Calvin B. Knerr · A Repertory of Hering's Guiding Symptoms of our Materia Medica · 1896

28. Inner Chest and Lungs pp. 811–818

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pleuro-pneumonia, Camph.; lower lobe of left, Camph.; particularly in left, in pneumonia, Lach.; whole left, and considerable part of right (double pneumonia), Op.; cannot lie on back or on left side but rests better on right, Phos.; of lower lobes (pneumonia), Brom.; nodules larger, forming isolated hepatizations and abscesses (pneumonia malleola), Hippoz.; in typhoid pneumonia, Tereb.; red, in pneumonia, Sang.; of right, Camph.; of right, in pneumonia, Kali c., Kali iod.; lower portion of right posterior, in pneumonia, Phos.; of lower two-thirds of right (pleuro-pneumonia), Kali iod.; of upper right half, Chel.; in spots, Œnan.; superior thirds, notably left, consolidated, Phos. ☞ inflammamation, pneumonia

Lungs, infarctions; size of a bean developed, on one lobe, distinctly circumscribed, dark red color, in and around which lie small abscesses, Hippoz.

Lungs, infiltration: ☞ hepatization

Lungs, inflammation: Acon., Agar., Aur. mur., Bry., Chlor., Cochl., Cornus, Ferr., Millef., Tereb., Sang.; catarrhal, in upper portion of right, Kali iod.; chronic, of anterior portion of left, Lyc.; with rattling cough and breathing, Nitr. ac.; in whooping cough, Bry., Kali c., Kreo., Seneg.; croupy, Kali m.; before exudation (phthisis), Ferr. ph.; especially during commencement of infiltration, recognizable by crepitant sound (typhoid fever), Sul.; left, Calc.; localized at base of left, Oxal. ac.; of left lower, can lie only on back or left side, not on right, Sul.; lower lobe of left (pneumonia), Chel.; seems to be in lower lobe of left, Natr. s.; upper part of left infiltrated, spreading to right, Kali iod.; posterior lobes affected, Ars.; with much rattling, Ant. t., Hep., Natr. m.; of right, Ant. t., Chel.; of right, in croup or diphtheria, Brom.; specific process, Hippoz.; resulting in suppuration, Sil.; syphilitic, Kali iod., Sang.; with wheezing, Kali s. ☞ burning, congestion, heat, pneumonia

Lungs, injuries: Arn., Calend., Millef., Rhus

Lungs, irritation: Lyc. vir.; alternates to bowels, Seneg.; morbid cellular, Ars. i.; worse evening and night (influenza), Sticta; local, Lyc. vir.; painful, with heat in chest, Eup. perf.

Lungs, itching; low down, behind cavity, Iod.

Lungs, jerking; with numbness and bloating of left hand, and numb prickling sensation in body, arms and legs, Lac c.; in right, Agar.

Lungs, lancinating; sudden, in left, depriving him of breath, Oxal. ac. ☞ cutting, stitches

Lungs, liver; lungs implicated by disease, Card. m.

Lungs, menses; affections with amenorrhoea, after catching cold, Rhus; disease causes amenorrhoea, Sang.; vicarious, Dig., Phos., Ustil.

Lungs, mucus; tightly adherent, Staph.; clear, albuminous, difficult to expectorate, causes shortness of breath, Seneg.; causes cough, Stann.; feeling of weight causes cough, Spong.; without cough, Calc.; after eating, Alum.

difficult to expectorate, giving only temporary relief, Ipec.; full of, with night cough, Bar. c.; full, in capillary bronchitis, pneumonia, Chel.; full of, without expectoration, Ant. t., Arum t.; feel full, Lyc.; seem full, yet none can be raised, Lach.; yellowish green, Kali m.; loaded, fails to hawk up for some time, becomes dyspnoeic without anguish, passes off as soon as mucus is expectorated, Zinc.; oppression, Benz. ac.; feeling as of a plug moving, Coccus; profuse, Ant. t., Calc., Hep., Natr. m., Sul.; profuse, with loose rattling cough in old people, Seneg.; profuse, spasmodic suffocative cough (sudden pulmonary congestion), Coccus; must cough long to raise it, Dulc.; difficult to raise, nearly causing strangulation, vomiting of food, Coccus; summit of right, Ant. t.; sensation, obstructing, with chest oppression (chest affection after abortion), Nux m.; stringy, Asaf.; threatens to suffocate (bronchitis), Ipec.; tenacious, Ammoniac., Cepa, Hep., Kali bi.; tenacious, with hoarseness, Staph.; tough, in whooping cough, Ars.; causes greatest often ineffectual efforts of cough and hawking (bronchitis), Seneg.; wheezing (bronchial asthma), Sinap. ☞ rattling ; also Chap. 27, Cough rattling ; also Expectoration difficult

