LILIUM TIGRINUM.
By Timothy F. Allen — The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
Lilium tigrinum, H. K.
Natural order , Liliaceæ.
Common name , Tiger Lily.
Preparation , Tincture of the flowers only (proving Nos.
2 and 3 ), or tinct. of stalks, leaves, and flowers, gathered in August (subsequent provings).
Authorities.
1 , Dr. R. T. Warren, a little girl put an anther of a lily into her right nostril, after four hours paregoric and brandy were administered, death after fifty-nine hours ; Bost. Med. and Surg. Journ., 1862, vol. 67, p. 279; 2 , Dr. S. P. Graves took at two different times 5 drops of 3d dec. dil. ( from Dr. William E. Payne's collection of provings, Trans. Am. Inst. of Hom., 1867, and 1870, p. 94); 3 , Dr. J. W. Savage ( Note: subject to nervous headaches but otherwise healthy) took 30 drops of tinct. at 3.30, 7.30, and 9.30 P.M. (first day), at 11.30 and 11.45 A.M. (second day), at 7.30 P.M. (fourth day), from Dr. Payne; 4 , F. G. Barker, aged 30, took 6 drops of tinct. at 8 P.M. (fourth day), 8 drops twice P.M. (second day), same at 5.40 A.M. (fourth day), 12 drops at 6.30 A.M. (fifth day), from Dr. Payne; 5 , Miss Y., aged 42 ( Note: had not menstruated for two years past, but had enjoyed uninterrupted good health), took 5 drops of tinct. at 8.30 A.M. (first, second and third days), 10 drops daily (fourth to thirteenth days), 25 drops (fourteenth day), 30 drops (eighteenth day), same (twenty-fourth day), from Dr. Payne; 5 a , same prover took 1st dec. dil., 15 drops (first day), same twice (second day), 20 drops twice (third day), 5 drops (fifth to sixth days), 30 drops (tenth, eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth days), from Dr. Payne; 6 , Miss F., aged 55, took 300th dil. (first, eighth, eleventh and fifteenth day), 5th cent. dil. (twenty-first, twenty-third, twenty-fifth, and twenty-ninth days), from Dr. Payne ; ( Nos.
7 to 12, fide Dr. C. Dunham ); 7 , Miss N. W., took 3 drops 3d dil. twice daily (first to fourth days), 30th dil. (seventh to tenth days), from Dr. Payne's collection; 8 , Miss S. A. F., took 1/4 ounce (no symptoms for two weeks, from Dr. Payne ); 9 , Mrs. C. L. B., took 3d dil. two doses daily for six days, from Dr. Payne; 10 , Mrs. B., took 5 drops (?) daily for five days then after a month took one dose of 12 drops, from Dr. Payne; 11 , Mrs. J. F., took 3d dil., 5 drops twice (first day), 8 drops twice (second day), 16 drops three times (third day), 12 drops (fourteenth day), from Dr. Payne; 12 , Mrs. L. B. C., took 3d dil., 5 drops night and morning for a week, then doubled the dose for a week, from Dr. Payne; 13 , Dr. Samuel Lilienthal, took nearly an ounce of tinct. in a few days, and 1/2 ounce, fifth day; from Dr. Payne; 14 , Dr. L. M. Kenyon, effects on Mrs. ---, aged 48 ( Note: Menstruation irregular for a year; has had for many years unpleasant pressure, fulness and palpitation of heart, much increased during the past year; symptoms now, dull pressing pain in region of heart nearly constant, increased by eating even lightly, frequent palpitation, constant apprehension of serious trouble; no valvular disease, impulse of heart over a larger space than normal, contractions seemed at times incomplete), took 30th dil., three doses a day, for four days; 15 , Mrs. M., aged 28, took 1st dec. dil., every two hours (first day), every six hours (second and third day), 6 drops (fifth day), 10 drops (sixth day); from Dr. Payne; 16 , MS. proving of Dr. George C. McDermott, on Miss U. (doses not given).
MIND
- Emotional.
- The most marked effect was exhibited by the mental and reproductive organs, 16.
- Excitement, weeping, feeling as if she were two persons, at night (sixty-fifth day), 7.
- A sense as if "she were going to be crazy, if she did not hand on to herself, and hold tight," 10.
- Slight delirium and startings (third day), 1.
- Aversion to being alone, and yet no dread felt ; tranquil, but liked to see others and hear them talk (twenty-third day), 7.
- Taciturn and reticent, during the day (third day), 13.
- Depression (forty-second day), 7.
- Depression of spirits, disposition to weep (tenth and twelfth days), 5a.
- *Depression of spirits; constant inclination to weep, with fearfulness, and apprehension of suffering from some terrible internal disease, already seated (very marked symptom observed by two provers), (after forty-three days), 5. [10.]
