Natrum biboracicum (2BO2 Na.B2

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10H2 O). Sodium biborate.

Preparation , Triturations.

Authority.

1 , Hahnemann, H. Ch. Kn., 2, 281; 2 , Schreter, ibid.; 3 , Fischer, Z. f. V. Œst., 1857, p. 217, provings with tinct. of Borax (Borax 5 grs., Alcohol 100 drops), on pellets; 4 , Dr. J., Inaug. dis., Berlin, 1845, experiments with powdered Borax.

MIND

Voluptuous mood (after five weeks), 2.
Very cheerful, lively, affectionate, with desire and liking for all work, in the forenoon (sixth day), 2.
The child cries at intervals very violently, ceases after a few minutes, and is again contented and playful, 2.
Very earnest (after one day), 2.
Low-spirited and peevish (second day), 2.
Very anxious on riding rapidly down a hill, contrary to his custom; he feels as though it would take away his breath (first five weeks), 2.*
The child becomes anxious when dancing; if one rocks it in the arms it has an anxious expression of the face during the downward motion (the first three weeks), 2.
Anxiety with rumbling in the bowels (after ten hours), 2.
Great anxiety, with great sleepiness; the anxiety increased until 11 o'clock in the evening , when the person became dizzy and sleepy, and fell asleep, 1.* [10.]
Anxiety, with weakness and trembling in the feet, and palpitation (when mesmerizing), (after three days), 2.
Fright; both he and she start up at a distant shock, 2.*
Fright; he starts in all his limbs on hearing an anxious cry (after four weeks), 2.*
The baby is frightened at hawking and sneezing, 2.*
Dread and fear of contagion, 1.
Irritable during important business (after eight days), 2.
The child is fretful, whines and cries, contrary to its custom (first day), 2.
Very fretful in the afternoon at 4 o'clock, and peevish, although he was in good humor previously; he rebukes people for trifles, for several days (eighth day), 2.
Before the easy stool in the afternoon, fretful, ill-humored, indolent, and discontented; after it, lively, contented with himself and the world, and looking cheerfully into the future (after twenty days), 2.*
Violent; he scolds and swears at trifles (first day), . [20.]

HEAD

On walking, head confused, 4.
The whole head confused, with stitching in left ear, evening (first day), 3.
Vertigo, in the morning in bed (fifth day), 2.
Vertigo in the evening when walking, as if some one pushed him from the right side towards the left (fifth day), 2. [30.]
Attacks of vertigo, with loss of presence of mind (third day), 2.
Giddy and full feeling in the forehead in the morning, so that he immediately lost his good humor (fourth day), 2.
Light, clear head (sixth day), 2.
Heaviness in the head (first day), 2.
Headache, with confusion of the whole head, and sticking in the left ear (first day), 2.
Fulness of the head on ascending a mountain or steps (fifth day), 2.
Fulness in the head and pressure about the eyes, as if they were held fast, so that he can scarcely move them, 2.
Fulness in the head and pressure in the small of the back when sitting, together with a sleepy sensation in the eyes (seventeenth day), 2.
Fulness in the head in the morning, with lack of clear ideas and presence of mind, so that he is unable to perform any mental work, and has no desire for it; after walking in the open air he is better, but still feels great weakness in the feet and joints (second day), 2.
Aching in the whole head, with nausea, inclination to vomit, and trembling in the whole body, in the morning at 10 o'clock (in two female provers at the same time), (second day), 2, 3. [40.]
Dull pressive headache in the morning, especially in the forehead (first day), 2.
During menstruation, throbbing in the head and roaring in the ears, 2.
Headache in the forehead, with sticking in the left ear, and a hollow lower back tooth on the left side, in the evening (fourteenth day), 2 , ( 3 ).
Drawing pain in the forehead extending towards the eyes (fourth day), 2.
Pressive drawing headache in the forehead above the eyes and towards the root of the nose, at times extending into the nape of the neck; on stooping a severe pressure in the frontal bone; when writing and reading the pain becomes much more violent, with pressure in the region of the spleen (sixth day), .