Lungs, nodules; size of a pea, of a gray-whitish appearance and firm lardaceous consistence, Hippoz.

Lungs, œdema: Amm. c., Ant. t., Apis, Ars., Bell., Carbo v., Chel., Cochl., Ipec., Kali iod., Kali ph., Lach., Natr. m., Phos., Puls., Seneg., Squilla, Sul., Ver.; evacuated six pounds of fluid during five hours and still seemed full, Ant. t.; secondary to morbus Brightii, Kali iod.; scarlatinal dropsy, Dig.; impending, Carbo v.; in inebriates and old persons, in course of septic or zymotic disease, Crotal.; with fatty or amyloid degeneration of kidneys, Phos.; or paralysis, threatening after pertussis, Crotal.; with pneumonia, Hyos., Kali iod.; with oppression of respiration awaking in morning, Kali iod.; with somnolence, from poisoning blood with carbonic acid, Amm. c.; sputum like soap-suds, green, Kali iod.; of unhepatized portion, atelectasis (pneumonia), Ant. t.

Lungs, oppression: ☞ Inner chest, oppression

Lungs, ovaries; sympathy between (ovaritis), Apis

Lungs, pain: Phyt.; from adhesions, after pleurisy, Ran. b.; through apices, Dolich.; from apex to base of right, worse from inspiration, Act. rac.; in apex and through upper third of right, Ars.; catches, in back and front, Lactu. v.; through to back and vice versa, Diosc.; better bending forward, Ascl. t.; catching, in lower right, with each cough (pleuro-pneumonia), Caps.; worse throwing chest forward and head backward, Aspar.; with chilliness, Diosc.; returns on coughing, or drawing deep breath, very acute right side, Ascl. t.; from upper to place the size of a dollar on outer edge of chest, Med.; dull, Cact.; dull, in bases, with tightness, Ascl. t.; dull, in centre of left, Ailant.; dull, heavy, at top of left, Med.; dull, in upper left, with headache, Asim.; dull, through upper lobes, in after-

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noon, Carbol. ac.; in front and in back, up to scapulæ, Anag.; from inhalation of heat from fire, Carbo v.; in left, Act. rac., Chrom. ac.; in left, hard, Carbo v.; in left, with prolapsus uteri, Sep.; in left, near nipple, Diosc.; in centre of left, Rumex; deep, in left, outside of nipple, worse in evening, Sul.; especially in left (nervous debility), Curar.; in lower part of left, worse lying left side, Phos.; in obstinate, lower part of left (uterine disease), Calc. p.; through left, about base of heart, Arum t.; hard, cannot lie on side, Erig.; in lower lobes, in phthisis, Med.; as if it moved up and down with each inspiration, Æsc. h.; especially at night, Med.; occasional, up into trachea, Rumex; short paroxysms, in upper right, on taking a deep breath, pulse slow, full, Gels.; in subacute pleuritis, Arg. nit.; in pulmonary disease, Lyc.; in right, Ascl. t., Bapt., Tuberc.; in right, as from a dagger, at times breathing laborious (pneumonia), Cinch.; in right, for eight days (pneumonia), Elaps; in right, unbearable, extends to region of liver, Cinch.; slight, in bottom of right, Med.; just below centre of right, worse on coughing (phthisis), Sep.; through centre of right, Diosc.; as if lower lobe of right were adhering to ribs, Kali c.; to shoulder blade, Anag.; in sternal edge of left, Ailant.; with ulcer on leg, Kali iod.; upper right, when moving arm, Med.

