Silicic acid, Kieselerde.

Preparation , Triturations of pure precipitated Silica.

Authorities. (Nos.

1 to 7 a , from Hahnemann).

1 , Hahnemann; 2 , Foissac; 3 , Goullon; 4 , Gross; 5 , Hering; 6 , Stapf; 7 , Wahle; 7 a , "Rl.;" 8 and 9 , from Hartlaub and Trinks, R. A. M. L., 3, 218; 10 , omitted; 11 , Knorre, A. H. Z., 6, 37, effects of 1/4 grain of crude S. (Nos.

12 to 26 , from Ruoff's provings, Hygea, 8, 1, 1838); [The higher dilutions were prepared after Hahnemann's method, except that 2 to 3 drops were used to each dilution; the 1st, 2d, and 3d liquid preparations were made from the "Spiritus silicæ," by digesting 9 grains of Sil. With 6 drachms of Alcohol, and also by digesting 2 grains of Sil. With 1 drachm of Alcohol.]

12 , "N. N.," took 40 drops of 30th dil. first, third, and fifth days, 21st dil. twelfth and fourteenth days, 100 drops of 17th dil. sixteenth day, 5th dil. nineteenth and twentieth days; 13 , O. R., took 30th dil. first, third, and fifth days, 21st dil, twelfth and fourteenth days, 17th dil. sixteenth day; 14 , N., took 24th dil. first day, 23d dil. third day, 18th dil. sixth, eleventh, thirteenth, and fourteenth days, 6th dil. seventeenth day, 28th dil. eighteenth day, 4th dil. twenty-first and twenty-fourth days; 15 , a girl, aged twenty, took 24th dil. for seven days, 18th dil. tenth, eleventh, and twelfth days, 12th dil. fifteenth and sixteenth days, and after two weeks took 12th, 9th, and 4th dils.; 15 a , same, took 4th dil. two successive days, then 1st trit. on sixth day; 15 b , same, took repeated doses of 3d and 2d trits. and 4th dil.; 15 c , same, took 3 drops of "Spiritus sil.;" 16 , "C.," took 24th dil. first day, 23d dil. second day, 18th dil. fifth day; 17 , "A. Z.," aged eight, took 30th for three days, 21st dil. sixth, seventh, and eighth days; 18 , "M.," took 25th first day, 13th fourth day, 6th dil. fifth day, 3d trit. sixth day, 2d trit. seventh day, 3d trit. eighth day, 1st trit. tenth day; 18 a , same, took 3d trit. two days, 2d trit. seventh day, 3d trit. eighth day, 1st trit. tenth day; 19 , "G. W.," took 25th dil. first day, 13th, 6th, and 5th dils. fourth day, 4th dil. fifth day, 3d and 2d trits. sixth day, 2d trit. seventh day, 3d trit. eighth day, 2d trit. tenth day, 1st trit. twelfth day; 19 a , same, took 4th dil., 3d. and 2d trits.; 20 , J. P. W., took 25th dil. two days, 6th dil. third day, and afterward at various times 16th and 6th dil.; , same, took tincture; , same, 3d trit.; , Jacob W., took 4th dil.; , Barbara, aged twenty-two, took 30th dil. three days, 21st dil. seventh day, 13th dil. eighth to twelfth day; 7th dil. fourteenth to seventeenth day; , P. F., took 30th dil. first, third, fifth, and seventh days, 20th dil. tenth day, 16th dil. fifteenth day, 10th dil. twenty-first day, 6th dil. thirty-third and thirty-ninth days, 4th dil. forty-second and forty-fifth days, 3d trit. fiftieth and fifty-fourth days; , C. Z., a girl aged seventeen, took 21st dil. first, third and fifth days, 12th dil. tenth day, 4th dil. sixteenth and eighteenth days, 1st dil. twenty-first, twenty-eighth, and thirty-fifth days, tincture forty-third day; , F. X., took 5th dil. first day, 4th dil. second day, tincture fourth day, 3d trit. sixth day, tincture eleventh, eighteenth, and twenty-second days, 20 drops of tincture twenty-sixth day, 16 drops tincture evening twenty-ninth day; , L. S., took 16th dil. two days, 12th dil. seventh day, 3d trit. twelfth and twentieth days, tincture twenty-sixth day, 40 drops tincture thirty-third day, 36 drops of 1st dil. thirty-seventh day, 1st trit. forty-second day, 100 drops tincture forty-fifth day; , Becker, Hygea, 22, 402, proving with Aqua silicata (each ounce contained one-twentieth grain of Sil. in proportion of 1 to 9300), took 10 drops and rubbed gums with water two days, 10 drops fourth, sixth, and seventh days, 20 drops eighth day, 10 drops ninth day, 20 drops tenth day; [Prover has had attacks of violent faceache, has many bad teeth, sleeps badly, can never sleep on left side on account of suffocation and nightmare.]

28 , Hencke, A. H. Z., 55, 135, effects of inhaling dust while triturating (Nos.

29 to 42 , from Robinson's provings, Br. J. of Hom., 25, 333); 29 , 200th dil. every third morning; 30 , 30th dil. every third morning, in a young woman; 31 , 200th dil. as before, in a young woman; 32 , same, same doses in young woman; 33 , 1000th dil. same doses, young woman; 34 , 30th dil. as before, young woman; 35 , man, 200th dil. night and morning; 36 , young woman, 1000th dil. every third morning; 37 , child, 30th dil. night and morning; 38 , man, 30th dil. every third morning; 39 , young woman, 200th dil. once a week; 40 , young woman, 200th dil. every third morning; 41 , young woman, 200th dil. every third morning; 42 , man, 200th dil. every second morning. [Cases of phthisis pulm., occurring in knife-grinders and metal-polishers, reported by Dr. Desayrre, Ann. d'Hyg. Pub, 1856, attributed to the absorption of large amounts of Silica, are omitted. Examination of lungs demonstrated large deposits of silica, iron, and lime phosphate. Dr. Jousset has pointed out the remarkable similarity between the symptoms of the cases and those in Hahnemann's Pathogeneses (L'Art Méd, 5, 198).]