EYES

The infant becomes very red around the eyes when crying (fourth day), 2.
Sensation in eyes as if something had fallen into them, which disappears on rubbing, first in the right eye, then in the left, four times during half the day, and returning next day at noon (seventh day), 2, 3.
Burning in the eyes and momentary contraction of them as soon as he removes the glasses (after six days), 2.
Pressive burning in the right eye, in the afternoon (third day), 2.
Pressure above the eyes from time to time (tenth day), 2. [70.]
Pressure in the right eye very painful, as if it would be pressed into the orbit, in the morning (after five weeks), 2.
Sensation in the right eyelid, while sitting, as if something pressed out from within, from between the skin coming from the temples; immediately followed by pressure around the eyes (fourth day), 2.
Cutting in the left eye lengthwise, coming and going suddenly (thirty-seventh day), 2.
In the left eye, three stitches in succession, evening (third day), 2 , ( 3 ).
Itching in the eyes, with a sensation at times as if sand were in them (fourth day), 2.
The lashes turn inward toward the eye and inflame it, especially in the outer canthus, where the margins of the lid are very sore (sixth week), 2.*
Inflammation of the margins of the lid in an infant; he rubs the eyes and at night they are agglutinated (first day), 2.
Inflammation of the left eye in the inner canthus , with nightly agglutinations (first days), 2.
Inflammation of the right eye in the external canthus, with irregularity of the lashes; agglutination of the eye at night (thirty-fifth day), 2.*
At night the eyes are agglutinated with hard, dry mucus, which irritates the eyes like sand (fifth week), 2. [80.]
In the morning the eyes are agglutinated and lachrymate (fifth day), 2.
In the evening it is difficult to close the lids, and in the morning difficult to open them (fifth week), 2.
Pressive pain in the upper lid on opening the eye, 2.

EARS

Inflamed hot swelling of both ears, with a discharge of pus from them (twenty-seventh day), 2.
Purulent discharge from both ears preceded by itching in the occiput (nineteenth day), 2.
A purulent discharge from the ears, with sticking headache (after thirty-two days), 2.
A previous discharge from the ears ceases (curative action), 2.
Suddenly a sensation as if the ear were enveloped or stopped, 1.
Pain in the ear; a sensitive pressure behind the right ear (after six days), 2.
Stitches in the ears (after six weeks), 2.
Stitches in the ears in the morning when washing in cold water (after three days), 2.
Stitches in the left ear, on waking unusually early (fourth day), 2 , ( 3 ). [100.]
Stitches in the left ear , in two provers (after fourteen days), 2 . Stitching in left ear (in a man), (fourteenth day), 3.
Stitching in the left ear, with headache in the forehead, and stitching in left, lower, hollow, molar tooth (in a female), evening (fourteenth day), 3.
Sore pain in the ear on boring in with the finger (thirty-second day), 2.
Itching in the left ear, and sore pain after removing the ear-wax, in the evening, when walking; at the same time a kind of sticking in the left side of the neck (nineteenth day), 2.
Difficult hearing in the left ear, in a child five years old (ninth day), 2.
Crackling in the left ear, as if thick wax were in it which stopped the ear, which the opened again, in the evening (tenth day), 2 , ( 3 ).
Dull drumming in the left ear, as if over a suterranean vault (fourteenth day), 2 , ( 3 ).
Ringing and piping in the right ear, which afterward changed to a roaring (twentieth day), 2.
Roaring and ringing in right ear (eighth day), 2 , ( 3 ). [110.]
Roaring in the ears , and much difficult hearing (eighteenth and nineteenth days), 2.
Rushing in the left ear as from a storm (third and fourth days), .

NOSE

The infant rubs his nose vigorously with the hands, and then the eyes (fifteenth day), 2.
(Red and shining swelling of the nose, with throbbing and tensive sensation), 1.*
In the upper and forepart of the left nostril, towards the tip of the nose, a small boil, with sore pain and swelling of the tip of the nose (tenth day), 3.*
Ulceration in the left nostril, in the forepart, in the tip, with sore pain and swelling of the tip of the nose (tenth day), 2.*
Many dry crusts in the nose, which constantly form again after being removed (after sixteen days), 2.*
Sneezing, with great painfulness; he tries to stop it, since it causes severe sticking in the right side of the chest; for three weeks (after six days), 2.
Sneezing and fluent coryza (first days), 2.
Fluent coryza with much crawling in the nose (after sixteen days), 1. [120.]
Discharge of much greenish thick mucus from the nose, 2.
Bleeding from the nose (after twenty-five days), 2.
Bleeding of the nose in the morning, and in the evening pulsating headache (after six days), 2.
Some blood is usually discharged on blowing the nose, preceded by itching in the nose (eighteenth day), 2.
Itching and crawling in the nose; he is obliged to put his finger into it (after twelve days), 2.

FACE

Erysipelas in the face (after thirty-four days), 2.*
The face of the infant looks pale, suffering, earthy (first day), 2.*
Swelling of the face with pimply eruptions on the nose and lips (first days), 2.
Swelling, heat and redness of the face, with tearing pain in the malar bone, and severe pain in the swelling when laughing (thirty-first and thirty-second days), 2.
A feeling in the right side of the face, by the mouth, as if cobwebs had formed there, 2. [130.]
Dull tearing in the left cheek, starting from a hollow tooth, with pressure in the forehead and in both eyeballs (after four days), 2.
Red inflamed swelling as large as a pea on the lower lip, with burning soreness when touched (forty-first day), 2.
Twitching of the muscles near the right corner of the mouth several times, 2.
Burning in the upper lip below the left nostril, in the morning in bed (seventh day), 2 , ( 3 ).
Burning pain in the lower lip, soon passing away, in the evening (third day), 2 , ( 3 ).
4 A.M., sensation in the lower lip like the crawling of insects (fourth day), 3.
Crawling on the lips as from beetles (second day), 2.