- Profound mental depression ; to the prover "the heavens seemed brass and the earth iron;" an apprehension of moral obliquity weighed grievously upon her, for about ten days after the sexual excitement, and continuing in alternation with the sexual excitement for more than four months after the proving, 16.*
- Depressed (forty-second day), 7.
- Despondency, with aggravation at night and diarrhœa in the morning, and great feeling of slowness and inability to get at her work (sixty-fifth day), 7.
- Low-spirited (sixth day), 5a.
- Low-spirited, and not relieved by work (eighth day), 13.
- Low spirited; can hardly keep from crying frequently, which is the opposite of her natural disposition, 14.
- Worse on going to bed; can't go to sleep; wild feeling in the head as though I should go crazy and no one would take care of me; thoughts of suicide; how much Opium would put me to sleep forever, and who would find my body, and who would care; a new train of thought for her (eighth night), 7.
- A good deal of mental anxiety throughout the proving; despondent; gloomy; difficulty in expressing her thoughts; of recollecting; of selecting words; and expressed to her sister great fear of insanity, .
HEAD
- Confusion and Vertigo. [50.]
- Slightly confused feeling in head, with little pain; had been reading and writing (after one hour); confused feeling increased, after going to bed (first night), 4.
- At times slightly confused, then almost crazed feeling in the head, 14.
- Head so muddled that I feared to lecture, nevertheless the more I spoke the better I was able to concentrate my mind upon the subject of my lecture (seventh day), 13.
- The head grows wild after she has been quiet for a short time (tenth day), 7.
- Dizziness, continuing very severe for about two hours, and gradually subsiding (twenty-fourth day), 13.
- Dizziness and faint feeling all over; blur before the eyes; fear of falling, aggravated in a close hot room, and ameliorated when the fresh air strikes the uncovered head and face, although the cool air produces a feeling of chilliness; better also when walking in the street; these symptoms continued very severe for about two hours, then gradually diminished (twenty-fourth day), 13.
- Reeling and staggering when walking, with inclination to fall forward (first day), 13.
- Feel as if intoxicated, staggering forward, the whole afternoon (fifth day), 13.
- General Head.
- Absence of feeling in the head (twenty-eighth day), 7.
- Dulness in the head, in the afternoon (fifth day), 13. [60.]
- Dulness of head a kind of dizziness, more in the eyes, at 8 A.M. (seventh day), 13.
- Heavy feeling in the head, 14 ; (twenty-third day), 6.
- Continued heavy feeling in the head (after nine hours and three-quarters, first night), 4.
- Dull heavy feeling in my head, as though it would weigh too much, 12.
- Pain in the head (eleventh night), 6.
- Head very hot (thirty-first day), 6.
- Severe hot pain through the whole head, continuing about two hours, then almost wholly relieved by frequent sneezing, which came on about 10 P.M.; the head suddenly became quite clear (twenty-sixth day), 6.
- Headache (third day), 11.*
EYE
- Objective.
- My eyes look wild, and my husband fears I may become insane, 12.
- Dull reddish injection of eyes (second morning), 6.
- Outer canthus of right eye much inflamed, extending to inner canthus (seventy-fourth day); inner corner of right eye still feels raw; aggravated by fresh, especially damp cold air; sight not affected (after three months), 8.
- Subjective.
- Intense pain in both eyes, extending back into the head, worse during the night (after eleven hours, twenty-fifth day), 6.
- Burning feeling in the eyes after reading or writing; eyes feel very weak (twenty-third day), 13.
- Eyes feel as if full of tears the whole day (seventh day), 13.
- Severe pressure in right eye, lasting two hours (second day), 9.
- Brow.
- Dull pain over the eyes, continuing for about two hours (after three hours, twelfth day), 5a.
- Pain over the eyes, 14. [130.]
- Sharp pain over the left eye, at 6 P.M. (three hours after second dose), abating after about an hour, but continuing all the evening; it disappeared after sleeping (third day), 5a.
- Sharp though not severe pain over left eye, almost continuously through the forenoon; increasing after the dose (second day), 14.
- Lids.
- Eyes heavy and eyesight dim (fifteenth day), 13.
- Lids agglutinated (seventy-fourth day), 8.
- Lachrymal Apparatus.
- Eyes full of water, in the afternoon (fifth day), 13.
- Lachrymation of the left eye (ninth day), 13.
- Vision.
- Eyesight dim (fifteenth day), 13.
- Vision was impaired, the dimness continuing for several months, 16.
- Great dimness of sight (after eleven hours, twenty-fifth day), 6.
- Blurred vision, cannot see objects distinctly (after forty-three days), . [140.]
EAR
- Slight rushing sounds in both ears, after going to bed (first night).
NOSE
- Rubbed her nose violently, 1.
- Some discharge of thin clear mucus (from nose), (after twenty-three hours), 1. [150.]
- Profuse discharge of yellow mucus from the nose (soon), 1.
- Right nostril nearly closed; membrane of both nostrils very pale (after twenty-three hours), 1.
