Hamamelis Virginica, Linn.

Natural order , Hamamelaceæ.

Common name , Witch Hazel.

Preparation , Tincture of the leaves and twigs.

Authorities.

1 , Dr. H. C. Preston, Phil. J. of Hom., 1, 460, provings with 10 drops of tincture, a tablespoonful, and again a tablespoonful of tincture; 2 , ibid., Pierce gave Mrs. W., suffering from slight dyspeptic symptoms, the 3d dil. three times a day; proving repeated after four days; 3 , ibid., a young man took same as last; 4 , ibid., a young lady took same as last; 5 , Pierce himself took 1 drop of the 3d dil. in morning, ibid.; 6 , Dr. Thomas, Mouth. Hom. Rev., 1, p. 251, a man took Pond's extract for several days for acute rheumatism; 7 , Dr. Frances Burrit, Am. Hom. Rev., 1, p. 511, in applying some tinct. to burnt fingers, some was licked up with the tongue; 8 , same, effects of 1 drop of 15th dil. given to a lady for pain in hypogastric region; 9 , Dr. Burst. Am. Hom. Obs., 1865, p. 241, took 10th dil., first and second days; 9 a , same, took large doses of 3d dil. daily for five days; 9 b , same, took fluid extract, 10 to 50-drop doses; 10 , Dr. Davidson, Hale's New Remedies, 2d ed., p. 492, gave a woman the 6th dil. for hæmorrhoids; did not relieve, but produced pathogenetic effects; 11 , Dr. McGeorge, Trans. of Am. Inst. of Hom., 1874, took tinct., 1 drop on first, fourth, and twelfth days; 12 , same, took 200th dil., on first, seventh, sixteenth, and twenty-seventh days; 13 , same, took 10th dil., on first, second, third, fourth, fifth, eighth, tenth, and twelfth days; 14 , same, another prover, S. W., aged 21 took 200th dil. three different provings; 15 , same, proving on Dr. Izard with tincture, 5-drop doses for three days; 16 , same, Dr. Izard's son, aged 13, took 3 drops of tinct.; 17 , same, Dr. Izard's daughter, aged 11, tool 1 drop of tinct.; 18 , same, proving on C. J. Wiltbank, aged 27, with 6th dil., afterward 3d. and 12th dil.; 19 , same, proving on A. P. Hollet, aged 23, tool 2 drops of tinct.; 20 , same, C. H. Evans, aged 22, took 2 drops of tinct.; 21 , same W. M. James. took tinct. 2 drops first day, 3 drops fourth day.; 22 , same, tool 200th dil.; 23 , same, C. J. Cooper, took 1 drop of 6th dil.; 24 , same, J. B. Chandler, took 3d dil., first, second fourth, fifth, and seventh days; 25 , same, took 200th dil.; 26 , same, F. E. Murphy, took 200th dil.; 27 , same, F. W. Wagner, took 1 dose 200th dil.; 28 , same, Mary McC., aged 21, took 200th dil. once a week; 29 , same, Mrs. E. C., aged 31, took 1 dose of 6th dil.; 30 , same, Mrs. C. A. aged 58, used Pond's extract as a gargle for ulcerated throat.

MIND

Emotional.
Feeling that she ought to be reverenced by all around her and have great respect paid to her opinions; lasting about an hour, 8.
Wish to be alone; cannot settle mind on study (twelfth day); continuing (nineteenth day), 18.
Depressed in mind (second, fortieth, and forty-ninth days), 17.
Lowness of spirits, 30.
Feels gloomy (fourth day), 18.
Very gloomy (sixth day), 9a.
Very gloomy and sad, probably caused by the nocturnal emission (second day), 9.
Very gloomy; no disposition to move (fourth day), 9a.
Regretful in the mind for having had emissions at night (third day), 27. [10.]
Less despondency, in the evening (fourth day), 11.
Irritable disposition (second day), 19.
Very cross in easily irritated, not wanting anybody to speak to him (second day), 24.
Discontented all day (third day), 11.
I became impatient, and resolved not to take any more of the medicine; felt as if I did not care whether I attended to my practice or not; did not want any one to call at the office for medicine (seventh day), 15.
Was afraid to risk another dose; this mind was in a fearful condition, 18.
Intellectual.
After the nausea, headache, and general stupor lasting two hours, had disappeared, felt clearer and brighter than before using it, 28.
Intense thinking; unhappy in body and mind; better at 7 P.M. (thirteenth day), 27.
Quick perception of anything out of shape or disproportioned (thirteenth day), 12.
Desire to hear lofty, sublime conversation, attended with perfect indisposition to talk myself; after the heat, 7. [20.]
Still finds it difficult to settle his mind; angry mood; nothing seems to suit him (twenty-third day); still continuing (thirtieth day), 18.
Inability to concentrate the thoughts upon any subject of study; exceedingly restless and discontented (second day), 22.
No desire to work; likes to sit and think, or muse, while awake (second day), .