MOUTH

Teeth and Gums.
A piece broke out of a hollow tooth of itself (after six days), 2.
The teeth seem too long (first day), 2.
Toothache in an upper hollow tooth, with burning of the cheek, which pains as if tense when touched (after seven days), 2. [140.]
Constrictive griping in a hollow tooth (after four days), 2.
Toothache in a hollow tooth, dull griping, in wet rainy weather , in five provers, 2.
Aching in the hollow teeth in bad weather (after forty days), 1.
Dull, pressive boring in the hollow teeth in the evening, in cool air (first day), 2.
Pressive-digging toothache, after every supper and breakfast; is relieved by tobacco smoking; for several days (after forty days), 2.
Drawing pain in the teeth, 1.
Fine intermitting stickings in all the teeth, mostly in a hollow back tooth in the left lower jaw (second day), 2, 3.
Sticking toothache in a left lower hollow back tooth, with sticking in the left ear and headache in the forehead, in the evening (after fourteen days), 2, 3.
Tearing from the hollow teeth into half of the head, if they are touched with the tongue, or if cold water is taken into the mouth, 2.
Tearing and griping in an upper hollow tooth, which seems to be larger than natural, so that she cannot bite or clench the teeth; with inflammation and swelling of the gum as if a gum-boil would form; in the evening the pain extends into the lower teeth, and then disappears on going to sleep (fourth day), 2. [150.]
Crawling and tickling in the lower incisors, followed by accumulations of saliva in the mouth (after seven days), 2.
Swelling of the gum for three days, with pressure in the hollow teeth in bad weather (after forty days), 2.
Inflamed large swelling on the outer side of the gum, which pains severely (gum-boil), with dull pain in a hollow tooth; swelling of the cheek and whole left side of the face, as far as below the eye, where there is an elevated œdematous swelling (smelling of Chamomilla relieves the pain), (after thirty-six days), 2.*
The gums of the upper teeth bleed without pain (after six days), .

THROAT

Much mucus accumulates in the throat, which he must expectorate, 2.
Tough mucus in the throat, which is difficult to loosen (after eighteen days), 2.
Much tough mucus in the throat, which he must hawk up with much exertion, so that he vomits (after six days), 2.
Tough whitish mucus in the fauces, which is loosened only after great exertion (for several days), (after five days), 2.*
A piece of mucus streaked with blood is hawked up (after nine days), 2.
Hawking of mucus in the morning; the mucus is easily raised in lumps, 2.
Green loose mucus is hawked from the throat (after twelve days), 2.
Dryness in the throat (after five days), 2.
Roughness in the throat, as if a grater were in it, 2. [180.]
Throat rough in the morning, 1.
Burning in the throat; this causes him to swallow saliva, which is painful (ninth day), 2.
Rawness in the pit of the throat, with drawing stitches in it when coughing and sneezing, and with relief after hawking up mucus (eleventh day), 2.
Scraping in the throat, causing a dry cough (after first day), 2.
Tickling in the throat, provoking a dry cough (after four weeks), 2.

STOMACH

Appetite.
Great appetite in the evening, 1.
Increased appetite for breakfast (fourth day), 2.
Appetite much less than usual (after five days), 2.
Less hunger and appetite than usual (first five weeks), 2.
Diminished hunger and appetite, frequently however hunger without real appetite (after five days), 2. [190.]
He eats very little, 2.
He has less appetite, especially for supper (after eight days), 2.
She has very little appetite in the evening for several weeks (after eight days), 2.
Loss of appetite, nausea, drawings in the head from the vertex to the temples, and drawings from the abdomen toward the groin, every evening for several days (fifth week), 2.
No appetite for dinner (after twelve days), 2.
No more desire for tobacco (second day), 2.
Thirst in the morning; he must drink a great deal (fourteenth day), 2.
Longing for sour drinks (fourteenth and fifteenth days), 2.
Hiccough and Nausea.
The infant hiccoughs very often, 2.
Severe hiccough, which makes the throat raw, 1. [200.]
Hiccough after eating (eighth day), 2.
Nausea, 2.
Nausea during eating (after nineteen days), 2.
Nausea with periodic inclination to vomit (fifth day), 2.
Nausea in the morning, with inclination to vomit; disappears after dinner (sixth day), 2.
Nausea immediately after waking, with great inclination to vomit, which however does not follow until he drinks water, when he vomits a large quantity of mucus and some bitter substance, with great exertion (seventeenth day), 2.
Nausea followed by vomiting of mucus, with heat and rapid feverish pulse (after twenty-three days), 2.
Nausea even to vomiting when riding (first day), 2.
Nausea and little appetite (fourth day), 2.