- Constant desire to pick the nose, and right nostril dry or closed up, 14.
FACE
- Face, especially forehead, flushed and hot, and a pricking sensation in the skin of the forehead, in the afternoon (fifth day), 13.
- Congestion to the face, in the forenoon (fifth day), 13.
- Left cheek of a bright-red color and hot to touch, in the morning when awakening (twelfth day), 5a.
- Pain in right side of face, apparently in cheek (malar?) bone, with stoppage of right nostril, and a feeling in the head like that which proceeds from a severe cold (twenty-ninth day), 5.
- Dull pain in the right side of the face (jaw), with a sensation of elongation of the teeth (thirty-first day), 6.
MOUTH
- Grumbling in hollow teeth (thirty-first day), 6.
- Coated feeling in mouth and throat on waking in the night (first day), 4. [160.]
- Abundant saliva (twenty-third day), 6.
- Bloody taste in the mouth, in the afternoon, continuing two hours, and gradually subsiding (twenty-fourth day), 1.
STOMACH
- Appetite.
- Appetite tremendous, especially for meat, and the more so the more pronounced the symptoms were (thirty-second day); desire for meat returns (forty-second day), 7.
- Great hunger, as it were, in the back, and extending up to the occiput and over the vertex; she ate enormously, yet felt as though she should starve to death (sixty-first day), 7.
- Craving appetite for dinner, and also for supper (sixth day), 15.
- Increased desire for meat, and has eaten a great deal (twenty-fifth day), 7.
- Appetite failed (second day after 12 drops), 10.
- Appetite very little, and soon satisfied (twenty-fifth day), 6.
- Loss of appetite, 14 ; (fifth day), 5a ; (after forty-three days), 5.
- Entire loss of appetite, 16. [170.]
- No appetite (tenth day), 5a ; (twenty-fourth day), 13.
- No desire for food; special dislike for bread continues (twelfth day), 5a.
- She ate as much as usual, but felt no appetite (seventh day), 7.
- Disrelish for food, particularly bread, and repugnance to coffee (eleventh day), 5a.
- Aversion to bread and coffee (fifth and sixth days), 5a.
- The usual cigar is nauseous, and produces waterbrash (first day), 13.
- Thirst.
- Thirst (forty-second day), 7.
- Much thirst; drinking often, and much (twenty-second day), 7.
- "Thirsty spells" always precede a dull, stupid, and despondent spell, and such always precedes the severe symptoms, during the proving, 7.
- Aversion to coffee; nausea when thinking of it, though used as a constant and favorite drink in the morning (after forty-three days), 5. [180.]
- A great dislike to coffee, continuing long after the proving, 16.
- Eructation.
- Eructations (fourth day), 9.
- Eructations from the stomach, very soon (after first and second doses, first day), .
ABDOMEN
- Hypochondria.
- Bubbling sensation in the right hypochondrium (after third dose, first day), 3.
- In the middle of the forenoon, intensely sharp pain in right side, between hip and false ribs, extending forward and upwards to umbilicus; felt something like an attack of colic, so severe as to render a deep, full breath intolerable; was almost obliged to stop work (sitting type); pain lasted till a little past noon, when it stopped suddenly (fifth day), 4.
- General Abdomen.
- Unusual distension of the abdomen and chest during the forenoon (thirty-first day), 6.*
- Bloating of the abdomen continues (thirty-second day), 7.
- A great deal of rumbling in the abdomen (first night), 3.
- Much rumbling in the left side of the abdomen (thirtieth day), 6. [210.]
- Flatulency (third day), 3.
- Flatulency, and a feeling of bloatedness of the bowels after stool, in the morning (thirteenth and fifteenth days), 6.
- Moving of flatus in bowels, with feeling of fulness (half an hour after third dose, first day), 3.
- Much flatulence movement in the bowels (thirty-third day), 6.
- Violent emission of flatus (first night), 3.
- Weakness and trembling of the bowels, with loss of strength (after forty-third day), 5.
- Bowels and anus feel weak and tremulous, continuing nearly through the night (seventeenth day), 6.
- Bowels feel very uncomfortable (soon after first dose, second day), 3.
- A bad feeling across the abdomen, especially on the right side (seventh day), 7.
- Dull, heavy feeling in left side of the abdomen (eighteenth day), 6. [220.]
- Sensation in the bowels as though diarrhœa was about to occur, which, nevertheless, did not (first night), 3.
- Slight pain in the bowels all night, with rumbling, more on the right side (first night), 3.
- Burning across the abdomen and in both ovaries, in the morning (sixty-second day), 7.
- Bowels feel full and distended most of the time, with great weakness and trembling, .
RECTUM AND ANUS
- Anus stiff and painful, with a tight painful drawing through the forehead and eyes (twenty-sixth day), 4.
- Pressing in rectum and anus (twelfth day), 5a.*
- *Pressure on rectum and bladder (forty-second day), 7.