MIND

Emotional.
Unsteady and confused in his actions, 1.
Nervous excitement (eighth day), 16.
The child becomes obstinate and headstrong, 1.
Obstinate, 1.
Longing for home, 1.
Very easily startled, 1.*
*Sensitiveness to noise, and anxiety therefrom, 1.
Very sensitive , even weeping mood (fourth day), 15.*
Weeping mood for two hours without any particular thoughts, 1. [10.]
The slightest word brings tears, 1.
Gloominess; she felt as if she would die, and for the time lost her memory, 34.
Low-spirited, and weeps every morning, 32.
Gloomy mood (twentieth day), 12.*
Mind sad (seventeenth day), 13.
Low-spirited and over-anxious about himself, 20.
Great depression and irritability (forty-second day), 15.*
Depression of spirits (nineteenth day), 12.*
Dejected, 1.*
Dejected and melancholy, 3.* [20.]
Internal loathing of life, 1.
He woke with great anxiety about midnight, could not move in spite of every effort, and imagined that thieves were breaking in; on rising he became quiet, after lying down the anxiety returned (after thirty-seven days), 1.
Frequent attacks of anxiety, so that he could not remain sitting, 1.
Great anxiety from a start, 1.*
He woke with anxiety and incarceration of flatus, both of which disappeared after moving about in the house, without emission of flatus (after eight days), .

HEAD

Confusion and Vertigo.
The head is very much confused, with constant suffering in the sinciput (sixteenth day), 12.
Confusion of the head (after four days), 1.
Vertigo, 12, 13, 15 , etc.*
Vertigo as from intoxication (eleventh day), 22.
Vertigo on rising, dizzy stupefaction of the head, with nausea, even to vomiting; relieved while riding in the open air, returning on entering the house; the room seemed to whirl around with her, and she staggered to and fro (after thirty-eight days), 1. [70.]
Vertigo, while sitting and standing, in the evening, 1.
Vertigo, after the usual smoke and snuff; if he closes the eyes, everything seems to whirl around; it ceases on opening the eyes, 1.
Vertigo, as if he were being raised up, 1.
Vertigo, even on raising the eyes to look upward, 1.
At breakfast, vertigo, as if the head would fall to the left, with heat in the face and sweat on the forehead, 1.
Vertigo, with qualmish nausea; water is regurgitated, 1.
Sensation of vertigo, in the morning while fasting, 1.
Vertigo, while walking forward, it seemed as though he were walking backward, 1.
Stupefying vertigo, in the morning on rising, 1.
Vertigo, on rising up, 3. [80.]
Vertigo, only while sitting, not while walking, especially while riding in a carriage when suddenly for a moment he lost consciousness, though without blackness before the eyes, 1.
Attacks of vertigo, towards evening, in the open air; aggravated by the slightest reflection, 4.
Vertigo, with qualmish nausea, on rising up in bed in the morning, so that she was obliged to fall back again, 1.
Attacks of vertigo seem to rise painfully from the back, through the nape of the neck to the head, so that she does not know where she is, and is constantly inclined to fall forward, 1.*
Vertigo, even during sleep about midnight, with heat in the head, 1.

EYE

Objective.
Redness at first around the eyes, then also of the white of the eyes, with inflammation and lachrymation, 1.*
Redness of the whites of the eyes , with pressive pain, 1, 3.*
Ulcer on the left eye, 1.
Eyes weak (seventeenth day), 11.*
Subjective.
Feeling as if both her eyes were dragged back into the head with strings, 32.
Pain as if the eyes were being drawn out (fourth day), 10.
Painful cramp in both eyes, closing them so tightly that she can with great difficulty open them, 1.
The eyes are painful, as if too dry and full of sand, in the morning, 1.* [310.]
Sensation as if the left eye were full of water, 1.
Tension in the eyes and forehead, with weakness of the body, 1.
Tension in the eyes (second day), 12.
Pressure in the eyes every afternoon at 4 o'clock, 1.
Piercing-stinging pain in the left eye (twenty-fifth day), 23.*
Sudden piercing pain in the left eye (twenty-eighth day), 25.*
Tearing and burning in the eyes on pressing them together, 1.*
Twittering sensation in the right eye (thirty-third day), 25.
Heat in the eye, 1.*
Smarting of the eyes, 1.* [320.]
Smarting and pricking of left eye, 23.
Itching of the sore eye, immediately, 1.
Itching of the right eye, in the evening, 3.
Brow and Orbit.

EAR

Swelling of the outer ear, with thin discharge from the inner ear, with hissing, affecting the hearing, 1.* [370.]
Margins of the ears inflamed and moist, 1.
Thin discharge from the left ear (after five days), 1.
Large amounts of thin earwax (after nine days), 1.
Fine tearing beneath and behind the right ear, at 1 P.M. (fifth day), 3.
Jerking cutting in the bone behind the ear, 1.
Tearing behind the right ear, 3.
Pricking, aching, and itching in the ears, left chiefly, 20.
Cramplike drawing in the right ear (after twenty-four hours), 1.
Pain in the right ear (first day), 17.
Painful pressure in the meatus auditorius, 1. [380.]
Pressive pain in the left ear on blowing the nose, 1.
Drawing pain in the meatus auditorius, like otalgia, 1.*
Drawing pain in the right ear and down the neck, 1.
Tearing in and on the ear, 3.
Jerking pain in the left ear, 1.
Shooting pain in left ear, with a feeling as if humor was flowing from it, 32.
Stitches and tearing in the right ear, 13.
Stitches in the left ear, 13 ; (thirty-third day), 25.
Stitches in the ears (eighth day), 19.*
Sticking pain from the left ear to the left temple (fifteenth day), 22. [390.]
Itching in the ear, especially on swallowing, 1.*
Itching in both ears, 33.
Throbbing in the ear shakes the eyes, so that objects move up and down, 1.
Throbbing in the ear upon which he lies at night, 1.
Throbbing in the right ear, 1.
The ears seem stopped (after eight days), .*

