in the left upper arm (first day), 7.
Tearing in the left upper-arm (first day), 7.
Transient dull tearing pain in the left upper arm, from the shoulder to the elbow, after dinner (first day), 4.
Elbow.
Stitches in the right elbow (first day), 2. [240.]
Stitches in the tip of the right elbow (second day), 6.
Tearing in the elbows (first day), 8.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

Severe tension in the lower extremities (third day), 12.
Hip.
Transient stitches in the right hip, without moving (second day), 1.
Wrenching pain in the right hip-joint (second day), 8.
Stitches from the right hip-joint down to the middle of the thigh (third day), 2.
Severe stitches in the right hip-joint, on walking, 5 P.M. (first day), 5. [270.]
Tearing in the right hip-joint (first day), 11.
Sticking pain in the left hip-joint, when walking, and in the open air (first day), 2.
Tearing in the left hip-joint (first day), 8.
Thigh.
Tearing in both thighs (second day), 8.
Tearing in the right thigh (first day), 8.
Tearing in the right thigh (second day), 7.
Tearing in the right thigh (fourth day), 8.
Tearing in the left thigh (second day), 8.
Knee.
Tearing in both knees, extending down through the feet (first day), 5.
Stitches in the right knee (second day), 6. [280.]
Tearing in the right knee (third day), 8.
Tearing in the hollow of the right knee (first day), 7.
Tearing in the left knee (second day), 8.
Tearing in the left knee, at 6 P.M. (first day), 6.
Tearing and sticking in the left knee (first day), 2.
Tension in the right knee-joint (first day), 7.
Violent sticking pain in the right knee-joint, on stepping, continuing in bed on moving it, at 10 P.M. (fourth day), 4.
Tearing in the right knee-joint (first day), 7, 8.
Tearing in the right knee-joint (third day), 8.
Tearing in the left knee-joint (first day), 8.
Leg. [290.]

GENERAL SYMPTOMS

Weariness (first day), 15.
Great weariness (first day), 12, 16.
Great weariness (third day), 12.
Extreme weariness, so that he must lie down, and was only free from the troubles in the throat and cough after eight days, 17.
In the morning, on rising, weary and peevish (second day), 2.
Great prostration and trembling of the body (first day), 1.
On waking, felt as if he had been intoxicated (second day), 2. [310.]
In the morning he felt unwell, as if he had been intoxicated the day before (he had drunk wine the evening previous), (second day), 1.

SKIN

Very fine rashlike eruption on the forehead, without biting (second day), 4.
Six brownish-red, isolated, or partly confluent spots like flea-bites, of the size of a penny, in the lower part of the tibia; the skin somewhat swollen; lasting fourteen days (second day), 2.
Biting vesicles, filled with lymph, in various parts of the body (first day), 8.
Biting-itching eruption, with a red areola filled with purulent lymph (fifth day), 2.
Severe itching and sticking in the skin, especially in the neck and back; small vesicles appear filled with lymph, and surrounded by a red areola (sixth day); the next day the eruption extends to the chest, throat, and behind the ears and occiput, 3.

SLEEP AND DREAMS

Sleepiness.
Yawning (first day), 1.
Much yawning (first day), 1.
Great sleepiness in the evening (first day), 7.
Night quiet, until morning, when a severe tension of the skin wakes him (first day), 12.
Sleeplessness. [320.]
Night restless, with many dreams (second day), 9.
Night restless, with many dreams (third day), 2.
Night very restless (second night), 1.
Night restless with confused head (first day), 9.
Night very restless, tossing hither and thither, loss of sleep, head much confused (first day), 1.
Night restless, sleepless; continued toothache in a left upper hollow back tooth, also with earache (second day), 2.
Night restless, sleepless, with many dreams, which could not be remembered the next morning (second day), 2.
Restless sleep at night, with dreams (first day), 7.
Restless sleep, with anxious dreams (first day), 7.
Sleep restless, full of unpleasant dreams (first day), 2. [330.]
Night quite sleepless, full of dreams, much tossing about in bed (third day), 2.
Nightmare and restless dreams (third night), 1.

FEVER

Chilliness.
Shivering down the back (first day), 9.
Severe chill (first day), 17.
Violent chill, in the evening, on going to bed (first day), 4.
Very violent chill at 7 P.M., lasting half an hour (first day), 3.
Severe shaking chill, with chattering of the teeth, at 7 1/2 P.M. (first day), 6.
Chilliness for several weeks, in summer, 19.
A severe chilliness, on rising, 3.
Great chilliness of the whole body in the evening, on going to sleep (first day), 3. [340.]
Continued chilliness, followed by heat at noon (fifth day), 12.
Severe shaking chill at 7 P.M., lasting an hour, followed by severe heat in the head, lasting half an hour (first day), 5.
Heat.
Severe burning of the skin, before going to sleep (in the evening,

CONDITIONS

Aggravation.
( Morning ), On rising, feeling in eye; pain in small of back; on rising, weary, etc.
( Forenoon ), Confused head.
( Noon ), Griping in abdomen; stitches in chest, etc.; till evening, neck stiff.
( Afternoon ), 5 o'clock, pain in ear.
( Evening ), Confusion of head; when drinking beer, head confused; in bed, after drinking beer, head confused; vertigo; pain in occiput; sensations as if hairs were pulled up; by candlelight, burning in eyes; while reading, at 10 o'clock, burning of eyes; on going to bed, chilly; on going to sleep, chilliness; before going to sleep, burning of the skin.
( Night ), 2 o'clock, toothache.
( In open air ), Pain in hip-joint.
( In bed ), Trembling in the extremities, etc.
( When bending forward ), Stitches in the intestines.
( After eating bread ), Nausea.
( At dinner ), Pain from right eye.
( After dinner ), Nausea; pain in rib-region.
( On hanging down arm ), Aching in shoulder-joint.
( Inspiration ), Pain in rib-region; stitches in chest.
( Pressure ), Pain in jaws.
( On rising ), Pain in throat.
( After rising ), Aching, etc., in neck; chilly.
( When sitting ), Pains in shoulder-blades.
( On stepping ), Pain in knee-joints.
( On stooping ), Pain in head.
( On waking ), Pain in small of back.
( On walking ), Stitches in hip-joint; pain in hip-joint.
Amelioration.
( ), Pain in articulation of jaws.

Calcarea Caustica