Characteristics Belladonna – Calcarea Carbonica

sticking itching most on vertex and sides; sticking violently, and very painful when scratched, leaving moist spots which later cover themselves with scabs. Hair falls out, even to baldness, beginning on vertex, with dry itching crusts on and itching pimples on neck. Tendency to take cold in from washing head. Worse: Evening; at night; scratching; in a warm room. Better: Motion in open air.

Eyes.—Burning and pressing in, from eye strain. Inflammed, with a sense of dryness and photophobia. Suppurative agglutination of lids. Light dazzles, yet in the dark there are sparks before.

Ears.—Eruption on and behind. Cracking and snapping in, when swallowing, sneezing and walking rapidly.

Nose.—Nosebleed after blowing it. Sensitive smell. Fluent coryza with thick mucus.

Face.—Dark red, with violent congestion thereto. Tension as if covered with a cobweb. Swollen. Milk crust. Swelled submaxillary glands.

Teeth.—Jerks, extending into ears and temples. Ache with swollen gums before menses.

Mouth.—Bad odor from. Dry. Raw burning cracks on tongue.

Throat.—Repeated inflammation, after taking the slightest cold, with swelling and suppuration of tonsils. Sense of a plug in. Sore, when swallowing. Roughness in.

Appetite, etc.—Small, but food tastes properly. Thirst.

Taste.—Bitter, in mouth early in morning. Sour, before eating.

Stomach.—Great weakness of digestion. Pressure, after eating. Sore pain in, with a sensation when eating as tho' the morsels were forced through sore spots.

Abdomen.—Cutting as of an impending diarrhœa in (after taking cold). Pains in the hard swollen abdomen.

Stool.—Intense urging to, with agonizing pains in loins, followed by diarrhœic stools. Sudden irresistible necessity for.

Anus.—Excoriation and moisture at. Sticking anal hæmorrhoids.

Urine.—Sudden irresistible urging to urinate. Frequent and profuse.

Sexual Organs.—Excoriation and moisture between scrotum and upper thigh. Weak sexual power. Diminished sexual desire.

Respiration.—Suffocative catarrh from paralysis of lungs in old people. Tightness of chest. Dyspnœa.

Cough.—Excited by roughness and tickling in epigastrium and throat. Dry in evening. Chest full of phlegm with night cough. Difficult expectoration of a yellowish, tenacious, starchy, often a saltish mucus in morning.

Larynx.—Hoarseness and loss of voice from tenacious mucus in, and in trachea. Sensation of smoke in.

Neck.—Stiff. Pain in bones of. Indurated swelling of glands of neck and throat. Burning steatomatous swelling on neck.

Chest.—Fulness in. Strong palpitation, when lying on left side or renewed when thinking about it. Soreness in. Feeling as if something had fallen down within. Sore feeling about heart, with violent palpitation.

Back.—Throbbing pulsation in. In evening, tensive stiffness in lumbar region, especially when sitting, it allows neither rising nor bending backward.

Upper Extremities.—Swelling of arms, with painful axillary glands. Swollen bloodvessels on hands. Dry skin of hands.

Lower Extremities.—Sprained pain in hip joint. Tension in legs, as from shortened muscles. Drawing and tearing in legs as if in bones. Fetid foot sweat. Corns with burning sticking, also on balls of toes.

Generalities.—Suitable for old men and atrophic children. Nightly twitching of muscles of entire body. Great weakness and relaxation with inclination to lie down. General physical, mental and nervous weakness in old people. Hyperæsthesia of all senses. Apoplexy with paralysis in old people. Great tendency to take cold, especially causing sore throat, stiff neck and diarrhœa. The left side is mostly affected. Most symptoms disappear during motion in

open air. Worse: Night; in cold. Better: Warmth; especially when sitting quietly in a dark room.

Glands.—Swelled; indurated.

Skin.—Unhealthy. Burning, needle-like stitches here and there. Smarting and oozing of single spots.

Sleep.—Somnolency, day and night.

Fever.—Pulse: Accelerated but weak; seldom full and hard. Chill: And chilliness predominate, often as if cold water were poured over one, relieved by external warmth. In evening and at night alternating with heat. Spreading downward over body from face or epigastrium. Beginning in feet. With drawing in limbs. Heat: Running over body frequently during day. Nightly attacks of flying heat, with great anxiety and restlessness. Sweat: Debilitating at night. Unilateral, mostly on left side. Recurring every other evening.

Allied Remedies.—Ars., Calc-c., Nux-v., Sep., ZINC.

BELLADONNA.

Mind.—Reeling as if intoxicated, and mental stupefaction, > motion of head, eating and drinking. Vanishing of senses and ideas. Complete unconsciousness. Insanity with buffoonery. Violent delirium, with inclination to toss about. Biting, spitting and striking. Mental aberration after grief or fright with mortification or vexation. Anguish and restlessness. Hasty speech. Fantastic illusions and frightful pictures before eyes. Tremulous, anxious mood. Whinning and fearful. Despondent. Fear of death, with great anxiety and restlessness (in child-bed). Sad and indifferent. Mistrust. Hypochondriacal depression. Peevishness. Weeping and crying. Constantly laughing. Great self-will in children. Frenzy and madness. Desire to escape.

Vertigo.—With anguish and falling down (backward) unconscious. With weariness before and after each attack. Sensation of being rocked. Reeling, as if drunk from moving head < after eating and drinking.