NOSE

A smarting, painful scab deep in the right nostril, 1.*
Constant sneezing, but she cannot do it satisfactorily, 32.
Frequent sneezing in the afternoon and following forenoon (after five days), 8.
Frequent sneezing (after thirty-six hours), 1.* [420.]
A sneezing cold, lasting several days, 29.
Frequent, but usually ineffectual, efforts to sneeze (after twenty-eight, and forty-eight hours), 7.*
Coryza (eighth day), 18.
Constant coryza, 36.
Coryza and cough, with swelling of the submaxillary glands, pain in the throat on swallowing, great chilliness; she was obliged to lie down; an hour afterwards, in bed, burning heat over the whole body, 1.
Fluent coryza (after five, six, and twelve days), 1.*
*Violent coryza for several weeks (first days), 1.
Profuse coryza (after a few hours), 1.
Dry coryza (seventh day), 19.*
Dry coryza; could not get air through the nose (tenth day), 19.* [430.]
Dry coryza, with rough voice (after one hour and a half), 8.
She could not get rid of a catarrh, that was at one time dry, at another fluent, 1.*
Dry catarrh, in the morning on waking, 3.
Discharge of much mucus from the nose, without coryza, 1.*
Profuse, thick, mucous discharge from the nose (eighth day), 23.
Much acrid water runs from the nose, without coryza, making the nose sore and bloody internally and externally , together with the odor of blood or of freshly slaughtered animals, for five days, 1.*
Stuffed sensation in and running from the nose, as if he had a cold in his head, 29.
Nose and eyes water, 29.

FACE. [460.]

Swelling of the face, lips, and submaxillary glands, with chilliness and icy-cold feet, 1.
She is very pale, as after a long illness, for several days (after three days), 8.
Paleness of the face, 1 ; (first and seventh days), 18.
Her face burned painfully, 32.
Cheeks.
Drawing pain in the bones of the cheeks and behind the ear, worse on touch, 1.
Two painful tearings in the left cheek extended upward, in the forenoon, during the menses (tenth day), 8.
Tearing in both cheeks for four hours, followed by a sensation as if the left molars were on edge, 6.
Lips.
Swelling of the upper lip and gum, very painful to touch, 1.
Great swelling of the lower lip for two days (after seventeen days), 1.
A very painful pimple on the margin of the red of the lower lip, 1.* [470.]
Blisters, with smarting pain in the red of the upper lip, 1.
Blisters on the margin of the red of the upper lip , at first with itching, then, when scabby, only smarting pain, 1.
Itching scab on the upper lip, in the margin of the red (after sixteen days), 1.
Lips dry and cracked, 13.
Dryness of the lips, 38 ; (fifth day), 18.
Lips feel much parched; soreness of the palate, 29.
Lips hot (seventh day), 15.
Jaws.
Occasional aching in upper and lower jawbones, 29.
Aching of both jaws, 40.
Painful contractive cramp in the left submaxillary articulation, and afterwards in the temple, 3. [480.]
Bruised pain in the articulation of the jaw, in front of the left ear, when touched and on chewing, 1.
Tension in the articulation of the jaw (immediately), 16.

MOUTH

Teeth.
Teeth loose and sensitive when chewing, 1.
The teeth become loose and the gum painful to the slightest pressure (sixteenth day), 12.*
Inflammation of a molar with swelling and soreness of the gum, 3.*
All her teeth feel loose and elongated, 40.
Her teeth feel too large and long for her mouth, 23.
Teeth on edge for four weeks, 1.
Upper teeth on edge as from acids, 1. [490.]
Aching pain in all the teeth, 33.
Constant aching in all the teeth, 29.
A back tooth when biting pains as if ulcerating, 1.
Toothache in the morning on waking, lasting till shortly after rising, 1.
Dull pain, especially in the molars, after dinner and from drinking, 1.
Constant simple toothache; disappearing while eating; most violent at night, preventing sleep, 1.
Toothache after eating, 3.
Tensive toothache, 1.
Toothache mostly when eating warm food and on taking cold air into the mouth, 1.
The boy was attacked with a kind of teething fever; although he had all of his teeth he drooled, bored his hands into the mouth, and had heat in the head in the evening, 1. [500.]
A lower molar is painful, as if too long, 1.
Two painful jerkings in the right upper back teeth (first day), 8.
Violent toothache and pain in the whole lower jaw, pressure and jerking, so that he could not sleep the whole night, 1.
Violent pressure in a hollow tooth, 1.
Drawing pain in a hollow tooth, 1.
Drawing in a hollow tooth in paroxysms, 4.
Drawing in the lower incisors, 1.
Drawing-tearing toothache with soreness of the gums, 40.
Tearing toothache when eating, lasting a quarter of an hour afterwards, .

THROAT

Throat swollen and painful, 32.
Swelling of the thyroid cartilage; the spot itches, with sticking, when touched, 1.
Hawking of salt mucus, 3.
Frequent hawking of thick mucus (first day), 2.
Hawking up of yellow, very offensive balls of mucus, 1.* [580.]
Much mucus in the throat, which she was constantly obliged to hawk up (after twenty-four hours), 1.
Rising of mucus in the throat, without cough (twenty-third day), 24.
Dryness of the throat, 32.
Dryness of the throat, as from a cold, 29.
Throat very dry, with hoarseness, and itching in the meatus auditorius, 1.
Rawness in the throat during cough (twenty-third day), 24.
Rawness in the throat provokes cough after dinner (first day), 8.
Throat very raw, 1.
Sore throat, with very much mucus in it (after forty-eight hours), 1.
Sore throat, as from a lump in the left side, on swallowing (after four days), 1.* [590.]
Soreness of the throat, as if he swallowed over a sore spot, with at times stitches in i t, 1.*
Pressive soreness on the left side of the throat when swallowing, 1.*
Swelling and tensive pain in the left side of the throat; fauces red and irritated (seventh day), 14.
Scraping sore throat in the morning; sticking in it in the evening, 1.
Roughness and scraping in the throat at night while lying on the right side in bed, on account of which she coughed for half an hour, with expectoration of mucus, several nights, 1.
Scratching in the throat, that provokes hacking cough, with a sensation of rawness in the bronchi, most distressing in the morning, on waking, and in the evening after lying down, for four days, 28.
Scraping sensation low down in the throat, in the evening (seventh day), 16a.
Sticking sore throat only on swallowing, with pain in the throat, even to touch, .*

