Rumex crispus, Linn.

Natural order , Polygonaceæ.

Common names , Yellow Dock; (G.), Krauser Ampfer.

Preparation , Tincture of the root.

Authorities.

1 , Dr. Henry A. Houghton, Inaug. Thesis, Hom. Med. Coll. of Penna., 1852, took 6 drops of 1st dil.; 1 a , same, repeated after three days; 1 b , same, after five days, took 10 drops of 1st dil., first, fifth, sixth, eleventh, and thirteenth days; 1 c , same, sixteenth days later, took 15 drops of tincture, first and twelfth days, and 20 drops, twenty-first day; (Nos.

2 to 8 , provings by Dr. B. F. Joslin, published in Am. Hom. Rev., Trans. Am. Inst. of Hom., 1858, and in Monograph); 2 , E. M. K. took a solution of 1 drop of tincture in half a glass of water, a teaspoonful twice daily for four days; 2 a , same, repeated doses of 3d dil., in water, for thirteen days; 2 b , same, took globules of 6th dil., repeated doses, for eight days; 3 , H. M. Paine, took 10 drops of tincture, first day; 6 drops, third day; 3 a , same, twelve days later, took 10 drops first day, and 15 drops second day; 3 b , same, seven days later, took 10 drops, first and fourth days; 15 drops, twice, fifth day; 20 drops, evening, eighth day; 3 c , same, two months later, took tincture, repeated doses of 10 and 15 drops, for thirty-four days; 3 d , same, took 10 drops on first, twice on third, and once on fourth days; 3 e , same, took 10 drops first, second, and third days; 4 , Wm. E. Payne, took 15 drops of tincture, evening, first day; 5 drops, morning, second day; 6 drops, fifth day; 4 a , same, took 10 drops, 1st dil., repeated doses first, second, third, fifth, and sixth days; 4 b , same, took 3d dil. first and third days; 5 , Dr. Edw. Bayard, took one dose of 30th dil., at 8.40 P.M.; 6 , Dr. Wallace, symptoms; 7 , Dr. B. F. Bowers, took a dose of 12th dil.; 7 , same, repeated; , same, a dose of 30th dil.; , same, a dose of 12th dil.; , Dr. M. J. Rhees, took tincture, 1 drop, first day; twice, second day; once, third day; 10 drops, fourth, fifth, and sixth days; 20 drops, seventh day; , same, took 6th dil., repeated doses, for five days; , Dr. H. C. Preston, U. S. J. of Hom., 1, 1860, appendix, p. 27, a man took 5 drops, first day; 10 drops, second, third, and fourth days; 5 drops, fifth day; 1 drop, sixth and seventh days; always at 4 P.M.; , Dr. Clark Wright, Am. Inst. of Hom., 1860, p. 60, took two doses of the 6th dil.

MIND

Irritability of temper (ninth day), 2a.
Temper more irritable than usual (second day); great irritability of temper (after three hours, fourth day), 2.
Irritability and restlessness (fifteenth day), 2.
Depression, as if some evil was impending (eighth day), 5.
Indifference to surrounding persons and things (third day), 2.
Stagnation of ideas, with great lassitude and uneasiness, in the evening (third day), 2.

HEAD

Vertigo (within half an hour), 7c.
Vertigo with the nausea (tenth day), 2.
Dizziness several times (first day), 9. [10.]
Rose in the morning with slight feeling of oppression in head (third day), 2b.
A heavy feeling in head, during the evening (first day), 2a.
Fulness in the head, with the feeling of languor (second day), 8.
Feeling of languor and universal heaviness, with fulness in the head and chest (half an hour after second dose, second day), 8.
Dull heavy feeling in head, during the evening (seventh day), 2.
Dull heavy headache, accompanied with deepseated soreness of eyes, during the day, worse in the forenoon (fourteenth and fifteenth days), 1b.
Dull heavy headache, from 10 A.M. until night; not so severe after 2 P.M.; disappeared at night (second day), 1.
A dull heavy headache during the day, less severe in the afternoon (second day); dull heavy headache during the day (third day), 1a.
A dull heavy headache, with deepseated soreness of the eyes most of the day (second day), 1c.
Dull headache during the forenoon (seventh, eighteenth, and twenty-fifth days), 1c. [20.]
A great deal of dull heavy headache during the day (tenth day), 1c.
Dull heavy headache through the day (fourteenth day); during the forenoon (fifteenth day), 1c.
Dull headache followed the sharp pain and rumbling in the abdomen, in the evening (twenty-fourth), 1c.
Some headache accompanied the pain in the lungs, 1c.
The headache mentioned in Rumex crispus is increased by motion, 1c.
Headache all the forenoon (tenth day), 9.
Slight headache after retiring late at night (seventh day), 2.
Slight headache, 1 ; (third, thirteenth, and twenty-third days), 1c ; (fourth day), 1a.
Pain in the head on movement (tenth day), 5.
Headache, with coryza, 7. [30.]
Slight pain in head before breakfast (second day), .