Lungs, paralysis; sudden, difficult breathing, then prostration, Cup. m.; in croup, Samb.; debility of nervous origin, Gels.; in prevailing fever, Amm. m.; in old people, Cinch.; at an early stage of pneumonia in old people, previously asthmatic or suffering from chronic mucorrhoea, Phos.; loud rattling, restless, especially after typhoid fever, Mosch.; threatened, Ant. t., Ars., Calc., Lach., Laur., Lyc., Phos.; threatened, in old people, Bar. c.; threatened, with bronchitis, in old people, Lyc.; threatened, in pneumonia, Carbo v.; threatened, in typhoid pneumonia, Ant. t.; threatened, of right, in pneumonia, Phos.; threatened, in scarlatina, Calc.; threatened, in typhoid, Nitr. ac. ☞ weak

Lungs, peculiar sensation; in right, Amyl.; like that produced in throat when taking the preparation, is felt in right lung, Meph.

Lungs, percussion sounds; dull, Ascl. t., Elaps, Kali cy., Kali iod., Sul.; dull, as a board, from apex to axillary border of pectoralis major in front, and to middle of scapula behind (phthisis), Ars. i.; dull, over lower half of right, in asthma, Dig.; dull, circle size of palm of hand, Squilla; dull, in left clavicular region (incipient phthisis following amenorrhoea), Sang.; dull, below left clavicle (catarrh), Apis; dull, in right side in nipple line in fifth intercostal space after coughing and profuse expectoration, tympanitic percussion, worse in morning in bronchial catarrh, Hep.; dull, under left clavicle, in bronchial and vesical catarrh, Cop.; dull, in dropsy of chest, Kali iod.; dull, in suppressed eczema after vaccination, Ammoniac.; dull, following gastric and hepatic symptoms, Ptel.; dull, in hæmoptysis, Acal.; dull in heart disease, Hydras.; dull, in upper left (chronic cough), Lyc.; dull, in left lobe, down to third intercostal space (phthisis), Sul.

dull, in left infraclavicular region, sensitive to touch (phthisis), Lach.; dull, beneath left clavicle (phthisis), Ars. i.; dull, in catarrhal phthisis, Kali m.; dull spot beneath left clavicle, in hemorrhagic phthisis, Ars. iod.; dull, below border of pectoralis major, and around pectoralis major, and around posteriorly to back of lung, in hemorrhagic phthisis, Ars. iod.; dull, in lower three fourths, of right side in pleurisy, Seneg.; dull, in front to fourth right rib, in pleuritis, Cact.; dull, in pleuritis, with plastic exudation, Hep.; dull, in pleuro-pneumonia biliosa, Rhus; dull, empty, in front, right side, in pneumonia, Ant. t.; in right, near armpits, in pneumonia, Elaps; dull, left, in pneumonia, Sul.; dull, in pneumonia, seventh to ninth day, Phos.; dull, over lower left, in pneumonia, Stram.; dull, under right mamma, in pneumonia, Elaps; dull, in clavicular region, on right down to third, on left to second rib, in bilateral croupous pneumonia, Kali iod.; dull, entire posterior or inferior region of right side, in typhoid pneumonia, Tereb.; dull, over apices, in pulmonary disease, Lyc.; dull over summit of right, Ant. t.; dull, spot as large as a crown piece on right side to right of nipple, with mucous râles over that part, Sec.; dull, over lower right, with indistinct bronchial respiration and numerous râles, partly dry, partly moist, Phos.; dull, over upper part of superior lobe, Sul.; dull, on apex of right, in threatened phthisis, Tuberc.; dull, over right upper anterior and posterior part, in phthisis, Kali bi.; dull, in front and behind upper portion, worse posteriorly beneath scapula, in phthisis, Ars. i.; dull, over right base posteriorly, coarse crepitation, in phthisis, Ars. i.; dull, in apex of right, with râles, in phthisis, Plumb.; dull, in right posterior, to third and fourth ribs, with pain both dull and sharp, in phthisis, Sep.; empty, in upper portion, particularly right side (consumption), Iod.; empty, hollow in right side (pleuro-pneumonia), Hep.; want of normal resonance on left side (bronchial and vesical catarrh), Cop.; tympanitic, in œdema of lungs, Ant. t.; tympanitic, on left side, posteriorly as far as fourth rib, and from fifth rib downward, dull (pneumonia), Sul.; tympanitic, right side up to third rib behind and below, (pneumonia), Ant. t.; tympanitic on sides, in tuberculosis, Ferr. iod.