STOMACH

Appetite.
Great appetite ; desire for bread and warm food; immediately after eating, the appetite and thirst returned (tenth day), 19.
Ravenous hunger, so that it was difficult to fall asleep (fourteenth day), 27.*
Ravenous hunger before supper, with complete loss of appetite and trembling in all the limbs, followed by chilliness and coldness over the whole body, with heat in the chest (second day), 1.*
Ravenous hunger, in the morning, 3.
Ravenous hunger towards evening, and after eating, a slight sensation of nausea in the pit of the stomach, 4. [630.]
Ravenous hunger, with collection of water in the mouth, 1.
Ravenous hunger appeased only by lying still a short time, 1.
Excessive hunger, 1.*
Constant hunger, and after eating, fulness in the stomach, and even then hunger, 1.
Gnawing hunger, that is for only a short time relieved by a bite of bread, 1.
She is hungry, but will swallow no food, 1.
Hunger in the evening; he ate more than usual and then was not satisfied, but after a quarter of an hour there was a feeling of fulness in the stomach (after fifteen days), 1.
Is very hungry; eats as usual, and then complains that everything seems to be up in the throat, 1.
Appetite for he does not know what, with accumulation of water in the mouth, 1.
Appetite for only cold, raw food, 1. [640.]
She ate very little, immediately became averse to everything, 8.
Aversion to meat, 1.
Appetite bad (sixteenth day), 12.
Diminished appetite, 13 ; (sixteenth day), 15.*
Loss of appetite, with clean tongue (fourth, fifth, and sixth days), 8.
Sense of appetite and taste became defective, 29.
Loss of appetite and taste, .

ABDOMEN

Hypochondria.
Cramplike pain across the hypochondria, extending into the back, especially on motion (tenth day), 16.
A gradually drawing, dull pain in both hypochondria, extending to the spine, less at night, 1. [740.]
Stitches below the hypochondria (first day), 18a.
Stitches in the hypochondria, 3.
Aching pain in right hypochondrium, 29.
Constant pressure in the right hypochondrium, 3.*
A very violent dull stitch in the right hypochondrium, extending through the abdomen and out at the opposite side, sharp, together with a violent pain in the pit of the stomach, relieved by bending up, at 2.30 P.M. (fifth day), 6.
Some sharp, very fine (burning) stitches in the right hypochondrium, in the afternoon (fifth day), 8.
Umbilicus and Sides.
Constrictive griping in the umbilical region (seventh day), 18a.
Colic; constrictive pain about the navel, with at times stitches; the abdomen is distended; the pains continue until there occurs a thin stool, accompanied by flatus (twelfth day), 19.
Constrictive pain about the navel after dinner, followed by a pasty stool thinner than usual (first day), 18.
Constrictive colic in the umbilical region (first day), 18a. [750.]
Digging sensation about the navel, in the afternoon (first day), 18.
Pressure beneath the umbilical region just before and during a stool, 6.
Pressive sensation about the navel, followed by flatulence and emission of much flatus (fifth day), 18.
Pressure in the umbilical region, 1.
Sticking pain about the navel on deep inspiration (fourth day), 19.
Cutting and griping about the navel, at 9.30 A.M. (first day), 8.
Cutting pain in the region of the navel, going right through to the back, and coming on at intervals, 32.
Cutting in the umbilical region from time to time (after two days), 1.
Pain, with cutting, about the navel and desire for stool, frequently coming and going, after midnight and in the forenoon (second day), .

RECTUM AND ANUS

A vein as large as a quill protrudes from the anus, with itching and pressure (after four days), 1. [850.]
The hæmorrhoids protrude excessively during the stool, return with difficulty, and with discharge of bloody mucus from the rectum, 1.*
*Moisture in the anus, 1.
Sticking pains in the hæmorrhoids, 1.
The hæmorrhoids which protruded with the stool became strangulated in the anus (after twenty-one days), 1.
Although the hæmorrhoids protrude but little yet they are painfully sensitive (after twenty-four hours), 1.*
*The stool remains a long time in the rectum, as if there were no power to expel it, 1.
Jerking, almost dull sticking pain in the rectum, 1.*
*Cutting in the rectum, 1.
*Stinging in the rectum, 1.
For several days burning in the rectum during stool, 1.* [860.]
Violent stitches in the rectum, extending towards the genitals, while walking (after thirty days), 1.
A coarse stitch in the rectum, 1.
Painful stinging-itching in the rectum during stool, 1.*
Itching in the rectum, in the evening, 1.
*Tension in the anus, 1.
Pressure in the anus after a soft stool, 1.
Boring cramplike pain, extending from the anus into the rectum and testicles, 1.*
Contractive pain in the anus, extending forward (into the perinæum), 1.
*Pain in the anus as if constricted, during the stool, .