Head.—Stupefying ache in forehead with congestion to, ending in unconsciousness. Periodically recurring nervous headache. Congestion to, with heat, distension and throbbing or pulsating in arteries of head and neck. The head trembles, shakes, is moved from side to side or bored into pillow. Internal and external burning heat of. Pains: Throbbing, < in forehead; ascending from nape; which end in outward passing stitches; bursting; cutting, from place to place; stabbing, passing off in occiput; which draw eyes shut; violent stitching, boring or pressing in skull bones. Feeling as of: A stone in; water swashing in. Meningitis. Hydrocephalus.

External Head.—Exquisite sensitiveness of, as if hair had been pulled; the least touch, or even pressure of the hair can hardly be borne. Profuse sweat upon the hairy scalp and face, with dry heat of remainder of body. Worse: Afternoon, till midnight; violent motion, as ascending steps, stepping hard, coughing, etc.; every movement; light; opening or moving eyes; noise; open air; stooping; †lying with head low; drafts; uncovering head; cutting hair; cold bathing; getting wet; after anger. Better: External pressure; drawing head back; laying hand upon; reclining head; wrapping it up.

Eyes.—Pains in orbits. Heat in. Conjunctiva is red and loosened. Inflammation of, with everted lids. Spasm. Bleeding lids. Sarcoma. Maculæ on cornea. Widely dilated pupils. Glistening, sparkling, red. Wild, unsteady or staring look. Squint. Photophobia. Paralysis of optic nerve. Vanishing of sight when raising up in bed. Vision lost, hearing remains unchanged. Sparks before.

Ears.—Difficult hearing after scarlet fever or taking cold. Swollen parotid glands.

Nose.—Heat, swelling and redness of. Sore, with swollen upper lip. Dry inside. Profuse bleeding from, and from mouth, with a red face. Very keen sense of smell. Much sneezing. Fluent coryza.

Face.—Red, with burning heat. Bluish red,

bloated. Smooth, erysipelatous, hot swelling of, spreading over head, with stupefaction, delirium, violent head pains, inflamed, fiery red eyes and great photophobia. Faceache, with intense cutting pains. Half open mouth. Lockjaw (trismus). Ulcerated angles of mouth. Swelling and induration of upper lip. Bleeding, cracked lips.

Teeth.—Toothache (in children and women), after taking cold, insufferably < by eating. Gnashing of.

Mouth.—Dry, without (or with) thirst. Intense redness and inflammatory swell- of soft palate. Salivation. Inflammation of throat, with sticking when swallowing. Pharynx feels narrowed. Scratchiug in throat. Tearing in throat when not swallowing. Constant urging to swallow. Spasm of throat completely preventing swallowing. Swelling and suppuration of tonsils. Extreme redness of tongue. Heavy coat of mucus on tongue and palate. Inflammatory swelling of tongue. Speechlessness.

Appetite.—Loathes food. Burning thirst, with a dry throat and aversion to drinks. Hasty drinking with trembling.

Taste.—Loss of. Bread tastes sour. Of blood in mouth.

Nausea, etc.—Qualmishness with repugnance to food. Empty retching. Vomits: Green; mucus; first food, then bile.

Stomach.—Distention of pit. Pressure in, after eating. Pains in.

Hypochondria.—Stitches in spleen.

Abdomen.—Painful distension of. Sensitive to touch. Painful clutching and griping in. Painful soreness in.

Flatulency.—Flatulent colic with sensible distension of transverse colon, > by external pressure and stooping.

Stool. Retained. Involuntary. Constipation. Diarrhœa: Green, with bellyache.

Urine.—Diminished, dark red, fiery. Suppressed. Involuntary urination.

Sexual Organs.—Violent urging and pressing toward genitals, as if everything would fall out. False spasmodic labor pains. Prolapsus and induration of uterus. Dry vagina. Metritis.

Menses.—Uterine hemorrhage of bright red blood with urging toward genitals. Bloody discharge during intermenstrual period. Foul smelling, lumpy lochia.

Respiration.—Short, rapid breathing with open mouth and violent working of chest. Heavy breathing with oppression of chest. Danger of suffocation when swallowing or touching external neck. After rising in morning, want of breath in the room, > in open air.

Cough.—In quarter hourly paroxyms at night, consisting of a few dry coughs in a rough hollow, barking tone, excited by tickling as of feather down in throat, or as from constriction of larynx; sometimes a scanty expectoration of bright coagulated blood. Renewed by the slightest movement when in bed. Preceded by crying. Followed by sneezing. Violent stitches in loins (in uterus) during. Complicated by cerebral inflammation.

Larynx.—Constriction of. Extremely painful to touch. Loss of voice.

Neck.—Painful swelling and stiffness of, and of nape. Distension of bloodvessels in. Sour-smelling sweat on neck only. Painfully swollen cervical glands.

Chest.—Oppression of. Rattling in. Violent pains in whole thorax. Congestion and throbbing therein, with restlessness. Violent palpitation which vibrates into head. Flow of milk from female mammæ. Induration and swelling of mammæ.

Upper Extremities.—Paralytic heaviness of arms. Pressive tearing pain in shoulder. Scarlet red swelling of arms and hands. Twitching in hands. Hasty picking at the bed clothes.

Lower Extremities.—Stitches in hip joint, most intense at night and when touched. Reeling, staggering gait. When rising from bed, the legs refuse their office and she sinks to the ground.