HEAD

Vertigo.
Vertigo, as if drunk (seventh day), 24.
Vertigo (momentarily) on rising after stooping, after lying down, while reading (sixth day), 11.
Vertigo when stooping or bending forward (seventh day), 11.
Slight vertigo in afternoon on stooping, but it quickly passed (twenty-fifth day), 14.
Slight vertigo towards night (fifteenth day), 14.
Dizziness in the head, 30.
Dizzy, and sick at her stomach, with a desire to lie down (second day), 29.
Swimming sensation in head, at 12 M. (seventh day), 11. [40.]
Sensation as if the brain was swimming around, continuing all day (second day); on rising (third day), 23.
General Head.
Dulness in the head (after two hours), 23 ; (thirteenth day), 15.
Dulness and fulness in head all day (seventh day), 11.
Feeling in head as if she had taken cold (second day), 29.
Headache (eighth day), 14 ; (eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth days), 12 ; (nineteenth and twenty-second days), 13.*
Headache for two hour after taking, 28.
Headache all day (second day), 19 ; worse by stooping (fifteenth day), 14 ; off and on (fifteenth day), 13.
Headache in the morning; better at noon (after more than two months), 28.
Headache on rising (sixth day), 14 ; (tenth day), 12 ; (ninth and fourteenth days), 13 ; at 7 A.M. (fifth day), 12 ; (eleventh day), 14.
Headache; the peculiarity about the headache is, that it is worse in the morning when rising and while indoors, but better while thinking, or reading, or walking or talking (seventeenth day), 12. [50.]
Headache during forenoon, increased in afternoon; quite severe, chiefly in forehead, at night (twenty-second day), .

EYE

Objective.
Blue margins under both eyes, more under right (eighteenth day), 13.
Blue margin at inner canthus of eyes (ninth day); blue margin round eyes (tenth day), 12.
Dull color of sclerotic (tenth day), 12.
Swelling of eyeballs and eyelids, with bloodshot appearance of right eye (ninth day); eyes till protrude, but right eye not so congested (tenth day), 12.
Subjective. [120.]
Painful weakness of eyes (tenth day); eyes feel weak, but are less inflamed (eleventh day), 12.
Eyes heavy (twelfth and fifteenth days), 14.
Eyes very heavy and painful, tender on pressure (fourteenth day), 14.
Eyes feel as though they would melt away (after two months), 28.
Eyes painful (twenty-eighth and thirtieth days), 14.
Eyes painful, and pain increased by pressure (twenty-first day), 14.
Eyes very painful (fifteenth day), 14 ; at 8 P.M. (twelfth day), 14.
Feeling as if the both eyes would be forced out of head; relieved by pressing them in with the fingers, but worse for a few moments after removing pressure (eighteenth day); disappearing (nineteenth day), 13.
Sore pain in eyes (seventh day), 24.
Eyes very painful under slight pressure (ninth day), 14.
Brow and Orbit. [130.]
Pain over left eye (twenty-seventh day), 26.
Dull pain over orbits (seventh day), 12.
Lids.
Could scarcely close her eyes for three days (after two months), 28.
Spasmodic twitching of, first, the right upper eyelid, and two hours after the left upper eyelid (nineteenth day), 12.
A peculiar spasmodic thrill in left upper eyelid, similar to that felt when winking rapidly, for several days (twenty-first and twenty-second days), 14.
Vision.

EAR

Bleeding at the right ear (after more than two months), 28.
Pain in both ears, with headache (tenth day), 14.
Some burning of the right ear in the evening (first day), 15.
Dull, burning pain in and around the right ear, relieved by pressure, about 5 P.M. (seventh day), 14. [140.]
Feeling of fulness in left ear at 8 A.M. (tenth day), 14.
Earache (forty-ninth day), 27.
Earache, in pain extending even to her finger ends (after two months), 28.
Itching in left ear, and the body under the clothing (eighth day), 15.
Slight sensation in mastoid process (twenty-eighth day), 12.
Pain in mastoid process, in afternoon and evening, when first going out in the wind, lasting a few minutes (twenty-seventh day), 12.
Hearing.
The right ear is obstructed, so that the prover can hardly hear with it, in the evening (twenty-second day); passing off by noon (twenty-third day), 14.
Buzzing in ears at 10 P.M. (tenth day), 14.
Ringing in ears at 8 P.M. (twelfth day), 14.

NOSE

Objective.
Nose swollen and inflamed; still painful to touch, but not so much so as yesterday (eighth day), 12. [150.]
Septum of nose swollen and painful to touch (seventh day), 12.
Bad smell from nose (seventh day), 11.
Sneezing in afternoon, with eructations of wind (ninth day), 14.
Sneezing at 12 M. (fifth and sixth days), 13.
Sneezing spell, and running of water from nose; cold in head (fifth day); running from nose; caught a fresh cold in the evening; discharge from the nose acrid and burning, excoriating (sixth day); nose fills up readily; discharge excoriating (seventh day), 12.
Several fits of sneezing during forenoon, after which the nasal passages seemed less obstructed (ninth day), 14.
Cold in head, 30.
Took cold again from being exposed for a moment to a draught without a hat (eighth day); fresh cold (eleventh day), 12.
Catarrh (nineteenth day), 12.
Slight catarrh on waking; nasal passage much obstructed, with some soreness of nose (second day), 14. [160.]
Coryza (second day); continuing (sixth day), 11.
Some coryza; nasal passages almost entirely obstructed (second day); cold continues (third, fourth, and fifth days); about the same (seventh day); some cold (eighth day), 14.
Coryza comes on at 4 P.M. each afternoon, goes away at 10 P.M.; not troubled with it in the intervals, 24.
Fluent coryza, discharge burning and smarting every part it touches (eighth day), 24.
Passed a tough, green plug from right nostril at 11.45 P.M. (sixth day), 11.
*Bleeding of the nose, which clears her head, and affords her great relief (after more than two months), 28.
Nose began to bleed between 9 and 10 the next morning, and continued for and hour until I smelled Camphor; with the epistaxis was a feeling of tightness of the bridge of the nose, and considerable crowding pressure in the forehead between the eyes, with a benumbed sensation over the whole os frontis ; I was at first somewhat surprised, as in the whole course of my juvenile and adult experience, I had never before been unfortunate enough to get a "Blood nose," and epistaxis is something I never knew occur in my family, .*

