Characteristics Ipecacuanha – Ledum

gouty arthritis, with violent nightly pains, but without swelling. Intolerance of heat.

Glands.—Swollen, indurated after bruises.

Bones.—Nightly pains. Curvature.

Skin.—Dirty, clammy, moist. Rough, dry. Anasarca.

Sleep.—Sleeplessness. Anxious dreams.

Fever.—Pulse: Large, hard and accelerated, with strong ebullition and throbbing in bloodvessels. Quick, but weak and thready. It instantly becomes quicker. from every movement. Chill: Frequently alternating with heat. Cold feet throughout entire night. With shaking, also in a warm room. Heat: General, flying over whole body. Internal, dry, with external coldness of skin. Sweat: Very profuse at night. Very exhausting, in the morning hours, of a sour odor and with much thirst.

Allied Remedies.—Ap., Ars., BELL., Bro., Bry., Calc-c., Chin., HEP., Kali-c., Lyc., Merc., Par., Phos., Sil., Spo., Sul.

IPECACUANHA.

Mind.—Very excitable, impatient disposition. Taciturn peevishness, with inclination to scorn everything. Intolerance of noise. Anxiety. Crying and screaming of children.

Head.—Sticking headache in vertex or forehead. Bruised sensation in brain and cranial bones, especially the parietals, with nausea and vomiting. Throbbing and shocks in. Occiput and nape painful. Blondes. Worse: In room. Better: In open air.

Eyes.—Twitching lids. Dilated pupils. Dim vision. Weeping, inflamed.

Ears.—Coldness and chill on, during the heat.

Nose.—Frequent, violent nosebleed. Loss of smell. Obstruction of, and stuffed coryza.

Face.—Pale, with blue circles about eyes. Livid, puffed. Convulsive twitches of facial muscles and lips. Smarting eruption and aphthæ on margin of lips. Redness of skin about mouth. Redness of one cheek and paleness of the other.

Teeth.—Hollow teeth ache as tho' they would be torn out, when biting on them.

Mouth.—Biting in, also on tongue. Difficult swallowing. Salivation. Yellow-coated tongue. Bleeding from. Inflamed throat.

Appetite, etc.—Loss of, as from a relaxed stomach. Loathing of all food. Desire for delicacies and sweet things. After-effects of pork. Thirstlessness.

Taste.—Sweetish, bloody, in mouth.

Nausea, etc.—Incessant nausea and vomiting. Qualmishness, as if from stomach. Inclination to vomit and retching after cold drinks and smoking. Vomiting: Of all ingesta; bilious; of green, gelatinous mucus. Hæmatemesis. Bad effects of all kinds of fat. Averse to all sorts of food.

Stomach.—Intense, indescribably sickening pain in. Sense of emptiness and relaxation in. Distension and throbbing in pit. Shocks in.

Abdomen.—Cutting and pinching about navel, < motion.

Flatulence.—Flatulent colic, with frequent, diarrhœic stools.

Stool.—Diarrhœic, as if fermented, with nausea and violent bellyache. Diarrhœa of various kinds. Dysenteric, with tenesmus. Fecal, covered with bloody mucus. Bloody. Foul-smelling. Green.

Urine.—Diminished, dark red. Bloody, with cutting in abdomen and urethra (after suppressed itch). Ineffectual urging to urinate. Retained.

Menses.—Too early and too profuse. Uterine hemorrhage of bright red, clotted blood.

Respiration.—Fetid breath. Anxious, hurried. Sighing. Suffocative attacks in room, be coming better in open air. Want of breath from slightest motion. Gasping for breath. Spasmodic asthma, with contraction of throat and chest.

Cough.—Dry, excited by tickling, as from sulphur vapor, especially in upper part of larynx. Whooping cough in violent, shattering, rapidly succeeding paroxysms of hollow coughs, which do not

permit recovery of the breath. Incessant suffocative c. in evening, with sweat on forehead, shocks in head, retching and vomiting. With stiff body and a blue face. Hæmoptysis, after every exertion. Dry in evening; in morning expectoration of bright red blood mixed with mucus, of a putrid, sweetish taste.

Neck.—Swelling and suppuration in supersternal fossa.

Chest.—Spasmodic constriction. Sore pain in. Oppression. Palpitation. Rattling, from accumulation of mucus within.

Back.—Opisthotonos and emprosthotonos.

Upper Extremities.—One hand cold, the other hot.

Lower Extremities.—Sensation in hip-joint as tho' it would be dislocated, immediately upon sitting down. Convulsive twitches in legs and feet. Nightly cramp in calf muscles, drawing them into lumps. Violent itching of calves. Ulcers on feet which have a black base.

Generalities.—Symptoms are accompanied by great weakness, repugnance to all food and nausea. Hemorrhages from all orifices of body. Asleep sensation in joints. Oversensitive to both cold and warmth. Twitches in limbs. Tonic spasm bending body backward and forward. Gastric disturbances and disposition to hemorrhages. He falls to the floor. Shattering of entire body. The entire body is stretched out rigidly. Apoplexies. After-effects of intemperance, taking cold or eating pork. Complaints are > in open air.

Bones.—Bruised pain in.

Skin.—Miliary or receding rash in childbed. Violent itching of the clear skin of arms and thighs, with nausea; he is compelled to scratch until he vomits.

Sleep.—Whimpering and restlessness with half-open eyes. Frequent starting up during. Complete insomnia.