Lungs, pneumonia: Acon., Amm. c., Ant. c., Ant. t., Apis, Arg. nit., Arn., Ars., Ars. i., ⁞Ascl. s., Bell., Benz. ac., Brom., Bry., Cact., Calc., Cann. s., Canth., Caps., Carbo a., Carbo v., Chel., Chen., Cinch., Cinch. bol., Con., Cup. m., Diad., Dig., Elaps, Ferr., Ferr. iod., Ferr. ph., Gels., Glon., Grin., Hep., Hyos., Iod., Ipec., Kali bi., Kali c., Kali iod., Kali m., Kali n., Kali ph., Kali s., Kreo., Lach., Lachn., Laur., Lyc., Merc., Mosch., Myrtus, Natr. a., Natr. s., Nitr. ac., Nux v., Op., Phos., Pod., Puls., Ran. b., Rhus, Samb., Sang., Seneg., Sil., Spong., Squilla, Stram., Sul., Ver., Ver. v.; adynamic, Benz. ac., Rhus, Seneg.; asthenic, with feeling of weight in lungs, short cough and expectoration of bloody saliva, Merc.; bilious

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Ant. t., Merc., Puls.; bilious, with tenderness over right hypogastrium, Merc.; disposition to blennorrhœa, or profuse viscid, bloody mucus, Merc.; after bloodletting, Squilla; cannot take a long breath, sequel, Lyc.; broncho pneumonia, Spong.; broncho-pneumonia, with paralysis of pneumogastric, Dig.; with catarrh of bronchi, Nux v.; with bronchitis, Caps., Phos.; catarrhal, Bapt., Hyos., Lyc.; catarrhal pleuro-pneumonia, Seneg.; catarrhal, right side, Kali m.; cheesy, Plumb.; in children, Ant. t.; chronic, Ars., Ars. i., Ferr. iod., Grin., Puls., Rumex, Sang.; from sudden exposure to cold while overheated, or vice versa, Ran. b.; from taking cold during a fatiguing journey, Ars.; congestive, with suffering under scapulæ, both sides, caused by checked sweat, Gels.; during convalescence, Cochl.; followed by dry cough, Kali c.; left a permanent cough, Sang.; followed by severe cough day and night, with profuse expectoration, Lyc.; followed by spasmodic cough, Kali c.; supervenes during whooping cough, Ver.; especially when there is much soreness on coughing, Arn.; croupous, Iod., Lyc.; croupous, bilateral, Kali iod., Kali m., Spong., Ver.; croupous, in complication with pericarditis, Iod.; symptoms worse every other day, Cinch.; with delirium tremens, Nux v.; of drunkards, Hyos., Kali br., Op., Nux v.; with endocarditis, Phos.; epidemic, Ferr.; epidemic, with dry cough, or diarrhoea, Cup. m.; worse towards evening, has to sit up, Hell.; wants to be fanned, Carbo v.; followed by hectic fever, with clammy night sweats, Lyc.; tendency to gangrene or hemorrhage, Crotal.; followed by hæmoptysis, Sul.; burning heat in palms of hands, after typhoid pneumonia, Lyc.; covers head with bedclothes, sighs and laughs by turns, always thinking there is something wrong, Lach.; before red hepatization, and afterward from gray hepatization, Sul.; with hepatization after violence of fever has abated, Sul.; with heart disease, Sang.; excessive heat and thirst, better by copious sweat and profuse hemorrhage, Kali n.; after hemorrhages, Cinch.; with hemorrhage, suppuration of lungs, Merc.; after suppression of hemorrhoidal flow from being chilled, Nux v.; of horses, Cann. s.; hyperæmia, depending on relaxation of muscular fibres of bloodvessels as long as no exudation has taken place, Ferr. ph.; hypochondriacal subjects or in those suffering from hemorrhoids, Nux v.; hypostatic, in Bright's disease, Phos. ac.; hypostatic, in course of chronic affections, Hyos., Nux v.; incipient, in children, Cepa; infantile, Bry., Ipec.; infantile lobular, Merc.; infantile, inflammation, disguised by symptoms of cerebral congestion and oppression, Op.; infantile, rattling during resolution, Kali c.; intermittent, particularly in individuals who live in malarial districts with affection of bronchi or heart, Lobel. i.; with jaundice, Phos.; latent, Lyc.; latter part of period of deposit and early part of that of absorption, Phos.; left side, Lach., Sang.; left side, with pleurisy, Ran. b.; in left upper, in a tuberculous woman æt. 49, crepitation, expectoration of frothy pink mucus, almost moribund, Ferr. ph.