ABDOMEN

Hypochondria.
A sensitive pressure in the region of the spleen (first day), 2.
In the left hypochondrium, a feeling as of violent pressure, as with the hands, when riding in a carriage without springs, 2.
Pressure, and sometimes a burning, with a sensation in the left hypochondrium on deep breathing, as if something rose up into the chest from the region of the spleen, which sank down again on expiration (after six days), 2. [230.]
A pressure in the left hypochondrium, from the lowest ribs to the hip-bone, which is increased by external pressure, after a midday sleep till evening (second day), 2.
Pressive pain in the left hypochondrium, as if a stone lay there, when dancing; on continuing to dance it disappears (after fifteen days), 2.
On the second day after menstruation pressure, as from a stone in the right hypochondriac region, extending to the shoulder-blade, from which place the pain extends spasmodically into the stomach and small of the back, followed by vomiting, 2 , ( 3 ).
Cutting in the right hypochondrium soon after breakfast, extending downward across through the bowels, followed by diarrhœa; evacuation sudden (third day), 2.
Cutting in the left hypochondrium on walking rapidly, as if a hard, sharp, movable piece were there, with a sensation in the abdomen as if only hard pieces were in it much mixed up (after six days), 2.
The drawing-sticking pain in the right side of the chest extends down into the right flank, where it becomes exceedingly painful on hiccoughing, sneezing, coughing, and yawning (three weeks), 2.
Abdomen.
Rumbling in abdomen, 4.
Much rumbling in the abdomen at night, relieved by passing flatus upward and downward, 2.
After dinner, rumbling in the abdomen and diarrhœa (third day), 2.
Much flatulence, 2. [240.]
Much discharge of flatus, 3.
Formation of flatulence and frequent passage of it, 2.
Abdomen distended after supper (fifth day), 2.
Flatulent distension after every meal (after five days), 2.*

Borax 1st, whereupon the menses appeared on the following day, with griping in the abdomen, 3.

RECTUM AND ANUS

Contraction in the rectum, with itching (after forty days), 2.
Stitches in the rectum in the evening (after two days), 2 , ( 3 ).
A swollen vein in the anus as large as a pencil, and painless (second and third days), 2.
Brown mucus in the anus after the stool (after nine days), 2.
Boring-sticking pain in the anus and small of the back (after fifteen days), 2.
Itching in the anus in the evening (seventh day), 2 , ( 3 ). [260.]
Itching in the anus, as from hæmorrhoidal mucus (sixteenth day), 2.

STOOL

After smoking, a feeling as though diarrhœa would come on (sixth day), 2.
Frequent desire for stool, with rumbling in the abdomen and diarrhœa-like discharges (first days), 2.
Frequent desire for stool, with pinching in the bowels, and easy, pasty evacuations, 2.
Desire for stool in the morning; at first hard, then diarrhœa like discharge, with burning in the anus (first day), 2 , ( 3 ).
Very soft stool in the morning; in the evening the usual evacuation (after seven days), 2.
Frequent very easy stool every day (first days), 2.
Two scanty, pasty stools, 4.
Diarrhœa-like stool in the afternoon, with much wind, following a hard stool in the morning (fifth day), 2.
Diarrhœa, two or three times, without pain (after one hour), 2 , ( 3 ). [270.]
The child has three stools a day, the last like yellow water, 2.
Stool every hour, soft, slimy, without other symptoms (third day), 2.
Diarrhœa during the first three days (in a subject constantly troubled with constipation), 3.
Diarrhœa after breakfast, four times in succession (fourth day), 2.
Diarrhœa six times, from the morning till 2 P.M., without pain (fifth day), 2 , ( 3 ).*
Diarrhœa, with rumbling in the abdomen (first days), 2.
Diarrhœa sudden toward noon, with rumbling and grumbling in the abdomen (fourth day), 2.
Diarrhœa, without pain, twice a day, followed by discharge of mucus and blood (sixteenth day), 2.
Diarrhœa immediately after eating, with weakness in the joints and legs, which is relieved after walking (first day), 2.
The primary action of Borax is diarrhœa, followed by no stool for several days, afterwards a hard stool daily, 2. [280.]
Soft stool (first three days), 2.
Hard stool, with straining (sixteenth day), 2.
Pale mucus passes four times, with the stool once involuntarily (fourteenth day), .