FACE

Muscles of face feel very sore and stiff (seventh day), 24.
Cheeks. [180.]
Burning pain felt in right cheek, lasting five or six minutes, in afternoon (twenty-sixth day), 14.
Burning in right cheek in the evening (twenty-second day), 14.
Stinging pain in left cheek, for a few minutes, at 1.30 P.M. (eighth day), 14.
Occasional shooting pain along the right superior maxillary, extending up to the malar bone (fourth day), 15.
Lips.
Swelling of the upper lip, where the left nostril joins it, at 8 A.M. (eleventh day), 14.
Mucous membrane of lips much cracked at 1 P.M. (ninth day), 14.
Dryness of the lips (sixth day), 14.
Dryness of lips, and fauces well marked (seventh day), 14.
Very great dryness of lips (thirty-first day), 14.
Lips dry and cracked (fifteenth day), 14. [190.]
Lips sore at 8 A.M. (eleventh day), 14.
Lips sore 10 P.M. (tenth day), 14.
Lips and gums very sore (twelfth day), 14.

MOUTH

Teeth.
Had my teeth examined by a dentist; he could not find any decayed, or gums inflamed (fifth day), 15.
Pain along the teeth on the right side (seventh day), 15.
Pain in right molar teeth of upper jaw (fifteenth day), 14.
Sharp lancinating pain along the molar teeth, extending up to the malar bone, also into the region of the temporal (sixth day), 15.
Severe stinging and throbbing pain in right molar teeth, experienced before commencing the proving, has been much worse since taking the medicine (fourth day); pain continued, aggravated by going into a warm room, or on getting warm in bed; the pain became so intense that he took Belladonna, 200

to relieve it, without avail; Pulsatilla 200

ameliorated the pain (fifth day), 22.

Some soreness about the upper wisdom tooth of the right side (eighth day), 15.
Gums.
Gums bleed easily (eleventh day), 12. [200.]
Soreness of gums of upper jaw at 10 P.M. (tenth day), 14.
Gums sore and swollen (fifteenth day), 14.
For the past week his gum has been very sore and painful from the pushing through of last molar tooth on lower right jaw, which had stopped, apparently, for some time, without making any headway (thirty-first day), 13.
Very painful canker sore at median line of upper jaw where the lips join it (thirteenth day), 14.
Tongue.
Papillæ on tongue much enlarged, especially near the root (ninth day), 14.
Tongue coated, and a "brassy" taste in mouth (fourteenth day), 14.
Tongue coated with brownish-white mucus at 8 A.M. (tenth and eleventh days), 14.
Tongue coated white (fifteenth day), 14.
Tongue coated white in the morning (fourth day), 15.
Tongue coated slightly with a whitish fur (twenty-first day), 14. [210.]
Tongue clean, but not so red in middle as usual (fourth day), 11.
Tongue clean and pale (fifteenth day), 14.
Tongue paler than usual (twelfth day), 11 ; (sixteenth day), 13.
Tongue is perhaps paler than usual (eighth day), 14.
The tongue has two blisters on the right side; they are very troublesome (fifth and sixth days), 9a.
Canker spots near end of tongue (eighth day), 14.
Scalding sensation on tongue, just beyond the tip, continuing until retiring (second and third day); remaining (fourth day), 13.
Taste.
Flat, rough taste (sixth day), 9a.
Bad taste in the mouth (fourth day), 15.
Putrid taste (sixth day), 24. [220.]
Taste of what has been eaten rising up to the pharynx three or four hours after eating (seventeenth day), .

THROAT

Objective.
Throat and tongue reddened, but flabby, in the evening (twenty-second day), 14.
Hawks up considerable (ninth day), 11.
Raised some mucus from throat (twelfth day), 14.
Still has coryza; for the last four or five days, been hawking up from throat matter which should come from nostrils (eighth day), 11.
Subjective.
Dryness of throat, with thirst, causing him to drink large quantities of water at short intervals (third day), 21.
Great dryness of throat and lips (twenty-third day), 14.
Great desire to drink water from excessive dryness of throat (second day), 14.
Dry feeling in throat at 9 P.M. (second day); momentarily relieved by cold water in the evening; more severe than yesterday (third day); after 8 P.M. (fourth day); also (fifth and sixth days), 13.
Throat begins to feel dry at 3 P.M.; throat dryer, and slight burning, at 4 P.M., increasing in extent till midnight. uvula fallen; difficulty in talking (third day); hoarse on arising; dry feeling remaining; burning feeling almost gone (fourth day), 12. [230.]
Throat dry, rendering it necessary to drink large quantities of water to assist in deglutition, in the morning (eleventh day), 14.
Dry, thirst feeling of the throat, which water would not relieve, lasting full twenty-four hours, 7.
Throat very dry all night, with a feeling as if something had lodged there; compelled to swallow every few minutes, which produced dull pains in the tonsils (fourth night); very painful when swallowing food; fauces very much congested, and the tonsils slightly swollen, in the morning (fifth day), 9a.
Every inhalation seems to dry up mucous membrane of throat and fauces (fifth day), 24.
Throat very painful (fifth day), 9a.
Sore throat; worse on the right side (after two months), 28.
Throat sore in the evening (twenty-second day), 14.
Throat slightly sore, causing pain in effort of swallowing, about 10 A.M., continuing all day (second day); increased at 8.30 A.M. (third day); slight better on rising; almost entirely disappearing by evening (fourth day), 21.