STOOL

Diarrhœa.
Diarrhœa without colic, day and night, for several days (after seven days), 1. [880.]
Exhausting diarrhœa , at night (twentieth day), 1.*
Obliged to go to stool on waking, at night (after five days), 1.
Stool watery (first day), 18a.
Six watery stools with flatulence (second day), 18a.
Two watery stools with tenesmus (fifteenth day), 12.
Stool thinner than usual (first day), 18a.
Stool almost thin, slimy, frothy and followed by burning and biting in the anus (seventh day), 1.
Profuse thin stool, with great urging but without pain, after which the sleep was better (fiftieth day), 23.
Copious stool and urine, 3.
Two soft stools (third day), 14. [890.]
Very frequent soft stools for two days, without diarrhœa (after thirteen days), 1.
*Several soft stools, preceded by movements in the abdomen (after one hour and a half), 8.
Pasty stool (eighth day), 19.*
Two pasty stools (fourteenth day), 12.
Pasty stool, with slimy membranous portions, followed by biting burning in the anus (sixth day), 1.
Pasty stools, at 4 and 6 P.M., 19a.
*Horribly offensive stools, 10.
Stool lighter colored than usual, 4.
Stool mixed with bloody mucus, followed by biting in the anus, 1.
Discharge of blood and mucus from the anus, in which there was a violent burning (eleventh and twentieth days), 1. [900.]
Stool, with mucus , followed by itching in the anus (nineteenth day), 1.*
Reddish mucus with the stool, 1.
Frequent scanty discharge of liquid as offensive as carrion, 1.*

URINARY ORGANS

He feels a weakness in the urinary organs, constant desire to urinate, 35.
Pressure upon the bladder while urinating, followed by burning, 3.
Constant fine stitches in the forepart of the urethra, 1.
Cutting pain in urinating, 39.
Cutting during micturition (sixteenth day), 1.
Burning in the urethra while urinating, 1. [930.]
Burning pain during micturition, for several days (after ten days), 18a.
Smarting in the urethra while urinating, 1.
Constant desire to urinate, the urine was passed guttatim, with violent burning pain in the urethra, for three days (after fourteen days), 8 . [Smelling of the spirits of Camphor and even a dose of a few drops had no effect, neither had olfaction of Hepar sulph.; but a drop of the 12th dilution of Cantharides gradually removed the intolerable pains.]
Desire to urinate, with copious discharge, 4.
Desire to urinate, with scanty discharge, 4.
Urging to urinate, with smarting in the urethra, 1.
Frequent desire to urinate, 1.
Desire to urinate, with erections, at night, 4.
Frequent ineffectual efforts to urinate, 1.
Involuntary micturition while sitting, after urinating, 1. [940.]
Awoke at night to urinate (sixth night), 27.
He woke at night in sweat, with desire to urinate, 1.
He was obliged to urinate every quarter of an hour, about 7 A.M., for several days, 1.
Obliged to rise nearly every night to urinate, 4.
Frequent scanty emission of urine without pain (fifth day), 8.
Did not rise to urinate at night as usual (first day), 9.
Urine scanty, with burning during the evacuation, in the afternoon (fifth day), 8.
Urine red (tenth day), 18a.
Urine hot, burning, pale yellow, 3.
The urine is very sedimentous, 39. [950.]

SEXUAL ORGANS

Frequent stitches through the genitals (thirty-third day), 25.
Distressing itching in the genitals while urinating, 1.
Frequent violent erections during the day, without apparent cause (first days), 1.
Violent erections at night , without sexual desire, 1.* [960.]
Violent erections, with relaxed scrotum (after five days), 1.
Violent erections, with drawing pain in the testicles, 1.
Erections follow slowly (after twenty-three days), 1.
No erections, even no trace of them (after several days), 1.
Redness about the corona glandis, as if denuded of skin, with frequent itching, 1.
Swelling of the prepuce, with itching moist pimples externally, 1.
Itching and red spots on the glans penis, 1.
Sharp pricking pains in the penis, for ten minutes, 29.
Burning pain in the prepuce after a stool, 1.
Itching beneath the prepuce, 1. [970.]
Hydrocele, 7.*
Itching and a moist spot on the scrotum, 1.*
Crawling on the scrotum, 1.
The testicles are painful, worse at night, but only when lying down, 1.
Pain in the right testicle as if it were indurated, 1.
Distending or compressing pain in the left testicle, as from great swelling, 1.
Jerking pains in the left testicle, 13.
Pressure in the spermatic cords, with the testicles hanging down relaxed (first days), 1.
Dragging from the prostate gland forward, 3.
Sexual desire increased with erections (after twenty-one days), 1. [980.]
Sexual desire greatly excited the first eight days, erections every half hour, day and night, with retracted testicles, 1.
Lascivious thoughts (first and second days), 1.*

RESPIRATORY ORGANS. [1020.]

Sensation of soreness like rawness in the larynx, when breathing, 1.
Pain in the region of the larynx, when lifting a heavy weight, 1.
Tickling in the larynx with slight cough and hoarseness, 29.
Voice.
Hoarseness (first day), 2 ; (sixth day), 14 ; (about six hours after tincture), 15c.*
Hoarseness while talking, 15b.
Constant hoarseness, with a painful sensation as if the throat were internally swollen, 13c.
Hoarseness, especially in the morning, so that she could scarcely speak aloud (after six days), 15a.
Hoarseness, with frequent, dry, hacking cough (after three days), 1.
Cough and Expectoration.
Cough at night (after fifteen days), 1.
Cough in the morning and after going to bed, 1. [1030.]
Cough, for five weeks, 1.
Cough, with hoarseness (nineteenth day), 1.*
Hoarse cough (after six days), 15a.
Frequent irritation to cough (twentieth day), 25.
Spasmodic cough (after twelve days), 1.
Cough at first caused by tickling in the throat, gradually seeming to come from lower down in the throat, till on the thirty-first day it came from the chest and shook the abdomen, during the day consisting of sudden explosive coughs without expectoration, in the evening the cough became worse (thirty-first day), 25.*
Cough especially troublesome, after lying down in the evening and after waking in the morning for eleven days, 1.*
Slight cough and hoarseness, with tickling in the larynx, 29.*
Cough very violent, with lachrymation (twelfth and thirteenth days); the cough continued during the succeeding days, after two days it was very violent, especially after laughter, with sticking pain below the angle of the scapula and in the middle of the sternum on coughing; the cough was worse in the morning, with stitches in the chest, more in the middle of the sternum than at the sides, with stitches in the middle of the sternum on inspiration; * ; during the day the expectoration was insignificant; the morning cough occurred on rising from bed; in the evening it occurred at 9 P.M., on going to bed, lasting from one-half to three-quarters of an hour, without expectoration and without pain; nose very much stopped; could not breathe through the nose; this influenza continued several days, and after two days was associated * , with profuse white slimy discharge from the nose, cough diminished, thick yellow expectoration, cough and expectoration worse after rising, seldom in the evening and through the day (on account of this attack the proving was suspended), .

