KALMIA.
By Timothy F. Allen — The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
Kalmia latifolia, Linn.
Natural order , Ericaceæ.
Common names , Mountain Laurel, Calico Bush.
Preparation , Tincture of the mature leaves.
Authorities. (Nos.
1 to 5 , experiments of "W." with infusion of leaves, Boston Med. and Surg. Jour., 1834, vol. x, p. 213 et seq .)
1 , effect of infusion of 2 ounces of leaves to 1 part water, all taken in small doses during one afternoon; 2 , effect of 1 ounce of strong infusion; 3 , effect of two doses, of 2 ounces each, of a maceration of 2 ounces of leaves in a pint of alcohol; proving subsequently repeated; 4 , effect of 20 grains, and subsequently of 18 grains, of powdered leaf; 5 , effect of 10 grains of powder first day, then 5-grain doses five times a day for three days; 5 a , Tully, general effects of tincture and infusion communicated to "W." ( Nos.
6 to 23, from Hering's Compilations , Trans. Am. Inst. of Hom., vol. i, compared and revised by the Amer. Arzn. Pruf., with additions from the latter.)
6 to 11 , Behlert, provings with the 30th dil.; 12 , Bute; 13 , Clark, effects of 2d dil. in a young lady; 14 , Hæseler, 30th dil.; 15 , Kummer, by Dr. Freitag, 30th; 15 a , same, 3d dil.; 15 b , same, 1st dil.; 16 , W. Link; 17 , Puihn; 18 , Reichelm, effects of 3d dil.; 19 , Thomas, 30 drops of infusion, six times a day; 20 , Williamson, 2d dil.; 21 , Hering; 22 , case of poisoning from eating a pheasant, in the craw of which laurel leaves were found, from Shoemaker; 23 , same, second case. ( Nos.
24 to 28, from provings by L. Faust, N. Y. Hom. Med. Coll ., 1876-7.); 24 , L. Faust, aged 20, two provings with tincture; doses repeated, from 4 drops first day to 1 1/2 drachm the thirteenth day; 25 , same, proving with tincture repeated, doses of 30 to 90 drops; 26 , R. E. Mead, effects of tincture, 30 to 75 drops; 27 , E. C. Stracher, tincture, 15 to 75 drops; 28 , E. P. Macomber, proving with 3d. dil., 10 drops twice first day.
MIND
- Emotional.
- A feeling of anxiety; feel as though something dreadful was going to happen to me (seventh day), 24.
- Irritable disposition of the mind towards evening, which continues next morning, 18.
- Irritable, feel like scolding everybody (after first doses, fifth day); same peevish disposition as yesterday (sixth day), 24.
- Intellectual.
- Do not want to study (thirteenth day), 24.
- Did not feel like going to my books this morning (tenth day), 24.
- Cannot study; restless, want to leave the office; don't know where to go (half an hour after first dose, eleventh day), 24.
- Feel as though I would not like to be spoken to; do not feel like going to the office; take up a book at home, but cannot collect my thoughts (after second dose, eleventh day), 24.
HEAD
- Confusion and Vertigo.
- Confusion of the head in the evening, 18.
- Confusion and pain in the head, with backache, 1a. [10.]
- Vertigo, 5a ; (after second dose, eleventh day), 24.
- Vertigo, worse toward noon (fourth day), 24.
- Vertigo, while stooping and looking downwards (from 8 till 9 A.M.; and from 3 till 6 P.M.), 6.
- Vertigo and headache, 17.
- Vertigo, with some nausea, attended with pains in the head and limbs, 15.
- Vertigo, with pains in the limbs, 15.*
- Vertigo so excessive that antidotes were necessary (from 30 drops of the infusion six times a day), 19.
- Dizziness continuing two hours (after two and a half hours), 1.
- Slight dizziness and fugitive glow in different parts of the surface, with increase of sweating (after one and a half hour), 2.
- Rather dizzy (after two and a half hours), 4. [20.]
- Considerably dizzy (after two hours), 1.
- Got up after studying, but was so dizzy that I could hardly walk (seventh day), 24.
- General Head.
- Dulness in the head (after second dose, eleventh day), 24.
- Dulness in the head (first day), 15b ; (thirteenth day), 24 ; in evening, 15a.
