SARSAPARILLA.
By Timothy F. Allen — The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
Smilax officinalis, H. B. K. (probably), (the brown Sarsaparilla from Jamaica, St. Domingo, etc.).
Natural order , Smilaceæ.
Preparation , Triturations of the dried root.
Authorities. (Nos.
1 to 7 , from Hahnemann, Chr. Krn.). [Dr. C. Wesselhœft's translation, as found in Hering's Materia Medica, is adopted, with trifling corrections.]
1 , Hahnemann; 2 , Hartmann; 3 , Hermain; 4 , Teuthorn; 5 , Brunner; 6 , Nenning; 7 , Schreter ( 8 to 10 a , additions by Hering, l. c.); 8 , Hancock; 9 , Krahmer; 10 , Pehrson; 10 a , C. Hering; 11 , Palotta, Pharmacologische Tabellen von Schwarze, p. 335 (from Beauvais, Effets Tox. et Pathogén., Paris, 1845), proving on self, with "Parillin," [Smilacin, Pariglin or Parillin, a crystallizable active principle from Sarsaparilla, C16H30O6 (Poggiale); proved by Palotta, and first published in Schweigg Journ., 1825, XLIV, 117. Smilaspercic acid is quite different, is obtained from Hemidesmus indicus, and was experimented with by
Garden , Lond. Gaz., xx, 800. -T. F. A.], took doses of 2, 6, 8, 10, and 13 grains; 12 , Berridge, N. Am. J. of Hom., 1872, p. 101, Dr. Croker took repeated doses of tincture; 13 , Dr. H. C. Allen, Am. Obs., 1874, p. 234, effects of teaspoonful doses of "Bristol's Sarsaparilla," in four children; 14 , Berridge, Am. Obs., 1875, p. 305, Dr. Theobold took 10 drops of tincture; 15 , same, Miss ---, took tincture, repeated doses of 10 to 40 drops for six days; 16 , same, self, took 1600th dil, (Jenichen), 1 to 3 times a day for ten days; 17 , same, "The Organon," 1, 107, a lady took one dose of C. M. (Fincke); 18 and 19 , omitted; 20 , Cox, in narrative of residence on the Columbia River, general effects (Dubl. J. of Med. and Chem., 1835, 6, 149); 21 , Ashburne, Lond. Med. Gaz., 12, 350 (1853), effects of Smilax aspera; 22 , same, Dr. Belinoye, effects of common Sarsaparilla.
MIND
- Cheerfulness, 5.
- Merriness and feeling of strength, 6.
- Merrier and livelier than usual (first and second days), 7.
- In very good spirits, merry and full of fun, all day, 6.
- Happier and livelier than usual (first and second days), 7.
- Soul and body restless before midnight, 1.
- The soul is affected inordinately by the pains; the mind is depressed, the mood dull; he feels wretchedly, and moans involuntarily, 1.
- Inclined to weep, and out of humor, forenoon, 1.
- Sad and depressed, absorbed within himself, 6.
- Much depressed in mind and sluggish, 10a. [10.]
- Depression of spirits, 1.
- Great anxiety, first in the head, then in the whole body, with trembling, mostly in the feet, forenoon, 6.
- Anxiety and fears, with palpitation of heart, 1.
- Great anxiety, with constriction of the throat, 6.
- She thinks she cannot bear the headache, 6.
- Dulness of temper, and stoppage of nose, 7.
- Silent moroseness, 3.
- Very easily vexed, and cannot forget the cause of vexation, 1.
- Extremely ill-humored, even vexed "by the fly on the wall," 1.
- Every word may offend him, 2. [20.]
- Ill-tempered and moody, afternoon, 1.
- Cross, but with disposition to work, 2.
- Very ill-humored, in the morning, with heaviness of the head (eighth day), 6.
- Cross, without disinclination to work, 4.
- Very ill-humored all day; better in the evening (seventh day), 6.
- Has aversion for everything; nothing gives her pleasure; only in the forenoon (sixth day), 6.
- Very changeable humor, every two or three days (fifth day), 6.
- Inclined to work, in the afternoon, 7.
- Inactive, sluggish, indisposed to work, awkward, .
HEAD
- Vertigo.
- Vertigo; while standing at the window, he suddenly fell backwards on the floor unconscious; at the same time the throat was swollen; sour eructation before and afterwards, thereupon the chest felt as if pressed; severe perspiration in the night, 1.
- Vertigo, with nausea, mornings, while gazing long at one object (fifth day), 6. [40.]
- Vertigo and unsteady gait, as if intoxicated (soon), 6.
- In the afternoon, vertigo going round from left forwards to right, when sitting indoors (sixteenth day), 16.
- Vertigo, frequently all the forenoon (ninth day), 6.
- Vertigo, while gazing long at one object, 6.
- Vertigo, while sitting and walking; the head inclined to drop forward, 3.
- Staggering backwards, when standing after stool, at 3.30 A.M. (seventh day), 16.
- Slight giddiness and heat all over, as if from a close air (it was a cold rainy day), (after five minutes), 15.
- General Head.
- Head inclined to drop forward, 3.
- Heaviness in the head, with tension in the right side of neck, particularly on moving the head (first day), 6.
- Heaviness of head, with toothache, 6. [50.]
- Lightness or pain in head, 21.
- Head stupid and dull, all the forenoon; in the afternoon, ill-tempered and moody, 1.
- Weakness in the head, as after a fever, with stupor, 1.