- *Pressure in the rectum, with almost constant desire to go to stool, 14. [270.]
- Constant pressure on the rectum (sixty-ninth day), 7.*
- Urgent desire to go to stool, cannot wait (forty-third day), 5.
STOOL
- Diarrhœa.
- Diarrhœa; has had four stools, at 11 A.M., the first at 7 A.M.; hurrying her ; she cannot wait a minute; stool loose, but not watery, and dark brown; this attack is like the two previous ones (sixty-second day), 7.
- *The first effect was diarrhœa, appearing the third day, and continuing daily throughout the proving; it occurred directly after dinner, was sudden and peremptory; discharges copious and bilious, with burning of the rectum and anus, and severe tenesmus, and followed by extreme exhaustion, 16.
- Morning diarrhœa, with increased smarting and irritation of the passage; with griping in the bowels, and rasping sensation at the anus and in the rectum after the passages; the diarrhœa returned every morning on rising, followed by an acrid smarting sensation about the passage , for about two months, 6.*
- Some diarrhœic discharge with acrid smarting of the whole alimentary canal, in the morning on rising (thirty-second day), 3.
- The usual diarrhœic passage from the bowels in the morning, followed by the same acrid, smarting sensation, with great weakness and trembling (sixteenth day), 6.
- Several dejections, dark-colored, very offensive (third morning); large, dark-colored, very offensive discharge, and immediately began to skin (after fifty-six hours); death (after fifty-nine hours), 1.
- Bowels naturally regular; now she has alternately a solid and as loose stool, several during the day, and a constant feeling as though she must have a stool; this feeling resulted from a sensation as if something were pushing against the anterior wall of the rectum at the anus, and about two to three inches above it (twenty-second day); for the last thirty-six hours constant desire for stool from pressure on the rectum; a stool every half hour, lumpy, small, diarrhœic, with wind; constant tenesmus; she could sit at stool forever, and burning in the urethra; continuing several days; took Helonias 200, and was greatly relieved (twenty-third day), 7.
- Evacuation of the bowels, at first of natural appearance, then followed discharges colored yellow, the same as the vomiting and the discharge from the nose, and at last bloody discharges; dejection checked (after nine hours), 1. [280.]
- A powerful discharge from the bowels this morning on rising, of a dark color, and very offensive, leaving the same acrid, sore sensation at the anus, extending upwards into the middle of the bowels, continuing for several hours (twelfth day), 6.
- Evacuation from the bowels, dark and hard, followed by a great deal of heat in the rectum and anus, with slight pains in the abdomen (very soon after first dose, second day), .
URINARY ORGANS
- Bladder.
- Pressure on the bladder and rectum (forty-second day), 7.
- *Pressure on the bladder, the water being high-colored and scanty; she cold pass water very quarter of an hour; in the afternoon (sixty-fifth day), 7.
- *For the last three days more continual pressure on the bladder, wants to urinate all the time, passing but little, followed by smarting and tenesmus (twenty-fifth day), 7.
- Irritation in the bladder continues, but she can control it by determining not to urinate (twenty-seventh day), 7.
- Urethra.
- Burning in the urethra (twenty-third day), 7.
- Burning and acrid feeling in the urinary passage after every discharge of urine (fifteenth day), 6.*
- Acrid, smarting sensation follows every urinary discharge (twentieth day), 6.*
- Micturition. [290.]
- Frequent inclination to pass urine, each discharge small in quantity, and followed by smarting burning of the urethra , during the latter part of the night and early morning; urine milky in appearance, depositing a thick reddish sediment on cooling (ninth to eleventh nights), 6.*
- *Frequent desire to urinate through the day, with scanty discharge and a feeling of irritation and smarting in the urethra after every discharge (second to twenty-sixth days), 6 . (An entirely new symptoms to the prover.)
- Frequent and urgent desire to pass urine , slight in quantity, milky in appearance when passed, but depositing a red sediment on standing, with smarting and irritation after every passage (twenty-sixth day), 6.
- Constant desire to urinate ; for several nights had to rise twenty times to urinate (sixty-ninth day), 7.*
- Frequent urination (fifteenth day), .
SEXUAL ORGANS
- Male.
- Seminal emission toward morning (extremely rare), (sixteenth day), 13.
- Female.
- The most marked effect was exhibited by the reproductive and mental organs, 16.
- On examination the uterus was found low down, the fundus tilted forwards, and the os uteri pressing backwards upon the rectum, allowing but a difficult passage of the index finger between the os and the rectum (forty-eight day), 5.*
- On introducing the finger into the vagina, she finds the os, which is usually so high as to be almost out of reach, now so low as to be only a half-finger high, the os much tilted back and pressing against the rectum, the fundus pressing on the bladder (sixty-ninth day), 7.*
- Extreme pain and bearing down in the uterine region, constant distress as from approaching menstruation, 16.*
- Aching in the pelvis between the promontory of the sacrum and the pubes; it feels to her as if the aching were not in the uterus but around it; she feels constantly the two spots corresponding in position to the ovaries, which ache and feel like little coals of fire (twenty-third day); the pain in the right ovary increased, until at last it seemed as if a knife were inserted into the ovary and ripped down the groin and the anterior part of the thigh; the pain extended over the lumbo-sacral region, and she must cry herself to sleep; the pain extended up to the right hypochondrium; somewhat relieved by pressure on the ovary (twenty-sixth day), 7.