STOMACH

Appetite.
During all this time appetite good and health averaging better than usual (forty-ninth day), 27.
Increased desire to smoke; wants to do nothing but smoke and to be along (third day), 24.
The desire for smoking is increased, but smoking greatly aggravates all the symptoms (third day), 24. [260.]
Little appetite at breakfast, but drank large quantities of water (ninth day), 14.
No appetite for breakfast (twenty-first, twenty-second, and twenty-third days), 14.
Thirst.
More thirsty than usual, about 6 P.M. (eighth day), 21.
Thirst, towards evening (second day), 20.
Thirst in evening (twenty-seventh day), 13.
Considerable thirst (seventh day); increased but not satisfied by drink (eighth day), 14.
Considerable thirst, but relieved by drinking small quantities of water (twenty-first day), 14.
Thirst great (tenth and twelfth days), 14.
Very thirsty, drinking large quantities of water, at 7 P.M. (fourteenth and fifteenth days); very thirsty in afternoon and evening (seventeenth day); in evening (nineteenth day), 13.
No thirst during entire time, 24. [270.]
Aversion to water; makes him sick to think of it (sixth day), 18.
Eructations and Hiccough.
Eructations (twenty-eighth day), 13.
Eructations, two hours after eating (twentieth day), 12.
Eructations in the evening (twenty-seventh day), 12.
Eructations three or four hours after meals, at night (twenty-sixth day), 12.
Eructations after tea (seventh and eighth days), 13.
Frequent eructations, lasting some time (twenty-seventh day), 13.
Spasmodic eructations and hiccoughs (twenty-first day), 13.
Eructations tasting of what had been eaten (third day), 13.
Unusual taste of eructations in morning (twenty-ninth day), . [280.]

ABDOMEN

Umbilical.
Distress in the umbilicus, lasting all day (after one hour, first day), 9.
Cramp pain in umbilical region (thirty-third day), 13.
Cramp pains in umbilical region, continuing a short time after rising (twenty-third day), 13.
Griping pain in umbilical region slightly felt, at 7 A.M. (twelfth day), 13.
Slight griping in umbilical region just before dinner (fourth day); at 10 P.M. (eleventh day), 13.
General Abdomen.
A great deal of flatulence, with tenderness of the abdomen, not increased by pressure, in the evening (fifth day), 14.
Discharge of flatulence (second day), 22.
Distress in the bowels (sixth day), 9a. [320.]
Slight distress in the bowels (third morning), 9a.
Pain in abdomen, morning and evening (twenty-fifth day), 13.
Slight pain in the bowels (fourth day), 9a.
Slight griping after breakfast (twelfth day), 11.
Hypogastrium and Iliac Regions.
Dull pains in the right hypogastrium (after nine hours, third day), 9a.
Pain in the groin, 30.
Drawing pains in the groins, passing down to the testicles (fifth day), 9a.

RECTUM AND ANUS

Pulsations in rectum, as if piles would protrude (twenty-third day), 13.
Pulsations in rectum, when lying in a half recumbent position (twenty-sixth day), 12.
Pulsations in rectum and penis plainly felt, and synchronous with radial pulse (twenty-ninth day), 13. [330.]
Spasmodic contraction of sphincter ani (seventh day), 24.
Itching at anus (twenty-seventh day), 13.
Slight itching of the anus (sixth day), 14.
Urging to stool (twentieth day), 13 ; at 7.30 A.M. (fifth day); at 7.30 A.M. and the afternoon (sixth day), 11.
Urging to stool, with much flatulence, at 8.30 P.M. (ninth day), 14.
Urging to stool at 5.30 and 8 A.M. and 1.30 and 6.30 P.M., with stool at 6 A.M. and 1.30 P.M. (seventeenth day), 13.
Urging to stool, with easy passage of large stool in morning afternoon (fifteenth day), 13.
Desire for stool, but cannot accomplish it with the greatest effort (after four hours, first day), 9a.
A constant desire to evacuate the bowels, together with peculiar sensations around the anus, as in piles (sixth day); similar desire to evacuate the bowels, but on endeavoring to have a passage was unsuccessful (seventh day), 14.

STOOL

Diarrhœa.
Diarrhœa, lasting two days, probably caused by change of water (twenty-first day), 26. [340.]
Soft stool (first night), 9.
Soft stool covered with slimy mucus, with distress in the bowels, at 6 A.M. (fourth day), 9a.
Stool natural, consistent, but covered with mucus (third morning), 9a.
Stool slightly covered with mucus (fifth day), 11.
Constipation.
Bowels slightly constipated, no passage (third day), 11.
Bowels costive (fifth day), 18.
Operation at 9 P.M., costive, fæces dark (tenth day), 14.
Bowels rather costive (twenty-first day), 14.
Operation rather costive, twenty-first day and at 10 P.M. (eighth day), 14.
Bowels rather costive fæces dark and slimy, at 8.30 P.M. (ninth day), 14.