EYE

Pains in both eyes, more severe in the right (after three hours), 9.
Pains in both eyes, heavy and dull (second day), 9.
Pains over the left and in both eyes with soreness to the touch over left (fourth day), 9.
Pains in or over either or both eyes (fifth and sixth days), 9.
Pains in either eye (seventh day), 9.
Pains in the right eye, and in both (ninth and tenth days), 9.
Pain in the right eye, both eyes all the forenoon (tenth day), 9.
Pains in right eye, deepseated (third day), 9.
Pains in the right eye (eighth, ninth, tenth, and eleventh days), 9. [70.]
Pains dull and steady in the right eye (after three hours), 9.
Pains sharp, shooting, in the left eye, running to the right jaw and arm (after three hours), 9.
Pain over the left eye, with soreness to touch (fifth day), 9.
For several nights eyes have felt somewhat sore, as if the eyelids were inflamed and dry, particularly in evening, though no external signs of inflammation present themselves (fifteenth day), 2b.
Lachrymation (sixth day), 9.

EAR

Pain in both ears (seventh day), 9.
Pain in right ear (third and sixth days); repeatedly (seventh day), 9.
Pain in the right ear, in the morning (eighth, ninth, and eleventh days), 9.
Pain in the left ear and running to the shoulder (fourth day), 9.
Pain in left ear (fifth day), 9. [80.]
Pain in the left ear, in the afternoon (eighth day), 9.
Boring pain just behind the base of the left ear (two hours after second dose, second day), 8.
Heavy throbbing in the ears, synchronous with the pulsations of the heart, attended the stinging almost itching, pain in the left side of the chest (after one hour, fourth day), 8.
Sensation of stoppage in left ear, with pain over right eyebrow (after one hour and a quarter), 7c.
Sensation as if the ears were obstructed, especially the left one; the prover's own voice (as well as the voices of others) sounds strangely to him, producing a kind of titillation in the ear, and having a peculiar ringing confusing sound, and yet the sense of hearing is as acute as ever; continued eighteen hours (after six hours, sixth day); still continues, but not to so great a degree; attended by slight ringing in the ears, at 10 P.M. (eighth day), 8.
Constant roaring in the left ear, as if a conch-shell were held before it, the whole day, attended by a feeling as if a fine thread were tied tightly around the neck just below the ears; the roaring is not relieved by pressing the finger into the ear; this continued for a week, and then gradually disappeared (after nine days), 3.
Ringing in the ears, 7a, 7b.

NOSE

Sneezing, 7b.*
Epistaxis from the slightest picking of the nose (tenth day), 1c.
Epistaxis from picking the nose was quite frequent during the proving, 1c. [90.]
Epistaxis (thirteenth day), 2a.
Coryza, with yellow expectoration from posterior nares (seventh day), 2a.
Coryza with headache, 7.*
Some coryza, and obstruction of voice (fifth day); a slight coryza (sixth day), 2.
Slight coryza (seventh day), 2b.
Great desire to pick the nose , was quite frequent during the proving, 1c.*
Sensation of great dryness in the nose, the whole day and night (fifth day), 8.
Dull pain in the nose (fifth day), 9.
Pungent drawing pain in the left nostril, with a similar pain in the left side of the occiput, and a feeling as if coryza would ensue (eighteen hours after second dose), 8a.
*Suddenly seized with a sharp tingling sensation in the Schneiderian membrane, followed by violent and rapid sneezing, five or six times in succession, with a watery discharge from the nostrils (after half an hour, third day), 4b.

FACE. [100.]

Great paleness of face while standing (tenth day), 2.
Pain in the side of the face, including the right temple and ear; also left side of the upper lip (first day), 9.
Pain in left side of the face (third day), 9.
Pain in right jaw, in the morning (eighth day), 9.
Pain in the right jaw and molar teeth (first day), 9.
After retiring late at night had lancinating pains in lower jaw, at root of left canine tooth (seventh day), 2.