- *Bearing down, with sensation of heavy weight and pressure in the region of the womb, as if the whole contents would press out through the vagina (eighteenth day), 6.
- *Great bearing down in the uterine region, and a feeling when on the feet as if the whole pelvic contents would issue through the vagina, if not prevented by pressure upward with the hand, as the vulva, or by sitting down (twenty-ninth day), 6.
- Severe neuralgic pain (I think) in my uterus, so severe that I could not bear to be touched or moved, and even the jar of any one against the bed was torture to me; I could hot bear the weight of my clothes upon the pelvic region, this never lasted more than an hour and a half at a time and passed off without leaving any lameness; upon the recurrence of the symptoms I found by examination that the womb was anteverted; this is something that never took place before in my experience, . [320.]
RESPIRATORY ORGANS
- Voice much affected when attempting to sing, could not control it (third day), 13.
- A single, dry cough (thirty-second day), 7.
- Dry, hacking cough in the evening, better in the open air (sixth day), 15.
- Desire to take a long breath, with frequent sighing, which seemed to come from the lower part of the bowels (thirty-first day), 6.
- Frequent inclination to sigh, and short breathing, in the evening and night (nineteenth day), 6.
- Hard breathing; frequent desire to take a long breath; sighing (fourteenth night), 6. [360.]
- Short breathing, 6.
- Short breathing, oppression (after 2 P.M., twenty-fourth day), 8.
CHEST
- Sensation of great fulness of the chest and abdomen (thirty-third day), 4.
- Tight feeling of the chest (twenty-seventh day), 6.
- Hot congested sensation in the chest (first day), 13.
- If the desire to urinate is not attended to, there is a congested feeling in the chest (tenth day), 13.
- Congested and constricted feeling of the chest, as if too narrow, and might be relieved by letting out some of the blood; with the chills (fourteenth day), 13.
- Severe congestion of the chest, in the afternoon, continuing two hours, and gradually subsiding (twenty-fourth day), 13.
- Contracted feeling of the chest (twenty-ninth day), 6.
- Constricted feeling in lower third of chest, with oppressed breathing, worse towards morning (ninth and eleventh night), 6. [370.]
- Compressive sensation in the chest, with a choked feeling, as if he would suffocate, but would be relieved if the blood could be discharged, which seems shut up in the heart; slight relief by deep sighing (eighth day), 13.
- Oppression and heat of chest, a kind of ebullition; must go into the fresh air for relief; at 8 A.M. (seventh day), 13.
- Oppressive and congestive feeling in the chest, increased in the evening (seventh day), 13.
- Oppression of the chest relieved by sighing (twenty-third day), 13.
- Oppressed feeling in the lower third of the chest, with oppressed breathing toward morning (eighth night), 6.
- Front.
- Feeling of lump under breast-bone, moving up and down by swallowing, 14.
- Dull, pressive pain under the sternum, towards the middle lobe of the right lung, relieved by sighing, and pressure with the hands (fifteenth day), 13.
- Sides.
- Tightness of the left side of the chest, in the evening (thirtieth day), 6.
- Constriction in the left side of the chest, at 6 P.M., increasing after lying down (twentieth day), 6.
- Constricted feeling in the left side of the chest, under the floating ribs, extending thence up to the neck, and left shoulder-blade (after eight hours, twenty-first day), 6. [380.]
- A feeling of constriction in the left side of the chest about the breadth of the hand below the left mamma (thirty-third day), .
HEART AND PULSE
- Præcordium.
- Constant heavy feeling in left side, in region of the heart, all the afternoon (second day), 3. [400.]
- Suddenly aroused from sleep by pain in the left side, as if the heart were violently grasped, and the grasp gradually relaxed, interrupting the pulsations of the heart, and the breathing , relieved by rubbing and pressure, 2.
- Heart symptoms really troubled her about walking; short of breath, especially on going upstairs, and was obliged to stop and repose (thirty-second day), 7.
- Heaviness and pressure about the heart after eating; this symptom has increased very much and is sometimes almost unendurable, 14.
- Heart feels heavy (eighth day), 13.
- Pain in the region of the heart all the time, but increased by stooping, leaning forward, or lying down, 14.
- Dull, heavy, or pressive pain in region of the heart, 3.
- Heaviness in region of heart, and palpitation when lying on the left side, worse in bed, at night (fourth night): the heart symptoms became so troublesome that I was obliged to discontinue further use of the drug (fifth day), 3.