- Dulness in the head until evening, which continues slightly early the next morning, 15a.
- Dulness and aching in the head, preceded by nausea, in the evening, 15.
- Dulness of the head and difficult hearing, with pains in the limbs, 15.
- A dull, drowsy feeling in the head, after this, a raging headache in the temporal and occipital region (second day), 24.
- Heaviness in the head for a short time on the right side, but towards evening the same sensation very severe on the left side, 15b.
- Pain in the head when awaking in the morning, and in the evening, 13. [30.]
EYE
- Inflammation of the left eye in the morning, with a burning-jerking pain, till near noon, when the pain becomes more tolerable, and scarcely perceptible (sixth day), 18.
- Eyes weak, 18.
- A pain in the right eye (ninth day), 24.
- Pain in the right eye, even weeks afterwards, 15b.
- Pain and pressure in the eyes (third day), 25. [90.]
- Pain in the eyes, which makes it painful to turn them, 3.*
- Burning with pressing in the eyes, particularly in the left one (fifth day), 18.
- Pressure in the eyes (fourteenth day), 24.
- Constant pressure in the eyes; can hardly keep them open (seventh day), 24.
- Woke this morning with a painful pressure over the eyes, and temporal headache, which was for the time being relieved by cold water (ninth day), 24.
- Pressing in the eyes, in the afternoon, 18.
- Pressing in the eyes, attended by pains in the arms and hands, in the legs down to the feet, and sometimes in the right side of the abdomen, 15.
- Violent pressing in the right eye, in the evening, 15b.
- Pressing pain about the eyes (fifth day), 18.
- Sticking in the eyes, 15. [100.]
- Stitches in the eyes, 15.
- Stitches and violent pressing in the right eye; the eyes feel dim and weak (third day), 15b.
- Acute stitches in the eyes, towards evening; in the right eye in the morning (second day), 15b.
- Itching in the eyes, 15b.
- Itching of the eyes and stinging, when rubbed, 13.
- Itching and burning in the left eye, in the afternoon (fifth day), 18.
- Brow and Orbit.
- *Sensation of stiffness in the muscles around the eyes, and of the eyelids, 13.
- Pain in the supraorbital region extending to the occiput (third day), 27.
- A sensation of pressing above the right eye, about noon (third day), .
EAR
- Pain behind the right ear, on the right side of the head, and in the leg, 15.
- Pain in the right ear (fourth day), 25.
- Darting pain through the ears, which lasted but a moment at a time (two hours after first dose, fourth day), 24.
- Stitches in the ears, 15.
- Stitches in the right ear and behind it, 15.
- Severe stitches in the ears, at 4 P.M., followed by pain in the arms, 15.
- Severe stitches in the right ear, in the night of the second day, 15b.
- Hearing. [130.]
- Buzzing in the ears (half an hour after second dose, fourth day), 24.
- Excessive ringing in the ears in the afternoon (fourth day), 18.
- Frightened by cracking in the head, 18.
NOSE
- Fluent coryza, with frequent sneezing, and perceptibly increased sense of smell, 14.
- The nose is sometimes obstructed, particularly in the evening, 9.
- One side of the nose has been occluded for three days (eighth day), 24.
- Pain deep in the left side of the nose (third day), 25.
- Continued pressure on the bridge of the nose, with frequent sneezing (second day), 15a, 18.
- Tickling in the nose, 6.
- Tickling in the nose, like that which precedes coryza, 9.
FACE
- Objective. [140.]
- Paleness of the face, 23 ; (first day), 28.
- Face flushed (first day), 26.
- Flushed face with the headache (fifth day), 25.
- Subjective.
- Pressive pain between the right eye and right side of nose, in the afternoon, 18.
- Sticking in the bones of the face, 8.
- The pain in the forehead is sometimes followed by tearing in the bones of the right or left side of the face, or on the top of the head, 8.
- Neuralgia in the face (fifth day), 24.*
- Stitches in the left upper jaw and zygoma, 8.
- Lips.
- Lips swollen, dry, and stiff, in the morning (second day), 13.
- Chin.
- Pain under the angle of the jaws (second day), 25. [150.]
- Darting-aching pain in the jaw (fifth day), 25.