Generalities.—Shattering of whole body. Trembling. Plethoric, full blooded patients. Congestion to different parts. Excessive hyperæsthesia of all the senses. Convulsive motion of limbs. Spasms with stiffness of entire body and

unconsciousness. Loss of sensation and motion of one-half of entire body. Great weariness. Paralyses of single parts. Sensation, of a mouse creeping about in muscles. Typhoid fevers with unconsciousness or delirium. The slightest touch renews the attacks and intensifies the pains. Consequences of taking cold. The symptoms are intensified in the afternoon and at night. Restlessness, delirium and somnolency.

Glands.—Swelled and indurated.

Skin.—Dry, burning heat with pale or red skin. Alternate paleness and redness of. Smooth scarlet redness of, with dryness, burning and swelling. Glistening redness of, not circumscribed; with bloating. Swelling from insect stings. Gangrenous blisters. Boils.

Sleep.—Deep, stupefying. Anxious desire for. Starting (jerking), during. Starting up in affright and flightness during. He can sleep only in a sitting posture. Frightful phantasies which dissipate sleep appear before the vision, as soon as the eyes close.

Fever.—Pulse: Ordinarily quick, often full, hard and tense, but sometimes also small and soft; seldom slow, and then it is full. Throbbing carotid and temporal arteries. Violent beating of the arteries. Chill: In evening, especially on extremities, most on arms, with heat of head. Internal, with external burning heat. Alternating with heat. Evening shaking chill. Coldness of limbs, with a hot head. Shivering, running down back. Heat: Constant dry burning, with sweat on head and neck only. Internal, with anxiety and restlessness. Of forehead, with cold cheeks. Internal or external, or both at same time. Of head, with red face and delirium. Generally predominating. Sweat: Exclusively on the covered parts. With, or immediately after the heat, most on face. Of an empyreumatic odor, and stains the linen. During sleep, by day as well as night. Entirely absent. Ascending from feet to head.

Allied Remedies.—ACO., Agar., Ambr., Ant-t., Ap., Bry., CALC-C., Cann., Canth., Caust., Cham., Chin., Cic., Cina, Coff., Colch., Coloc., Croc., Cupr., Dig., Gel., GLO., Graph., Hell., HEP., HYOS., Iod., LACH., Merc., MOS., Nit-ac., NUX-V., Op., Phos-ac., Phyt., Plat., Plb., PULS., Rhe., Rhus-t., Sars., Seneg., SEP., Sil., Stram., Sul., Valer.

BISMUTHUM.

Mind.—Complete apathy. Morose discontent with continued complaining. Inconstancy. Solitude is intolerable.

Head.—Pressure and sense of painful heaviness in forehead, temples and occiput, with pressure on eyeballs. Outward boring in the forehead, orbits, root of and down nose. Alternate contraction and expansion in forehead, eyes and nose. Worse: Afternoon; after eating; rest. Better: Motion; touch; washing; cold drinks.

Eyes.—Pressure on eyeballs.

Face.—Earthy complexion with distorted features and blue rings around eyes. Pressive pain on zygomæ.

Teeth.—Painful soreness and swelling of gums.

Mouth.—Painful sensitiveness, as if buccal cavity were excoriated. Tongue coated white in evening.

Appetite, etc.—Great thirst for cold drinks in evening.

Nausea.—Nauseating qualmishness after eating.

Stomach.—Pressure in, after eating. Burning in.

Abdomen.—Pinching, pressing, rumbling and urging to stool in.

Stool.—Ineffectual urging to, in evening.

Urine.—Watery. Urination frequent, passing a large quantity every time.

Sexual Organs.—Pressive pain in testes.

Respiration.—Tightness of, with burning constriction of chest.

Cough.—Day and night, with copious expectoration.

Chest.—Boring and burning in. Violent palpitation.

Back.—Boring and burning in.

Upper Extremities.—Paralytic tearing pressure in forearm, hands and fingers.

Lower Extremities.—Tearing in feet and toes.

Generalities.—Great exhaustion and relaxation. Tearing pains which disappear during motion.

Bones.—Pressive tearing in bones of feet and hands.

Skin.—Eroding itching, worse by scratching.

Sleep.—Starting as if frightened during. Unrefreshing, at night. Extreme drowsiness in morning.

Fever.—Pulse: Mostly contracted, somewhat spasmodic and sometimes intermittent. Chill: With deathly coldness of entire body. Heat: Flying, over entire body, especially on head and chest, early in morning after rising; external, dry, burning. Sweat: Wanting.

Allied Remedies.—Ant-c., Bell'., CALC-C., Coccl., Ign., Spig., Staph.

BORAX.

Mind.—Fear of downward motion. Frightened and starting at every noise. Timidity. Anxiety with sleepiness, increasing toward evening. Fretfulness with whining and crying.

Head.—Heat of, hot mouth and hot palms, with desire to uncover. Aching, with nausea and trembling of whole body at 10 A. M.

External Head.—Sensitive to cold and changes of weather. Hair tangles at tips and becomes agglutinated.

Eyes.—The lashes turn inward and inflame them, especially in outer canthi. The tarsal edges are quite sore. Nightly agglutination. Better: Rubbing.

Ears.—Stitches in (l.) with roaring, hardness of hearing and purulent discharges. Worse: Washing in cold water.

Nose.—Red, shining swelling, with throbbing and tenseness. Fluent coryza with stitches in chest. Sucklings rub the nose, and then the eyes. Hard dry mucus in, and in eyes. Discharges much thick, greenish mucus.