- Dulness in the head, with flatulency, 1.
- The dulness of the head always passed off, towards evening, 7.
- Dulness of the head after long sitting, with mist before the eyes; lassitude of limbs; stoppage of the nose and gloomy mood, 7.
- Dull headache, as if bound or screwed together; afternoon, 2 o'clock (fourth day), 6.
- Headache, like pressure from a great weight in the head, which is inclined to sink forward, 3.
- Tearing pressure in the head, here and there, increased by motion and walking, 3.
- Rending deep in the brain, only on talking and walking, not while in rest (second day), . [60.]
EYE. [120.]
- Bruised pain in right eye on turning eyes to left (sixteenth day), 16.
- Pain of the eyes when he looks at anything in the daylight, 1.
- Pressure in left eye, as from a grain of sand, 6.
- Pressure in the left, then in the right eye, with dimness of vision, 6.
- Pressing in eyes alternates with burning, 1.
- Stinging frequent in both eyes, as if dust or sand were in them; outdoors it seems better, 6.
- Stinging in the eyes on closing the lids, and violent pain when the closed eyes are pressed upon; at the same time, a broad red stripe extending from cornea to the outer canthus ; the inner corners are turned blue, and the right is somewhat swollen (twenty-first day), 6.
- On closing eyes stinging in them, 6.
- Reading by candlelight hurts eyes, paper looks red, 1.
- In the morning all objects affect the eyes, 1.
- Lids. [130.]
- Inflamed dry eyelids, 1.
- Violent burning and agglutination of the eyelids, on awaking in the morning, 6.
- Quivering in right upper eyelid, 1.
- Burning in the eyelids constantly sometimes alternating with pressing pain in the same, 1.
- Lachrymal Apparatus.
- Lachrymation of the eyes in the daytime; in the morning they are agglutinated (fourth day), 6.
- Lachrymation of the eyes, every other day (sixth day), 6.
- Tears in eyes when gaping, 6.
- Pupil.
- Pupils dilated (in two hours), 4.
- Ball.
- Pressing in ball of the eye, evenings, while reading by candlelight, with red shine of paper, 1.
- Vision.
- Flickering before eyes, and headache, 1. [140.]
- Mist before the eyes and dulness, .
EAR
- Inflammation and swelling of a gland under the right ear, which begins to suppurate on sixth day, 6.
- Drawing and visible twitching in the lobule of left ear, later either in the right or left, 6.
- Painful constriction about external right ear, 2.
- Stinging beneath and in front of left ear, as with a bristle, in the morning (sixth day), 6.
- Tearing upwards behind left ear, frequently in the afternoon, 6. [150.]
- In the ear violent pressure and compression, up into the temple, where it also presses, 2.
- Tearing in right ear, mornings (fourth day), 6.
- Tearing pressure in right cartilage and external meatus of ear, 3.
- Contracting sensation in right ear, 2.
- Ulcerative pain deep in left ear and around the anterior part of the same, morning (sixth day), 6.
- Violent dull stitches, deep in right ear, forenoon (ninth day), 6.
- Tolling of bells in left ear, for some time, afternoon (sixth day), 6.
- Ringing in left ear, 2.
- Every word reverberates in his head, cannot speak, with headache, 1.
NOSE
- Coryza, especially on right side (tenth day), 15. [160.]
- Coryza and cough, 1.
- Stuffed coryza, without sneezing, no air passes through the nose, 1.
- Very thick mucus from the nose, 6.
- Frequent nosebleed (sixth day); at night, after dream of fighting, 6.
- Epistaxis, with feeling as if small bubbles were bursting in the nose (third day), 6.
- In the evening, bleeding from right nostril when blowing nose, light colored blood (fourth day), 13.
- Bleeding from left nostril while blowing nose (eleventh day), 13.
- Bleeding from right nostril, 1.
- Nosebleed, 5.
- Sneezing in the morning, after rising, 6. [170.]
- Sneezing, fails in the attempt (eighth day), 6.
- Sneezing and running coryza, only in the morning (second day), 6.
- Stoppage of the nose in the forenoon, a short time, 6.
- Stoppage of nose and gloomy mood, 7.
- Woke with dry obstruction of right nostril (sixth day), 15.
- Burning in the nose, on blowing it, 6.
- In the nose burning on blowing it, with a dry cough, 6.
- In the tip of the nose, pricking as if caused by a needle, 1.
FACE
- Twitching of right side of upper lip (after three hours and a half), 15.
- Violent pain in the face, as if bruised, about both inferior orbital margins, on waking in the morning, but only on pressure (twenty-first day), 6. [180.]
- Drawing, stinging, tearing in the masticatory muscles of right side, which seem to have spasmodically contracted, 2.
- Pressing-stinging pain on lower inner edge of right lower jaw, but only on touch, and on bending the head back, 3.
- Stiffness and tension in masseter muscles and joints of the jaw, on moving the part, thirty minutes, forenoon (sixth day), 6.
- The jaws pain as if they would break, 1.
MOUTH
- Teeth.
- Chattering of teeth, with chill, 6.
- Toothache on the right side, with creeping, crawling, tingling in the roots of the teeth; after picking them until they bleed, the pain, which had been much more severe for awhile, ceases, evening (thirteenth and fourteenth days), 6.
- Drawing toothache in the right lower row, with heaviness of the head, particularly on the right side, from 4 A.M. till evening (third day), 6.
- The right upper teeth are very sensitive on biting on them (fourteenth and fifteenth days), 6.