Fever.-Pulse: Greatly accelerated, but often imperceptible. Chill: Generally of short duration and soon passing into heat. Internal, as if under the skin, increased by warmth. With thirst. Moist coldness of hands and feet. Want of natural vital heat. Heat: General, continued, with dry, parchment-like skin; after a short chill. Anxious, dry, in evening. Sudden attacks of general h. with cold hands and feet. Mostly without thirst. With chilliness, and heat of face. Sweat: Very profuse, mostly at night. Biting, mostly sour smelling, often also cold. Frequent attacks of hot sweat when in a room. Cold, on forehead. Intermittent fever with a slight chill, violent heat, gastric symptoms and oppression of chest. Exacerbation of fever in evening.

Allied Remedies.—Alum., Ant-c., ANT-T., ARN., ARS., Bry., CALC-C., Carb-v., Cham., Chin., Cocci., Cupr., Dros, Ferr., Ign., Kali-n., Laur., NUX-V., Op., Phos., Puls., Sul-ac., Tab., Verat-a.

KALI BICHROMICUM.

Mind.—Disinclination to mental work, to business. Ill humor. Gloomy. Discouraged. Better: Eating.

Vertigo.—Whirling, on rising; with epigastric pain; with nausea; sudden; paroxysmal. Better: After acid vomiting.

Head.—Blindness followed by violent headache, sight returns as headache increases. Violent, shooting pains from root of nose to external canthus, increase till noon, cease toward evening. Feeling as if brain were too large and was driving skull bones asunder. As of a weight on vertex. Pains: Shooting or pressing, mostly in forehead and temples; as tho' cut to pieces with knives; sore, with bristling of hair on vertex; periodical; in small spots or radiating therefrom; over one eye. Sensitiveness of bones. Worse: Stopped nasal discharge; cold air; motion; stooping; at night. Better: Nosebleed; lying down.

Hair.—Bristling; painful to touch over affected area. Falling out.

Eyes.—Brownish spots on sclerotic. Inflammation: With itching; with lachrymation; with agglutination. Redness of lid margins. Lashes lost. Pus or mucus in; in canthi. Burning. Dryness. Feel raw. Swelling of upper lids; œdematous; with heaviness. Granular lids. Chromopsies. Twitching lids. Worse: Morning.

Ears.—Stitches in; extending into palate.

Nose.—Running of eyes and n. from least exposure to cold. Frequent violent sneezing. Snuffling. Stoppage. Discharges: Corrosive; watery; sudden purulent; of clinkers, scabs or plugs; offensive; of bloody mucus. Nosebleed: When bathing; after eating; preceded by burning eyes and sleepiness. Sensations: Dryness; stiffness within; burrowing; crawling; twitching; the bones rubbing together; being swollen; heaviness, as if a weight were hanging to it; tickling, as of a hair in; pressure or pain at root or in bones of; painful soreness of; sensitive tip. Expired air feels hot, the inspired cold. Ulcers in, especially perforating the septum. Smell: Imaginary, putrid; fetid from; lost. Worse: Damp weather; touch; evening.

Face.—Yellowish; sickly; anxious. Drawn, pale, and covered with cold, clammy sweat. Acne on. Bones of: Bruised feeling; periodical tearing; boring; sensitiveness of, and of cranium. Tension in scalp and face making features stiff. Swelling, over malar bones; under nose.

Teeth.—Boring; burrowing; gnawing; drawing; tearing; stitching. Gums: Livid; abscess in; bleed easily.

Tongue.—Dry, smooth, red and cracked. Thick. Coating: Yellowish, of base; of thick mucus on; mapped. Stinging prickling in. Burning at tip.

Mouth.—Aphthæ. Burning and excessive dryness in, and in throat, > drinking cold water. Saliva: Salty,frothy, sticky. Salivation: With toothache; with drawing in ears; with tension and drawing in masseter muscles.

Throat.—Posterior pharynx: Dark red and glistening; injected with bright red bloodvessels; a fissure exudes blood. Hawks up thick gelatinous or much tenacious mucus in morning. Rawness, redness, roughness and swelling in. Ulcers in, and in mouth; covered by an ashy slough; excavated, containing yellow tenacious matter. Uvula elongated. Sensation: Of a plug in; of a hair in fauces ; coldness in pharynx ; a prickling substance in; sticking, extending into ears; adherent mucus in; scraping, causing vomiting. Swallowing difficult, feeling as if food stuck in œsophagus. Worse: Protruding tongue; swallowing; speaking. Better: In air.

Appetite.—Sense of hunger, with nausea and disinclination for food. Dislikes meat. Great thirst; longing for beer; for acid drinks.

Taste.—Astringent; metallic; greasy; putrid; sweetish; bloody; resinous.

Eructations.—Convulsive; fetid; rancid; when hawking; with imaginary putrid smells.

Nausea, etc.—At sight of food; sudden; excessive; with hot risings and sweetish flat salivation; with shuddering or chilliness; excited by slightest pressure on pit of stomach; after a glass of water. Vomiting: Sudden; forcible; painful; glairy; bloody; with keen smell and taste; preceded by retching and followed by hiccough; of bright yellow water; with cold sweat on hands.

Stomach.—Dyspeptic attacks: With low spirits; with confusion of head; with emaciation. Swelling of. Sensation: Of pressure, as of a load; weakness; emptiness; sinking; anxiety; gnawing at pit ; turning over in ; soreness of ; coldness of; burning; twisting and electric shocks. Pain, especially in pit. Alternate gastric and rheumatic symptoms. Worse: Pressure of clothes; motion; after meat. Better: After eating.

Hypochondriæ.—Sticking in. Boring in left. Pain, in a small spot, in posterior (l.); in liver.