Face.—Bladder-like swellings under eyes. Heat, swelling and redness of one cheek. Redness around eyes when crying. Herpes about the mouth. Pale. Anxious expression during downward motion.

Teeth.—Inflammatory swelling of gums (gum boils). Dull griping toothache in hollow teeth, in wet weather.

Mouth.—Aphthæ; also on tongue. Mucous membrane of palate wrinkled and shrivelled as if burnt, infant cries frequently when nursing.

Throat.—Much tough mucus in, so difficult to loosen, the exertion causes vomiting.

Stomach.—Pain in region of, extending to sacrum, after heavy lifting or during menses.

Hypochondria.—Pressure as of a stone in. Cutting as of a hard, sharp piece there.

Abdomen.—Flatulent distension after every meal. Pinching in, with diarrhœa.

Stool.—Frequent, very easy, of soft, light yellow mucus, with languor and weakness. Mucous diarrhœa.

Urine.—Badly smelling. Albuminuria with erythema and swelling, especially of lower limbs. Hot, in an infant.

Female Sexual Organs.—Abortion. Easy conception. Leucorrhœa: Like the white of an egg, with a sensation of warm water flowing down; like paste Heat in vagina.

Cough.—Coughs up blood streaked white phlegm, detached with difficulty. Expectoration has a mouldy taste and smell, with every cough.

Chest.—Stitches in (r.), from coughing, breathing, yawning, speaking or lying on painful side, > washing with cold water or walking about slowly. Pains in one breast when child nurses the other. Aching in mammæ when empty, better by pressure. Milk curdled.

Generalities.—Great weariness and indolence, with heaviness of lower limbs. Infants cry and scream when nursing, and before passing stool or urine. When laying the infant down it starts and throws up its hands as if afraid of falling. Hot discharges; hot urine and leucorrhœa. Heat in orifices; vagina,

mouth, etc. Albuminous discharges. Stitching sensations predominate. Soft, flabby patients.

Worse.—Mental exertion; noise; excitement; downward motion; bad or wet weather; eating fruit (apples, pears, etc.).

Better.—After stool and urine; after 11 P. M.; smoking helps toothache, but may bring on diarrhœa.

Skin.—Does not heal. Earth-colored. Herpes on. Psoriasis.

Sleep.—Restless, caused by restlessness of body and ebullitions of blood. Child screams out during sleep, and awakes clinging to its mother as if frightened. Awakes at 3 A. M., can't sleep again because of heat of body, especially of head, with sweat on thighs.

Fever.—Pulse: Somewhat accelerated. Chill: And shivering, mostly during sleep. Predominating, especially in afternoon and evening. Alternating with heat. Whenever he uncovers. Heat: Flying, in early morning and in evening. When covering hands, but coldness if she uncovers them. Sweat: During morning sleep.

Allied Remedies.—Ap., Bry., Calc-c., Cham., Coff., Gel., Sil., Stram'., Sul.

BOVISTA.

Mind.—Distraction. Awkwardness. Weak memory. Sadness, with restlessness. Easily offended; takes everything in bad part. Unusual candor and talkativeness.

Vertigo.—Stupefying, with vanishing of senses. Intoxication from a small quantity of wine. Reeling and confusion in head after coition.

Head.—Headache deep in brain, with feeling as if head were growing larger. Ulcerative pain in. Nightly ache, < raising up. Soreness of scalp.

Eyes.—Pressure in orbits. Weak, dim. Objects appear too near.

Ears.—Purulent, bad-smelling discharge from. Indistinct hearing, misunderstands what is spoken.

Nose.—Crusts, with burning pain in.

Face.—Frequent, rapid changes of color. Heat of, with sense of swelling in cheeks. Pale swelling of upper lip, nose and cheeks. Fissured lips. Angles of mouth ulcerated.

Teeth.—Drawing ache in evening, and at night, ceasing in warmth and when walking in open air. Gums bleed easily and profusely.

Mouth.—Bad odor from. Burning in pharynx. Numbness of buccal cavity. Painfully sore ulcers on edge of tongue. Stuttering.

Appetite, etc.—Violent hunger. Thirst for cold drinks in afternoon and evening.

Taste.—Putrid or bloody, in mouth.

Nausea.—With shivering, all forenoon.

Stomach.—†Coldness, as if a lump of ice lay therein.

Abdomen.—Ulcerative pain in. Cutting bellyache, < during rest.

Flatulence.—Flatulent colic, with chill and coldness, especially after stool. Discharge of very foul smelling flatus.

Stool.—Constipation. Diarrhœa, with ulcerative pain in abdomen.

Urine.—Frequent urging to urinate.

Sexual Organs.—Intensified sexual desire. Frequent pollutions.

Menses.—Too early, and too profuse. Bloody discharge during intermenstrual period. Acrid, corroding leucorrhœa.

Respiration.—Short, during manual labor. Oppression, as from constriction of chest.

Cough.—Dry, from tickling in throat and chest.

Larynx.—Hoarseness early in morning, with mucus and scratching in throat.

Neck.—Swelling of cervical glands, with tension.

Chest.—Palpitation with restlessness, qualmishness and headache.

Back.—Pain and stiffness in, after stooping.

Upper Extremities.—Axillary sweat, smelling like onions. Paralytic sprained pain in joints of arm and hands. Powerless hands. Moist tetter on dorsum of hand.