MOUTH

Teeth.
Pain in the teeth of both sides, in the morning; in the front teeth in the afternoon (ninth day), 9.
Dull aching pain in the right molars, both upper and lower, which is entirely relieved after eating dinner (third day), 8a.
Severe dull aching in the right molars; relieved by rinsing the mouth with cold water (tenth day), 8.
Grumbling stinging toothache in the right superior molars, while riding in a cold wind, attended with a dull aching in the forehead (after three hours, second day), 8. [110.]
Dull transient pain in teeth (fourth day), 2.
Pain in the under jaw and teeth, in the front teeth, also on the left side, half an hour (eleventh day), 9.
Pain in the teeth, in the morning (eighth day), 9.
Pain in the teeth of lower jaw of the left side (seventh day), 9.
Running pains in teeth; in all the upper teeth (twelfth day), 9.
Sharp pain in the teeth (second day), 9.
Tongue.
Tongue coated white, with the feverish symptoms (tenth morning), 2.
Tongue coated yellow (tenth and seventeenth days), 5.*
Tongue heavily coated (second and fifth days), 9.
Feeling of dryness of the anterior part of the tongue, with a feeling in the stomach of repletion, and as if one had eaten spice (seventh day), 5. [120.]
The anterior part of the tongue felt dry and hot (after forty minutes), 5.
Soreness of the right edge of the tongue (after one hour and fifty minutes), 5.
Sensation of excoriation at edges of the tongue, which is sore when touched by the teeth, with a feeling as if the anterior part of the tongue had been scalded (twelfth day), 5.
Sensation as if the tongue and mouth were burnt, with the flatulency, 7a.
Dryness of the mouth and tongue, at night (fourth day), 8.
Saliva and Taste.
Flow of saliva (within half an hour), 7c.

THROAT. [130.]

Thick yellow secretion from posterior nares (tenth day), 2.
Feeling of dryness in the posterior nares (fifth day), 8.
The throat is dry, and deglutition difficult (eighth day); same dryness of throat (ninth day), 9.
Sensation as if a lump or ball were sticking fast in the throat, which is not relieved by hawking or swallowing (after half an hour, fifth day), 8.
Aching sensation in the throat, as if a lump were sticking in the gullet (twenty hours after fourth dose), 8a.
Sore throat on the left side on swallowing (sixteenth day), 5.
Sore throat on the left side during empty deglutition (seventeenth day), 5.
Throat sore, with feeling of lumps in it when swallowing (tenth day), 22.
All the morning had feeling of rawness in upper part of throat, with secretion of phlegm (tenth day), 2a.
Scraping in the throat , with symptoms of slight cold, in the evening (eighth day), 1b.* [140.]
Tickling in the throat, soon after taking the drug, then throat a little sore (fifth day), 9.
Fauces and Pharynx.
Much tough mucus in the fauces, which is very difficult to eject (seventh day), 8a.
Aching in the pharynx, and collection of tough mucus in the fauces, with a slight inclination to cough, in the evening (fifth day), 8a.

RUMEX CRISPUS. STOMACH

Appetite and Thirst.
Appetite much increased; feels hungry even after a full meal (fifteenth day), 2.
Less appetite than usual (seventh day), 2.
Anorexia (eighth and twelfth days), 9.
Loss of appetite and nausea, 4b.
At 7.30 P.M. was very thirsty, though this is unusual to him (fourth day), 2.
Thirsty during evening (eighth day), 2.
Eructations.
Belching of wind accompanied the pain in the lungs, 1c. [150.]
Eructation, empty, 7b.
Eructation (within half an hour), 7c.
Eructation and sensation of distension in the stomach; the feeling of distension subsides with motion of wind in the bowels, 7b.
Eructation of wind (after ten minutes), 7a.
Frequent forcible eructation of tasteless flatus, in the evening (fifth day), 8a.
Eructation of much tasteless flatus, with a sensation of distension in the scrobiculus cordis (a quarter of an hour after second dose, second day), 8.
Hiccough.
Hiccough (after one hour), 7c.
Pyrosis after dinner (sixth day), 9.
Nausea and Vomiting.
Nausea and loss of appetite (sixth day), 4b.
In the evening nausea, relieved by eructations, with sensation of fulness in the abdomen, as if diarrhœa was forming (fifth day), 5. [160.]
Nausea; fulness of the stomach, with eructations with the taste of what had been eaten, on going to bed (ninth day), 5.
In the morning, on awaking, felt nauseated, with moving in the intestines as from a cathartic (second day), 4.
Slight nausea (eighth day), 2b.
Slight nausea while dressing, in the morning, and vertigo, compelling to lie down again (tenth day), 2.
Stomach.
Awoke with an acid stomach and eructations of acid flatus (fifth morning), .