- Shooting in the jaws and teeth (first day), 28.
- Tearing in the right lower jaw, 6.
- Stinging in the bones of the jaws, 6.
MOUTH
- Teeth.
- Pain in the upper teeth, 15.
- Pain in the lower incisor teeth (fifth day), 25.
- Pain in the molars, at 10.30 A.M. (fifth day), 24.
- Pain in the roots of the right upper back teeth, coming from the forehead, 8.
- Short pains in the teeth of the right side, in the evening (third day), 15b.
- Dull pain in the teeth, especially in the incisor and eye-teeth, 18. [160.]
- Neuralgic pains in the upper molar and bicuspid teeth of the left side, 27.
- Toothache (second day), 24.
- Toothache as if the nerve were laid bare (third day), 25.
- Drawing toothache (fourth and fifth days), 24.
- Severe pressing in the molar teeth, which continues for several hours, after 10 P.M., 18.
- Shooting in the right teeth, coming from the forehead, 6.
- Tongue.
- Tongue white and dry, 13.
- Inflammation of the sublingual glands, 16.
- Cutting pain in right side of tongue, relieved by biting on it (after second dose, eighth day), 24.
- Stitches in the tongue, 15.
- Saliva. [170.]
- Tingling in the salivary glands, immediately after eating, attended with a sensation of fermentation in the œsophagus, and copious salivation, 14.
- Secretion of saliva more free than from an ordinary emetic, 1.
- Taste.
- Acrid, bitter taste in the mouth. (Hering.)
THROAT
- Continual rising of a slippery mucus in the throat, with tickling in the larynx, 14.
- Feeling of a ball rising into the throat (after three hours and a half), 4.
- A feeling as of a ball rising up into the throat, but without the least nausea, 1.
- Dryness of the throat, which renders deglutition difficult, 13.
- Swollen feeling in the throat, 16.
- Pressing in the throat and nausea, with stitches in the eyes, 15.
- Sensation of rawness and scraping in the throat, which is painful while swallowing, and is attended by throbbing in both the tonsils, 6. [180.]
- Scraping in the throat, 6 ; (first day), 25.
- Scraping in the throat, which excites a cough, day and night, 8.
- Scraping sensation in throat, which lasted all day, and caused a constant desire to cough (fourth and eleventh days), 24.
- Difficult deglutition, 15.
- Pain in the region of the submaxillary gland, shooting towards the parotid, in the evening (eleventh day), 24.
STOMACH
- Thirst.
- Increased thirst (fourteenth day), 24.
- Thirsty, 13.
- Eructation.
- Eructations and nausea, 6.
- Belching of wind, 6.
- Nausea and Vomiting.
- Nausea, 24 , etc; with the vertigo; with flickering before eyes; with pressure in throat; with oppression of chest; with pains in elbows, 15 ; with entire loss of sight (after half an hour), 22 ; with blackness before eyes, 6 ; with incarcerated flatulence, 18. [190.]
- Nausea, in the evening, followed by some dulness and aching in the head (second day), 15.
- Nausea, soon after the stool, at 10.30 A.M. (fifth day), 24.
- Excessive nausea, with dimness before the eyes, 23.
- Momentary nausea, with incarceration of flatus, in the afternoon while riding, followed by a stool, with cutting pain in the bowels (third day, after repeated doses), 18.
- Continual retching (after half an hour), 22.
- Vomiting, with ruminating action, 3.
- Vomiting began (after two hours and a half), recurred every three or five minutes for an hour, without the least nausea; considerable bile thrown up towards the close, with an action like rumination, 1.
- Stomach.
- Digestion better, 5.
- Rumbling and a sense of emptiness in the stomach, as if I had had no breakfast (third day), 24.
- Warmth in the stomach, 5a. [200.]
- Sensation of warmth through the epigastric region, which gradually increased (half an hour after last dose), 1.
- Glow through the epigastric region, with a feeling as though some new action was going on there (after two hours and three-quarters), 2.
- Some glow in the stomach, 4.
- Slight glow felt in stomach, with vertigo and prickling in the skin (after half an hour), 3.
- Feeling of weakness, extending from the abdomen up into the throat, .
ABDOMEN
- Hypochondria.