URINARY ORGANS

Pressure and sticking in the region of the kidneys, increased on turning (after three days), 2.
Dark-blue spots at the orifice of the urethra, as if the skin was off, with biting pain on urinating (after twenty-four days), 2.
The orifice of the urethra seems agglutinated with gum, 2.
Burning tension in the urethra after urinating, 2.
Smarting pain along the urethra, especially when touched (after twenty-six days), 2.
Smarting in the urethra after urinating (fifteenth, twentieth, and thirtieth days), 2.
*The orifice of the urethra pains as if sore after urinating, 2.
During involuntary emission, cutting pain in the urethra; the semen was so thin that he thought he urinated, 2.
Severe urgent desire to urinate, so that he can scarcely hold the urine (first days), 2.* [300.]
Severe urging to urinate at night, several times (twenty-fifth day), 2.
At night he must rise several times to urinate (after thirty-four days), 2.*
After an emission, urging to urinate, and on urinating cutting in the urethra, 2.
Desire to urinate, without being able to pass a drop , with cutting in the genitals and distension in both hips, for two hours (first day), 2 , ( 3 ).*
Frequent urinating (first days), 2.
The infant urinates nearly every ten or twelve minutes, and frequently cries and screams before the urine passes , for a long time (after six days), 2.*
*Hot urine in the infant (after four days), 2.
*Pungent smell of the urine (first days), 2.
Pungent peculiar smell of the urine (first two weeks), 2.

SEXUAL ORGANS

Male.
Tensive erection in the morning on waking (fourth day), 2. [310.]
Frequent excitement of the genitals without desire for coition (first day), 1.
Stitches in the genitals, soon disappearing (first day), 3.
Sticking sore pain, especially when touched on the penis at the margin of the place where a chancre formerly existed (after twenty-four days), 2.
While resting his hands in a kind way upon a sick female he had sensual sensations without desire for coition (third day), 2.
Indifference to coition (first five weeks), 2.
He is obliged to wait a long time during coition for the discharge of semen (after five weeks), 1.
Emission with dream of coition, whereby the semen came very rapidly, which woke him, 2.
On coition, the semen passes very soon, and there is a continual irritation in the genitals (after five weeks), 1.
Female.
Easy conception during the use of Borax observed in five women, 2.
A woman who had been sterile fourteen years on account of a chronic acrid leucorrhœa, in addition to other remedies at last took Borax; she became pregnant and the leucorrhœa improved, 3, 2. [320.]
Sticking in the region of the uterus (second day), 2.
Sensation of distension and sticking in the clitoris at night (sixth day), 2.
Leucorrhœa, white, like mucus, without other symptoms, fourteen days after menstruation (after fifteen weeks), 2.
Leucorrhœa thick as paste and white, for five days (after four days), 2.*
Leucorrhœa like the white of an egg, with sensation as if warm water were flowing down , several days (after twelve days), 2.
Menstruation appeared one day too soon, without any trouble (after four days), 2.
Menses three days too soon, without any pain (after seven weeks), 2.
Menstruation four days too early, without any trouble; only the evening and the morning preceding its appearance heaviness on the chest, with difficult breathing and much roaring in the ears (after twenty-six days), .

RESPIRATORY APPARATUS

Tearing in the larynx, in the evening (third day), 2.
Dry hacking in the child, 2.
Hacking and violent cough, with slight expectoration, of a mouldy taste and of the same smell, from the chest, with every paroxysm of cough ; in the evening (third day), 2.*
Night cough, 1.
Cough, with scraping in the throat and pressure in the chest (first day), 2.
*Dry cachectic cough, as in old people, especially in the morning on rising and in the evening when lying down, with sticking in the right side of the chest and right flank ; washing the chest with cold water afforded the most relief, but after drinking wine the pains were aggravated ; for twelve days (after three weeks), 2.
Cough, with expectoration of mucus, mostly in the morning, with pain in the region of the liver, which still continues until noon (fourth day), 2. [340.]
Streaks of blood in the mucus , when coughing up a white mucus which is difficult to loosen (eighteenth day), 2.
Respiration difficult (after eighteen days), 2.
Respiration difficult; he is obliged to breathe deeply, which he cannot do on account of stitches in the chest (the first days), 2.
Every three or five minutes he is obliged to take a quick, deep breath, which is every time followed by a stitch in the right side of the chest, with a subdued painful sigh and slow expiration (after seven days), 2.*
*Arrest of the breath when lying in bed; he is obliged to jump up and catch for breath every time he has a stitch in the right side of the chest (after seven days), 2.
Shortness of breath after ascending steps, so that he cannot speak a word, and when he speaks he has every time a stitch in the right side of the chest ; so also in running or on any exertion of the body which heats him (after eight days), 2.