- Tearing in the teeth from cold draft of air or cold drink, 7.
- Molars of left side and one on the right begin to ache, 6. [190.]
- Toothache, on two successive evenings (eighth day), 6.
- Stinging in a tooth which had been painful for a long time, forenoon (ninth day), 6.
- Gums.
- Swelling and sore pain of the gums of the inner side of lower maxilla, 1.
- The gums of the left lower row are painful on smoking tobacco, afternoon (third day), 6.
- Stinging tearing in the gums and the root of the last right lower molar, 3.
- Tearing in the gums of the right lower row, in the evening (fourth day), 6.
- Tongue.
- Whitish coating on the tongue, in the morning, with natural taste (third day), 6.
- Aphthæ on the tongue and palate (seventeenth day), 7.
- Tongue is rough several mornings on waking, passing off after eating, 6.
- Stitches in the tongue, 1.
- General Mouth. [200.]
- Offensive breath, 1.
- Slimy mouth in the morning (sixth day), 6.
- Dry mouth, after stool, at 3.30 A.M. (seventh day), 16.
- Dryness in the mouth, without thirst, forenoon, 6.
- Dryness in mouth and throat, mornings in bed (seventh day), 6.
- Woke with dry mouth (twenty-second day), .
THROAT. [220.]
- Constant hawking of mucus in the morning; the mucus is constantly reproduced in abundance (second day), 6.
- Phlegm in throat all day, which she could not detach or swallow (tenth day), 15.
- Tough mucus in throat, mornings; cannot be removed by hawking, for several days, 6.
- Mucus in throat tastes like blood (eleventh day), 15.
- Hoarseness in the throat, every other day (after six days), 6.
- Hoarseness in the throat frequently returning (after three hours), 6.
- Constricting feeling in the throat and chest, with difficult breathing, frequently in the day (fifth day), 6.
- Spasmodic constriction in the throat; he is forced to loosen his clothes, the cravat, the shirt, in order to get sufficient breath, but without avail (sixth day), 6.
- Sensation of constriction in the posterior portion of the throat, 11.
- Irritation and constriction in the throat, 11. [230.]
- Roughness in the throat excites cough, 6.
- Rough, hoarse, and dry in the throat, in the morning, on awaking, for a quarter of an hour, 6.
- During cough, roughness in the throat, mornings (second day), 6.
- Dryness in the throat and stinging on swallowing, morning (seventh day), 6.
- Spasmodic urging or straining in the throat, through the whole night, but frequently vomiting, 6.
- When swallowing, a pain in the throat; a feeling of rawness on the larynx, a pressing sensation moving about in larynx, with a cough at night and in the morning, with a colorless tasteless expectoration; when he coughs the larynx pains most, 10a.
- Pain in right side of throat, as if caused by a sharp spelt of barley or wheat, up along at the side and out at the ear, only passing off in the afternoon, after lying down (first day), 6.
- Irritation in the posterior portion of the throat, 11.
- Stinging from throat out of ear, 6.
- In fauces tickling ulcerative sensation, causing a cough, 1. [240.]
- In the morning very much burning in the œsophagus (fourth day), 15.
- In the swallow acrid sensation, 8.
STOMACH
- Appetite and Thirst.
- More appetite than usual, for several days, 6.
- He longs for his dinner, with an ardent desire, 9.
- (Wants nothing but juicy fruits), 10a.
- Gnawing hungry sensation, 21.
- No appetite for smoking tobacco, the taste of which seems to him to be entirely changed (fifth, sixth, and seventh days), 6.
- All his appetite is gone, 10a. [250.]
- No appetite for breakfast (sixth day), 6.
- No appetite and no hunger; food had not enough flavor, and after a meal it seemed to him as if he had eaten nothing; as if the stomach were without sensation, 1.
- No hunger or appetite; he ate but little at noon (second day), 6.
- Loathing at the thought of the food eaten, 1.
- Ability to go about all day fasting, 12.
- Thirst, even in the morning, continuing all day, with general warmth (third day), 6.
- Thirst, frequently throughout the day, with one who is usually not thirsty, 6.
- Thirst for water, in the afternoon, 2 o'clock, after chill before dinner (first day), 6.
- Absence of thirst during meals, contrary to his habit (first to fourth day), 6.
- Entire absence of thirst during the whole proving, 6.
- Eructations. [260.]
- First bitter and sour then empty eructations, 6.
- Sour eructations before and after attack, 1.
- Continual eructation, with shuddering, 6.
- Eructation, with taste of the food, after dinner (fifth day), 6.
- Bitter eructation in the morning, after rising, with bitter taste in the mouth (second day), 6.
- Bitter eructation during dinner; ceases after the meal (second day), 6.
- After eating the usual wasser soup, and drinking a little cold water after it, the soup eructated with a bitter taste (fourth day), 6.
- Belching up of bitter sour matter, evenings; he had to spit it out three times, .
ABDOMEN
- Hypochondria.
- Stinging in left hypochondriac region, particularly on bending toward the right; continuing a long time, forenoon (first day), 6.
- Dull pressure in the region of the liver; she often had returns of it; felt only in the morning on waking; better after getting up and walking about; after Sepia high, it disappeared for ten or twelve days, 10a.
- The left hypochondriac region pains as if bruised, with throbbing, 1 P.M., 6.
- Umbilicus and Sides.
- Cutting around the navel, always on gaping (eighth day), 6.