- The dull pressive pain in the left side, coldness of the outer side of the left leg, and pressure in the right side of the head, gradually increased for about six hours, then gradually abated, when I felt into a sleep which continued for about four hours, from which I was suddenly aroused by pain in the left side, as if the heart were violently grasped, 2.
- Pain in the region of the heart, worse when stooping, leaning forward or bowing, in the afternoon, and more particularly when lying down at night ; better in the morning and forenoon; the pain in the heart continued for more than two weeks, gradually abating, and at last, could be felt only when leaning forward, stooping or bowing; the pain was so persistent and annoying that I abandoned further trial, 2.
- Awakened by distressing pain and pressure, with fluttering of the heart; the pain was not acute, but a pressure (first night), 14. [410.]
- Twice a sharp pain in the apex of the heart (thirtieth day), 7.
- An occasional quick pain about the heart was felt, with labored breathing when walking rapidly or ascending a flight of stairs, 16.
- Slight momentary spasmodic twitchings around the heart in the forenoon (fifth day), .
LILIUM TIGRINUM. NECK AND BACK
- Neck.
- Dull pain in back of the neck, with feeling of constriction (twenty-fifth day), 5.
- Soreness of the cervical and occipital muscles, always worse when she has "thirsty spells," during the whole proving, 7.
- Back.
- Pain in the back and nausea (tenth day), 5a.
- Pain in back all the evening, till after midnight, when it abated somewhat (thirteenth day), 5a.
- Severe pain in back (third day), 11. [430.]
- Constant burning in the back (sixty-ninth day), 7.
- Some backache and pain in right ovary (twenty-eighth day), 7.
- Dorsal.
- Some pain between shoulders (second day), 4.
- Dull pain under right scapula, being weary from attending lectures; have felt it before when tired, 12.
- Pain in lower dorsal vertebræ, as if the back would break, for two days (after nearly three months), 8.
- Lumbar.
- Steady, though not severe pain in lumbar region (after nine hours and a quarter, first night); continuing though sensibly growing lighter; occasional transfer of pain to between shoulders (second morning), 4.
- Pain in lumbar region increasing in severity (after dose, second day); much distressed with pain in lumbar region, on rising in the morning, lasting through the day and not disappearing till evening (third day), 4.
- Sharp pain in the lumbar region, extending thence over the right hip to the umbilical region, relieved temporarily by rubbing (eighth, ninth and tenth nights), 6.
- Gnawing pain in the back, in the lumbar region, lasting all night, worse in bed (fourth and fifth night), 9.
- On changing position in bed, drawing pain in the right side of the loins, near the hip, increased after rising up (fifteenth day), 6. [440.]
- Pain in the lower part of the back (sixth day), 15.
- Constant dull pain low down in the backbone between the hips, 14.
- Dull and constant pain in the back, between the hips, with pressing downwards at the anus; continuing to tenth day, not much relieved by lying down (sixth day), .
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL
- Severe pain in the second joints of fingers and in the ankle-joint, so that when driving the horse must be stopped, the jolting was so painful (seventeen days after 12 drops), 10.
- In early part of night, an outpressing sensation in hands, arms, feet, and legs (first to eighth day), 6.
- Quick pain in the ring fingers of both hands and corresponding toes of both feet, at the same time, passing off in a few seconds (after third dose, first day), 3.
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES
- Shoulder.
- Crampy pain in left shoulder and mamma, 6.
- Arm.
- Tearing pains in the left upper arm, which seemed to be confined to the muscles (ninth day), 13.
- Forearm. [460.]
- Pressing pains in the right arm and wrist (twenty-fifth day), 6.
- Wrist.
- Pain (a hard ache) in the right wrist, and great weakness of the part in the morning (twelfth day), 6.
- Hand.
- Tremor of the hands (third day), 10.
- Hands and arms stiff and hot as if parched (thirty-first day), 6.
- Right hand and arm stiff and painful, abating after 8 A.M. (sixteenth day), 6.
- Pricking, painful sensation in the hands and fingers, in the morning (twelfth day), 6.
- Fingers.
- Paralysis or stiffness of the fingers, so that she can hardly hold a pencil firmly enough to write (fourth day), 10.
- Fingers of right hand feel stiff, with cramp in the middle finger and up the arm, at 5 P.M. (thirtieth day), 6.
- Cramps in the fingers (twenty-fifth day), 6.
- Pain in the index finger, beginning at the point, like that produced by an electric current, with throbbing of the pulse (after eight hours, twenty-first day), 6. [470.]
- A sensation as of an electric current, beginning at the end of the left index finger, extended to the other fingers of the same hand and up the arm, at 5 P.M.; then in the right index finger, extending to the other fingers, to the hand and arm, continuing for several hours, with coldness of the feet during the time (twenty-eighth day); the sensation as of an electric current has been felt in the left hand occasionally, but has grown less and less at every recurrence; this, together with the burning of the feet and hands, subsided first (after two months), 6.