CHEST AND HEART

The milk is increased (fourth day), 2.
Much milk flows from the breast, so that the bed becomes wet (after thirty-two days), 1.
The milk which flows from the breast becomes cheesy and curdled (the first days), 2.
Anxiety in the chest in the evening, in bed (first day), 3. [350.]
Oppression of the chest in the evening, in bed (first day), 2.
Heaviness on the chest, so that for a time she cannot breathe (after six weeks), 2.
Weakness in the chest, with dryness in the throat (ninth day), 2.
At every attempt to breathe the chest becomes contracted (fourteenth, fifteenth, and seventeenth days), 2.
Tightness of the chest, with constrictive oppression of the breath on ascending steps; he is then obliged to take a deep breath, which is accompanied every time by a sensitive drawing stitch in the right side of the chest (sixth day), 2.
Pressive tightness, extending from the pit of the stomach into the chest when sitting stooped; it impedes respiration and causes a sticking in the lung (seventh day), 2.
Drawing pain in a small spot in the intercostal muscles, which changes on bending toward the left side into a pain as from a severe blow, 2.
Pressure in the chest, 2 , ( 3 ).
During a deep inspiration a sensation as if something with a burning pressure arose from the left hypochondrium into the chest and sank down again on expiration, 2.
Pressing on the chest, with scraping in the throat and cough (first day), 3. [360.]
Pain in the pectoralis major muscle, as from a hard bed, with soreness on touch, at night (third day), 2 , ( 3 ).
Tearing from the larynx into the chest, provoking cough (after five weeks), 2.
*With every cough and deep inspiration sticking in the chest (after seven days), 2.
*Stitches in the chest as from incarcerated flatus (first days), 2.
Stitches, as with fine needles, from the back of the chest, in the evening (after eight days), 2.
Stitches in the chest when yawning, coughing, and breathing deeply (seventh day), .

NECK AND BACK

Rheumatic drawing pain in the neck, which extends to the left shoulder and then into the shoulder-blade, in the evening when walking in the open air (forty-first day), 2.
Pain in the back, when sitting and stooping, as from pressure (third day), 2.
Pain in the back when walking (first day), 2.
Pain in the back, with much mucous discharge with the stool (nineteenth day), 2.
Burning in the back while sitting (fifth day), 2.
Dull backache when stooping (sixth day), 2.
Dull pressure in the back (seventh day), 2.
Pressive pain in the back on both shoulders, 2.
Stitches in the right lumbar region, increased by stooping, in the morning, while walking, relieved when sitting (first day), 2.

UPPER EXTREMITIES. [390.]

Drawing and tearing pain in the shoulder and between the shoulders, so that he cannot stoop, for eight days (after five weeks), 2.
Momentary stitches as with needles in the right shoulder, 2.
Pressure on both shoulders, 3.
Burning pain in the upper arm a hand's breadth around the whole arm (second day), 2.
Sticking in the palm, with a feeling in the whole hand, extending above the wrist, as if the arm had gone to sleep, in the evening (second day), 2 , ( 3 ).
Tearing and breaking sensation in the forepart of the right hand, as if rheumatic (after fifteen days), 2.
Burning heat and redness of the fingers, even from slight cold, as if they had been frozen (after twenty-four days), 2.
Throbbing pain in the tip of the thumb day and night, frequently waking him from sleep at night (second and third days), 2.

LOWER EXTREMITIES

Burning pain on the left thigh a hand's breadth around the whole limb (eighth day), 2.
A burning in the right thigh near the pudenda, which is increased by cough or laying the hand upon it (third day), 2. [400.]
Transient tearing in the bone of the right thigh, extending from the middle downward and up again, from morning till noon, and again in the evening (seventh day), 2 , ( 3 ).
Erysipelatous inflammation and swelling of the left leg and foot after violent dancing, with tearing tension and burning in it, and increased burning pain when touched; on pressure with the finger the redness disappears for a moment (seventeenth day), 2.
Numb sensation with heat in the left lower leg, 1.
In the foot where the erysipelas was a tension on the back, so that standing became difficult; she was not prevented from walking (twenty-second day), 2.
A feeling of heaviness in the feet on ascending steps, in the evening (first day), 2 , ( 3 ).
Formication and trembling of the feet, with nausea and tendency to faintness; disappears when walking in the open air (fourteenth day), 2.
Pain in the heel, as if sore from walking, 2.
Stitching in the sole of the foot (in two persons at the same time), (second day), 2 , ( 3 ).
Inflammation and itching on the balls of the little toes as from freezing (fifteenth day), 2.
Sensitive burning pain in the great toes, especially in the balls, particularly when walking (after forty-one days), 2. [410.]
Pain in the joints of the toes of the left foot on stepping, as if something pressed them (twentieth day), 2.
Frequent stitches in the corns, particularly in rainy weather (first days), 2.
Boring stitches in the corns, relieved by pressing upon them (first five weeks), 2.