Abdomen.—Inflamed, with cramps in many parts, chiefly legs. Distension. Painfully sensitive. Cramp-like constriction with nausea, then a pasty stool with burning and tenesmus in anus. Rumbling, gurgling and emission of much flatus. Violent cutting griping and twisting in. Gnawing at navel. Retracted. Weakness in navel region. Worse: Touch; draft of air; afternoon; deep inspiration. Better: Pressure ; after passing stool or flatus.

Stool.—Diarrhœa, of brown frothy water, with excessively painful pressure, urging and tenesmus. Dysenteric: Bloody, dark coffee colored, extremely painful. Gushing, hurrying her out of bed. Involuntary. Odorless. Slate colored. Clay colored. Constipated; extremely hard. Followed by burning, soreness and pressure in anus. Worse: In morning, before rising; periodically.

Anus.—Constipation, with painful retraction of. Sore, making it painful to walk. Sensations of: Boring; rawness; smarting ; a plug ; dragging ; biting ; tickling ; stitches in.

Urinary Organs.—Burning in, especially in bulbous and navicular portion of urethra. Sensation as if a drop of urine remained behind. Pyelitis. Albuminuria. Urine deposits a thick mucus sediment.

Sexual Organs.—Escape of prostatic fluid during stool. Painful constriction at root of penis. Itching in glans. Smarting and rawness in vulva. Swelling of. Adhesive leucorrhœa.

Respiratory Organs.—Bronchitis. Much mucus in air passages excites hawking. Sore, ulcerative or burning pain in. Dyspnœa, in sleep; < in damp weather. Worse: After eating or drinking; on undressing; morning on waking. Better: Getting warm in bed; lying.

Cough.—On every inspiration, excited by scraping or tickling in air passages; after meals; must hold his sides; with bloody taste in mouth. Rough, hoarse voice. Expectoration: Of very tough mucus, so viscid it hangs in strings down to feet; difficult to detach; sticky; heavy; lumpy; of reddish mucus, with traces of blood; slate colored; yellow; sweet.

Neck.—Stiff. Drawing. Tearing. Worse: Motion.

Chest.—Pains: Cutting, from mid-sternum thro' to between shoulders; tearing sticking in; sore, as if bones were broken. Sensation of itching, dryness, rawness or burning in. Sensitive in nipple region. Heart: Coldness at. Pressive or sticking pains. Cramps about. Fluttering. Worse: Motion of lifting arms, of deep breathing, etc.

Back.—Scapular pains. Undulative contraction of dorsal muscles. Aching in kidney region, with scanty reddish urine and nausea. Sprained or paroxysmal lumbar pain; can't rise from stooping or a chair. Pain as of a blow on sacrum. Pain in coccyx; while sitting, < walking or touch. Worse: Motion; during coition.

Extremities.—Loud cracking in joints. Twitchings. Pains: Rheumatic, bruised, paralytic, boring, gnawing, drawing, or tearing; in and about joints, often confined to a single fibre or spot; alternating with throat symptoms.

Upper Extremities.—As if asleep. Weakness, especially in hands; she drops things. Swelling of finger-joints. Pains in bones of; in wrists.

Lower Extremities.—Trembling. Coldness. Heaviness. Sensitiveness of. Sciatica; > walking and flexing leg, < standing, sitting, lying, pressure and in hot weather. Swollen sensation. Cramp in patella. Twitching in calves. Soreness of heels. Pain in bones of toes as if they would be torn off.

Generalities.—The secretions become tough, stringy and adhesive, finally hardening into plugs, clinkers or lumps, causing obstruction of the outlets or narrow portions of hollow organs with consequent dilatation above. Erosions and ulcers on skin and mucous membrane. Symptoms alternate or suddenly shift their position. Pains often go from before backward, or are diagonal. Many symptoms appear in small spots. Yellow; vision, vomit, pus, saliva, sclerotic, skin and stool. Pains, gnawing, burning, cramping; drawing-tearing, mostly near or in periosteum or tendinous expansions. Periostitis. Great prostration, heaviness and sick feeling. Sluggishness. Emaciation. Hectic. Sensitive to cold air.

Worse.—Morning. 2 a. m. and 4 p. m. Periodically. Hot weather. Dampness. After beer. In fat subjects. After coition. From touch.

Better.—After a short nap. After eating. Evening. In open air. Motion, especially of affected parts.

Skin.—Brown spots on. Measle-like rash. Hard pimples. Deep ulcers: Having a punched-out appearance and penetrating to the bone; with overhanging edges and a dark center; painful in cold weather; leaving depressed white cicatrices; with adherent secretions.

Sleep.—Incessant, distressing yawning, with overpowering sleepiness; with gastric symptoms. Symptoms on falling to sleep. Nightmare, with arrested breathing. Unrefreshing. Worse after.

Fever.—Surface of body cold. Shivering coldness starting in extremities, with constriction in pericranium. Heat: Glowing mostly on face, with internal chilliness, dry mouth and lips, and cold arms and hands; must moisten lips. Sweat: Cold, on forehead; clammy.

Allied Remedies.—Ars., Bro., Caust., Cinnab., Cocc-c., Ferr., Hep., Hydras., Iris-v., Kali-c., Kali-io., Lach., Mar., Merc., Mez., Nit-ac., Phyt., PULS., Sep., Sil., Spo., Staph., Sul., Thuj.

KALI CARBONICUM.

Mind.—Angry and irritable. Very easily frightened. Anxious fears.

Vertigo.—Seeming to come from stomach. Dizziness. Sudden unconsciousness.