- Pain in the hypochondriac region (second day), 25.
- Stitches in the left hypochondriac region, at 8 A.M. (seventh day), 24.
- Pain in the right side, in the region of the liver, 13.
- Umbilical and Sides. [220.]
- Pain about the umbilicus (fifth day), 25.
- Pains in the right side of the abdomen, 15.
- Pain in the right side of the abdomen, followed by a pain in the right gluteus muscle, 15.
- Pressure in the right side of the abdomen, 15.
- Abdomen.
- Incarceration of flatulence, with nausea, 18.
- A sensation of weakness in the abdomen, rising up into the throat; when violent it is sometimes relieved by eructations, but returns immediately, 6.
- Occasional pain across the abdomen, 13.
- Sensation in the bowels as if there would be a cathartic operation, but none followed, 1.
- Pain in the bowels, which drove me to stool; stool passed with tenesmus, at 10.30 A.M. (fifth day), 24.
- After breakfast, cutting pain in the bowels, followed by a loose stool, which relieved the pain (fifth day), 25. [230.]
- Cutting colic during the stool, 8.
RECTUM AND ANUS
- Stool normal, but followed by burning in the anus (ninth day), 24.
- Excessive burning in the anus after stool; stools hard (seventh day); stool this morning very hard and large, so that it was voided with difficulty; after stool, excessive burning in ano (eighth day), 24.
- Inclination to go to stool, in the forenoon (fourth day), 18.
STOOL
- Diarrhœa.
- A soft stool, early in the morning, followed by a diarrhœa, which lasted two hours, and another soft stool the same forenoon (fourth day), 18.
- Two soft stools, and an evacuation of wind, in the forenoon (fifth day), 18.
- Easily discharged, as if smoothed over, pappy stool, followed by pressing in the rectum, 14.
- Constipation.
- Constipation (ninth and tenth days), 24.
- Constipation so obstinate at this time, that the provings was discontinued for thirteen days, during which the constipation subsided, 24.
- An attempt at stool was unsuccessful, the stool being too large to pass, in the morning; passed with great difficulty, at 10 A.M. (eleventh day), 24. [240.]
- No stool the first day; scanty stool, in the morning (third day); looseness of the bowels, at noon, after the stool in the morning; stools less frequent (third day), 18.
URINARY ORGANS
- Urethra.
- Slight burning during urinating (second day), 25.
- Micturition.
- Frequent desire to urinate (first day), 26 ; (after 30 drops, second day), 27.
- Frequent desire to urinate; the urine feels hot as it passes; only small quantities pass at a time; urinate about once in thirty or forty minutes (second day), 26.
- Great desire to urinate (ninth day), 18.
- Frequent discharges of yellow urine, in increased quantity, 14.
- Urine.
- Urine somewhat increased (fourth and fifth days), 24.
- I thought there was some increase of urine this experiment and the former one, 2.
- Urine increased, not changed in color; slight burning on passing it (fourth day), 25.
SEXUAL ORGANS
- Male.
- Frequent erections, lasting ten to fifteen minutes, not accompanied with sexual desire, but came on spontaneously (seventh day), 24. [250.]
- Pain in the right testicle in the morning, which changed to the left side in the afternoon (fifth day), 25.
- Female.
- Yellowish leucorrhœa in the morning, eight days after the appearance of the menses (three weeks after the exhibition of Kalmia), (during the leucorrhœa several old symptoms reappeared), 6.
- The menses appear eight days too early (fourth day); the next time they make their appearance fourteen days too late, 8.
- Menstruation insufficient and delayed, with pains in the loins, back, and anterior part of the thighs, 13.
- Painful menstruation, 13.
RESPIRATORY ORGANS
- Tickling in the trachea, 14.*
- Cough and Expectoration.
- Cough day and night, 8.
- Cough excited by scraping in the throat, 9.
- Cough with mucous expectoration in the evening, 6.
- Cough, with easy expectoration of a gray, smooth, unctuous matter, which has a putrid, saltish taste; on spreading it out it separates into small pieces, 14.
- Respiration. [260.]
- A peculiar noise while breathing, like that caused by spasmodic affections of the glottis, 23.
- Oppressed breathing (third day), 26.*
- Oppression and shortness of breath, which obliges him to breathe quickly, involuntarily, 14.