Lower Extremities.—Tension in lower legs and calves, as tho' the muscles were too short.

Generalities.—Great weariness and powerlessness in joints. Deep impressions are made by instruments, i. e., from scissors on fingers.

Skin.—Itching in various parts, especially when getting warm, not > scratching. Moist tetters. Panaritia.

Sleep.—Sleepiness after eating, and early in morning.

Fever.—Pulse: Excited, with ebullitions and palpitation. Chill: Predominant, even near a warm stove, in morning, in evening and even at night, usually with thirst. During the pain. Heat: With thirst, anguish and restlessness. Daily evening fever (about 7 o'clock) consisting only of chill with thirst. Shuddering proceeding from back, in evening. Sweat: Most profuse on chest, every morning (from 5 to 6 o'clock).

Allied Remedies.—Ap., Nit-ac., Selen., Sil.

BROMIUM.

Mind.—Depression and melancholy. Wailing and crying in a hoarse tone. Apprehensive; of seeing things in evening. Desire for mental labor.

Vertigo.—When crossing running water ; in damp weather ; with tendency to fall backwards ; with confusion of the head.

Head.—Headache: In the heat of the sun ; from drinking milk. Congestion to, and stiffness of muscles of neck. Left sided pains. Worse: Stooping.

Eyes.—Lachrymation. Burning pains with spasmodic closure.

Nose.—Fluent coryza, with scabby nostrils ; with violent sneezing and blood-streaked corrosive discharges. Nose-bleed accompanies many symptoms, it ameliorates the vertigo, eye and chest symptoms.

Face.—Pale. Sensation of a cobweb on.

Mouth.—Salivation. Inflammation of fauces, with net-like redness and denuded patches. Much frothy mucus in.

Taste.—Salty: Of water ; on tip of tongue.

Throat.—Rawness, scraping and constriction in.

Nausea, etc.—Retching and inclination to vomit.

Abdomen.—Tympanitic distension of, with evolution of large quantities of gas. Eructations, and passage of much flatus.

Stool.—Yellowish green or blackish diarrhœa ; with blind hemorrhoids which pain severely. Diarrhœa: From oysters; better from coryza.

Sexual Organs.—Passage of flatus from vagina.

Respiratory Organs.—Suffocatiove attacks as from vapor of sulphur. Great tightness of chest (dyspnœa). Gasping for air. Rawness, scraping and sense of constriction in all respiratory organs.

Cough.—Croupy, rough, barking or whistling ; excited by tickling in throat, as from vapor of sulphur, or by scraping and rawness in larynx, without expectoration. With paroxysms of suffocation, suddenly on swallowing.

Larynx.—Inspired air is very cold. Constriction. Soreness in. Croup ; also during whooping cough. Hoarseness.

Chest.—Oppression of, with palpitation. Very sensitive to cold air.

Extremities.—Cold, moist hands.

Generalities.—Greatly increased secretions. Symptoms predominate on left side or go from left to right. Tickling, burning or boring sensations predominate, the latter especially in bones. Gangrene. Great weakness, especially after other symptoms have subsided. Tremblings. Plump figure. Constrictions and spasmodic phenomena prevail.

Glands.—Swelled. Indurated.

Skin.—Formication. Tickling in many parts. Yellow. Boils.

Sleep.—Yawning and sleepiness ; with difficult breathing ; with violent shivering.

Fever.—Pulse: Greatly accelerated. Chill: Every other day, with shaking, yawning, stretching and cold feet. Sensitive to cold air. Heat: Internal, burning, as if between skin and flesh. Great, when in bed. Sweat: From motion or least exertion. After the paroxysms of cough.

Allied Remedies.—AM-C., Ant-c., Ars., Cam., Coff., Flu-ac., Hep., Iod., Kre., Mag-c., Nat-m., Op., Phos., Spo.

BRYONIA.

Mind.—Effects of vexation, leaving irritability, with chill and coldness of body behind. Nightly delirium about the events of the day. Thoughtless. Forgetful. Unusual peevish irritability and wrathful violence. Restlessness, with fear of the future and the near approach of death. Despondent, and doubtful of salvation. Despair of recovery. Pusillanimity. Tearful disposition.

Vertigo.—When raising up, or stooping. With a swaying feeling in brain, and heat. As if drunk.

Head.—Compressive ache, with fulness and heaviness in forehead, as if everything would be forced out, nose-bleed and a puffy red face. Congestion, to. Bursting pressure in forehead, and pressure upon eyeballs. Bursting pain with heat in. Stitches in. Burning in bregma. Twitching throbbing in, which can be heard and felt here and there, with obscured vision. Twitching tearing in one side (< r.), extending into cheeks and maxillary bones. Brain feels loose. Outward sticking in forehead Tensive tearing in external head. Worse: Motion: Of head; of eyes; in open air; on opening eyes. Stooping. Stepping hard. From warmth and becoming heated. Touch. After eating. In evening. Better: External pressure; lying quietly on painful part; bandaging up head; lying on back; closing eyes.

External Head.—Sore pain in occiput and behind ears, < in dry weather, > after sweat. Profuse, sour, oily sweat on, and over whole body, especially during sleep toward morning, < as the accompanying pains are worse, from eating, and slightest motion, particularly in the cold air.

Eyes.—Burning in. Inflammation of, < by warmth. Tearing sticking in. Pressure as from sand in. Feel as if pressing out of head. Swelling, especially of upper lids. Weakness and lachrymation in murky air and twilight. Photophobia.