URINARY ORGANS

Urethra. [350.]
Great desire to urinate (twenty-first day), 14.
Great desire to urinate, but pass but little water; it comes away in drops (third day), 18.
(When putting up medicine a great desire to urinate was felt, but if the prover sat down, or turned his attention to something else, the desire passed away, to return as soon as he again poured out medicine or anything liquid (eighth and ninth days); the desire to urinate caused by pouring water should not be attributed to the proving, as the prover was informed that his predecessor experienced the same feeling when dispensing medicine, but the desire was undoubtedly aggravated by the medicine), 14.
Frequent inclination to urinate (seventh day), 9a.
Frequent urination during the day (nineteenth and twentieth days), 13.
Micturition.
Increased urination; urine pale (first night and second day), 15.
Urinates too often, with continual desire to pass water (second day), 23.
Urine clear and copious (seventeenth day), 13.
Flow of large quantities of urine, with frequent desire to urinate (second day), 19.
Acts upon the kidneys more when lying down, compelling her to rise fifteen to thirty minutes afterwards to pass urine in large quantities, 30. [360.]
Profuse urination, but only little at a time; seems that bladder fills up very quickly; urine light-colored (fifth day), 24.
Urine very profuse; notice also in vessel greasy deposit, which sinks to bottom of vessel, rising to top when shaken, looking like laudable pus; urine light in color (seventh day), 24.
Urine clear, saltish (fourth day), 11.

SEXUAL ORGANS

Male.
Erections continue (fifteenth day), 18.
Erection, but no emission (second and fifth nights), 15.
Stitching in glans penis (twenty-seventh day), 13.
Pulsations in glans penis felt several times in course of day (twentieth day), 13.
Tingling in glans penis (seventeenth day), 13.
Severe dull pains in the testicles a number of times through the day, with distress in the bowels (sixth day), 9a.*
Frequent dull pains in the testicles all day (seventh day), 9a.* [370.]
Dull aching pains in both testicles (after three hours, second day), 9a.*
Severe drawing pains in both testicles (after three hours, second day), 9a.*
Such excruciating pains in the testicles that I was compelled to stop the evening, 9b.*
*Some pain running down the spermatic cords into the testes (fifth night), 15.
Great desire for an embrace (fifth day), 18.
Sexual dream, with an emission (third night), 9a.
Sexual dream, with and involuntary emission, followed by great weariness and severe dull pain in the loins (first night), 9.
Sexual dream, but no emission (first night), 9a.
An emission (fourth night), 18.
Nocturnal emission and dreams; emission caused by dreams (second night), 27. [380.]
Emission while dreaming (fourteenth night); at night (thirty-fifth, fortieth, forty-second, and forty-ninth days); lass frequently (after eighty days); when well would have had an emission every five or six weeks; during the proving oftener than once a week on an average, 27.
Seminal emission without erection, with consciousness (twenty-seventh day), 13.
Seminal emission without sensual dreams during night (fourth day), 22.
Seminal emission, but not conscious of the fact at the time (first night), .

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

Larynx. [390.]
Epiglottis lengthened (twenty-first day), 14.
Epiglottis relaxed so as to irritate the tongue (twenty-second day), 14.
Voice.
Arose at 7.30 A.M., with hoarseness as from cold (second day), 21.
Some cough (eighth and twenty-eighth days); at 8 A.M. (tenth day), 14.
Cough and Expectoration.
Dry cough; sometimes expectoration of thick yellowish or greenish-gray mucus (sixth day), 24.
Some phlegm raised in morning (twenty-first day), 14.
Respiration.
Very difficult breathing; when lying down felt a smothering sensation for three days (after two months), 28.
In the evening, a return of the symptoms of an inflammation of the diaphragm with which I had been troubled fifteen years before, and which was then caused by running until exhausted; this medicine apparently caused all the original symptoms, labored respiration, oppressive tightness of the lower part of the thorax, inability to take a deep and full inspiration; when attempting to assume the recumbent position found it impossible to breathe in that position, experienced a crowding fulness of blood in the neck and head, and such a sense of suffocation that I could not lie down and was actually obliged to sleep that night in a rocking-chair with the neck free of any covering; all these symptoms passed off the next morning (after 10 drops); much more severe a week later; found it very painful to ride or walk; continuing two days and nights, and not mitigated by antidotes, Camphor, Hyoscyamus, etc. (after a teaspoonful); like effect; unable to breathe comfortably except when sitting or standing erect, and the unable to make a long full inspiration (after a tablespoonful), 1.

CHEST

Objective.
Spasmodic movements of diaphragm (twenty-third day), 13.
An alarming hæmorrhage from the lungs set in suddenly, 6.
Subjective. [400.]
Pain in right lung (third day, and at 10 A.M., first day), 15.
Pain in right lung, perceptible in deep breathing (fourteenth day), 27.
Sense of constriction across the chest, increased by taking a long breath or breathing rapidly (eighth day), 14.
Cramp pains in chest (nineteenth day), 12 ; at 11 P.M. (seventeenth day), 13.
Stitches in chest for a few minutes occasionally (twenty-third day); also (twenty-fifth day), 13.
Dull aching pain, constant in muscles of left side of chest; at first high up, then lower down, now under the edge of short ribs; this pain aggravated by using arm much, worse in the afternoon and evening, 26.
The pains on the left side ceased and gave place to pleuritic pain on the right side of chest (twenty-fourth day); the pains were severe, but gradually abated; replaced by pains in left arm and chest (twenty-sixth day), 26.