- Oppressed breathing with palpitation of the heart and anxiety (third day), 26 ; (after thirty drops, second day), 27.*
- Difficulty of breathing, accompanied by anxiety (fifth day), 24.
- Difficulty of respiration, with erysipelatous eruption, 21.
- Difficult respiration, with pains in the limbs, 15.
CHEST
- Oppression of the chest, after the fifth dose, every fourth day, 15.
- Oppression of the chest, with sensation of swelling in the throat, 16.
- Oppression of the chest, difficulty of breathing, dulness of the head, and nausea and various pains, 15. [270.]
- Sensation in the chest as if strained by lifting, 13.
- Sticking pain in the right lung, under the third and fourth rib, causing dyspnœa (thirteenth day), 24.
- Stitches in the lower part of the chest, 6.
- Pressure in the right side, 6.
- Tearing in the whole left side, 8.
- Stitches below the breast, 6.
HEART AND PULSE
- Heart's Action.
- Fluttering of the heart (second day), 28.*
- Slight fluttering of the heart (seventh day), 24.
- *Palpitation of the heart, 16.
- Palpitation of the heart (this symptom was felt yesterday, but I did not heed it until it became pretty intense to-day), (seventh day), 24.* [280.]
- Palpitation of the heart , on walking slowly upstairs (first day), 28.
- Palpitation of the heart, with anxiety and oppressed breathing (third day), 26 ; (after thirty drops, second day), 27.*
- Violent palpitation of the heart, with a faint feeling (second day), 28.
- Pulse.
- Pulse 84, at 10 A.M. (half an hour after first dose, eleventh day), 24.
- Pulse 66 to 70 (before proving); 80 at 10 A.M.: 68 at 4 P.M. (fourth day), 24.
- Pulse 68 at 8 A.M.; 80 at 10 P.M. (tenth day), 24.
- Pulse 70 (ninth day); (at 9.30 sixth day), 24.
- Pulse 62, at 9.15 A.M.; 64 at 4 P.M. (seventh day), 24.
- Pulse 66 at 4 P.M.; 54 in three consecutive minutes (after second dose, at 10 P.M., fifth day), 24.
- Pulse 60 to 64 before taking; 48 strength not affected, or only slightly affected (after third dose), 3. [290.]
- Pulse 54 (fourteenth day), 24.
- Pulse 58 before taking; 48 (after two hours and a half); 40 and very gentle in its action (after five hours); 37 (after six hours), 4.
- Very feeble pulse, of forty strokes in a minute, 23.*
- Pulse extremely weak and creeping; the artery seemed to slowly contract and dilate like the action of an earthworm; its frequency was 40 to the minute, lasting two hours, 1.
- Imperceptible pulse (after half an hour); when it reappeared it beat only forty strokes in a minute, .
NECK AND BACK
- Neck.
- Pain in the neck extending down the back (sixth day).
- The pain in the neck has increased to stiffness, being the greatest at the seventh cervical (or vertebra prominens), (eleventh day).
- A little stiffness in the neck, in the morning (twelfth day), 24.
- Pain in the neck with headache in the occiput (second day), 25. [300.]
- Pain in the right side of the neck, 15.
- Pain in the sterno-cleido-mastoid muscle (third day), 25.
- Drawing and sticking in the left side of the neck, in the afternoon, continuing eight hours, 18.
- A pressure on both sides of the neck, 15.
- Violent pressure in the right side of the neck, and the same time in the left foot, 15b.
- Something shoots down both sides ot the neck externally, 6.
- Acute stitches and itching on the left side of the neck, at night, 6.
- Tearing in the nape of the neck, 6.
- Back.
- Pain in the back (fourteenth day), 24 ; during menses, 8.
- Pain in the back extending through the shoulders, 13. [310.]
- Pain down the whole back (ninth day), 24.
- Constant pain in the spine, sometimes worse in the lumbar region, with great heat and burning, 13.
- Severe pain in the back, after retiring (fourth night), 24.
- Violent pain down the back, 23.
- A sensation as if the spinal column would break, with an anterior convexity, 14.
- Dorsal.
- Pain in the shoulder-blades, 13.
- Pain in the interscapular region (ninth day), 24.