cannot lie with head low, Kali n.; inability to lie down, Spong.; cannot lie on right side, feels best lying on left side, Kali c.; of upper lobes, Ol. jec.; lobular, formation of abscess threatens, Cup. m.; lobular, in whooping cough, Sep.; lobular, localized pain, Kali iod.; lobular, terminating in gangrene of lung and pyohæmia, Phos.; localized, Iod., Kali c., Lach.; in measles, Phos., Puls.; during recovery from meningitis, Stram.; after sudden disappearance of menses, Puls.; with myocarditis, Phos.; raising of a mouthful at a time of mucus of a light rust-color, stringy and easily separated, Lyc.; neglected, with rattling in chest, Lyc.; neglected, with copious, offensive expectoration, Sep.; neglected, in psoric patients, threatens to terminate in tuberculosis or phthisis pituitosa, Sul.; neglected, chronic, passing over into suppuration, Sil.; notha, verging into a chronic affection, inflammatory symptoms preponderate, Dulc.; notha, with sinking, in old people, Camph.; with œdema pulmonum, Kali iod.; in old persons, Dig., Ferr., Hyos., Op.; of old and cachectic people, protracted cases, Nitr. ac.; in old persons, also children, with catarrhal irritation, Nux v.; pleuro-pneumonia, worse by deep inspiration, Bry.; in threatened phthisis, Lyc.; pleuro-pneumonia, Ant. t., Asaf., Bry., Camph., Caps., Hep., Kali iod., Phos.; pleuro-pneumonia, bilious, Rhus; pleuro-pneumonia, Lach.; pleuro-pneumonia, with profuse exudation, Cinch.; pleuro-pneumonia, fibrous, Sul.; pleuro-pneumonia, continuous irritable state, hyperæmia of cord, Dulc.; pleuro-pneumonia in left, Seneg.; pleuro-pneumonia neglected, absorbs exudation, Ferr.; pleuro-pneumonia, exudation profuse, Cinch.; pleuro-pneumonia, with acute articular rheumatism, Iod.; pleuro-pneumonia, with stabbing pains, Bry.; pleuro-pneumonia, with difficult discolored sputa, Dulc.; pleuro-pneumonia, in tuberculous subjects, Calc.; pleuro-pneumonia, violent, over a large surface, dyspnoea, dry cough, rust-colored sputa, Phos.; after exposure to rain while overheated, Rhus; coarse râles, Kali s.; deficiency of reaction, Sul.; relapse, Rhus; relapse, induced by exposure, Kali n.; during resolution, Hep., Kali c., Spong.; of right lung, Chel., Lyc., Squilla; two cases right side, one left, Bar. c.; right, lower lobe, Iod.; right-sided, four days, Stram.; right side, suppuration beginning, Carbo a.; simple from repercussion of scarlatinal erruption, Ipec.; sequelæ, Bar. c., Kali c., Op., Sul.; followed by sleeplessness, Kali c.; sequel, vital forces reduced, Grin.; followed by a small sore spot in chest, from subcutaneous ulceration, Ran. b.; first stage, Ferr. ph., Gels., Kali iod.; passes through first stage normally, then remains stationary, Sul.; second stage ☞ hepatization; second and third stages, dulness on percussion, Sang.; third stage, fetid sputum, Carbo v.; last stage, when great weakness prevails, Benz. ac.; subacute, Arn.; subacute, catarrhal, Ascl. t.; mild, suppurative stage, extends over small part of lung, Hep.; followed by night sweats, Kali c.; sycotic