Head.—Congestion to, with throbbing and roaring therein. Unilateral headache, with nausea. Pressive pain in occiput. Stitches in temples and forehead. Headache when driving. Worse: Stooping; moving it, eyes or lower jaw. Better: Warmth; raising up.

External Head.—Painful gatherings, like progressing boils, paining more from motion and external pressure, less from warmth, with coincident itching seemingly in skull bones. Falling of hair, especially from temples, brows and beard, with great dryness thereof. Violent burning itching in early morning and evening, often becoming moist after scratching. Takes cold in, especially from staying in a draft while heated. Great coldness of. Worse: Early in morning; in cold. Better: In warmth.

Eyes.—Stitches in. Pimply eruption in brows. Sense of coldness in lids. Swelling and nightly agglutination of lids. Inclination to stare. Easily dazzled by light. Sparks before. Musca volitantes, when reading and looking into space. Swelling between brows and lids. Lachrymation.

Ears.—Inflammatory swelling, with purulent discharge. Outward stitches in. Inflammation of parotid glands. Hearing dull, diminished.

Nose.—Stuffed coryza, with ulcerated nostrils. Red and swelled, with internal soreness. Dull sense of smell.

Face.—Yellow. Puffy. Swelling and redness of cheeks. Thick, ulcerated lips. Cracking, peeling lips. Freckles.

Teeth.—Ache, when eating only. Twitching, tearing ache, with pain in facial bones. Sticking ache, with swollen cheeks.

Mouth.—Sense of dryness in, with increased flow of saliva. Sticking sore throat when swallowing. Much mucus on palate. Swelling of, and vesicles on tongue.

Appetite, etc.—Aversion to rye bread. Great desire for sugar or sour things. Complaints from milk and warm food.

Taste.—Bitter, in mouth.

Eructation.—Sour. Heartburn.

Nausea, etc.—Inclination to vomit: Anxious; from emotions. Sour vomiting.

Stomach.—Fulness after eating. Tension straight across. Spasm of, renewed after every meal. Stitches in pit and hypochondriæ, which take away his breath.

Hypochondriæ.—Pressure and sticking in region of liver and kidneys. Pain when stooping, as tho' liver were wrenched.

Abdomen.—Inactivity and coldness of. Great distension after eating. Emptiness. Stitches. Heaviness. Ascites. Labor-like colic, with pains in lumbar region. Stitches in inguinal region.

Flatulence.—Incarcerated. Excessive discharge of flatus.

Stool.—Mucus. Retarded, on account of inactivity of intestinal canal. Constipation, with difficult passage of too large-sized feces; with inactivity of rectum.

Anus.—Itching. Painful hemorrhoids.

Urine.—Frequent urging to urinate, with scanty discharge of fiery urine. Burning in urethra when urinating.

Sexual Organs.—Deficient or excessive sexual desire. Constant downward pressure toward female genitals. Stitches in pudendum.

Menses.—Too early. Too scanty. Suppressed. First menses appear with difficulty in young women. Discharge of blood during pregnancy. Burning leucorrhœa, passed with labor-like colic and pains in small of back.

Respiration.—Difficult, whistling r. Spasmodic tightness of chest, early in morning, especially during motion.

Cough.—Asthmatic, hacking cough, in short but frequently repeated attacks, excited by tickling in throat and larynx. Dry, tickling c., in evening and at night; with dislodgment early in morning and during day of tenacious mucus or yellow pus of a flat, sweetish or sour taste, which is not expectorated but swallowed. Spasmodic, early in morning, with retching and vomiting. Whooping cough, with inflammation of chest.

Larynx, etc.—Rawness of throat and hoarseness, with excessive sneezing.

Neck.—Hard swelling of glands of. Goitre. Stiff nape.

Chest.—Spasm of, when coughing. Stitches in, with inflammation of lungs. Hydrothorax. Palpitation, with ebullition of blood early in morning. Suppuration of lungs and ulcerative phthisis. Emptiness in.

Back.—Stiffness between scapulæ. Pain in small of, with labor-like pains in abdomen. Lumbar pains after a fall. Drawing pain from the lumbar region into the middle of back.

Upper Extremities.—Asleep sensation in arms when in cold air and after violent exertion. Great weariness and powerlessness in arms early in morning in bed. Numb finger-tips.

Lower Extremities.—Nightly tearing in legs. Burning and sticking in legs. Restlessness in legs in evening. Cold feet in evening in bed. Stinking foot-sweat.

Generalities.—Sticking pains in internal parts, as well as in muscles and joints. Tearing pains in limbs, with swelling, mostly during rest. Faint-like weakness and trembling after walking. Great tendency to take cold after being overheated, with aversion to open air and drafts. Limbs pain whenever he rests them. Muscular twitchings. Paralyses. In the open air she seems better than in the room, except that the fever is more intense then. Complaints are worse at 2 or 3 o'clock in morning and during rest, than during day and when moving about. Cold hands and feet. Sensations of emptiness.

Glands.—Swelled and indurated after contusions.

Skin.—Burning (and sticking) itching of. Burning itching spots, exuding a moisture when scratched. Anasarca. Bluish-red frost-bites. Ulcers which bleed every evening.

Sleep.—Sleepiness early in evening. Late falling to sleep. Twitchings during. Full of voluptuous fancies and anxious dreams. Waking up from.