CHEST

Rush of blood to the chest (after ten days), 1.
Oppression of the chest (fourth day), 19.
Oppression of the chest; she cannot take a long breath, 32.
Oppression of the chest as if the throat were constricted, especially after eating, 1.
Great oppression of the chest when walking, so that he was obliged to stop every four or five steps, without pain; on account of this oppression of the chest he was frequently obliged to take a deep breath, which he could only do with great effort, 11.
Great oppression of the chest, though without pain, inability to take a deep breath, 1.
Violent oppression of the chest after a stool, 1.
Tension in the chest (fifth day), 19.
Tension in the short ribs (fifth day), 19. [1100.]
Tensive pain across the chest, lasting several hours, 29.
Tightness of the chest (after third day), 1.
Tightness of the chest, alternating with pain in the back (after taking cold?), (after nineteenth day), 1.
Tight feel around the chest, as if she were tied in with a tape, 33.
Contraction in the chest (thirty-eighth day), 15.
Pressure on the chest towards evening, 13.
Pressure upon the chest several times in the morning in bed, 1.
Great pressure upon the chest whenever she wishes to cough; she cannot cough out on account of the pain, 1.
Weakness of the chest; when talking he is obliged to make use of the whole chest in order to articulate his words, 4.
Pains in the chest at night (fifth day), 15. [1110.]
Pains in various places in the chest (twenty-first day), 14.
On coughing the chest is painful as if bruised, 1.*
The chest pains as if it would burst when sneezing, 1.
The chest is painful as if beaten, even on breathing, 1.
Violent pain in the chest, and a paralyzed feeling in the lower extremities on rising after sitting a long time (after forty-eight hours), 1.

HEART

Transient orgasm at the heart for eight days, 1.
Heavy pressure in the region of the heart (third day), 2.
Palpitation and throbbing over the whole body while sitting, 1.*
Palpitation, with trembling of the hand in which he was holding something, while sitting quietly, 1. [1160.]
Palpitation, with anxiety for half an hour after the midday meal, 1.
Violent palpitation on every movement (forty-second and forty-sixth day), 23.*
Palpitation causing great anxiety and orgasm of blood in the whole body, in the evening when going to bed (fiftieth day), 23.
Violent palpitation for two hours in the afternoon and evening (fifty-first day); worse on standing; he was frequently obliged to sit down because standing caused anxiety (fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth days), 23.
Palpitation worse while standing than while sitting (fifty-sixth day), 23.
Violent palpitation in the evening, 13.

NECK AND BACK

Neck.
Stiffness and chilliness at the nape of the neck, 32.
Stiffness of one side of the neck; cannot turn the head on account of pain (after forty-six hours), 6.*
Stiffness of the nape of the neck (second day), 2.*
*Stiffness of the nape of the neck, with headache, 1. [1170.]
Feeling of tension in the nape of the neck (after a few hours), 1.
Pressure on the left side of the neck, as if the vessels were swollen, 1.
Pinching pain in the right side of the nape of the neck, lasting a quarter of an hour; disappearing when pressing the hand upon it, but immediately returning at 9 A.M. (fifth day), 8.
Some violent tearings in the middle of the nape of the neck at 10 A.M. (first day), 8.
Stitches in the cervical glands, 1.
Back.
Weakness in the back, and a paralyzed feeling in the lower extremities; could scarcely walk (eighth day), 1.*
Stiff, sore feeling down the right side of the spine, then across the loins, and over the right hip-joint, 33.
Stiffness of the back and small of the back after sitting, 1.
Great stiffness in the back and small of the back after sitting; he could not straighten up (after eight days), 1.
Stiffness in the back, 1. [1180.]
Pressure in the back, 1.
Pain in the back in the morning after waking, on beginning to move, afterwards disappearing, 1.
Pain in the back (twenty-fourth day), 14.
Pain in the curved spine, 1.*
Griping pain in the right side of the back for an hour, 1.
Violent tearing or beating pressure in the back, with chilliness, afterwards changing to dull pressive headache, with heat in the head (first days), 1.
Arthritic tearing pains in the back (sixteenth day), .

EXTREMITIES

Gray dirty nails, as if decayed, when cut scattering like powder and splitting into several layers, 7.*
Dreadful trembling in all the limbs, the hands in particular; at times she was quite unable to lift a cup of tea, 34.
Trembling of all the limbs, especially of the arms, they seemed paralyzed in the morning, 3.
Frequent jerking of the arms and of the right lower extremity, and grasping with the hands, in the evening on falling asleep, 1.
Weakness in all the limbs (nineteenth day), 12.*
*Weakness of the limbs, 12, 13, 18, 19, 26 , etc.
Weakness in all the limbs, so that he could scarcely walk (first day), 19.* [1230.]
Great weakness of the arms and feet, so that he could scarcely walk or lift a pound with the hand (sixteenth day), 12.
Weakness of the joints so that they give way, 1.
Weariness in the extremities, worse in the upper, 19a.
Stiffness of the upper and lower extremities, with loss of sensation and with numbness; can no longer walk without falling; he is even unable to feed himself, since he cannot use his hands (after twenty-one days), 4 . [This symptom occurred in an old man, after the administration of a low dilution of Silicea, for an inveterate tetter. Hahnemann by an oversight put it in Lycopodium. Gross, Archiv. Fur Hom., vol. xx, part i, p. 79. Dr. Hering has kindly called the attention of the Editor to this note by Dr. Gross. Symptom 2048 of Lycopodium must, therefore, be erased. -T. F. A.]
Great stiffness of the limbs, 1.
Quite lame feeling in the limbs when rising from a seat, disappearing on continuing to walk, 1.
Uneasiness and lameness in the joints of the upper and lower extremities, when walking and sitting, 4.
Heaviness of the extremities, while walking in the open air (first day), 1.
The upper and lower extremities are heavy, as if filled with lead, 1.
All the limbs seem bruised; she cannot lie long in any position on account of pain, for four days (after two days), . [1240.]