Ears.—Roaring in. Intolerance of noise.

Nose.—Painful swelling of, with inflamed nostrils. Frequent nose-bleed (also after suppressed menses). Chronic stuffed coryza with a dry nose.

Face.—Yellowish pale. Hot, bloated, very red. Nodes and indurations like boils. Dry, swollen, fissured, bleeding lips. Eruption, especially on lower lip. Trismus.

Teeth.—Jerking toothache < by warmth, > by lying on painful side.

Mouth.—Dry mouth, throat and tongue. Sticking in throat on swallowing. Scratching in throat. Coating on middle of tongue.

Appetite, etc.—Abnormal hunger, he must eat little and often. Strong craving for coffee, or things he can not relish. Aversion to, and loathing of food. Intense thirst. He does not drink often, but a great deal each time. Thirst for cold water.

Taste. — Flat, slimy. Bitter, in mouth. Food is tasteless.

Eructation.—Frequent, bitter or empty, after eating. Regurgitation of food, without retching. Water collects in mouth.

Vomiting.—Of solid food, but not liquids. After eating bread. Bitter, while drinking after a meal. Bloody. First of bile, then of food. Of bitter water.

Stomach.—Pressure in, after eating, especially after bread. Burning in. Stitches in pit, with obstructed breathing during motion, especially when making a misstep. Pit, sensitive to touch and pressure.

Hypochondriæ.—Stitches in hepatic region when touched, coughing and breathing. Inflammation of liver and diaphragm.

Abdomen. — Distended, after every meal (disappearing without discharge of flatus). Hysterical cramps in. Inflammation of. Bellyache; after taking cold; from motion, > by tight bandaging. Ascites. Stitches in.

Flatulence.—Loud growling and rumbling in abdomen.

Stool.—Very dry, hard. Chronic constipation. Diarrhœa: Fetid, preceded by cutting in abdomen; and bellyache, alternat-

ing with constipation and stomach-ache; in morning hours only.

Urine.—Diminished discharge of hot, red. White, turbid. Urging to urinate and scanty discharge. Irresistible urging to urinate, with want of breath during heavy lifting. Burning in urethra.

Menses.—Of red blood, too early and too profuse. Suppressed. Uterine hemorrhage.

Respiration.—Panting; short. Impeded, during violent motion. Anxious, rapid. Deep, slow, during exertion. Laborious, with aid of abdominal muscles, and intermingled with deep inspirations. Frequent, sighing inspirations. Continual inclination to take a deep breath. Attacks of dyspnœa and suffocation.

Cough.—Spasmodic, as from sulphur fumes or a tickling in throat and epigastrium. Dry in evening and at night; during day expectoration is yellow or mixed with coagulated brownish bloody, often cold, mucus, of a repulsive flat taste, and hard to loosen at first. Dry, spasmodic, after eating and drinking, with vomiting of food. Hæmoptysis, of coagulated or brownish blood. Bursting headache and stitches in sides of chest during.

Trachea.—Soreness in. Hoarseness.

Neck.—Eruption on. Tension and stiffness in nape and neck.

Chest. — Soreness and bursting pain in. Stitches in, when breathing, coughing and during motion, > lying on back. Violent stitches in left side of. Inflammation of lungs, with stitches. Pressure, as of a load on. Soreness of ribs, as if beaten. Palpitation, with shortness of breath. (Painless) nodes and indurations in mammæ. Mammæ of lying-in women are excessively full of milk and congested.

Back.—Stitches in lumbar region, back and scapulæ. Painful stiffness in small of back, compelling him to bend forwaad when walking and sitting.

Upper Extremities.—Tensive and sticking tearing in shoulder-joints and upper arm. Swelling of elbow-joint and hands, especially on dorsal surface. Sprained pain in wrist during motion. Twitching of fingers when moving hands.

Lower Extremities.—Cracking and dislocation of hip-joints when walking. Hot, tensive swelling of thighs and lower legs or feet, frequently on back of the latter only. Tensive stiffness in legs. Dislocative pain in ankle-joint when walking and stepping. Offensive ulcers on feet. Podagra, with sticking pains.

Generalities.—Tensive or sticking rheumatic or gouty pains in limbs, < by motion and touch. Stitches in joints. Stiffness in joints. Paralysis of limbs. (Pale or red) swelling and immobility of affected parts. Oversensitive to external impressions. The complaints are intensified in the evening (toward 9 o'clock) and by motion (also during rest, in its rare alternating action).

Glands.—Indurated.

Bones.—Pain as tho' flesh were beaten from.

Skin.—Burning, itching eruptions. Nettlerash (especially in children and during child-bed). Petechiæ. Hard nodes on many parts. Erysipelatous inflammations, especially about joints. Foul ulcers, with feeling of coldness therein.

Sleep.—Yawning and sleepiness during day. Somnolency with half-closed eyes. Sleepless before midnight on account of thirst, heat and ebullition of blood. Nightly delirium as soon as he awakes. Somnambulism.

Fever.—Pulse: Very full, hard, rapid and tense, sometimes intermittent, with strong ebullition of blood. Chill: And chilliness predominate, often with heat of head, red cheeks, thirst and many pains in limbs. With external coldness of body. And coldness, mostly evenings, and often only right-sided. More in a room than in the open air. Heat: Dry, burning, mostly internal, as if blood burned in veins. Symptoms are greatly intensified during. Internal, with thirst for cold drinks. Sweat: Profuse and easy, even when walking slowly in cold, open air. Profuse at night and in early morning. Sour or oily. Cough in all stages. Febrile movements with bitter taste and thirst.