- Pain between the shoulders coming up over the head into the temples, not affecting the eyeballs (first day), 25.
- Sharp pain in the three superior dorsal vertebræ, extending through the shoulders, 13.
- Sticking pain in the lower part of the left shoulder-blade (third night), .
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL
- Weariness in the limbs, 6.
- Pains in the arms, hands, and legs down to the feet, 15.
- Pain in the left arm and in both legs, in the evening, 15.
- Pain in the right arm, and tearing in the left leg, while at rest, which disappears on rising; it extends less severe through the whole of the left side and arm, 8. [330.]
- Pain in the right shoulder and left arm, particularly the elbow, and in both lower extremities, especially the knees, 15.
- Frequent pains here and there in the limbs, continually changing from one place to another, for ten days, during the exhibition of a few globules every second day; they lasted three weeks after the discontinuance of the medicine, 15b.
- Frequent pains in the muscles of the extremities, and also in the head, with dulness, vertigo, and some nausea, 15.
- Alternate pains in shoulder, hip, and ankle-joint (fourteenth day), 24.
- Brief pains in the left elbow, arm, and knee, in the morning, and in both arms in the afternoon; while lying it is not observed (third day), 15.
- Sprain-like pain at times in the feet and hands, 15.
- Pressing pain in the left shin, and in the muscles of the left arm, accompanied with the same kind of pain in the right foot, 15b.
- Pressing in the left shin and shoulder, and also in the left arm, followed by pressing in the right shoulder and arm, 15.
- Stitches in both upper and lower extremities rapidly changing their position (after thirty drops, second day), 27.
- Tearing in the right shoulder, in the left arm, in the right lower jaw, and in the flesh of the whole ot the left leg downward, 8. [340.]
- Limbs feel as if they had been beaten (third day), 26.
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES
- A tired sensation in the arms; I do not feel like writing (fifth day), 25.
- Pains in the arms, 15.
- Pains in the arms and hands, 15.
- Pain in the right arm, 8.
- Pain in the whole right arm for weeks, 15b.
- Pains in the left arm, 15.*
- Drawing pain in the inner side of the left arm of short duration, at night (third day), 15b.
- A pressure in the right arm, 15.
- *Pressure in the left arm, 15. [350.]
- Stitches under the left arm, 15.
- Tearing in the left arm, 8.
- Shoulder.
- Tearing from the right shoulder down the arm, 8.
- Pain in the shoulders in the morning on waking (third day), 25.
- Pain in the right shoulder, 15 ; (first day), 26, 27.
- Pain in the left shoulder, 6 ; (ninth day), 24.*
- Alternate pains in shoulder and elbow-joint of right arm, locating itself in the elbow (second day), 24.
- Rheumatism in the shoulder, so that I could not raise my arm (sixth day), 24.
- Rheumatic pains in the right shoulder and scapula (first day), 25.
- Pressing below the left shoulder, in the evening (second day), 18. [360.]
- Pain beneath the left shoulder, pressive, 15.
- Pain sticking in the shoulder-joint (third day), 27.
- Tearing in the shoulder-joint, 6.
- Tearing pain in the right shoulder, 8.
- Arm.
- Pain in the left arm above the elbow, and soon afterwards between the elbow and hand; frequently alternating between the two places during one hour, and followed by pain in both legs below the knees, which extends to the feet, 15b.
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES
- Numbness of the limbs, as if asleep, 13.
- A feeling of lassitude in the limbs, as if I had walked a great distance (sixth day), 24.
- When going down stairs a sensation as if the tendon of the quadriceps extensor would give way, and I would fall down stairs (second day), 25. [400.]
- Pain in the lower extremities (second day), 26.*
- Pain in both limbs.*
- Pains in the legs down ot the feet, 15.*
- Pain in the leg, 15.*
- A peculiar pain along the outside of the left, which is very frequently repeated, 15.
- Rheumatic pains in right leg, extending as far as the toes, in the morning , (fifth day), 24.*
- Rheumatic pains in the leg, from the hip down (after second dose, eighth day), 24.*
- Rheumatism in right leg (tenth day), 24.
- Rheumatism returned in the afternoon (eleventh day), 24.