- Cutting in a small spot about the navel, morning (eighth day), 6.
- Cutting around the navel, then moving about in the abdomen, disappearing after passage of flatus, forenoon (eighth day), 6.
- Painful pressure inwards and pinching in left side of abdomen, in small spot, aggravated only by deep inspiration, 2.
- Pressing pain in left side of abdomen, 1. [320.]
- Cutting pain on a narrow line of the left side of the abdomen, transversely towards the back; then rolling in the belly and disappearance of the pain (sixth day), 6.
- Stinging, now in the right, now in the left side of abdomen (seventh day), 6.
- Severe stinging under the right ribs and in abdomen, one hour after dinner (sixth day), 6.
- Stinging in the left side of abdomen (soon), 1.
- Stinging in left side of abdomen, in the morning while sitting; vanishing while walking, 6.
- General Abdomen.
- Great fulness in abdomen, after eating or drinking anything, 6.
- Distension of abdomen (sixth day), 6.
- Frequent discharge of flatus all day (after eight days), 6.
- Flatulency, with dulness in the head, 1.
- Discharge of offensive flatus, 1. [330.]
- Discharge of flatus of fetid odor, evenings (third day), 6.
- Discharge of flatus upwards and downwards, 1.
- Rumbling in abdomen, with feeling of emptiness in the same, .
RECTUM AND ANUS
- Ulcer on the anus of the size of a walnut, bearing a black pustule, soon opening with pain, and discharging pus, 1.
- During the diarrhœic stool sensation of corroding acridity in rectum, during the discharge, 1. [370.]
- Tearing and cutting in rectum, 1.
- Painful contraction of sphincter ani, after pinching in abdomen, 2.
- Severe aching in anus, with frequent desire for stool; better after stool, but went away very slowly; it was relieved by hard pressure upwards in anus, at 3.30 A.M. (seventh day), 16.
- Soreness in the anus, wakes him at night, and then changes into a burning itching, lasting all day, 1.
- Burning in anus after stool, after fluid stools, 6.
- Itching on the right side of anus, dispelled by scratching (eighth day), 6.
- Tenesmus in anus after stool, 6.
- Uncontrollable urgent desire; but nevertheless only scanty soft stool, passing with great difficulty through the seemingly contracted rectum, 1.
- Urgent desire, with contraction of intestines, and enormous pressure downwards, as if contents of abdomen were to be pressed out, for several minutes; then at last something passes with a jerk, with severe tearing and cutting in rectum; thereupon immediately again desire to go to stool, as if rectum were being pressed out, so that he can scarcely sit on account of pain, 1.
- Frequent urging to go to stool, with scanty discharge, and with tenesmus in the anus afterwards (second day), 6. [380.]
- Stool accompanied with much urging and straining in the rectum, 1.
- Desire but no stool, 1.
STOOL
- Frequent diarrhœic discharges, four of five times during the day, with colic (fifth and sixth days), 6.
- Semifluid diarrhœic stools, 6.
- Twice diarrhœa (fourth day), 7.
- Hurried action of bowels before breakfast, 14.
- Stool was semifluid toward the end (ninth day), 6.
- Very soft stool, without any other complaint (second day), 6.
- Fluid stools, evenings, with burning in anus afterwards, 6.
- Soft stool, with tenesmus in anus after it (second day), 6. [390.]
- Stool softer than usual, accompanied with slight pressure in region of stomach, 7.
- Scanty consistent stool, accompanied by cutting in the abdomen, 6.
- Pitchy, sticky, adhesive stool several days, 6.
- Stool, the first part of which was hard, the last soft, with subsequent burning in the anus, 6.
- Scanty stool, preceded by evacuation of much flatus, at 3.30 A.M. (seventh day); had had a natural stool the day before, 16.
- Twice, consistent stool (first day), 6.
- Soft copious stool, afternoon (first day), 7.
- *Very hard stool (second day), 6.
- Hard stool (first day); constipation (second day); at first hard and then passages of soft fæces (third day), 4.
- Hard stool and frequent urination (tenth day), 6. [400.]
- Stool and urine delayed, 6.
- No stool (third and fourth days), 6.
URINARY ORGANS
- Painful constriction of the bladder, without urging, 1.
- The urine only dribbles away when sitting, the bladder when in that posture feeling bent forwards upon itself; on standing, the urine passes freely; this lasted three or four days (after seven days), 17.
- Discharge of yellow pus from the urethra, with redness and inflammation of the glans, and fever in the evening, with rigors (seventh day), 7.
- Thin, powerless stream of urine, 7.
- Pain in urethra, on waking (fourteenth night), 16.
- Burning while the urine passes , with discharge of elongated flakes, 5.*
- Sharp cutting pins in the urethra, after some hours, 1.
- Burning with urination, 7. [410.]
- Burning in the whole urethra always on passing water, 1.
- During passage of urine, scratching scraping in the whole urethra (after twelve hours), 1.
- Desire to urinate wakes him from sleep every morning, 4.
- Urging to urinate ceases with the perfect discharge of menses, 6.
- Frequent desire to urinate, with scanty discharge, accompanied by burning (first day), 6.*
- Urging to urinate on appearance of menses, 6.
- Nearly all day he has urgent desire to urinate, but little urine passes, 1.
- Frequent urging to urinate, with scanty but painless discharge, 6.
- Frequent desire to urinate, discharging only a few drops, without straining, as usually before menstruation, and again at the end of menstruation (fourteenth and fifteenth days), 6.