GENERALITIES

*The infant becomes pale, nearly earthy-colored; the previously firm flesh becomes soft and flabby; he cries a great deal, refuses the breast, and frequently screams out anxiously in his sleep (first three weeks), 2.
While meditating at his work, trembling in the whole body, especially in the hands, with nausea and weakness of the knees (eighth day), 2.
Restlessness in the body, which does not permit him to sit or lie long in one place (first day), 2.
After an animated conversation restlessness in the body, nausea and stupefaction and vertigo (third day), 2.
During a meal restlessness in the whole body, with nausea, so that he could only eat with effort; stretching backward afforded relief (after twenty days), 2.
She feels very weak and powerless (after five weeks), 1.
Weakness, especially in the abdomen and limbs (fourth day), 2. [420.]
Loss of power in the joints (fifth day), 2.
Prostrated, weak and tired, with heaviness in the feet (first days), 2.
Weak, indolent, fretful, thirsty after the midday sleep, with heat when walking in the open air, and worse on the head and face, with confusion of the head, pressure in the forehead and eyes, which pain on touch as if sore; together with inclination to breathe deeply, and when doing so, sticking in the intercostal muscles, with hard, quick pulse, 2.

SKIN

Unhealthiness of the skin ; slight injuries suppurate and ulcerate, 2.*
Two hard wartlike indurations on the inner surface of the hand, after it had been beaten somewhat strongly with a stick (after thirty days), 2.
Whitish pimples, as large as flaxseed, with red areola, on the chest and throat, as far as the nape of the neck (sixth week), 2.
Inflamed pimples on the back of the little toe, which pain like corns (fifteenth day), 2.
Papulous eruption in the face (after four days), 2.
Red papulous eruption on the cheeks and around the chin, in the infant (after five weeks), 2.
A corroding blister forms upon the nates (fifteenth day), 2. [430.]
Large herpetic spots upon the mouth, and the upper lip very scurfy, follow burning heat, 1.
Herpetic eruption on the nates of the child (after four weeks), 2.
Pustule with red areola on the middle finger of the right hand, with swelling and stiffness of the finger, which continues to suppurate and pain after the opening of the pustule (after thirty days), 2.
Old wounds and ulcers are inclined to suppurate, 2.
Long-continued suppuration of a place under the thumb nail, where she had stuck a needle, with painfulness to touch, 2.
A suppurating spot in the heel, which had been rubbed by the shoe, 2.
An ulcer in the left axilla, 1.
Violent itching and crawling on the os coccygis so that he cannot help scratching, followed by a discharge of mucus from the anus (after thirty-two days), 2.
A feeling as if a cobweb were lying upon the skin of the hands, 2.
Itching here and there on the backs of the hands, with irritation to scratch, as if bitten by fleas, 2. [440.]
Severe itching on the backs of the finger joints, so that he is obliged to scratch them violently, 2.*
Itching on the malleoli (second, ninth, and tenth days), 2.

SLEEP AND DREAMS

Very sleepy and tired in the evening, 1.
Sleepiness at midday, and deep sleep for two hours (eighth day), 2.
Sleep early in the evening, and long sleep in the morning, for four weeks (after eight days), 2.
The child at the breast sleeps more than usual, but wakes frequently (first days), 2.*
Much sleep in the twilight, but when he went to bed sleep disappeared, although during the day he had taken much exercise, and had slept but little the night previous (after seven days), 2.
Falls asleep late and wakes early (after six days), 2.
He wakes before midnight, and cannot sleep till 2 o'clock, 2.
He wakes at 1 o'clock in the night, and cannot sleep again till 4, on account of much thinking (ninth day), 2. [450.]
She wakes uncommonly early, at 3 o'clock; she cannot fall asleep again for two hours, on account of heat in the whole body, especially in the head, with sweat on the thighs (eleventh and twelfth days), 2 , ( 3 ).*
He wakes at 4 o'clock in the morning, and is quite wide awake, so that he goes to work with cheerfulness (after five weeks), 2.
Very wide awake in the evening, 1.
Restless sleep; she could not sleep, but tossed about the bed (twenty-first day), 2.
Restless night; he could not sleep well on account of rush of blood to the head, restlessness of the body, rumbling in the abdomen and diarrhœa (first days), 2.
A child five years old tosses about, cries the whole night till 4 in the morning, frequently out of its sleep, and in the morning is in a whining mood; the infant frequently cries out of its sleep, and anxiously grasps its mother, as if it had been frightened by a dream (first two weeks), 2 , ( 3 ).*
Restless sleep, with thirst and coldness (first day), 2.
He can sleep only on the left side; as soon as he turns upon the right side he is awakened by drawing-sticking pains in the right intercostal muscles (seventh day), 2.
A feeling as though he had not slept enough in the morning, .