ABDOMEN

Pain above umbilicus (within half an hour), 7c.
Sensation of distension in the scrobiculus cordis, with eructation of much tasteless flatus (a quarter of an hour after second dose, second day), 8.
Dull pain and sensation of fulness, as if from flatus, in the left side of the abdomen, about midway between the umbilicus and crest of the ilium, while riding; continued two hours (after three hours and a half, second day), 8.
Frequent passages of small quantities of fetid flatus (seventh night), 3c. [190.]
Much flatus moving about in the abdomen, during the night (twenty-second day), 3c.
Borborygmus (within half an hour), 7c.
After meals flatulency (sixth day), 5.
Flatulency in the morning on waking, with emission of flatus, and sensation as if the tongue and mouth were burnt, 7a.
Rumbling in the bowels and colic pains above the hypogastrium (fifth day), 4b.
Rumbling in the bowels and eructation of wind, 7.
Rumbling in the bowels, with yawning (after one hour and ten minutes), 7c.
A relaxed sensation, with rumbling, continued for some hours, as if another evacuation would follow, nevertheless it passed off without another stool (fourth morning), 4b.
Moving in the intestines, with nauseous feeling, in the morning on awaking (second day), 4.
Sensation of fulness of abdomen on going to bed (ninth day), 5. [200.]
Sensation of fulness in the abdomen, as if diarrhœa was forming, with the nausea (fifth day), 5.
Towards evening an aching pain commencing in the right side of the umbilicus (tenth day), 5.
Dull pain in the abdomen, in the evening (seventeenth day), 1c.
A dull pain in the abdomen before rising; it continued a short time after rising, and was followed by a diarrhœic stool (third day), 1c.
*Awoke the next morning with pain in the bowels; relieved by emission of flatus, 7.
Pain in the abdomen, about the seventh rib, on the right side; a gone feeling and a weakness on each side of the umbilicus; the pains about 5 P.M., 6.
*Griping pain in the bowels, below the umbilicus, which is partially relieved by discharge of very offensive flatus, after breakfast (fifth day), .

RECTUM AND ANUS

On retiring at night, first became aware of the protrusion of a small hæmorrhoidal tumor (eleventh day); troubled much all day, in all postures, by hæmorrhoids; sensation of heat and irritation about the anus, with sensation as of a foreign body there (twelfth day); hæmorrhoidal tumor still exists, but is slight; itching of anus (fourteenth day); great itching of anus (seventeenth day), 2.
Aching in the rectum, with the sensation as if diarrhœa would ensue (fourth day), 8a. [220.]
A feeling in the rectum as if a rough stick was forced up, painful on walking, in the evening (second day), 5.
Itching in the anus, 7.

STOOL

Diarrhœa.
Copious diarrhœic stool, with colic pains just above the hypogastrium, and a very disagreeable rumbling in the bowels, together with nausea and loss of appetite. These sensations continued nearly throughout the day, with some four or five evacuations, which poured away in a stream, as if a large quantity would be discharged; nevertheless, each discharge was suddenly arrested, and the inclination passed away entirely for a short time; but on rising the urgency returned, and on returning to the cabinet a new stream of liquid fæces poured forth as before. At short intervals there occurred, throughout the day, inclination to go to stool, with much rumbling of the bowels, but the urgency to stool was not so pressing that it could not be well resisted (fifth day), 4b.
In the morning looseness of bowels, with colic some time before their movement; stool of brown color (third day), 5.*
At the usual hour a very loose diarrhœic discharge from the bowels occurred (fourth morning), 4b.
*Movement of the bowels, in the morning, watery and brown (tenth day), 5.
At 4 P.M. had a slight liquid motion from bowels, the desire therefor being very urgent, and waking him from sleep (fifteenth day), 2b.*
Motion of the intestines, with emission of wind, 7b.
Fæces black (eleventh day); normally yellow (twelfth day), 2.
Scanty fæces (thirteenth day), 2a. [230.]
Dry and hard stool (thirteenth day), 1c.
Constipation.
Previous to the taking of this medicine the bowels were regular, but during the proving of it they were more or less constipated, 1b.
Constipation (eighth day); third day of constipation (eleventh day), 9.*
Costiveness for three days (sixth day), 1c.
Constipation for three days, followed by a natural stool (ninth day), 1c.
Constipation for three days, followed by a small dry and hard stool (sixteenth day), 1c.
Constipation for three days, followed by a dry and hard stool (twenty-fourth day), 1c.

URINARY ORGANS

Constant inclination to urinate (sixth day), 9.
Frequent desire to urinate during the day (seventh day), 3c.
Inclination to urinate not as frequent to-day as yesterday, but an unusual urgency with the desire to urinate; must speedily evacuate the bladder, or there is a sensation as if the urine could not be retained (eighth day); during the day noticed an urgency as soon as there is an inclination to urinate (nineteenth day); same urgency; sensation as if the urine must be immediately voided as soon as the inclination takes place, as if it would be impossible to retain it long; the sensation is apparently located at the neck of the bladder (twentieth day); urgency as soon as there is an inclination to urinate, which is rather too often (twenty-seventh day); urging to urinate (twenty-eighth day), 3c. [240.]
During the day observed a frequent inclination to urinate , attended with a sensation as if the urine could not long be retained (fourth day), 3d.
Copious discharge of colorless urine (after eight hours, second day), 8.
In afternoon urine less copious than usual, red and turbid, with a flocculent deposit and oily surface (eighth day); brickdust sediment in urine very marked and heavy (ninth day), 2.