- When sitting in the seat after stool had a desire to urinate, but could not; afterwards when standing, could urinate freely, at 3.30 A.M. (seventh day), 16. [420.]
- He has to get up two or three times in the night to urinate , and passes a great quantity; he thinks he can never finish, at first with burning, then without, for two weeks (after two and four days), 6.
- Frequent urination (first day), 6.
- Frequent urination, with hard stool, 6.
- Wakes up in the night to make water, .
SEXUAL ORGANS
- Male.
- Intolerable odor about the genitals, 1.
- Erections seem diminished, 6.
- Glans red and inflamed, 7.
- Tearing from glans to root of penis, 1.
- After the passage of urine, burning and itching; tearing pain from the glans to the root of penis, 1.
- During morning, testicles and spermatic cords ache and are tender to touch; the cords are much swollen, with a dragging downwards feeling in them; afterwards, as this got better in the course of the morning, soreness in the left groin, worse on touch; in the course of the day it nearly all went off (eighth day), 16. [460.]
- Seminal emissions at night and restless sleep, 7.
- Pollution first night, 1.
- Painful pollution nearly every night, with lascivious dream, 7.
- Inclination for coition several days, with frequent emissions, 7.
- Inclination to coitus, with restless sleep, 7.
- Female.
- Slimy leucorrhœa rather profuse, while walking, 6.
- Menses three days too soon (after fourteen days), 1.
- Menses very scanty, but very acrid, with burning in the inner side of the thighs, so that she cannot approximate them on account of pain; the menstrual discharge appears only now and then, 6.
- Menses three days too late, and with every perfect discharge of menses the urging to urinate ceases, 6.
- Appearance of menses is retarded for five days, 1.
RESPIRATORY ORGANS. [470.]
- Pressing painful stitches in thyroid cartilage, without affecting deglutition, 2.
- Hoarse all day (fourth day), 16.
- Cough.
- Hard cough in the daytime, produced by a tickling ulcerative sensation in the fauces, 1.
- Cough and headache (second day), 6.
- Cough and coryza, 1.
- Cough, with nausea, vomiting bile, and diarrhœa, 10a.
- Cough, without expectoration, forenoon (second day), 6.
- Dry cough, with burning in the nose on blowing it (fifth day), 6.
- Dry cough, excited by roughness in the throat, only in the forenoon (second and third days), 6.
- Respiration.
- Frequent deep inspirations after dinner (second day), 6. [480.]
- Catching of breath (stoppage of breath) and oppression of the chest, in the evening and the following morning (after forty-eight hours), 6.
- Very asthmatic; he is often forced to breathe short (fifth day), 6.
- Difficult breathing, 6.
- In breathing, everything too tight, 6.
- Severe catching of breath while working; he can get air enough only with difficulty (fourth day), 6.
- Breathing heavy and short after dinner (third day), 6.
- Stoppage of breath, as if by spasm, or as if by an impediment in the lungs, with constriction in the throat for a whole minute, accompanied with great anxiety (after three hours), 6.
- The slightest exercise makes her short-breathed, abating in rest, 10a.
- Shortness of breath, 6.
CHEST
- Oppression of the chest, impeding respiration, mornings (eighth day), 6. [490.]
- Pressure in the chest, as if bruised, after attack, 1.
- Pressure in the chest, 6.
- Pressure and tightness on the chest, at night and in the morning, without cough (eighth day), 6.
- Pressure on the chest, with shortness of breath (sixth day), 6.
- Pressure frequently on the chest, afternoons (second day), 8.
- Painful constriction in the chest, alternating often with sudden expansion (eighth day), 6.
- He feels so tight-chested, with dyspnœa and exhaustion, that he had to loosen his necktie, lasting for some time (seventh day), 6.
- His chest feels mostly as if screwed together, and everything feels too tight, in breathing and walking, so that he had to loosen his clothes, necktie, and vest, in order to get air enough, frequently omitting and returning, 6.
- Tension across the chest after attack, 1.
- On the outside of the chest tensive pain, as if it were too short, on straightening up and walking erect (after twenty-four hours), 1.
- Front and Sides. [500.]
- Pressure on the sternum, worse on palpation, 3.
- Violent stinging in the middle of sternum, mornings (third day), 6.
- Aching pain in centre of chest; inclined to keep still in order to relieve it (after one hour), 15.
- Stitches in the middle of the chest, beside the sternum, without affecting respiration, 2.
- Pressing tension about the clavicle, next to sternum, 3.
- Pressing stitches under the last true rib, 3.
- Stitches in right chest, without affecting respiration, 2.
- Stinging in right side of chest, on motion, while standing, afternoon, 6.
- Stinging in the right side of breast, 1 P.M. (third day), 6.
- Stinging in the left side of chest, on walking outdoors, and in the forehead at the same time, mornings, continuing a good while (second day), 6. [510.]
- Stinging pain in left side of chest, while walking, 1.
HEART AND PULSE
- Palpitation almost constant, with some anxiety and fearfulness, 1.
- Palpitation of the heart during the day, 10a.
- Palpitation often in daytime, 1.
- Slight palpitation, 11.
- Pulse somewhat slower, 11.
- Pulse somewhat retarded, 8.
- Scarcely any alteration of pulse, unless it were a little retarded, 19. [520.]
- Pulse fell 8 beats, but after some minutes returned to the normal, 11.
- Pulse very febrile, 11.
NECK AND BACK
- Neck.