HEART AND PULSE

Præcordium.
Pricking pain in the region of the heart, which lasted two days, and was accompanied with pricking pain in the veins of the arms, 10.
Heart's Action.
Palpitation of heart, 30.
Can count beats of heart by lying still, and feel pulsations through ball of fingers very distinctly (twenty-seventh day), 13.
Pulse. [410.]
Pulse accelerated (thirteenth and fourteenth days), 18.
Pulse 80 (usually 65 to 70), (fourth day), 11.
Pulse 88 at 8 A.M. and 8.30 P.M.; 92 at 1 P.M.; 80 at 10.30 P.M. (ninth day); 96 at 8 A.M., 80 at 10 P.M. (tenth day); 92 at 8 A.M., 72 at 1 P.M.; 76 at 10 P.M. (eleventh day); 76 and full at 8 P.M. (twelfth day); 80 and full 10 P.M. (thirteenth day); 72 at 10 P.M. (fourteenth day); 88 on rising, 84 and full at 9 P.M. (fifteenth day); 84 at 1 P.M., 80 at 10 P.M. (twenty-first day); 70 at 10 P.M. (twenty-second day); 76 at 10 P.M. (twenty-third and twenty-fifth days); 80 at 10 P.M. (twenty-eighth day); 88 and wiry (thirty-first day), 14.
Pulse 56, 58, 62, irregular (twelfth day); 62, 64 in the morning, 60, 62, full, at 11 P.M. (thirteenth day), 13.
Pulse 78, irregular in beat, full and hard, then soft almost imperceptible (seventh day); 78 (eighth day); 86 at 8 A.M., 78 at 8 P.M. (fifteenth day); 76 at 9.30 A.M. (sixteenth day); 76 at 7.30 P.M. (twenty-fourth day); 60 and full, in evening (twenty-fifth day); 60 in morning, 66 in evening (twenty-sixth day); 56, 60, 62 in morning, 76 in evening, full, occasionally becoming weaker (twenty-seventh day), 12.
Pulse 60, every fifth, sixth, or seventh beat a little faster and stronger, at 11 P.M. (seventeenth day); 60 (eighteenth day); 60 at 8 A.M., 68 at 10 P.M., (twenty-seventh day); 62 at 8 A.M., 68 in the evening (twenty-eighth day), 13.

NECK AND BACK

Neck.
Sore pain down the cervical vertebræ (eighth day), 24.
Back.
Pain back of the stomach along the spinal column, about 4 P.M. (sixth day), 15.
Back and legs ache severely all day (second day), 9.
Very severe backache; without a doubt it was caused by the emission (fourth and fifth day), 9a. [420.]
Constant backache (seventh day), 9a.
A tearing pain across the back, lasting about an hour, 8.
Dorsal.
Dull pain, constant under lower angle of left scapula, felt first fifteen day, 26.
Lumbar.
Pain in the lumbar region very severe all day (first day), 9.
Dull pain in lumbar region (after three hours, second day, and second and third morning), 9a.
Immediately after the sensation of heat, a tearing pain across the small of the back, and a painful fulness of the joints of the legs as if they would burst, which soon extended to all the joints of the body, 7.
Severe pain in region of kidneys when getting up in the morning (fifth day), 24.
Sacral.
Dull aching pain in the sacrum and hip, quite severe when walking, lasting all day (after one hour, first day), 9.

EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL

Weakness of limbs (fifteenth day), 14.
Limbs easily go to sleep, in afternoon (eighteenth day), 13. [430.]
Tired feeling in right arm and leg (ninth day), 12.
Tired feeling in arms and limbs when walking (seventh and eighth days), 13.
A number of rheumatic symptoms in the arms and legs, through the day (eighth day), 9a.
Limbs ache, with a tendency to go to sleep (second day), 19.
Painful fulness of the joints, as if they would burst, lasting an hour, 8.
Drawing pain in the hands, legs, and feet (fifth day), 9a.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

Weariness of right arm (fifteenth day), 14.
Tired, weary feeling in arms (twenty-third day), 13.
Rheumatic pain, constant aching in left arm, 26.
The flexor muscles of the right arm have constant, very severe, dull drawing pains in them (after nine hours, third day), 9a.
Shoulder. [440.]
Dragging pain, constant in left shoulder-joint, 26.
Arm.
Stiffness of arms and shoulders, after horseback riding (twenty-fifth day); continuing (twenty-sixth day); wearing away (twenty-seventh day), 13.
Pain in humerus, extending down arms to elbow, causing stiffness at that joint, 25.
Very severe sore pain in head of right humerus, extending down to elbow-joint, accompanied by slight stiffness of elbow-joint, during the morning (second day); pain very severe from shoulder to elbow in right humerus; increased stiffness of elbow-joint (fourth day); pain in both humeri (fifth day); pain in right humerus intense (eighth day), 24.
Bruised feeling in upper arms and shoulders, worse from motion (third day); continues, but not so violently, accompanied by drowsiness (fourth day), 18.
A tenderness of right biceps, increased by pressure (second day), 14.
Shooting pains running down the forearm along the flexor muscles into the palm of right hand (second day), 15.
Wrist.
Right wrist and fingers stiff (second morning), 9a.
Lancinating pain in left wrist-joint, once (third day), 26.
Hand.
Hands become chapped (nine day), more so (tenth day), 13. [450.]
Violent pain in back of right hand, extending to the shoulder-joint (third day); has disappeared (fifth day), 18.
Hand and fingers ache, and are quite stiff (third morning), 9a.
Fingers.
Fingers stiff, with sharp sticking pains in the first joint of the right index finger (first night), 9.
Sore pain in right thumb-nail after slightly hitting it against a table (seventh and eighth days); it becomes more severe, worse towards night, and exceedingly painful whenever waking up during the night (ninth day); with sensation as if nail was growing into flesh (twelfth day); discharge of pus relieved the pain for a few minutes (thirteenth day), .