- Pricking sensation in the fingers of both hands, extending up the arms, with a strong outpressing sensation as if the blood would press through the veins, which continued into the night (after seven hours, twenty-ninth day), 6.
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES
- Staggering gait; have to exert myself to the utmost to walk straight (seventh day), 13.
- Lassitude in the lower extremities, especially in the fleshy parts (seventh day), 13.
- Legs weak, and feel as if unable to support the body (fifteenth day), 13.
- Great weakness in the legs (thirtieth day), 7.
- When walking, the joints seem to lack synovial fluid; can almost hear the crepitus (third day), 10.
- Quick pains in the lower limbs (soon after first dose, second day), 3.
- Hip.
- Pain in the right hip and down the thigh (after six hours, twenty-third day), 6. [480.]
- Catching pains through the right hip, and down on the outside of the right thigh, worse when sitting up (twenty-second night), 6.
- Boring sensation in the right hip-joint, with stiff feeling of the muscles of the thigh (twenty-seventh day), 6.
- Severe, drawing pain in the right hip, extending down the outside of the thigh, relieved by moving the limb from place to place (seventeenth day), 6.
- Stitches coming and going through the day in right hip-joint (seventeenth day), 13.
- Slight stitches occasionally in the right hip-joint (seventh day), 13.
- Soreness in the right hip-joint, worse when she has "thirsty spells," during the whole proving, 7.
- Thigh.
- Lassitude in the thighs (eighth day), 13.
- Pain in left thigh, flatulency and lameness in ankle-joints when moving, gradually diminishing (third day), 3.
- A small spot, about the size of the end of the finger, on the inner side of the left thigh, about half way down to the knee, very painful at times, coming and going (soon after first dose, second day), 3.
- Sharp pain in the inside of the left thigh, over the femoral artery, about two inches below Poupart's ligament (six hours and a quarter after second dose, second day), 3. [490.]
- Much trembling sensation from the pelvis extending down the thighs (sixty-ninth day), 7.
- Knee.
- Trembling of the knees (second day), .
GENERAL SYMPTOMS
- Objective.
- During the proving she has grown fat, gaining eight pounds (forty-fourth day), 7.
- Extreme emaciation and debility, 16.
- More active; things went easily (first days), 7.
- Tremulousness (fourteenth day), 11.
- Nervous tremulousness, towards evening (one hour after second dose, second day), 11.
- Tremulous and weak as from a fit of sickness, on waking (second morning after 12 drops), 10.
- Startings (third day), 1.
- Convulsive contractions of almost all the muscles of the body, 10. [520.]
- Hysterics, 10.
- The muscles of the whole body respond sluggishly to her will (forty-fourth day), 7.
- Enervation, 12.
- Lassitude, 12.
- General lassitude (twenty-ninth day), 6.
- General lassitude and great heat, in the afternoon (sixteenth day), 6.
- Languor; lassitude (twelfth day), 6.
- Great languor, for three days (after six days), 15.
- Languid, slow, and forgetful (thirty-third to forty-fourth day), 7.
- Languid, rather sleepy (after nine hour), 1. [530.]
- Dull, sleepy, and languid (after four hours), 1.
- Weakness and irritability during the forenoon (twenty-fourth day), 13.
- Loss of strength, with weakness and trembling of the bowels (after forty-third day), 5.
- Extreme exhaustion, following the diarrhœa, 16.
- Prostration, 12.
- Frequent faintness, especially in a warm room , or after being on the feet a long time, 14 ; wild cold perspiration on back of hands and on feet (after forty-three days), 5.
- Restless (thirty-first day), 6.
- Restless, with a desire to do something, but no ambition (seventh day), 7.
SKIN
- Irritation on the upper part of the chest and arms, and a fine rash about the forehead and around the borders of the hair, with much itching; not subject to anything of the kind (fifteenth night), 6.
- At intervals the skin of the abdomen felt stiff and stretched (fifth and sixth days), 7.
- Tingling in the legs, which disappeared after the second day, 2.
- Formication below the knees (after second dose, first day), 3.
- Itching in right temple, in evening (second day), 13.
- In the swell of the deltoid muscle on both arms, a burning itching, compelling to rub and scratch, which relieves for a short time (thirty-fifth day), 7.
SLEEP AND DREAMS
- Sleepiness.
- Yawning and stretching (third day), 9.
- Yawning and stretching all over (thirty-second day), 6.
- Sleepy, but easily aroused (after one hour); sleepy (after four hours), 1. [570.]
- Very sleepy at other times than the usual sleeping hours (after forty-three days), 5.
- During evening tried to compose music could not; for a sleepy feeling which pervaded the whole frame compelled the prover to retire at the unusually early hour of nine (second day), 4.
- Desire to sleep (sixth day), 7.
- Feel drowsy and retire early (third day), 13.