- Swelling of the right side of the neck (and throat), with pain when touched, 1.
- Wrenching pain in left side of neck, as if in the tendon, on moving the head (second day), 6.
- Tension in right side of neck, particularly on moving the head, with heaviness of the head, 6.
- On moving the head, tension in side of neck, pain in nape of neck, stitches, 6.
- Tension in the nape of neck and stitches, on moving the head (tenth day), 6.
- In the morning pain in left side of neck, on raising head up (tenth day), 16.
- Aching in the nape of the neck on moving the head, in the morning, abating during the day (third day), 6.
- Chuckling or pulling in left side of neck (second day), 6. [530.]
- Tearing in the nape of the neck, passing thence across the vertex towards the right side of the forehead, where it disappears, afternoon (sixth day), 6.
- Violent persistent drawing stitches in the right cervical muscles, from the clavicle into the hyoid bone, 2.
- In the muscles of the neck pressing stitches, increased by touch and motion, 3.
- Back.
- On deep inspiration, pain, as if something were sticking fast to the back, 1.
- At 8 A.M., pain in muscles at inner edge of right scapula (infraspinous portion); worse on moving either arm straight up, from putting right arm to back or from raising it above level of shoulder, and from rising from stooping; pain still felt, at 8 P.M. (sixth day), 16.
- Pain in middle of back on deep inspiration (sixth day), 16.
- Two quickly repeated shoots about inner edge of right scapula (fifth day), 16.
- In the back, between the shoulderblades, severe stitches, 2.
- Stinging, also tearing, beside the spine, from the right shoulderblade to the last false rib, increased much by inspiration, and on deep inspiration entirely arresting the breath, 3.
- Pain in right lumbar region on deep inspiration, in afternoon (fifteenth day), 16. [540.]
- Backache in small of back, increased after protracted stooping, pressing violently so that walking is impeded; improved by rest, when sitting or lying, but reappearing in the form of stitches with every, even the slightest, turn of the body, abating during the afternoon (fourth day), .
EXTREMITIES
- Blue nails, with coldness, 1.
- Trembling of hands and feet, with tearing in the forehead, and pinching in abdomen, forenoon (fourth day), 6. [550.]
- Mobility of all the limbs, 1.
- Lassitude of limbs, dulness, stoppage of nose, 7.
- In all the joints of the body, tearing, now here and then there, for several days, but only of short duration, 6.
- Tearing in nearly every limb, at night, with subsequent headache (sixth day), 6.
- Hands and feet very light mobility, 7.
- Drawing pains in shoulderblades and legs, 1.
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES
- Shoulder.
- Drawing in the shoulder-blades, 1.
- Pain, as from a thrust or blow, in the shoulder, on moving the arm; less while at rest, 6.
- In the shoulder-joints, violent tearing, extending gradually into the elbows, where it abates; frequently repeated (sixth day), 6.
- Pain in the right shoulder-joint, somewhat laming, only when moving the arms, afternoon, until lying down, 6. [560.]
- Cracking in right shoulder-joint, on moving it (sixteenth day), 6.
- Pain, as from a thrust or blow, in right shoulder-joint, only on moving the arm, 6.
- Tearing in left shoulder down into the fingers, afternoon till evening, with frequent intermissions (fifth day), 6.
- Stitches in the shoulders on raising the arm (fourth day), 6.
- Arm.
- In the arms, feeling of stiffness, on motion after rest; long-continued (eighth day), 6.
- In the upper arm, near shoulder-joint, a pulse-like, intermittent, external, stinging pain, 1.
- Tearing in left arm, from shoulder to the tips of the fingers, with pressure on the chest, at 11 A.M. (fourth day), 6.
- Violent tearing on the upper surface of left upper arm, extending to the wrist for five minutes, with stitches in right side of chest, at 8.30 P.M. (third day), 6.
- Tearing in the right arm, from the shoulder-joint to the wrist, afternoon (fourth day), 6.
- Dull stinging, above and in front of the humerus, 3.
- Elbow and Forearm. [570.]
- In the elbow, pain, as if a tendon had snapped from place, on rapid pronation of forearm, 1.
- Paralytic weariness in elbow-joints, 1.
- Twitching in both forearms, 7.
- Pressing tearing on the ulna, sometimes extending to the metacarpal bones, 3.
- Tearing across the forearm, above the wrist, with drawing-tearing stitches towards the fingers, 3.
- About the forearms, beside the elbow-joints, paralytic tearing; worse when at rest than in motion, 3.
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES
- Unsteady gait, with vertigo, 6.
- Great lassitude in the lower limbs; he can hardly move his legs (sixth day), 6.
- Hip.
- In the hip-joints, lame, bruised, and tired; she has to sit down, but without relief, 1.
- On the right ischium, pressing stitches in every posture, 3.
- Thigh. [600.]
- Stiffness in right thigh, as if contracted, in the popliteal space and calf, at the same time toes feel as if swollen under the nails (third day), 7.
- Weariness in the thighs , during catamenia, 6.
- Pressure on the inside of left thigh, near the knee-joint, 3.
- Dull pressure on the right thigh, just above the popliteal region, while sitting, 2.
- Stinging pressure about the left thigh near the patella, 3.
- Tearing pressure about the thigh, near the knee-joint, upwards and outwards, 3.
- Sore feeling in the bend of the right thigh, she can hardly walk; before menstruation (fourteenth and fifteenth days), 6.