Fever.—Pulse: Very variable, often weak and slow, but also often remarkably accelerated and hard. Sometimes quick early in morning and slow in evening, seldom the reverse. Violent ebullition of blood, with throbbing in all bloodvessels. Chill: Mostly in evening. Quickly follows the pains. Shuddering, sometimes running over the body during day. Chilliness in evening, ceasing soon when near a warm stove and after lying down. Heat: In early morning in bed. Internal, with external shuddering. Sweat: Every night. Early in morning. Easy, during day from motion and mental exertion. Principally on upper part of body; increased by warm drinks. Offensive or sour smelling. Entire want of natural perspiration and inability to sweat. Warm on forehead.

Allied Remedies.—Ap., Arg-n., Ars., Bry., Calc-c., Carb-v., Cocci., KALI-BI., Laur., Lyc., Mag-c., Nat-c., Nat-m., NIT-AC., Nux-v., Phos., PULS., Sil.

KALI NITRICUM.

Mind.—Anxious restlessness. Faint-hearted, and fear of death.

Sensorium.—Stupefying heaviness of head, as after a debauch, early in morning.

Head.—Congestion to. Sticking ache. Compressive sensation in occiput, > binding up the hair. Pressive ache, < coffee, > driving in open air. Headache after eating veal. Painfully sensitive scalp.

Eyes.—Burning in, after washing early in morning. Blackness before the eyes (after inhaling camphor). Rainbow-colored circles around the light.

Ears.—Nightly sticking in, < when lying thereon. Deafness from paralysis of auditory nerve.

Nose.—Inflamed tip, with stitches therein. Nosebleed; blood is acrid and sharp like vinegar.

Face.—Red cheeks with tension therein, with increased headache. Contractive pain in forehead, eyes and face, which concentrates itself in tip of nose.

Teeth.—Sticking or tearing ache. Nightly, throbbing ache, < cold things. Gums swell and bleed easily, as in scurvy.

Mouth.—Stench from. Sticking sore throat, with inflammation of soft palate and uvula. Impeded swallowing, with tension and cutting in larynx. Shiny white coating on tongue.

Appetite, etc.—Greater in evening than at noon. Continuous, violent thirst.

Nausea.—Nightly, as tho' he would vomit.

Stomach.—Spasmodic, contractive, cramp-like stomach-ache, especially after eating veal. Burning in. Pressure in pit.

Hypochondria.—Stitches in kidneys.

Abdomen.—Violent pains after eating veal.

Flatulence.—Obstructed, especially in afternoon.

Stool.—Hard, difficult. Soft, with and without colic.

Urine.—Frequent and profuse passage of bright-colored urine.

Menses.—Of black blood, too early and too profuse. Violent lumbar pains before and during. Leucorrhœa with pains in small of back.

Respiration.—Tightness of chest compelling him to lie with head high. Oppression of chest when ascending.

Cough.—Dry, especially early in morning. The cough awakens him at 3 o'clock in morning, with a stupefying headache. Chest pains when coughing, lasting until expectoration is loosened. With stitches in chest and expectoration of clear blood. Purulent expectoration from lungs, with colliquative sweats.

Larynx.—Hoarseness, with roughness and scratching in. Tracheal phthisis.

Neck.—Neckache extending into shoulders, as tho' hair were violently pulled.

Chest.—Stitches in, with anxiety and oppression, especially when taking a deep breath and lying with the head low. Contractive chest pains coming from the back, as tho' lungs were being constricted. Inflammation of lungs. Violent palpitation, most intense when lying in bed at night.

Back.—Stitches in and between scapulæ, with arrested breathing. Violent pain in small of, early in morning and when stooping. Pressive pain in lumbar region during rest, especially < when coughing.

Upper Extremities.—Nightly tearing and sticking in joints of arms. Sensation as tho' hands and fingers were thick and swollen.

Lower Extremities.—Great paralytic weakness and debility in lower legs.

Generalities.—Relaxation early in morning, with a sensation of warmth in face and a hot forehead. Greater debility when sitting than during moderate exercise. Tearing and sticking in limbs and joints. After-effects of eating veal which is too young and tender. Inflammation of internal organs. The symptoms are intensified after midnight and towards morning. Camphor aggravates.

Skin.—Stitches as of needles in skin, especially of face, then burning. Burning

vesicles containing a yellowish fluid, which cease to burn after being scratched open. Sudden, dropsical swellings.

Sleep.—Day sleepiness. Stupefying. Restless, especially after midnight. Nightmare.

Fever.—Pulse: Full, hard and accelerated. Slow in morning, rapid in afternoon and evening. Chill: And coldness in afternoon and evening, increased by every motion, disappears when lying. Succeeded by sweat, without previous heat. In evening, with pains. Coldness with thirst in afternoon. Heat: Some but insignificant h. in the evening. Nightly, without thirst or succeeding sweat. Sweat: Very exhausting, from the least exertion. Nightsweat, most profuse on legs. Early morning s., most profuse on chest.

Allied Remedies.—Amyl-n., Calc-c., Glo., Ip., Melil.

KREOSOTUM.

Mind.—Peevish irritability. Vexed at every trifle. Cross, wilful and obstinate. Excited, before menses. Strong disposition to tears, sometimes with moroseness or melancholy. Weak memory, thoughts vanish.

Head.—Outward pressure in forehead and temples. Heaviness and fulness, as if everything would press out at forehead on stooping; or in occiput, as if he would fall backward. Aching, with desire to sleep, contraction of eyelids, a red face, weariness, especially of legs, and a bitter taste. Pains: Throbbing, especially in forehead; obtuse, peg-like, over right eyebrow; pricking. Painful scalp. Pain as if hairs were being pulled. Worse: Emotions. Before and during menses. Better: Bathing in hot water.