- Aching of the left leg down to the heel, 6. [410.]
- Tearing in the left limb, 8.
- Tearing in the bones of the hips and lower extremities, down to the feet, 6.
- Tearing in the flesh, down the whole left leg, 8.
- Hip.
- Sticking pain in the hip and sacral region (seven hours after second dose, fourth day), 24.
- Stitches shoot from the right side into the hip-bones, in the evening, 6.
- Tearing in the hip-bones, extending down to the feet, 6.
- Thigh.
- Pain in the forepart of the thighs, during menses, 13.
- Pain in the right thigh, 15.
- Pain in the right nates, 15.
- Sticking pain in the thigh, extending to the knee (first day), 27.
- Knee. [420.]
GENERAL SYMPTOMS
- Objective.
- Very languid (fourteenth day); in the morning (eleventh day), 24.
- Great weariness, in the evening, particularly in the extremities, so that it is nearly impossible to go upstairs, 13.
- Very tired all the evening; do not feel like recording the symptoms (fourteenth day), 24.
- Fatigue of the muscles, my legs feeling on going upstairs as though I was struggling under the utmost weight they could bear (after two hours and three-quarters), 2.
- Could not go above three steps without being completely exhausted, and likely to fall from weakness and dizziness, 3.
- Muscular prostration was such that I could scarcely walk across the room, 1.
- Restlessness, frequent turning, 13.
- Restless, went from one place to another looking for something and did not know what (half an hour after second dose, fourth day), 24.
- Indisposition to move, with aversion to exercise, 13.
- Subjective. [460.]
- A feeling of lassitude over the whole body (after first dose, fifth day), 24.
- Feel very tired, can hardly walk, in the evening (eleventh day), 24.
- Sensation of great fatigue in all the muscles, especially when exerted; this appeared first in those of mastication, which were excessively affected by a very moderate exertion, 1.
- Faint feeling, which left me with vertigo (soon after first dose, fourth day), 24.
- A faint feeling, with violent palpitation of the heart (second day), 28.
- A feeling all over the body as if I had been exposed to a soaking rain (first day), 24.
- Rheumatic pains all over the body (sixth day), 24.*
- Slight rheumatic pains over the whole body, but of no particular moment (first day), 24.
- Pressing pains in the whole body (in one hour and a half after taking the third dose of six globules, which had been repeated every fourth day), 15.
- Sticking pains in different parts of the body (third day), 26.
- Bruised feeling all over the body (one hour after first dose, eleventh day), . [470.]
SKIN
- Objective.
- Holding the flowers in the hands caused an erysipelatous itching eruption similar to Rhus, first on the hands, then spreading, with dangerous respiratory troubles (observed in a young, delicate girl, who afterwards, every year at the same time, had a roughness of the cheeks), 21.
- Red, inflamed spots in different places on the body, which appear like the beginning of blood-boils, very painful, and continued for several weeks, 12.
- Roughness of the cheeks every summer, 21.
- A red spot, about the size of a pea, appeared on the outside of the left leg, a little below the knee, which itched excessively and was followed by a burning pain; this was succeeded by a second on the outside of the leg close to the knee, with excessive itching (from the afternoon of the sixth to the seventh day); on the morning of the seventh day a small spot appeared on the right knee, also with some itching of short duration, 18.
- An itching red spot first on the left, afterwards on the right knee, 18.
- Subjective.
- Pricking sensation in the skin generally, 5a.
- Slight prickling sensation, such as I have felt often in the spring, attended with increased tendency to sweating, immediately; considerably increased, and was most conspicuous in the scalp; this prickling sensation is peculiar, and can be compared to nothing but the effect produced on the mouth by essence of peppermint, which is a sense of coolness, with pricking by innumerable minute points at the same time (after two hours), 1. [480.]
- Itching (after two hours and three-quarters), 2.
- Itching and burning all over the body, as if I had been bitten by mosquitoes (thirteenth day), 24.
- Considerable itching, 5.
- Itching in the face at night, 6.
- Itching in the bend of the right knee, in the afternoon (ninth day), 18.
SLEEP AND DREAMS
- Sleepiness.
- Sleepiness (thirteenth day), 24 ; lasting four hours and a half (after three hours), 2.
- Sleepiness increased, 4.