- Violent stitches, followed by tearing in the left popliteal space (seventh day), 6.
- On the inside of the thighs, burning; she cannot bring them together during menstruation, 6.
- Pressing heaviness in left thigh, while sitting or walking, without pain, 2.
- Knee. [610.]
- Swelling and stiffness of the knee, with stinging pain, so that he could hardly move the knee sideways on account of pain, 1.
- On the knee single, acute, fine stitches, on the inner side, 2.
- Weariness in the knee-joints, the whole day, 6.
- Several painful tearings in right knee when gaping, while standing (third day), 6.
- Tearing in left knee, 2 P.M. (fourth day), 6.
- Violent tearing about the left knee, from evening till midnight, frequently intermitting (third day), 6.
- Stinging tensive pressure about right knee, 2.
GENERALITIES
- No exertion seemed to tire, 12.
- Feeling of strength, 6.
- The whole body has a greater mobility; hands and feet feel very light the first days, 7.
- Suddenly fell backwards on the floor, 1.
- In the whole body, trembling with anxiety, 1.
- Attack of nausea after breakfast, with sour eructation; while standing by the open window he becomes dizzy, he lost his consciousness, fell backwards to the floor, and after being raised, he came to himself, and felt great tension across the chest, 1.
- So weak that she can hardly walk, 10d.
- *General weakness, 11. [650.]
- *Sensation of weakness over the whole body, 11.
- Great prostration of strength, a degree of torpor, which induced him to lie upon the ground, with unwillingness to move or get up, 19.
- Weary in his legs, he feels as if he would have a spell of sickness, forenoon (second day), 6.
- Great weariness, particularly in the legs, but principally in the thighs, knees, and feet, also during menses, 6.
- Lassitude and tired feeling in the whole body, in the forenoon, passing off after the meal, 6.
- Lightning-like tensive pains, here and there, in the body, and about the head, 1.
- Racking effects, 18.
- During the stool, in the evening, faintness, 1.
- Vinegar seems to aggravate the complaints at first, 1.
- Out of doors, seems better, 6. [660.]
- To smell camphor, antidotes, 1.
SKIN
- Objective.
- Many little warts, 1.
- Tetters appear on all parts of the body, 1.
- Pale red, slightly elevated, rough spots upon the forehead, of the size of a split pea, without itching, 7.
- Itching humor on forehead, burning and moist after rubbing it, three days before the menses, 1.
- A scab on lobule of ear, first with burning pain, then itching, 1.
- Itching eruption under the nose, 1.
- Itching eruption under the nose, as if caused by an acrid discharge, 1.
- Eruption in left nostril; sore nose, 1.
- Tetter upon the upper lip, with pains, as of many pins, 1. [670.]
- Nettlerash eruption like urticaria, itching intolerably, and stinging on the neck, chest, eyelids, hands, and the whole body, with violent burning after rubbing, 1.
- Tetters on the hands, 1.
- Herpes on prepuce, 1.
- Red herpetic spots on the calves, with severe itching, 1.
- Severe great cracks in the skin of the right thumb, "so that one can see the flesh," with burning pain (sixth day), 6.
- Rashlike pimples, as soon as he comes into the cold air from the warm room, 1.
- A child, twenty months old, had what appeared to be a simple case of herpes labiales, which had broken out six weeks before; it consisted of two small irregular shaped patches half an inch or more in diameter, commencing beneath the labial commissure, and extending towards the mesial line of the chin; the crusts were thick , of a dirty yellowish-brown color, surrounded by an inflamed areola and suppurating border ; I prescribed for my patient; when she returned at the expiration of two weeks, the patches had united in the centre, and extending downwards covered the entire chin, while surrounding its borders was an occasional pustule, denoting the invasion of the cheeks; the mother now informed me that the left hip was involved, and an examination of the part disclosed several patches and pustules extending from the anterior superior spine in an oblique direction, upwards and backwards towards the lumbar region; the characteristic crusts had become detached by contact with the clothing, and in consequence it presented an angry and inflamed appearance, not at all unlike a well-defined case of herpes zoster; the new crop which was being developed, began by small pustules on an inflamed base, some of the size of a pin-head, others as large as a common pea, single and discrete at first, but as they approached each other, or where they were more numerous, inclining to become confluent; the least abrasion of the cuticle was transformed into a suppurating pustule. I prescribed Graphites, Hepar, Arsenicum, Merc. sol., and Mezereum, in various dilutions, from the 3d to 30th, and 200th potencies, for about two months, without the least apparent benefit; the eruption had now covered both cheeks, and several pustules on the nose, forehead, and neck foreshadowed its onward march, while the patch on the hip had extended to the spinal column; the itching was very troublesome and persistent, and the child's sleep much disturbed in consequence. The eldest boy (about twelve) had a well-defined case of herpes phlyctenoides, as large as the palm of the hand, on the left side of the neck, from the ear in front to the spine behind, and extending from the hairy scalp down the neck about three inches. The other two children had small irregular patches on the face and left arm; and wherever the skin was abraded on the hands suppurating pustules were to be seen. I gave the three youngest a few doses of Camphor, and in a week the whole trouble had disappeared. I allowed the oldest boy to recover by the natural process of the drug, and the neck is not yet clear of the crusts, but there has been no increase of the symptoms since discontinuing the Sarsaparilla, .
SLEEP
- Frequent gaping; fills his eyes full of water (first day), 6.
- Constant gaping, 1. [750.]