Eyes.—Look as if swimming in tears. Projecting. Lids red, swelled; twitching. Heat and constant burning in, with lachrymation on looking at the light. Hot, acrid tears. Greasy mucus in inner canthi. Feel smaller. Blue vision. Worse: Looking at anything. Rubbing. Better: Wiping.

Ears.—Heat and burning redness of. Inflammatory swelling of, with tensive burning pain and painful stiffness in neck, shoulder and arm of affected side. Cramp-like pain in. Bubbling in. Itching in and in soles of feet. Difficult hearing before and during menses.

Nose.—Frequent sneezing, with dry coryza; with moisture in. Epistaxis. Fluent coryza, with painful sensitiveness to inspired air.

Face.—Earthy. Pale, bloated. Brownish-red. Deep red and hot, with throbbing in cheeks and forehead, and frequent desire to urinate. Tearing and burning pains, < motion, > lying on affected part. Lips: Hot; tense; blue; upper cracked; scaling. Right half of lower feels drawn towards corner of mouth.

Mouth.—Fetid breath. Drawing or jerking in hollow teeth, with scorbutic gums. Inflamed gums. Mouth and throat white (pale). Grayish ulcers on gums and in commissure of lips.

Tongue.—Pale, as if withered; cold feeling on. Taste: Sour on back; of cubebs; of straw; bitter, of food just as it goes down.

Throat.—Feeling of something hanging in left side of. Sloughing, diphtheritic appearance. Constantly hawks up sweetish mucus. Painful choking low down, extending thro' to back. Dysphagia. Burning, scraping in. Roughness in.

Eructatians.—Violent, acid, frothy. Nausea, with burning in mouth; with spitting of saliva and chill.

Vomiting.—During pregnancy; undigested food several hours after eating; sweetish water in morning fasting. Violent retching.

Stomach.—Sensation of coldness, as from ice-water in. Gnawing, soreness or burning in epigastric region, better temporarily by eating. Worse: Pressure of clothes. Better: Eating warm things.

Hypochondriæ.—Pressive pain in spleen and hepatic region. Gnawing under left short ribs. Worse: Pressure of clothes.

Abdomen.—Tense distension of, sometimes with shortness of breath. Drawing from upper to sacrum, with heat of face and

ineffectual urging to defecate and urinate. Sensation: Of a hard, twisted lump lying in navicular region; prickling; ulceration; painful coldness in; clawing; burning; stitches; shooting, extending into genitals; shattering in. Worse: Motion. Coughing. Pressure of clothes. Better: Stooping.

Stool.—Green mucus, with nausea and weakness. Frequent by day. Pasty.

Rectum.—Creeping. Cramps. Dragging in. Stitches in, extending into left flank, during menses.

Urine.—Profuse, passed in great haste. Stream feeble, spray-like. Strangury. Albuminous; black; offensive; acrid; hot, causing burning between pudendæ. Involuntary, when coughing or lying down. Worse: Lying down.

Sexual Organs.—Hot swelling of, with corroding, burning pains and bleeding after coition. Soreness, corrosive itching and burning in labia, vagina, etc. Ulcerative pain in, in neck of uterus during coition. Hard lump in neck of uterus. Vagina prolapsed. Labor-like pains alternate with eye symptoms (watering of). Better: Walking.

Leucorrhœa.—Putrid; corrosive, causing swelling, burning, itching and biting externally; exhausting; whey-like; milky; yellow; staining yellow, with weakness in legs; staining gray; discharge of, preceded by sacral pains or by contractive pains in vagina; before every urination. Menses profuse; worse lying down; causing itching; followed by a discharge of acrid bloody matter.

Cough.—Hollow, or whistling spasmodic c., excited by roughness, scratching and tickling in chest and throat, without expectoration. Hoarse, croupy, exhausting. Concussive, with vomiting.

Chest.—Feeling of a weight in centre of c. with dyspnœa, he involuntarily takes a deep breath ; anxious dyspnœa. Pains in chest and sternum which necessitate pressure with the hand. Sensation of: Being bruised; sticking; shooting between ribs occurring periodically; burning; a throbbing constriction ; stabbing under left mamma. Lungs engorged; excessive bronchial secretion. Emotions excite tightness of heart and weeping. Scratching, creeping and tickling in trachea. Worse: Expiration. Motion. Awakening. Lying in bed, especially on side. Turning over. Morning and evening. Music. Better: Pressure, with hand.

Back.—Shoulders: Chilly between; as of a band between; feeling of a weight from s. to elbows, could not raise arms to head. Scapular pains, plug-like or as if beaten. Painfully bruised feeling of cristæ ilii. Violent drawing and shooting sacral pains going into genitals or thighs. Sensations: Of burrowing; as if broken; of ulceration; as if asleep; as if vertebræ were suppurating. Worse: Stooping. Better: Pressure.

Upper Extremities.—Elbow: Cramp in ; tendons feel too short. Hands icy cold. Fingers go to sleep, with creeping, they turn white after rising. Left thumb pains as if sprained and is stiff. Desquamating hands. Better: Bathing in hot water.

Lower Extremities.—Pains in hip, < from exposure to air. Œdema of legs and feet. Feet : Sweaty; feel as if gathering in soles; burning and itching in soles < in evening.

Generalities.—Rawness. Burning. Putrid discharges. Bleedings, often profuse from slight causes. Weakness, prostration and muscular feebleness. Numbness. Pains : Excoriative ; ulcerative ; pulling ; paralytic, shooting like lightning; as if torn out; bruised, can't find an easy position. Most useful in aged persons and pregnant women. Worse: Contact. Uncovering. Rubbing or scratching. After menses. During leucorrhœa. Better: After sleep. Warmth.