SEXUAL ORGANS

Tendency to phimosis (twelfth day), 2a.
During evening had feeling of soreness and excoriation, with redness of end of prepuce (ninth day); still soreness, with increased redness and itching (tenth day), 2a.
Redness and soreness of prepuce, worse in evening and early morning (eleventh day); itching of prepuce (twelfth day), 2a.
Itching of prepuce (twelfth and fifteenth days), 2.
Sexual desire diminished through the proving, 8a.
Complete loss of sexual desire for several days (sixth day), 8.

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

Larynx.
Much tough mucus in the larynx, with a constant desire to hawk and raise it, but without relief; worse at night, but has been troublesome all day (third day), 8.* [250.]
Secretion of mucus in the larynx, removed by hawking (within half an hour), 7c.*
Hawking up mucus from the larynx, 7.*
Violent irritation to cough in the larynx while eating ; observed at three meals (third day), 8a.*
Pain in the top of larynx, 7b.*
Pain in larynx (after one hour and one third), 7c.*
Pain in the larynx, mostly on the left side, 7c.*
Voice.
At 2 P.M., on these two consecutive days, the voice suddenly rose several notes in pitch, and so continued for about half an hour; voice sounded at 4 P.M. as though he had a cold in his head (fourth day), 2.
Obstruction of voice and some coryza (fifth day), 2.
Voice changed at 11 A.M. into a nasal tone, for a short time only (second day), 2a.
Hoarseness (tenth day), 9.*
Cough. [260.]
In three days he was attacked with a severe and durable cough, presenting a character entirely different from any he had ever experienced.

It was a dry spasmodic cough, assimilating an early stage of whooping-cough. It was dry at first, came on in paroxysms, preceded by a tickling sensation in the throat-pit, and attended with congestion and slight pain in the head and wrenching pains in the right side of the chest. The time of commencement of the most violent paroxysm was a few minutes after lying down at night, which was usually about 11 o'clock. This paroxysm lasted ten or fifteen minutes; after this he slept all night. A less severe paroxysm occurred in bed, in the morning, after waking, and at various times through the day . This state continued about two weeks, when there was a commencement of expectoration of adhesive mucus in small quantities, detached with difficulty . The whole duration was about a month. Some medicine were taken in the latter stages, but without obvious effects, 10.

Hacking cough (after twelve minutes), 7a.*
Respiration.
Sensation of breathlessness, as if the air did not penetrate the chest, or like what is felt when falling or passing very rapidly through the air, 7b.*

CHEST

He has had a dull aching pain in the anterior portion of both lungs, which has harassed him day and night, for the last five days; it was accompanied with some headache and pain in the stomach, also with belching of wind (thirty-fifth day), 1c.*
Aching pain in the anterior portion of the lungs, which disappeared and returned several times, in the afternoon (seventeenth day), 1b.
At 3.30 P.M., while writing at the desk, experienced for a little time, five stitches in the substance of the left lung (sixth day), 3c.*
Fulness in the chest, with the feeling of languor (second day), 8.
Raw pain in the chest just under each clavicle, while hawking mucus out of the throat (seventh day), 8a.
Pain in chest (fifth, ninth, tenth, and eleventh days), 9.*
Momentary shooting pains in various parts of the chest, during the evening (twenty-seventh day), 3c. [270.]
A deep inspiration causes stitches around the waist, at 7 A.M. (third day), 3c.
Pain in chest, on both sides (fourth day), 9.
Front and Sides.
At one time in the afternoon, while riding, a deep inspiration produced a very acute stitch along the left margin of the sternum (third day), 3c.*
Sensation of dry heat in the middle of the chest, with the stinging-burning pain in the back (sixth day), 8.
Pain in right side; in the left side (sixth, seventh, and eighth days), 9.*
Severe pain in both sides, and felt as if in the lungs (third day), 9.*
*Pain in right side of thoracic region when lying down; left side, with sense of depression in the thorax (first and second days), 9.
Pain a little below and anterior to the nipple, most frequently on the right side of the chest, 7.
Pain in the right side about the lower rib, being like a bruised sensation (after one hour and fifty minutes), 5.
Burning-tingling pain (similar to itching) below, and to the right of the left nipple (after six hours, second day), . [280.]

RUMEX CRISPUS. HEART AND PULSE

Dull pain in the region of the heart, attended by dull pain and heaviness in the left upper arm and particularly in the elbow (fifth day), 8a.
Deep inspirations are attended by a heavy dull pain in the region of the heart (sixth day), 8.
Severe stinging pain in the region of the heart, extending through the chest to the apex of the left scapula, with a frequent desire to take a deep inspiration, which increases the pain, in the afternoon, for two or three hours (second day), 8a. [300.]
Sharp and deep pain ascribed to the left side of the heart (third, fourth, and eighth days), 9.
Pain in heart (ninth day), 9.
Palpitation of the heart after supper, and after conversation (twelfth day), 5.
Frequency of heart's action greatly increased by going upstairs (fourteenth day), 2.
Pulse 80 (third day); 96 (tenth day), 5.