- Frequent gaping, with crawlings, the whole forenoon (eighth day), 6.
- Drowsy, 18.
- Sleepiness and internal chill, 1.
- Sleepiness, with gaping (very soon), 1.
- Very sleepy and sluggish, forenoon, without being much indisposed, 6.
- Soon falls asleep, in the evening, with violent starting (eighth day), 6.
- Falls asleep, in the evening; startling dreams of falling, slipping with the feet, etc.; frightful startling (eighth day), 6.
- At night and in the morning, on waking, finds himself lying on his back, every night, 1.
- Woke on back and found there had been an emission, but without dreams (twentieth and twenty-second days), 16.
- Woke on back (twelfth and subsequent nights), 16. [760.]
- Woke on back, sleeping later than usual (thirteenth day), 16.
- After midnight awaking several nights at 2 o'clock, and then remains awake for a long time (eighth day), 6.
- Waking after midnight with cutting pains in the abdomen; in the morning the pains cease (second day), 6.
- She wakes partially at night on account of pain, without knowing where, but in the morning she thought it must have been in her abdomen (one day before menses), (fourteenth day), 6.
- Waking at night out of voluptuous dreams, without erection (second day), 6.
- Waking at night, as if frightened by a sound, 4.
- Five times starting up at night in a fright, and thereupon difficulty of falling asleep again (second day), 6.
- At night she started up, hurriedly scratched her thigh unconsciously above the knee, and then slept again immediately (fourth day), 6.
- Little sleep, with starting up (sixth day), 6.
- An almost sleepless night, without an apparent cause, 6. [770.]
- Restless sleep, with much turning, 1.
- Sleep much interrupted (tenth day), 6.
- Restless unrefreshing sleep, .
FEVER
- Chilliness.
- Violent chill before dinner, with shaking and chattering of teeth, for one quarter of an hour; abates after "wasser soup" (first day), 6.
- Chilly rigor, evenings, on lying down, passing off in bed (second day), 6. [790.]
- Gaping, chills, with shaking, inward coldness and external heat, or both mixed, thirst, coughing, and vomiting, 10a.
- Coldness on awaking, at night, 6.
- Chilly, in afternoon (fifth day), 16.
- Chill, at night, on waking (ninth day), 6.
- Shaking chill, at night, without subsequent heat (fifth day), 6.
- Chill, in the morning, in bed, for a quarter of an hour (eighth day), 6.
- Chills and shaking without external coldness, 6.
- Inclined to chills and rigors, a short time in the forenoon, then, till evening, warmth, with sweat, over whole body, 6.
- Chill and coldness over whole body, even near the stove, with unusual warmth of the face and chest, 3.
- Rigors, with burning itching, 1. [800.]
- Feverish coldness, frequent in the day, with blue nails and loss of all vital warmth in arms and legs, 1.
- Chilliness, even in the warm room (second day), 6.
- He can warm himself but with difficulty in the warm room, all the forenoon (second day), 6.
- Rigor over the whole body, from below upwards, 3.
- Over run by transient chills, in the forenoon, 6.
- Chill runs over her as soon as she gets into the open air (eighth day), 6.
- Internal chill and sleepiness, 1.
- In the evening chill for one hour, without subsequent heat or sweat (seventh day), 6.
- Frequently wakes up at night with coldness (second day), 6.
- Severe chill at night in bed, with very cold feet, accompanied by heat of face and chest, 3. [810.]
- Shuddering, with gooseflesh, accompanied by continual eructation, in the forenoon (eighth day), 6.
- He shudders from stitches in head, .
CONDITIONS
- Aggravation.
- ( Morning ), Vertigo and nausea; all objects affect eyes; burning and agglutination of lids; tearing in right ear; sneezing and running coryza; on waking, tongue rough; dry mouth; bitter taste in mouth; sour slimy taste; mucus in throat; roughness and hoarseness in throat; nausea; desire to urinate; oppression of chest; stinging in middle of sternum; on walking outdoors, stinging in left side of chest and in forehead; prickling itching over whole body.
- ( Forenoon ), Inclined to weep and out of humor; anxiety; head stupid and dull; dry cough; crawling in sacral region.
- ( Afternoon ), Ill-tempered; moody; inclined to work; belching of sour water; on motion, stinging in right side of chest; swelling and redness of right tarsus, with pain.
- ( Evening ), Stitches in left frontal protuberance; tearing behind left ear; belching of bitter sour water; fluid stools; swelling and redness of right tarsus, with pain; tearing in left great toe; 5 to 7 P.M., pricking itching over whole body; itching; in bed, heat.
- ( Night ), Before midnight, soul and body restless; headache; pollution; pain in lower part of back; throbbing and burning in thumbs; cramp in calves.
- ( Blowing nose ), Burning in it.
- ( Cold draught of air ), Tearing in teeth.
- ( Cold drinks ), Tearing in teeth.
- ( Coming from cold air into warm room ), Rashlike pimples.
- ( Closing eyes ), Stinging in them.
- ( Every other day ), Lachrymation of eyes; hoarseness in throat.
- ( When gaping ), Tearing in left knee.
- ( Gazing long at one object ), Vertigo.
- ( Inspiration ), Tearing from right shoulder to last false rib.
- ( Deep inspiration ), Pressure in left side of abdomen; pain in back; pain in right lumbar region.
- ( During meals ), Absence of thirst.
- ( During menses ), Griping in pit of stomach; weariness in thighs; burning on inside of thighs.