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

(Apparent diminution of varicose veins above knee) , (fifteenth day), 12.
Weary feeling in right limb (twenty-fourth day), 12.
Tired, weary feeling in right limb, in which are varicose being; changing position while sitting affords no relief; slight improvement from placing it on a chair, removed entirely by walking about (sixth day), 11.
Tired feeling in inferior extremities (fifth and sixth days), 13.
Tired feeling in both limbs from hips down to feet; inability to run fast (third day), 13. [460.]
Tired feeling in right leg (thirteenth and fourteenth days), 12.
Tired feeling, right limb; forcing feeling in varicose veins, at 6 P.M. (eighth day), 12.
Weakness of lower limbs, at 1 P.M. (ninth day), 14.
Rheumatic pains in the legs (after three hours, first day), 9a.
Painful fulness of the joints pains of the legs, as if they would burst, followed by a dread of moving the limbs, as if it would cause suffering, with a weary, stiff, full feeling, 7.
Bruised feeling in arms has entirely vanished, but appeared to have descended into the lower extremities; left leg more painful than right (thirteenth day), 18.
Peculiar sensation in varices (twelfth day), 12.
Varices very sensitive (thirteenth day), 12.
Varicose veins very sensitive; weary pain in limb (right) more marked, better when moving about; worse when sitting; better from lying down, or placing limb in horizontal position; changing its position while sitting does not relieve (eighth day), 11.
Hip.
Stitching pain in left hip and under left patella, while walking (eighth day), 15.
Thigh. [470.]
Rather stiff in upper part of thighs (twenty-seventh day), 13.
Weary feeling in thighs (ninth day); less marked in right limb (tenth day), 11.
Tired, weary feeling, right limb (thigh), as if he had walked a long journey, at night; pain particularly in middle and lower third of thigh, and in popliteal space; dilatation of varicose veins (seventh day), 11.

GENERAL SYMPTOMS

Objective.
Much depressed, on rising (sixth day), 14.
General languor, rendering study irksome (second day), 22.
Very languid (sixth day), 9a.
General lassitude and feeling of weariness , at 3 P.M. (second day), 19.*
Easily becomes tired (seventh day), 12.*
Easily becomes fatigued while walking (fourth day), 13.
Weak and giddily on rising (fifth day), 18.
Could not keep quiet, although motion makes him feel worse (fifth day), 18.
Subjective.
Disposition to take cold easily (thirteenth day), 12. [500.]
Easily takes cold; being exposed for a moment causes him to take a fresh cold; cold feeling creeping over body upon standing a moment in open air; chill runs up legs, head stopped up, dull pain over orbits (seventh day), 12.
Had fewer colds than any winter for a long time; as a general rule is very subject to colds and sore throat, taking cold, which affect the throat upon the least exposure, 28.
Indisposed to exercise, but study is not disagreeable (eighth day), 12.
Feelings of languor, 25.
Feeling of languor all over body (second day), 23.
General feeling of languor and depression (fourth day), 24.
Feeling of lassitude in afternoon (eleventh day), 14.
Easily feels tired from standing, in the evening (fourth day), 11.
Rose at 6.30 A.M. feeling tired (twenty-first day), 14.
Desire to lie down (second day), 29. [510.]
Dull feeling when awaking (thirteenth day), 12.
The feeling for a short time after taking the remedy was anything but pleasant, but the effects were good, 28.
General feeling unwell, at 10 P.M. (eleventh day), 14.
He felt wretchedly, 18.
Smoking greatly aggravates all the symptoms, though the desire for smoking is increased (third day), .

SKIN

Objective.
Eruption of fine pimples all over body (ninth day); not so sensitive (tenth day), 13.
Pimples behind ear, and on body, very sore upon touch or pressure; (fourth and fifth days), 11.
The nocturnal emissions cause his face to break out in pimples, and to feel badly, 18.
Elevation of the skin between the thumb and forefinger in little pimples, the right hand worse than the left (twelfth day), 13.
Herpes on nose in afternoon, disappearing in evening (twenty-seventh day), 12. [520.]
Herpes on lower part of nose (seventh day); disappearing towards evening (ninth day), 12.
The swelling near the nose of left side, or rather of lip under left nostril, has come out in the form of pimples, and proves to be herpes, but it is not on the left side (sixteenth day); even or eight pimples, watery, or a yellowish white secretion, first appeared on the eleventh day in form of swelling of the upper lip (sixteenth day), 14.
An eruption on the face was much lessened while taking the medicine, and the skin appeared clearer and finer after the proving; an ulcer on the inside of lower lip, which had been there a few weeks before commencing the proving, was unchanged by the remedy, but occasionally bled, and assumed a more bloody appearance during the proving, 28.
Subjective.
Feeling a if vermin were running over the body (seventh, eighth, and tenth days), 13.
Feeling as of vermin all over hairy parts of body (twenty-eighth and thirty-first days), 13.
Itching all over the body when undressing (twenty-ninth day), 13.
Pimples on nates are very sore on touch (twenty-ninth day), 13.
Suffered severely for two days from a peculiar pricking pain from the wrist to the shoulder, along the course of the superficial veins, which pain increased on pressure, 10.
Tingling in foot while counting femoral (artery) pulse (eighteenth day), 13.
Itching of limbs, felt from beginning of proving, 14. [530.]
Itching in axilla, more severe in the right (seventh, eighth, and tenth days); slight itching (twelfth day), 13.
Itching on inferior extremities when undressing (eleventh day), .