NECK AND BACK

Sensation as if a thread were tightly tied around the neck just below the ears, with a slight roaring in the ears (twenty hours after fourth dose), 8a.
Pain in the back of the neck (tenth and eleventh days), 9.
Pain running down the back (second day), 9.
Dull and steady pain in the back (second day), 9.
Pain in back (fifth day); nearly constant (sixth, seventh, and eighth days), 9. [310.]
Suffered considerably from pain in back, in afternoon and evening (tenth day), 2.
Aching pain in the back, under and below the apex of the left scapula (fifth day), 8.
Aching between the scapulæ, while standing (sixth day), 8.
Pain in middle of back, for twenty minutes (tenth and eleventh days), 9.
Stinging-burning pain in the back, just below the inferior angle of the left scapula; followed and accompanied by stinging almost itching pain in the left side of the chest, just below the nipple (after one hour, fourth day), 8.
Stinging-burning pain in the back, between the scapulæ, attended by a constant desire to take deep inspirations, with a sensation of dry heat in the middle of the chest (sixth day), 8.
Pain under the right scapula; left ditto (third day), 9.
Pain in right scapula (first, second, tenth, and eleventh days), 9.
Pain in left scapula (ninth day), 9.
Very sharp pain in left scapula (fifth day), 9. [320.]
Pain in the small of the back, for a few minutes (first and second days), 9.
Burning pain on a small spot near the top of the right sacro-iliac symphysis (after thirteen hours, third day), 8.
Sore pain at juncture of the sacrum, with the left ilium , increased by stooping and rising. In a few hours, this pain became more general in the loins, and appeared like the pain and lameness following a strain by overlifting. The pain was increased by a sudden motion of the body, such as from the unexpected motion of a carriage. At 2 P.M., the lameness somewhat abated, and was succeeded by a pulsative sensation in the muscles of the nates (fourth day), 4a.
Aching and sense of great fatigue in the loins (third day), .

EXTREMITIES

Twitching of right arm and leg (second day), 9.
Pain in elbows, arms, and left knee (fourth day), 9.
Pain in the right arm, hand, and knee, in the afternoon (fifth day), 9.
Pain in the right arm, thumb, and leg; left foot and ankle (sixth day), 9.
Pain in right arm, thumb, and knee (seventh day), 9.
Pain in right arm and knee (eighth day), 9. [330.]
Pain in left arm, thumb, and leg (ninth day), 9.
Pain in the right arm, hand, and knee (eleventh day), 9.
Pain in the left arm and foot (eleventh day), 9.
Pain in the right arm and legs (twelfth day), 9.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

The right arm feels as if its muscles were glued together and sore to the touch (tenth and following days), 9.
Slight numbness and crawling sensation in the left arm, after lying down in bed (after two hours), 8.
Soon after waking, left arm feels as if bruised (fifth day), 9.
Pain in left arm for two hours, and repeated in fingers of the left hand (seventh day), 9.
Pain in left arm, hand, and thumb (eighth day), 9.
Pain in left arm and hand, for fifteen minutes (twelfth day), 9. [340.]
The shoulders and scapular regions were as often the seats of pain as the arms, throughout this proving, 9.
Awoke with pain in right shoulder; it was ameliorated by rest; passed off in two hours (eleventh day), 2.
Dull pain and heaviness in the left upper arm, and particularly in the elbow, attended the dull pain in the region of the heart (fifth day), 8a.
Stinging pain on the inner side of the right upper arm (sixth day), 8.
Dull aching in both elbows (after second dose, second day), 8.
Pain in right wrist, ulnar half, 7b.
Pain in left hand (fifth day), 9.
Pain in the fingers of the left hand (tenth day), 9.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

Sense of great lassitude in the lower limbs, and aching in the calves of the legs, as after long continued walking or standing; worse when moving; better when lying down (after six hours, third day), 4a.
Crawling tingling sensation in the inferior extremities (half an hour after second dose, second day), 8 ; (half an hour after fourth dose), 8a. [350.]
Legs feel very weak when going up and down stairs, in the evening (second day), 1a.
Legs feel weak while going up and down stairs (seventh day); in the evening (fourteenth and fifteenth days), 1b.
Legs feel weak on going up and down stairs, in the evening (second day), 1c.
Legs felt weak through the day, especially on going up and down stairs (twenty-third day), 1c.
Weakness of the legs when going up and down stairs (thirty-fifth day), 1c.
Rheumatic pains in legs, dull aching pain in them all day long (fifth day); slight rheumatic pain in afternoon, particularly in right leg (sixth day), 2.
In afternoon, feeling of weariness, aching of bones of lower extremities (second day), 2b.
Aching pain in the right hip-joint while walking, producing slight lameness (after thirteen hours, third day), 8.
Muscular pain in thighs and legs, slightly increased on pressure (after three hours, fourth day), 2.
Pulsative sensation in muscles of nates (fourth day), 4a. [360.]
Wrenching-aching pain in the flexure of the left knee, while standing (twenty-four hours after fourth dose), 8.
Pain in the knees, very sharp on rising after sitting awhile, running down the left leg (second day), 9.
Drawing pain, almost a cramp, in the calf of the right leg, continued half an hour (after ten minutes, sixth day), 8.
Heaviness in the calf of the right leg, as if the flesh would fall from the bones (a quarter of an hour after second dose, second day), 8.
Pain in right leg and toes (ninth day), 9.
Pains, rheumatic, in anterior surface of both tibiæ, in the evening (tenth day), 2.
Rheumatic pains in tibia anteriorly (fifth day), 2a.
Rending in the anterior part of both ankle-joints, running down the insteps, apparently in the ligaments; alternating several times with gnawing pain in the internal condyle of the left humerus; after which was felt aching and heaviness, with crawling sensation all through the inferior extremities, when riding (after four hours, second day), .