Allied Remedies.—ACO., ALUM., Ang.,

Ars., Bell., Bor., Calc-c., Carb-v., Caust., Chin., Clem., Coloc., Dulc., Gnai., Iod., Ip., Kali-c., Led., Lyc., Mez., MILLEF. (MUR-AC.), Phos., Phyt., PULS., Ran-b., RHOD., RHUS-T., Scill., Seneg., Sep., Verat-a.

CALADIUM.

Mind.—Apprehensiveness before going to sleep. Loud wailing and inconsiderate prattling, like a child. Great solicitude concerning everbody's else, as well as his own health.

Head.—Pressive headache on side on which he has been lying.

Ears.—Great sensitiveness to noise, especially on endeavoring to sleep. Earache during the fever.

Appetite, etc.—Thirst with dry mouth. Aversion to cold water. Hasty eating.

Stomach.—Burning in. Empty feeling in. Stitches in pit, whereby it is always drawn inward.

Abdomen.—Burning in upper.

Stool.—Very scanty, pappy.

Urine.—Sensitiveness of region of bladder to touch.

Sexual Organs.—Impotency with lustfulness. (After coition) swollen and painfully sore prepuce. Flaccid, sweaty.

Respiration.—Short, from pressure in epigastrium.

Cough.—Paroxysms of weak but irritable cough, with expectoration of small lumps of mucus. Without resonance, at night. When coughing, sensation as though the attacks originate above larynx, which feels constricted.

Chest.—Hollowness and emptiness in, after expectoration.

Generalities.—Inclination to lie down and great aversion to motion. All symptoms are ameliorated by sweat and after a short sleep.

Skin.—Itching, burning miliary rash on chest and forearms, alternating with tightness of chest. Fly bites burn and itch severely.

Sleep.—Day sleepiness with inability to sleep. Anxious groaning and moaning during.

Fever.—Pulse: Hard, jumping. Chill: In evening, with coldness which spreads from abdomen to feet and fingers. After midnight. Heat: Internal only, with throbbing in body. During the sleep before midnight, quickly ceasing on awaking. Sweat: Exhausting, it greatly attracts the flies, which persistently plague him. When it breaks out all of the symptoms are ameliorated.

Allied Remedies.—Canth., CAPS., Ign., Nux-v.

CALCAREA CARBONICA.

Mind.—Dull confusion, as of a board before head. Nervous debility. Tearfulness. Anxiety, especially in twilight. Easily frightened. Timidity. Fearful solicitude concerning the future. Despair about shattered health. Self-will and peevishness, especially in children.

Vertigo.—Whirling, with nausea and vomiting, < stooping, ascending or looking up. Dizziness with trembling in the early morning, until he has eaten breakfast. Fainting attacks with blindness and coldness.

Head.—Violent congestion and heat in, with a puffy red face. Stupefying ache after 3 A. M., ceasing only in afternoon. Icy coldness on, and in one side of (r). Beating and hammering in center of brain. Unilateral ache with nausea and belching. Heaviness and fulness in forehead with twitching of eyes or necessity to close them. Boring in forehead and temple (l). Empty feeling in. Cutting in vertex and occiput (r). Fine jerking or tearing stitches on vertex, toward evening. Inward sticking from temple to temple (r). Tensive ache in temples and right side. Sticking, tearing and bursting pains in. Crackling in occiput, then warmth rises from nape into head. Fontanelles remain open too long. Inflammatory swelling of bones with sticking and throbbing, ending in suppuration, > rubbing. Worse: Early

on awaking; walking in open air ; stooping ; external pressure ; mental exertion ; moving lower jaw ; change of weather ; during wet weather ; spirituous liquors ; standing ; rising from bed; after dinner; exertion ; overlifting. Better: Touch. Lying: Quietly ; on back. Closing eyes ; raising eyes ; warmth.

Scalp.—Crampy tearing in, and in muscles of. Sore smarting in occiput. Bald swellings and follicular tumors which readily suppurate, and are painful in open air. Painfully sensitive, especially when moving muscles of forehead back and forth. Painful biting, burning and crawling itching, spreading from occiput, scratching >, but causes swelling and bloody eruptions which form thick, dry, foul crusts. Hair dry, falling out from sides and temples down to beard, with yellowish-white dandruff and a cold scalp. Worse: Washing; drafts; open, especially cold damp air; evening; motion; slight touch; warmth of bed. Better: Pressure; rubbing; scratching; after lying down; sitting quietly; dry weather; warm room.

Eyes.—Pressing, burning and cutting in, mostly in evening by artificial light. Inflamed, with ulcers and maculæ on cornea. Bluish, cloudy cornea with healthy lids. Widely dilated pupils. Lachrymation in open air. Dim vision, as of a mist before eyes when looking intently. Blackness before. Suffused with tears in morning, but dry in evening.

Ears.—Throbbing in. Discharge of pus. Aural polypi. Swelling of parotid gland. Difficult hearing.

Nose.—Persistent dryness of. Inflammatory redness and swelling of. Sore, ulcerated nostrils. Diminished sense of smell. Stuffy colds, with retarded nasal discharge. Fluent coryza with sore, ulcerated nostrils.

Face.—Pale, puffy. Tearing pain in bones of. Moist eruption upon forehead and cheeks. Inflamed and suppurating follicular tumors. Painful swelling of submaxillary glands.