SLEEP AND DREAMS

Sleepiness.
Drowsiness (fourth and twelfth days), 18.
Drowsy feeling, two hours after dinner (seventh and eighth days), 13.
Sleepiness every afternoon, 26.
Sleeps longer than usual (eighth days;), 27.
Sleeplessness.
Less inclination to sleep than usual; slept well all night (second day), 11. [540.]
Was unable to sleep for over an hour, but having fallen asleep, rested well until morning (eighth day), 14.
Could not sleep well (second and third nights), 15.
Uneasy sleep in morning (twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth days); with tossing and turning continually (twenty-seventh day), 13.
Sleeps uneasily, wakes up continually from thinking of business of the day, terming over in bed to get relief; wants to sleep, but cannot, on account of thoughts pressing upon him; unrefreshed feeling when awaking (twelfth day), 12.
Sleep somewhat disturbed (first night), 15.
Slept well until about 4 A.M., when he had short light naps until 6.30 A.M. (twelfth night), 14.
Rest uneasy during the night; dreams quite vivid towards morning, unusual (first night), 14.
Restless sleep and dreams (fortieth and forty-second days), 27.
Restless night (first night), 9 ; (fourth night), 9a.
Could scarcely sleep at nights; heard the town clock strike nearly every hour (fifth night), 15. [550.]
Cannot go to sleep at night, thinks too much (seventh night), 24.
Dreams.
Before retiring, had strange dreams, and great restlessness after going to sleep; but, as a general thing, arose more refreshed, and with a clearer mind, 28.
Sleep disturbed by dreaming of the business of the day (second night), 12.
Unpleasant dreams (first night), 27.
Unpleasant dreams at 5 A.M.; uneasy sleep afterwards (fourth day), 11.
Unpleasant, fearful dreams (third day), .

FEVER

Chilliness.
Felt very chilly on going to bed, and dreaded an attack of fever (sixth day), 12.
Immediate coldness of the whole body, not followed by any sudden reaction; no heat or fever followed, but the system gradually recovered its accustomed heat, 7.
Flashes of chilliness over the back and hips, extending down the extremities, at 9 A.M. (second day), 19. [560.]
Chill runs up legs (seventh day), 12.
Heat.
Skin hot and dry (sixth day), 9a.
Feverishness (fourteenth day); in forenoon (eighth day), 14.
Slight feverishness at night (twenty-seventh day), 14.
Feverish (fifteenth day), 14.
Slight fever (thirteenth day); still remains (fourteenth day), 18.
High fever during the night (after two months), 28.
Hands hot (sixth day), 9a.
Hands hot and dry (fourth day, and after three hours, first day), 9a.
Burning in the eyelids on closing them, with fever in the hands, at 4 P.M. (second day), 22. [570.]
Fever in the hands, with burning in the eyelids on closing them, at 4 P.M. (second day), 22.
Perspired freely at night after lying down (fourth day), 18.
Whole body felt very dry and hot (first night), 9.
The scrotum perspired freely through the night (fifth day), 13.
Profuse cold perspiration all over the scrotum, but not of the body (seventh night), 9a.
Great dryness and burning feeling in the palms of the hands (first day), 9.

CONDITIONS

Aggravation.
( Morning ), On rising, headache; after second sleep, headache; headache in temples; pain in temporal bone; pain in side of neck; on rising, feeling in stomach; on rising, pain in region of kidneys; on rising, depression.
( Afternoon ), Dullness, etc.; headache; from 4 to 10 P.M., coryza; pain in muscles of left chest; sleepiness.
( Evening ), Headache; rawness in throat, etc.; thirst; when undressing, itching.
( Night ), Eructations; fever; after lying down, perspiration.
( Bending forward ), Vertigo; headache.
( Eating ), Nausea; pains in stomach, etc.
( Lying down ), Vertigo, frequent micturition.
( Lying quiet ), Headache over eye.
( Reading ), Vertigo.
( Rising after stooping ), Vertigo.
( In room ), Headache.
( Sitting ), Frontal headache.
( Smoking ), All symptoms.
( Standing up ), Frontal headache.
( Walking ), Pain in sacrum, etc.; pain in hip, etc.
( Warmth ), Pain in molar teeth.
( In wind ), Pain in temporal bone; on first going out, pain in mastoid process.
Amelioration.
( Afternoon ), Towards evening, headache.
( Evening ), Despondency.
( Eating ), Pain in side of head.
( Friction ), Frontal headache.
( Lying down ), Frontal headache.
( Outdoors ), Headache.
( Pressure ), Frontal headache; pain about ear.

HAMAMELIS.