Skin.—Feels all afire. Tettery eruptions. Intense itching. Prurigo. Pustules. Nettlerash in morning. Pimply rash on face. Blue spots. Dry. Better: Warmth.

Sleep.—Yawning, with chilliness and watery eyes. Anxious dreams and sweat during. Laughs in her dreams. Great sleepiness and sound sleep.

Fever.—Pulse: Small and weak with great ebullition of blood. Throbbing in all bloodvessels during rest. Chill: Predominating, principally when at rest. Shaking c., with violent flushes of heat in face, red cheeks and icy cold feet. With great bodily restlessness. Alternating with heat. During menses. Skin as if dead during c.; pain in patella during. Heat: Mostly on face. Flying h. with sharply circumscribed redness on cheeks. Bed is too warm, but she is chilled if she puts her foot out. Sweat: Scant and only in morning, accompanied by heat and red cheeks. On chest and back during menses.

Allied Remedies.—Arn'., Ars'., Brom., Carb-ac., Carb-v'., Caust., Cham'., Chin'., Eupion., Merc-c., Nat-m., Nit-ac'., NUX-V., Petr'., Sec-c'., Sep., Sul.

LACHESIS.

Mind.—Indolent, phlegmatic disposition. Increased mental power. Ecstatic, easily excitable nature. Loving tenderness. Unhappy love. Inclination to silent grief. Grumbling discontent. Hasty speech. Easily frightened. Insane jealousy with mistrust and suspicion. Dogmatic. Spiteful. Extraordinary loquacity. Greatly inclined to mockery, satire and breaking out into laughter. Despair and satiety of life. Anxious trembling. Restlessness, driving him into the open air. Hideous phantasies.

Head.—Pressive ache in temples like an outward urging, in morning after rising. Violent congestion to. Hammering headache when stooping. Headache over eyes early in morning after rising. Sharp cutting pain, as with knives, in vertex, or as if someone cut a piece out of (r.) parietal bone. Worse: Stooping; external pressure; rest; ascending steps; after rising from bed; in the sun. Better: Eating; lying; after sleep; warmth; eructations.

External Head.—Hair falls out, especially during pregnancy, with biting itching on scalp, scratching causes swellings and thickening of skin. Great sensitiveness of the uncovered head to sunshine.

Eyes.—Tension in.

Ears.—Sensitive to wind; to noise.

Nose.—Itching, when eating. Pain in nasal bones. Nosebleed and blowing of blood from. Purulent discharge from. Fluent coryza in evening; stuffed coryza with obstruction, early in morning. Fluent coryza with inflammation of margin of nostrils and acrid, watery discharge.

Face.—Sunken or unnaturally red. Heat and redness of the usually pale face. Lead colored. Livid. Itching of. Swellings here and there upon. Blue circles around eyes. Erysipelatous inflammation of cheeks just below eyes.

Teeth.—Hollow, crumbling. Boring pain in molars extending into maxillary bones, especially after eating. Swollen gums.

Mouth.—Scratching on posterior palate. Rawness in throat. Sensation, as tho' something had lodged in the throat, which necessitates continual swallowing. Sensitiveness of internal throat to external pressure. Empty swallowing increases the throat pains, but swallowing solids does not. Salivation.

Appetite, etc.—Loss of, early in morning. Desire for smoking is lost, without having any particular aversion to tobacco. Continual thirst. Intense craving for wine and beer. Craving for coffee which >. Very weak digestion.

Nausea.—And forcible vomiting of ingesta, and bile.

Stomach.—Pit painful to pressure. Spasm of. Alternate coldness and burning in.

Abdomen.—Distension of. Heat in. Empty sensation in. Hypochondiæ feel bruised.

Stool.—Papescent, clayey, very offensive, followed by tenesmus. Constipation; flatus only is passed. Constipation alternating with diarrhœa.

Anus.—Burning in. Prolapsus recti during stool.

Urine.—Clear, foamy. Burning when urinating. Continual dribbling after stool, as well as after urination.

Sexual Organs.—Great lasciviousness and violent sexual excitement.

Menses.—Too scanty.

Respiration.—Tightness of, after eating. Inclination to take a deep breath when sitting. Touching larynx externally causes fear of suffocation.

Cough.—During and after every nap. Paroxysms of short, very fatiguing, hacking c. excited by tickling in stomach, rarely in larynx, dry in evening and night; in morning and by day, with difficult dislodgment of scanty, watery, sometimes salty mucus which is swallowed.

Larynx.—Painfully sensitive. Feeling of something fluttering above. Hollow voice. Hoarseness and aphonia as tho' a foreign body were tightly lodged in l. and could not be hawked loose.

Chest.—Burning on c., at night. Anxious palpitation. Soreness in, also of sternum.

Back.—A stitch deep in, as tho' something stuck therein, necessitating taking a deep breath and bending backward.

Upper Extremities.—Itch vesicles on hands and fingers. Panaritia. Livid swelling of hands.

Lower Extremities.—Weak, stiff knees. Cramps in calves. Flat ulcers on legs. Coldness, with internal burning of feet. Swollen feet. Deep, itching fissures on toes.

Generalities.—Great emaciation. Relaxation and weariness in evening. Apoplexies. The complaints are intensified at night. Aversion to motion, with inclination to lie down. Bad effects of mental exertion, wine or tobacco.

Skin.—Unhealthy. Itching; after scratching skin becomes thickened and large lumps appear. Spongy ulcers which burn when touched. Bluish, black vesicles upon hands and feet. Angry ulcers.

