SPIGGURUS.
By Timothy F. Allen — The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
By this name, Mure, in his Pathogénésie Brésilienne, has described a kind of porcupine, which perfectly to
Hystrix prehensilis , which inhabits Brazil, and uses its prehensile tail in moving about the trees.
Preparation , Trituration of the spines.
Authority.
Mure, Pathog. Brésil., p. 274. J. V. Martins took a dose of the 3d attenuation.
MIND
- Inconsistent and capricious mood (sixth day).
- No inclination to work, in the evening (first day).
- Strong inclination to write, in the morning, ceasing after breakfast (third day).
HEAD
- Dizziness in the back of the head, when writing (third day).
- Great heaviness of the head, from 10 to 11 A.M. (third day).
- After breakfast, boring pain through the bones of the skull (second day).
- Boring pain through the skull-bones (fourth day).
- Lancination in the left side of the head, through the skull-bones; inability to move the head, for three minutes (fourth day).
- Pain in one-half the head (second day). [10.]
- Small prickings on the vertex, from time to time, especially on the right side (third day).
EYE
- The eyes fill with tears (fifth day).
EAR
- Sharp pain from the left ear to the jaw, for two minutes (fifth day).
- Noise in the ears (second day).
- Whizzing and humming from the left ear to the back of the head (third day).
- The whizzing in the ears continues (third day).
- Roaring in the ears, like a distant hurricane (third day).
- Deafness of the left ear, as if stopped up (sixth day).
FACE
- Pain at the right zygoma (second day).
- Long-lasting pricking at the zygoma (third day). [20.]
- Painful sensation at the articulation of the jaw (third day).
MOUTH
- Bleeding of the gums (second day).
- The toothache becomes obstinate (second day).
- Pain in the first incisor tooth (second day).
- Bitter mouth and throat; with salt taste (third day).
STOMACH
- Great appetite (fifth day).
- Nausea at the sight of food (immediately), (first day).
- Nausea, with pain piercing to the back, for fifteen minutes (third day).
- Nausea, after dinner (fifth day).
- Feeling of dryness and fulness in the stomach, at night (first day). [30.]
- Pains in the stomach, as if a string were drawn tightly around it (second day).
- Lancination at the epigastrium, as if from needles, for six minutes (fifth day).
ABDOMEN
- Pain around the umbilicus (fifth day).
- Pain in the left flank, just when yawning (fifth day).
- Pain in the right flank, as if it was plugged up, for two minutes (fifth day).
- Sense of fulness in the abdomen when lying in bed, at 5 A.M. (second day).
- Painful swelling of the abdomen, before dinner (fourth day).
- Continual swelling and pain of the abdomen down to the left groin (fifth day).
STOOL
- Diarrhœa (second day).
URINARY ORGANS
- Great pain in the urethra, after urinating, worse on stooping to pick up anything (fifth day).
RESPIRATORY ORGANS. [40.]
- Cough, with pain in the chest (second day).
- Same cough as on the day before (fourth day).
CHEST
- Severe pain in the intercostal muscles, in the evening, when riding on horseback (third day).
- Stitch in the left side, hindering yawning, for five minutes (fifth day).
- Constriction all over, from the neck to the diaphragm, with heaviness of the head and arms (fifth day).
HEART
- Stitch in the region of the heart, left side, which stops his speech, for two minutes (second day).
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES
- Pain in the right arm, from the hand to the elbow, as if the extension of the arm were prevented by a string (second day).
- Improvement when turning the arm, or lifting a weight, or moving about in various ways; aggravation as soon as these movements cease (second day).
- Pain in the right arm, as if the bones were broken, with inability to grasp anything (sixth day).
- Pains at the lower extremity of the right forearm (second day).
- Pain at the lower extremity of the forearm (third day).
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES. [50.]
- The knees give way; likewise the ankle-joints (second day).
- When sitting or rising, lancinating pain in the right great toe, hindering walking, for two minutes (fourth day).
GENERALITIES
- General weakness (fourth day).
- Numbness and insensibility, for half an hour (fifth day).
- Passing pains in the toes, right temple, and one of the right canine teeth (second day).
- All pains go off, after dinner (second day).
- Aggravation when lying down, and improvement when walking in the open air (second day).
SKIN
- Abundant desquamation in the region of the whiskers and on the chin (third day).
- Itching all over, with bleeding after scratching (sixth day).
- Great itching of the pubis, after taking tea (fourth day).
SLEEP. [60.]
- Great drowsiness, after dinner (first day).
- Drowsy all day (fourth day).
- Drowsiness (fifth day).
- Great tendency to yawn, with flow of saliva (fifth day).
- Quiet sleep, with cheerful dreams; morning, dreams about a multitude of insects, and a serpent which it was very difficult to kill (third day).
- Early waking (second day).
- Cheerful and quiet dreams (second day).
- Cheerful dreams, at night (fifth day).
FEVER
- Chills, from time to time (fifth day).
- Horripilation, with chattering of the teeth (second day). [70.]
- Heat and numbness of the feet (fifth day).
CONDITIONS
- Aggravation.
- ( When lying down ), The symptoms.
- ( Stooping ), Pain in urethra.
- Amelioration.
- ( Walking in open air ), The symptoms.
- ( Motion ), Pain in arm.