Teeth.—Difficult, and delayed dentition. Drawing sticking ache, excited by cold or drafts. Toothache renewed by either cold or warmth. Dental fistulæ.

Mouth.—Stitching pains in hard palate. Roughness in throat. Spasmodic constriction and narrowing of throat. Dry tongue early in morning. Indistinct speech.

Appetite, etc.—Frequent ravenous hunger, especially early in morning. Continued intense thirst with complete loss of appetite. Nightly thirst, for cold drinks. Persistent dislike for meat and aversion to tobacco.

Taste.—Sour, in mouth, as well as to food.

Eructations.—Continuous heartburn after every meal.

Nausea, etc.—Qualmishness. Early in morning; after milk. Vomiting of sour tasting ingesta; of food and sweetish mucus.

Stomach.—Pressive spasm in after eating, with vomiting of ingesta. Great weakness of digestion. Swelling and sensitiveness of pit on pressure.

Hypochondriæ. — Intolerance of tight clothes about stomach. Stitches inliver.

Abdomen.—Cutting in upper. Corroding and gnawing sensations in. Hard and distended. Hard, swollen mesenteric glands. Thrusts in. Protrusion of inguinal hernia.

Stool.—Retarded, hard. Angriness before, and weariness after. Chronic looseness of bowels. Sour smelling diarrhœa in children. Constipation.

Rectum.—Prolapsed with burning pains during stool.

Urine.—Acrid and offensive. Too frequent micturition. Hæmaturia. Burning in urethra during, and independent of urination.

Sexual Organs.—Increased (or diminished) sexual desire.

Menses.—Too early, and too profuse. Bloody discharge in period between in. Itching, burning, milky leucorrhœa, before.

Respiration.—Tightness, as from congestion of blood to chest. Frequent inclination to take a deep breath.

Cough.—Violent, dry, in evening and at night. Short paroxysms of few, but frequently repeated coughing fits, excited by a feeling of feather down in throat and trachea; in morning and during day with much mucus or pus like, yellow or grayish,sometimes bloody expectoration, mostly sour and stinking. Expectoration, as if from suppuration of lungs. Sequelæ of whooping cough; < drinking water.

Larynx, etc.—Chronic hoarseness. Feeling as if something tore loose in. Accumulation of tenacious mucus in trachea, difficult to loosen. Dryness of larynx.

Neck. — Goitre-like swelling of. Painful swelling of cervical glands. Stiffness and rigidity of nape from overlifting.

Chest.—Roughness in. Sticking in sides of, during motion. Painful soreness during inspiration. Stoppage (or too profuse) secretion of milk of nursing mothers. Nightly exhausting sweat on. Palpitation, after eating.

Back.—Pain in lumbar region and back after overlifting.

Upper Extremities.—Sudden weakness of arms, as if paralyzed. Arthritic nodes on wrist and finger joints. Sweaty hands. Deadness of hands and fingers. Finger tips are thick and swelled.

Lower Extremities. — Heaviness of legs. Children are slow in learning to walk. Swelling of knees, with stitches. Tension in legs, especially from knees to toes. Inflammatory swelling and ulcers on lower leg. Profuse foot sweat. Coldness and insensibility of feet in evening.

Generalities.—Nervous debility with weariness and want of strength. Great emaciation with a large abdomen and good appetite. Tendency to take cold and sensitive to cold, moist air. Very plethoric. Epileptiform attacks. Easily sprained. Water and washing renew and aggravate the symptoms. Children are heavy, fat, big-headed and big-bellied, have sour diarrhœa and profuse head-sweats, more on occiput.

Glands.—Painfully swollen.

Bones.—Swelling and softening of epiphyses (rachitis). Curvature of. Caries of.

Skin.—Nettlerash disappearing in cold air. Moist tetters. Follicular tumors, recurring every four weeks at full moon. Many small warts, especially on arms and hands. Polypi. Unhealthy. Easily excoriates in children.

Sleep.—Disturbed, at night, on account of heat, apprehension, tightness of chest and restlessness. Wandering and flightiness during, with continuous anxiety upon awaking. Sleepiness early in evening, but late falling to sleep on account of rush of ideas and frightful fantasies.

Fever.—Pulse: Full, and accelerated, often trembling. Much throbbing in blood vessels, and palpitation of heart. Strong ebullitions of blood. Chill: With shuddering, most in evening, but also in forenoon. Internal chilliness in morning after rising. Alternating with heat. Heat: Frequent attacks of overrunning h., with anxious palpitation. Then chill, and cold hands. Evening in bed, external, with internal chill. After eating. Sweat: From slightest movement, even in cold, open air. In first sleep. Early morning sweat. Most on head and chest. Sticky night-sweat, only on legs. Profuse, exhausting, more on occiput and neck, while legs remain cold.

Allied Remedies.—AGAR., Ag-c., Alum, Ambr., Am-c., Anac., Ang., Ars., Aur., Bar-c., BELL., BISM., Bor., Bry., CALC-PH., Cann., Caust., Chel., Chin., Coccl., Cupr., Flu-ac., Graph., Ign., Iod., IP., Kali-c., Kali-n., LYC. Mag-m., Men., Merc., NAT-C., NIT-AC., NUX-V., Petr., Phos., Phos-ac., PULS., Rhus-t., Sabi., SARS., Selen., Sep., Sil., SUL.