GENERALITIES

Great lassitude and weariness, with somnolency; is shifting his position constantly; his legs feel tired, though he has done but little walking to-day (fourth day), 2.
Great lassitude and uneasiness, with stagnation of ideas, in the evening (third day), 2.
A very warm day; felt languid and weary (third day), 2a.
Felt very weak and tired through the day (seventh day), 1c.
Has felt weak during the day (sixth day), 1c.
Sense of great weariness, on going to bed (ninth day), 5.
Great languor (tenth day), 5.*
Restlessness, in the evening (fifth day), 5.* [380.]
The pains seem to have been neither fixed nor constant anywhere, 9.
Throbbing through the whole body (after fifteen hours, fifth day), 8.
After the seventh day the distress augmented to such a degree that he was unwilling to continue the proving any longer; the evolution of the symptoms continued after the last dose, from the seventh day to the twenty-second. This proving is chiefly characterized by pains, numerous, varied, and of frequent recurrence, from which hardly any part escaped; these pains were all transient, one pain ceasing, with complete intermissions of from ten minutes to an hour, and then another pain coming on; some, of a neuralgic character, were so severe, that the prover asked for an antidote, which was refused; most of the pains were severe enough to prevent study, but did not interfere with active duties. The pains ceased from 11 to 12 A.M.; and recommenced a few hours or less after repeating the dose in the afternoon, 9.
Unusual sensitiveness to cold, during the day (first day), 3a.*
*Sensitive to the open air (ninth day), 5.

SKIN

Eruptions.
An eruption on the vermilion border of the lower lip (twelfth day), 5.
A small vesicle, like a blister, on inside of lower lip, just beneath the left angle of mouth (seventeenth day), 2.
My attention was this evening called to an eruption that has been quite troublesome of late, though I now remember that it has been present most of the time for two or three weeks, gradually increasing until it has become quite a source of annoyance. It is composed of very abundant minute red pimples, on the limbs, about the knees, and particularly on the calves of the legs . The only uneasiness it causes, is a violent itching, immediately after undressing at night (eighteenth day). The fine eruption on the calves and limbs has been very troublesome for several evenings past, while undressing. A violent itching is produced as soon as it is exposed to the air. There is no redness until after irritating it a few minutes by a thorough scratching; then a multitude of very fine pimples appear. The eruption and itching are almost wholly though not entirely confined to the posterior surface of the limbs and inner side of the knees (twenty-second day). Eruption on the legs is quite troublesome this morning. Frequently irritating it by scratching has caused many little pustules, as large as the head of a large pin. Almost the whole surface of the limbs, from the thighs to the feet, is covered with this paltry nettlerash, probably a kind of urticaria . Eruption on the limbs very troublesome, from the severe itching it produced, at night (twenty-fourth day). The little sores caused by scratching, seem to be most numerous about the knees. For several days from this time the rash became very troublesome (twenty-fifth day). Eruption is now chiefly confined to the knees, and causes but little uneasiness (thirty-second day), 3c.
Back and shoulders are densely covered with small red pimples, in the evening (fifth day), 1c.
The eruption continues the same, with slight itching in the evening, especially when exposing it to the air, as on going to bed (sixth day); slight itching of the eruption on going to bed (seventh day); the eruption is gradually disappearing (tenth day), 1c. [390.]
The eruption is reappearing on the back and shoulders, with a few red pimples on the upper part of the chest; itching of the eruption on going to bed (thirteenth day), 1c.
Back and shoulders are found in the evening to be densely covered with red pimples (fifteenth day); slight eruption on the limbs (sixteenth day); the eruption is gradually disappearing (seventeenth day), 1c.