FEVER

Shivering over the whole body at night and the following day, with throbbing pain in the occiput, as from suppuration (second day), 2 , ( 3 ).
Chilliness over the whole body, especially in the back, without thirst, with flat taste, rawness of the larynx, stitches in the chest when breathing, weakness, prostration, stretching of the limbs, contracted quick pulse, together with heat, heaviness, and stupefaction, and in the head, burning of the eyes, with sensitiveness to light (twenty-third day), 2.
A chill at night, from 2 to 4, with trembling, vomiting of the food, tearing in the thighs and pain in their bones, as though they would be broken, followed after sleep by heat and thirst; afterwards, at half-past eight in the morning, bitter vomiting, followed by sweat, with diminished thirst (second day), 2.
Coldness, with headache and subsequent heat, without thirst; on walking in the open air, the headache ceases, and she feels quite well (fourteenth day), 2.
Coldness every second day, in the afternoon, with thirst and sleep, followed, on waking, by heat, with pressive pain in the inguinal ring, without subsequent sweat (thirty-eighth day), 1.
With the erysipelatous inflammation of the lower leg, first coldness, shivering, and thirst, with vomiting of food and bile, followed by heaviness in the head and throbbing in the temples, with restless sleep at night, only slumbering, and afterwards (on the sixth day) nose-bleed, 2. [470.]
Coldness in the afternoon, from 2 to 6 (after thirst in the forenoon); then until going to sleep, heat, with pressive pain in the left hypochondrium (fifth week), 2.
Coldness immediately after eating, with more thirst than appetite for dinner, and tensive drawing backward around the hypochondria, and heat suddenly rising into the head on taking a deep breath; then heat in the evening, at 6, during which he must lie down until 10, then sweat, and after the sweat thirst, for four days (fifteenth day), 2.
At one time coldness, at another heat, frequently with sweat in the face, during which coldness runs up the back, with stretching of the limbs, with weariness and sleepiness, so that he is obliged to lie down in the afternoon, without, however, being able to sleep; when walking, he drags the feet, and is fretful and taciturn, 2.
Heat if she puts the hands under the bed-covers; as soon as she puts them out she becomes cold again (fifth day), 2.
Heat in the evening, in bed, and sweat, but immediately on rising he becomes chilly (seventeenth day), 2.

CONDITIONS

Aggravation.
( Morning ), In bed, vertigo; giddy, etc., feeling in head; at 10 o'clock, aching in whole head, etc .; headache; pressure in right eye; when writing, flickering before eyes; when washing in cold water, stitches in ears; on waking unusually early, stitches in left ear; nose-bleed; in bed, burning in upper lip; hawking of mucus; throat rough; thirst; nausea , etc.; after eating peas, pressure in pit of stomach, etc., pinching, etc., in abdomen; desire for stool; till 2 P.M., diarrhœa; on waking, erection; on rising, dry cough, etc.; etc.; stitch in region of left ribs; on stooping, while walking, stitch in lumbar region; flushes of heat; during sleep, sweat.
( Forenoon ), Cheerfulness, etc.; tearing in the vertex; from 4 o'clock till noon, pain in region of stomach; after eating peas, pressure in pit of stomach, etc.; tearing in thigh-bone.
( Toward noon ), Diarrhœa, etc.
( Noon ), Nausea, etc.; sleepiness.
( Afternoon ), At 4 o'clock, fretful; before stool, fretful, etc.; pain in forehead; boring in eye; tearing in eyeballs; dryness of tongue; from 3 o'clock till evening, nausea, etc.; frequent nausea, etc.; diarrhœa-like stool; every second day, coldness, etc.; from 2 to 6 o'clock, coldness.
( Evening ), Head confused; when walking, vertigo; headache in forehead, etc.; headache in vertex etc.; stitches in left eye; obscuration of left eye; stitching in left ear; when walking, itching in left ear, etc.; pulsating headache; burning pain in lip; in cool air, boring in teeth; sticking toothache, etc.; great appetite; very little appetite; loss of appetite, etc.; in bed, stitching in abdomen; stitches in rectum; itching in anus; tearing in larynx; hacking, etc.; on lying down, dry cough, etc.; in bed, anxiety in chest; in bed, oppression of chest; stitches from back of chest; with every fit of cough, sticking in side of chest; when walking in open air, pain in neck; sticking in palm, etc.; tearing in thigh-bone; on ascending a height, heavy feeling in feet; in bed, heat, etc.; when writing, heat in head, etc.
( Night ), Rumbling in abdomen; urging to urinate ; sense of distension, etc., in clitoris; pain in pectoralis major; shivering; from 2 to 4 o'clock, chill, etc.; perspiration.
( On ascending a height ), Fulness of the head; shortness of breath; tightness of chest, etc.

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