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

Slight muscular twitches in the arms, 1.
Tremulousness of the left arm (thirty-second day), 25.
Rush of blood to the arms while constantly at work and stooping, they seem swollen and tremble for an hour, 1.
Rheumatic stiffness of the left arm, more painful during motion than rest, 1.
Weariness of the arms, in the morning in bed, 1. [1260.]
The arms are heavy , as if filled with lead, 1.*
Uneasiness and trembling of the right arm, 1.
Violent pressure in the left arm, as if in the marrow of the bone, 1.
Drawing in the arm extending into the little finger, 3.
The arm falls asleep when lying upon it, 3.
Numb sensation in right arm like pins and needles, 38.
Tearing in arms, commencing alike in both arms and extending to the wrists (fourth day), 19.
Tearing in both arms, 1.
Jerking tearing in the arms, extending into the thumb, 3.
Biting in the arms (sixth day), 18. [1270.]
Sticking pains in the arms (eighth day), 15.
Sticking pains in the arms (twenty-first day), 26.
Throbbing in the right arm, so that the jerking of the muscles could be felt with the other hand; thereupon the arm seemed paralyzed, and it returned if he held the arm high up (after ten days), 1.
Throbbing in the right arm after eating, 1.
Shoulder.
Very great swelling of the axillary glands, 7a.*
Sharp momentary pain in right shoulder-joint, 29.
Pressive pain in the right shoulder (fourth day), 17.
Violent pressive pain on the right shoulder, extending to the elbow as soon as he uncovers and becomes cold, mostly at night, 1.
Pain like a pressure in the shoulder, extending to the hand, with a sensation as if she could lift nothing heavy, though she could use the hand as usual (immediately), .

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

Shuffling, heavy gait, 1. [1400.]
The lower extremities are a single time jerked together, followed by a sensation as if the head were shaking, as in ague, with bristling of the hair, though with natural warmth of the body, 1.
Trembling of the lower limbs with extreme nervousness, 33.
Muscular twitches in the left lower extremity, 1.
*Weakness of the lower extremities, 3.
Great weariness of the lower extremities from a short walk, so that he was obliged to rest, 4.*
Weariness of the lower extremities, in the morning, 1.*
Heaviness of the lower extremities, 1.*
The right lower extremity falls asleep, 1.
The lower extremities fall asleep, in the evening while sitting, after which they become stiff until she moves them again, 1.
Drawing and tension as from chilliness, extending from the nates down to the feet (eleventh day), 16. [1410.]
Tearing pains in the left lower extremity (sixteenth day), 12.
Tearing extending from the pelvis to the hollow of the knee, 3.
Tearing, here and there, in the whole left lower extremity, at 11 A.M., 8.
Sticking prickling in many places on the lower extremities, gradually relieved after violent scratching, 4.
Hip.
Violent bruised sensation in the hips and small of the back, painful on stooping (third day), 24.*
*Pains in the hips (thirty-first day), 25.
Pain in the left hip when stooping, for a quarter of an hour, 1.
Dragging feel from the right hip down to the toes, 32.
Drawing-jerking pain in the right hip-joint, making it impossible to move the limb (after sixteen days), 1.
Tearing pain in the hips , extending along the outer side of the right leg to the knee, where there was a stitch, relieved while sitting, returning on moving about; inability to walk on account of painful stiffness of the knee; after half an hour the sticking and tension occurred in the second phalanges of the fingers of the left hand (seventh day), .*

GENERALITIES

She became extremely emaciated during the five days' illness, 8.
Emaciation of the whole body, with pale, suffering expression, 11.* [1570.]
Great emaciation, 7.*
Tremulousness when writing (thirty-third day), 25.*
Epileptic attack at night, about the time of the new moon; the body was at first stretched out, then tossed about, without cries and without biting the tongue (after sixteen days), 1.
A paroxysm; she became pale, quiet, and lost her appetite, complained in a weeping manner of very violent sticking in the ear, vomited, and became so weak in the hands that she could not carry a cup to her mouth (after five hours), 1.
Loss of appetite; pale, suffering expression; every morning perspiration, which sometimes was very profuse; heaviness and weariness of the lower extremities, that frequently obliged her to lie down; nausea; chilliness every evening before going to sleep; sticking pains here and there, in the sides of the chest, in the abdomen, limbs, at times so violent that she started up in fright; pain beneath the sternum on inspiration; itching on the arms and lower extremities, with small pimples, 9.*
In the evening, after lying down (and slumbering), he began unconsciously to thrash about with the hands and feet and to jerk, with closed eyes and loud snoring (without screaming); froth oozed from the mouth, after which he lay motionless, as if dead, and when one attempted to rouse him, he was quite stiff, then opened his eyes, that were fixed, and began to mumble (an epileptic attack?), (after sixteen days), 1.
Great coldness of the whole left side of the body , followed by frequent slumbering and starting up, as if she would go away without knowing whither, then she begins to lose consciousness, speaks unintelligibly, recognizes no one, and becomes so weak that she cannot turn over alone; after this violent convulsions, with staring look, distortion of the eyes, twitching of the lips, lolling of the tongue, stretching and distortion of the head and limbs, lasting a quarter of an hour , followed by frightful roaring, dropping of tears from the eyes, frothing at the mouth; after this warm perspiration over the whole body, free respiration, slumber, and after several hours gradual return of consciousness and speech (after forty-six hours), .*