SLEEP

Sleepiness. [410.]
Yawning (within half an hour), 7c.
Yawning, with rumbling in the bowels (after one hour and ten minutes), 7c.
Heavy drowsiness, with sleep and desire to lie down (tenth day), 5.
Sleepiness, in afternoon and evening, after eating heartily (fifteenth day), 2.
Somnolency, with the lassitude and weariness (fourth day), 2.
Awoke about 2 A.M. (second day), 3c.
Sleeplessness.
From the first day of the proving until the ninth, the nights are very restless, the sleep broken and unrefreshing, or disturbed with vivid dreams; he jumps and tumbles in bed, walks about the room, and talks in his sleep; the restlessness on the eleventh, 9.
Very restless uncomfortable night for a week (after nine nights), 8a.
Restlessness and discomfort in bed at night; the position must be frequently changed (fifth day), 8.
Slept very uneasily; many kinds of absurd dreams; constant magnifying of trifles disturbed him (ninth night), 2. [420.]
Very restless during the latter part of the night (first night); very restless during the night (second night), 1c.
Very restless during the night (first night), 1a ; (sixth, eighth, and fifteenth nights), 1b ; (fifteenth night), 1c.
Sleep disturbed; wakeful, restless; short naps and unpleasant fancies, even when awake (second night), 3e.
Unrefreshed in the morning (tenth day), 8a.
Dreams.
At 5.30, just before waking, experienced an unpleasant dream, of persons having been murdered (second day); remembers to have had very disagreeable dreams, during the night, of accidents, losses, etc. (sixth night); indistinct recollection of several dreams, during the latter part of the night (eighth night); have an indistinct recollection of several dreams, of being in a beautiful country, and of being disappointed (eighteenth night); dreamt of killing a small rabid dog, and of becoming involved in trouble and perplexity of some kind (twenty-first night); several dreams, one of seeing Queen Victoria (twenty-third night); horrid dreams last night of dead persons returning to life (twenty-seventh night); indistinct recollection of a dream just before walking, this morning (twenty-ninth day), .

FEVER

Chilliness.
Chill down the back on motion (tenth day), 5.
In the afternoon, constant chill on motion, running up and down the back and down the calves of the legs (sixteenth day), 5.
Great coldness of the lower extremities, during the forenoon (sixth, seventh, and fourteenth days), 1b.
Coldness of the lower extremities, during the forenoon (second day), 1c.
Heat.
Heat and other symptoms of fever towards morning, followed by a sharp pain in the abdomen (first night), 1a.
Woke up feverish, having frontal headache; dull and constant heat of skin, and increase in fulness and frequency of pulse, followed by sensation of cold, yet not a regular chill; tongue coated white (tenth morning), 2.
Sensation of heat over the body, especially in the cheeks (after fifty minutes), 5.
During the day, face felt hot and pulsated, and the feet had a sense of coldness (tenth day), 5.
Flushing of the face, in the evening, with pulsations over the body; pulse 80 (third day), 5. [440.]
Sensation of heat in the left cheek, 7b.
Sweat.
Awoke in perspiration (eleventh morning), 2.
Profuse perspiration of the lower extremities, during the latter part of the night (sixteenth day), 1b.
Cold clammy sweat on the legs, during the better part of the night (eighth night), followed by symptoms of severe cold, as scraping in the throat, with tenacious mucus, cough, headache, and obstruction of the nose, these lasted during the day (ninth day), 1b.

CONDITIONS

Aggravation.
( Morning ), Pain in the right ear; on rising, flat taste in mouth; on waking, flatulency.
( Forenoon ), Headache; soreness of eyes; coldness of the extremities.
( Afternoon ), 5 P.M., pain in abdomen; 2 P.M., change of voice.
( Evening ), Soreness of eyes; on undressing, itching.
( Night ), After lying down, paroxysms of cough; pain in left side of back; restless; sweat on lower extremities.
( Open air ), Pain in forepart of head.
( While eating ), Irritation to cough, in larynx.
( After eating ), Heaviness in the epigastrium.
( On going upstairs ), Heart's action; weakness of legs.
( While hawking mucus ), Raw pain in chest.
( Deep inspiration ), Pain in abdomen; stitches around waist; stitch along left sternum; pain in left side.
( Lying on back or right side ), Pain in left side.
( After meals ), Flatulency.
( Motion ), Headache; frontal headache; sudden pain in loins; chill.
( When moving ), Bruised sensation in brain; lassitude in lower limbs.
( Movement of head ), Sudden bruised sensation in brain; bruised feeling in forehead as if brain were loose.
( Picking nose ), Epistaxis.
( Pressure ), Pain in thighs and legs.
( While riding ), In cold wind, toothache; pain and sensation of flatus in abdomen; cutting pain in stomach.
( Rising ), Pain at junction of sacrum with left ilium.
( Stooping ), Bruised sensation in brain; pain at junction of sacrum with left ilium.
( On swallowing ), Sore throat; pain in throat.

RUMEX CRISPUS.