- Slept soundly without dreaming much; about the middle of the night woke suddenly and evacuated the bladder, a very unusual thing with the prover; slept again until a quarter before six, when awoke suddenly and again emptied the bladder; slept against till eight, when the bladder was evacuated again (first night), 4.
- Sleeplessness.
- Sleeplessness, 16.
- She has not slept for several nights; must rise twenty times to urinate; keeps turning and twisting; likes to have a pretext for getting up; if aroused by anything she can't sleep again (sixty-ninth day), 7.
- Cannot sleep at night, but lies with the eyes wide open (twenty-second day), 7.
- Wakefulness (eleventh night), 6.
- Wakeful during the night, but when asleep disturbed by bad laborious dreams (thirty-first night), 6. [580.]
- Unquiet sleep, frequent waking as if from being frightened (twentieth night), 6.
- Went to sleep soon after midnight, waking often (sixty-first night), 7.
- No sleep after 2 o'clock in the morning (fourteenth night), 6.
- Restlessness at night (ninth to eleventh days), 6.
- Restless during the night, with lascivious dream toward morning and seminal emission, which woke me (twenty-third night), 13.
- Restless sleep (fourteenth night), 6.
- Restless sleep, full of dreams, which cannot be recalled (sixteenth day), 13.
- Dreams.
FEVER
- Chilliness.
- Chilliness (seventeenth day), 13.
- Chilly feeling all over the body (second day), 9.
- A little chilly (second day), 13.
- Chills running from the face downwards , with a congested and constricted feeling of the chest, as if too narrow, and might be relieved by letting out some of the blood, 13.
- Sudden chills, not followed by fever, but with fulness of the head (after 12 drops), 10.
- Severe chill towards evening, causing great pain in and about the heart, going through into the back under the scapulæ; the pain is constrictive, the heart feels as if it were squeezed in a vice; the blood seems to have all gone to the heart, causing a feeling as though I must bend double; I can hardly walk straight going home; the heart fairly shakes with the cold, although the weather is mild (third day), 9.
- Chilliness over the face, followed by fever, congestion to the chest, and slight momentary spasmodic twitchings around the heart, during the forenoon (fifth day), 13. [600.]
- Cold chills in the back, particularly after going to bed at night, with hot flushes toward morning (twelfth day), 5a.
- Cold chills run over the face; chillier than in cold weather, with hot congested sensation in the chest (first day), 13.
- Creeping chills down the back, every night on going to bed, for a month (after two weeks), 8.
- Extremities cold and clammy (after 12 drops), 10.
- Cold feet and hands (forty-third day), 5.
- Cold hands and feet, and cold sweat on both most of the time, particularly so when having fluttering of the heart, 14.
- Cold hands and feet; perspiration, indeed, so profuse that they were constantly wet with cold, clammy sweat, 10.
- Everything in the least, exciting produces cold hands (fourth day), 10.
- Coldness of the outer side of the left leg, as though cold wind was blowing upon it, 2.
- Coldness of the feet (twenty-eighth day), 6. [610.]
- A cold feeling in the back, as if cold water were poured upon it, on going to bed (eleventh night), 5a.
CONDITIONS
- Aggravation.
- ( Morning ), Diarrhœa; early, dull headache; twinges, etc., in chest; pain in mamma; when moving, drawing in sacrum.
- ( Forenoon ), Chilliness over face, etc.
- ( Afternoon ), About 5 o'clock, all symptoms; obtuseness; towards evening, pain in temple; from 3 to 5 o'clock, pressing down, etc., around pubes, etc.; congestion of chest; lassitude, etc.; pulsations over body, etc.; towards evening, chilly; heat, etc.
- ( Evening ), The symptoms; irritable; headache; hot pain in forehead; frontal headache; in warm room, sensation from temple to temple; burning in forehead; hacking cough; oppressive feeling in chest; after going to bed; restlessness.
- ( Night ), From about 5 P.M. to 8 A.M., all symptoms ; excitement; despondency; after going to bed, confusion in head; heat, etc.; in forehead; pain in eyes; towards morning, feeling in lower chest; in bed, heaviness in region of heart, etc.; when lying down, pain in region of heart; in bed, pain in back; pains through hip, etc.; after lying down, aching in knees; after going to bed, chills in back , etc.; heat, etc.; heat in hands, etc.; heat of extremities.
- ( Walking in open air ), Headache, etc.
- ( After eating ), Nausea.
- ( Giving up self-control ), All symptoms.
- ( Lying down ), Constriction in side of chest; pain in mamma, etc.
- ( Pressure ), Pain in temples.
- ( Walking ), Pain in temple.
- ( After causing to walk ), The pains.
- Amelioration.
- ( Evening ), At sunset, headache, etc.
- ( Fresh air ), Most symptoms; cough.
- ( Keeping busy ), The symptoms; pain in side of head; heart symptoms.
- ( Motion ), Pain in iliac region.
- ( Pressure ), Fulness in temporal and frontal regions.