Sleep.—Sleepiness with loquacity in evening. Falls to sleep late in evening. Constant sleeplessness. Many frightful or lascivious dreams. Restless, with many dreams and frequent waking.

Fever.—Pulse: Small and weak, but accelerated; often alternating with a full, strong beat; generally very irregular and intermittent. Chill: Universal, with chattering of teeth, desire for warmth, and external, benumbing coldness. Shivering, running up the back, often every other day. Alternating with heat, changing from place to place. Every other day. Heat: In evening, especially on hands and feet. Burning in palms of hands and soles of feet, in evening and at night. Nightly, as if from ebullition of blood, with great sensitiveness of neck. Sense of internal h., with cold feet. Sweat: Profuse, with most complaints. Great inclination to. Cold, staining yellow, bloody, or red.

Allied Remedies.—Alum, Ap., Ars., BELL., Carbo-v., CAUST., Chin., CON., Gel., HEP., LYC., MERC., Nat-m'., Nux-v., Phos-ac., PLAT., PULS., Stann., Zinc.

LAUROCERASUS.

Mind.—Condition similar to intoxication. Stupefaction. Loss of consciousness. Blunting and insensibility of perceptive powers. Weakness of mind and memory. Sad and very low spirited. Anxiety, with fear of impending evil. Peevish.

Head.—Dull, pressive, stupefying ache. Dull heaviness. Congestion, with heat and throbbing therein. Feeling as tho' brain fell into forehead when stooping. Cold feeling in forehead or vertex, as of a cold wind blowing down neck and back. Worse: Afternoon; evening; in room; stooping. Better: In open air.

Eyes.—Staring, distorted. Protruding. Dilated, immobile pupils. Surrounding objects appear enlarged. Obscured vision, as of a veil before.

Ears.—Difficult hearing.

Nose.—Fluent coryza with sore throat.

Face.—Sunken, livid gray. Distorted. Puffed. Twitchings in. Foam from mouth. Lockjaw. Eruption about mouth.

Mouth.—Dry buccal cavity. Roughness and dry feeling in throat. Contraction of throat when drinking. Spasm of throat

and œsophagus. Impeded swallowing. Fluids roll audibly down throat. Speech difficult or lost.

Thirst.—Intense, with dry mouth.

Nausea.—From stomach, with vomiting of ingesta.

Stomach.—Inflammation of. Cooling burning in. Faintish stomach-ache.

Abdomen.—Cooling burning in. Colicky contraction and cutting in. Griping about navel.

Stool.—Involuntary. Constipation. Diarrhœa with tenesmus.

Urine.—Suppressed. Retained, as from paralysis of bladder. Involuntary urination.

Sexual Organs.—Gangrene of penis.

Menses.—Of thin, fluid blood, too early and too profuse.

Respiration.—Weak, anxious and slow. Rattling. Tightness of chest, as tho' he could not inflate lungs properly. Threatening paralysis of lungs, with cessation of expectoration.

Cough.—Short, dry, hacking c., excited by tickling in throat. With copious expectoration of gelatinous mucus dotted with blood. Frequently recurring, whistling, spasmodic, single coughs, excited by tickling in larynx and trachea, as if they were dry.

Larynx, etc.—Hoarseness, with scratching in, and in trachea. Spasmodic constriction of trachea.

Chest.—Constriction of. Sticking in, more in ribs. Pressure upon sternum. Irregular heart beat.

Generalities.—Sticking and tearing in limbs. Extraordinary physical relaxation. Rapid sinking of strength. Painless paralyses of limbs. Want of vital energy and failing reaction. Apoplexies with paralyses. Convulsive twitchings. Epileptic convulsions, with foam from the clenched mouth. Tonic spasm. Complaints without pain. Aggravation in evening. He feels better in the open air and at night.

Skin.—Between the fingers it is raw and exfoliates; water causes it to burn.

Sleep.—Irresistible somnolency, especially after dinner and in evening.

Fever.—Pulse: Extremely irregular, now small and slow, often imperceptible, then again somewhat accelerated; seldom full and hard. Weak. Veins on hands are distended. Chill: Coldness and shivering in afternoon and evening, not > external warmth. Alternating with heat. Want of natural vital heat. Heat: After the chill, in evening until midnight. Running down the back. Sweat: Mostly with the heat and continuing until toward morning. After eating.

Allied Remedies.—Canth., HYDROC-AC'., Ip., Kali-c., Merc., Spig.

LEDUM.

Mind.—Vehement, angry mood. Dissatisfacing and hatred of mankind. Love for solitude. Great seriousness. Chaotic dulness, with general heat.

Vertigo.—As tho' intoxicated, especially when walking in open air.

Head.—Stupefying ache causing mental dulness. Raging, pulsating ache. Pressive ache which renders head coverings intolerable. Shattering sensation in brain when making a misstep.

Eyes.—Nightly agglutination of lids without pain or inflammation. Violent suppuration with a foul smelling discharge. Biting tears. Dilated pupils.

Ears.—Roaring or ringing before. Difficult hearing.

Nose.—Burning in. Nose-bleed of bright red blood.

Face.—Alternately pale and red. Dry herpes on, which burns in open air. Dry pimples like millet seed on forehead. Red nodular eruptions, like those of brandy drinkers, they stick when touched. Boils on forehead. Swelling of glands under chin.

Mouth.—Offensive odor from.

Throat.—Sore, with fine sticking pain, worse when not swallowing.

Qualmishness.—And inclination to vomit when spitting.