- Considerable sleepiness, 2.
- Began to be sleepy (after half an hour); went to sleep in twenty minutes more, and slept till awakened, one hour, 1.
- Very sleepy (half an hour after first dose, eighth day), 24. [490.]
- Very sleepy, cannot study because of the sleepiness (fourteenth day), 24.
- Feel very drowsy, at 3 P.M. (ninth day), 24.
- Very drowsy, almost falling asleep while at study; cannot concentrate my thoughts on my books, at 2.30 (after four hours and three-quarters, sixth day), 34.
- Perhaps some somnolency, 5a.
- Considerable somnolency, 3.
- Sleeplessness.
- Restless sleep; unpleasant dreams; awoke about 4.30 A.M. with a dull headache; after that could only sleep a few moments at a time; awaking from frightful dreams (fourth night), 24.
- After retiring restless; could not sleep for two hours; tossing about in bed; felt as though I had worked too hard, and could not sleep (sixth night), 24.
- Very restless after retiring, could not sleep (eleventh night); awoke at 4, after which I could not sleep very well, only a few minutes at a time; would awake out of annoying dreams (twelfth morning), 24.
- Talking in sleep, 13.
- Getting up and walking while asleep, 13.
- Dreams. [500.]
- Fantastic dreams, 13, 14.
- Fantastic and busy dreams, 14.
- Unpleasant dreams, 13.
- Wild, unpleasant dreams all night (second night), 24.
FEVER
- Chilliness.
- Skin cool, covered with cold sweat (after two hours), 1.
- Chill (this symptom was felt before, but I attributed it to the weather, but I find it is a regular chill), (thirteenth day), 24.
- Cold and shivering on two successive days, 13.
- Shivering, without coldness, 18.
- A momentary shivering, without coldness, about 10 P.M., in bed, which seems to pass from the top of the head to the neck, under the scalp, attended with a cracking noise, and at the same time alarm, without palpitation of the heart; a sensation as if the body were surcharged with electricity; this sensation was repeated four times in the course of half an hour, and the whole ended with the sound of a horn before the ears, 18.
- Rapid alternations of chill and heat all over the body (third day), 26. [510.]
- Creeping over the back, 6.
- Creeping over the back and weariness in the limbs, 6.
- Coldness of the extremities, 23 ; (after half an hour), 22.
- Heat.
- Feeling of heat all over the body (soon), (sixth, seventh, and eighth days), 24.
- Heat and burning, with pains in the loins, 13.
- After taking the medicine, heat all over the body, flushed face (first day), 25.
- Great heat all over the body (half an hour after first dose, eleventh day), 24.
- Alternate heat and cold over the body (second day), 26.
- Alternate flushes of heat and chilliness all over the body (after 30 drops, second day), 27.
- Heat in the head, in the morning (fifth day), 18. [520.]
- Heat in the left shoulder, extending to the forearm, and from there to the tips of the fingers (first day), 27.
- Sweat.
- Sweating more freely than usual, 3, 5.
- Moderate sweating, 5a.
- Skin dry, 14.
- Dry skin and cracked lips, 14.
CONDITIONS
- Aggravation.
- ( Morning ), On waking, pain in forehead; inflammation of eye; lips swollen; on waking, pain in shoulders; pains in legs.
- ( Forenoon ), Towards noon, vertigo.
- ( Afternoon ), Towards evening, head and eye symptoms, 15 ; cracking in elbow-joints.
- ( Evening ), Confusion of head; obstruction of nose; pains in teeth; pain in region of submaxillary gland; cough; pain across loins; pain in arm, etc.
- ( Night ), Stitches, etc., on side of neck; pain on arm; after retiring, pain in knee, etc., itching in face; at 10 o'clock, in bed, shivering.
- ( In open air ), Head and eye symptoms, 15.
- ( Ascending stairs ), Pain in temple.
- ( Sitting bent ), *Pressure in pit of stomach, etc.
- ( While looking down ), Vertigo.
- ( Mental effort ), Dull headache.
- ( Motion ), The pains, 15 ; pain in epigastrium; pain in lumbar region.
- ( While stooping ), Vertigo.
- Amelioration.
- ( While lying ), The pains, 15 ; pain in left arm, etc.