SKIN

Objective.
*Small wounds in the skin heal with difficulty and easily suppurate, 9.
Cracking of the skin on the arms and hands (seventeenth day), 1.*
A bursa on the back of the hand , between the third and fourth metacarpal bones, with a sprained feeling on bending the hand, and a bruised pain on moving it (thirteenth day), 1.*
A bursa between the second and third metacarpal bones (first day), 1.
Eruptions, Dry.
Eruption on the face and neck, consisting of small white scales, followed by fine desquamation, with some itching, 15b.
Eruption on the face, 1.
Eruption of red spots as large as peas on the chest, somewhat elevated, with some biting pain (ninth and tenth days), 19.
Red spots on the cheeks and red nose, with burning pain from a slight exertion, especially after eating, 1. [1630.]
White and red spots on the face, 32.
A red, very sensitive smarting spot , lasting two days, on the right tibia, 1.*
White spots on the cheeks from time to time, 1.
Itching rash on the sternum, 1.
Red, itching tetter on the chin, 9.
Elevated scabby spots on the coccyx, above the fissure of the nates, 9.*
Heat rash on the fingers, with crawling itching, 4.
Biting on the thighs; eruption of blotches, with red areola, with itching, worse in the evening, and still worse in bed (twenty-third day), 19.
Itching rash on the calves, 1.
Papular eruption on the forehead and across the nose, 1. [1640.]
A pimple on the eyebrow, 1.
Itching pimples on the left side of the nose, in the afternoon (fifth day), 8.
Papular eruption upon the nose, 1.

SLEEP

Sleepiness. [1700.]
Much yawning, 1.
Inclination to yawn, with violent eructations, 19a.
Sleepiness, 13 ; (twenty-first day), 26.
Sleepiness, with frequent yawning (seventh day), 18a.
Sleepy and tired in the evening (tenth day); very sleepy in the evening (eleventh day); increased sleepiness (eleventh to thirteenth day), 27.
Very sleepy at 7 P.M.; she was obliged to lie down about 8 and slept very well (first day), 8.
Very sleepy from 2 to 5 P.M. (first day), 12.
Very sleepy from 1 to 9 P.M. (fifth day), 12.
Very sleepy after eating , and weak; is obliged to sleep, 1.*
Great sleepiness during the day, he was obliged to sleep even before dinner, 1. [1710.]
Great sleepiness in the evening (after twenty days), 1.
Great sleepiness very early in the evening, 1.
Great sleepiness, 21 ; (fourteenth day), 12.
Great sleepiness all day, 19a.
Overpowering sleepiness in the forenoon (twenty-sixth day), 25.
Deep long sleep in the afternoon, followed by weakness (after five days), 1.
(Sleep better than usual), (first night), 27.
Constant loud laughter in sleep after midnight, 1.
Talking frequently in sleep, 1.
Makes efforts to rise from bed during sleep, 1. [1720.]
Starting up in the midday sleep (twelfth day), 1.
Jerking upward of the body at night during sleep without dreams, for half an hour (after four days), 1.
She stands up while asleep, climbs over a chair, table, and piano, and then lies down in bed without knowing anything of it, 1.
Jerking and starting in sleep, with frequent rushes of blood to the head, 32.
Sleeplessness.

FEVER

Chilliness.
Violent chill, especially in the shoulders, in the evening, 3.
*Very chilly all day, 1. [1810.]
Very chilly in a hot room, without thirst, all the forenoon (third day), 8.
Chilliness after eating (twenty-fourth day), 1.
Constant chilliness in the evening, even noticed externally, 3.
Constant internal chilliness, with loss of appetite, 1.
Constant chilliness, with occasional slight feverishness, 29.
Constant internal chilliness from taking cold at night, with loss of appetite and sticking-burning headache, 1.*
*Chilliness on every movement all day; in the morning great weariness, even to falling asleep, 1.
Chilly at night while half awake , without waking, 1.*
Febrile chill, lasting till 8.30 P.M. (nineteenth day), 12.
Febrile chill, 13. [1820.]
General feverish condition; chilliness in the evening (ninth day); during the day (tenth day); in the evening (eleventh day), 27.
Violent incessant internal chilliness for several days, 1.*
Chilliness, with sleepiness, after eating (thirteenth day), 14.
*Chilliness in the evening (ninth day); all day (tenth day), 27.
General feeling of chilliness, 38.
Chilliness, with sticking pain, 1.
*Distressing sensation of chilliness in the afternoon, especially on the arms, in a warm room, 1.
Chilliness, even while walking in a warm room, and in the open air so violent that he trembled (after thirty-two hours), .*

CONDITIONS

Aggravation.
( Morning ), Weeping; forgetful and dizzy; on rising, vertigo; dizziness and whirling; on rising from bed, reeling; pressive headache; after rising, headache in forehead; sticking and throbbing in forehead; pressure in occiput and nape of neck; eyes painful; agglutination of the eyes; biting in the canthi; on waking, dry catarrh; toothache; bad odor from the mouth; bitter taste; taste of blood, bad taste; ravenous hunger; sour, bitter eructations; nausea and qualmishness; twisting, etc. in pit of stomach; pressure in abdomen; hoarseness; after washing, cough; cough; dyspnœa; pressure in abdomen; hoarseness; pressure upon scapula; swelling of the feet; on rising, pains in the bones.
( Forenoon ), Distraction of mind; 10 A.M., to 8 P.M., fever.
( Afternoon ), 3 to 9 P.M., headache; tearing and sticking in head; throbbing frontal headache; griping colic; fever.
( Evening ), While sitting and standing, vertigo; jerking through head; headache in forehead; acid eructations; itching in rectum; after lying down, cough; in bed, biting in legs and arms; chilliness; cold feet.
( Night ), Rush of blood to the head; headache; pressive headache; agglutination of the eyes; toothache; roughness and scraping in throat; pains in lower abdomen; pain in testicles; cough; drawing between scapula; sweat.
( Cold air ), Stitches in teeth.
( Deep breathing ), Stitches in chest; pain beneath left ribs; sticking pains.
( Eating ), Toothache.
( After eating ), Difficult hearing; pain in abdomen; pressure in abdomen; cough; oppression of chest.
( Lying of left side ), Vertigo.
( During menses ), Anxiety in pit of stomach; cold feet.
( At new moon ), Most symptoms.
( Motion ), Tearing headache in forehead; pain in sinciput; pain in temples; pain in left side of head; pain across hypochondria; stiffness of left arm; pain.
( Pressure ), Pain in left side of head.
( Reflection ), Vertigo.
( Rest ), Vertigo; pressure upon scapulæ.

SILICEA.