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Natr. s.; tedious recovery, Psor.; followed by acute thoracic pains, suggestive of adhesions, Ran. b.; threatened, with tightness and oppression, Phos. (after Aconitum); assumes a torpid character, with slow solidification, Sul.; badly treated cases, Sul.; typhoid, Ant. t., Badiag., Benz. ac., Bry., Chloral., Lac c., Lachn., Laur., Lyc., Phos., Rhus, Sang., Sul., Tereb.; typhoid, with sensitiveness and gurgling in ileo-cæcal region, and diarrhœa, Phos.; in typhus, Crotal., Hyos., Tereb., Zinc; with typhoid symptoms, from resorption of pus, Rhus; followed by weak voice, can only utter a few words at a time, Lyc.; followed by weakness, Ferr., Lyc.; cannot take a normal course owing to weakness of patient from loss of vital fluids, Phos. ac.; weakness, suspected heart clot, ⁞Amm. c.; in cold weather, in phthisis, Tuberc. ☞ hepatization, inflammation

Lungs, rales (rattling): Ang., Ant. t., Calc., Carbo v., Caust., Cepa, Cham., Cina, Cinch., Crot. t., Eup. perf., Ferr. ph., Hep., Hippoz., Hydr. ac., Iod., Kali cy., Natr. m., Nux m., Petrol., Phos., Seneg., Ver.; over anterior surface of right (phthisis), Ars. iod.; with anxiety, orthopnoea, Sep.; in bronchial asthma, Sinap.; inflammation of bowels, in dentition, Acet. ac.; when breathing and coughing, particularly during sleep (measles), Phos.; in chronic bronchitis, Kali bi.; in broncho-pneumonia, Lyc.; better when carried in upright position (bronchial catarrh (croup), Ant. t.; with catarrh, Ant. t., Ars., Jamb.; continual, Cact.; continuous, better by profuse slimy, watery expectoration, mixed with reddish purulent matter (pneumonia), Stram.; with cough, Ant. t., Ars. s. f., Bell., Calc., Natr. m., Sars., Sep., Sul.; with cough in tuberculosis, Calc.; with croupy cough, Hep.; with but little cough, Phos. ac.; with short cough, Natr. c.; with rough cough, followed by cramp in stomach, Mur. ac.; in whooping cough, Caust., Cup. a., Cup. m.; crepitant, Bell., Ferr. ph., Iod., Phos.; coarse, crepitant in spot behind left fifth rib, Arg. nit.; coarse, worse during increase of moon, Phell.; coarse, threatening collapse, Ant. t., Carbo v., Cina, Puls.; coarse, in œdema of lungs, Ant. t.; deep, in asthma Millari, Cup. m.; during difficult dentition, Calc. p.; with dyspnœa, Astac., Lyss., Spong.; in eclampsia, Art. v.; worse after expectoration, Sul.; on expiration, worse lying and in evening, in bronchial catarrh, Calc.; with sweat on face (scarlatina), Phos.; fine, Ant. t., Ipec.; seem full of mucus, Lyc.; great, low down, Med.; in infants, threatened suffocation, Ant. t., Hep.; on inspiration, Nitr. ac.; large, Ant. t., Bell., Carbo v., Cinch., Ipec., Puls., Stann., Stram.; large, in bronchitis of aged, Amm. c.; large, in influenza, Seneg.; large, moist, in both, Iodof.; followed by, Tuberc.; large, in right (pneumonia stage of hepatization), Phos.; as of a large quantity of phlegm, coma (typhoid), Phos.; in left, Manc.; in left, bronchial catarrh, Cop.; in left, during respiration, Manc.; bubbling mucus, especially in apex of left, Xan.; yet nothing seems to loosen, Iod.; loud, Cinch., Natr. s.

loud, heard across large room, in hay catarrh, Sticta; loud sibilant, over every part (bronchitis), Ars.; in lower, during cough, Œnan.; in measles, Hep.; worse in morning and when lying on back, Agar.; moist, in left (emphysema), Hep.; moist, cannot cough up mucus, Natr. m.; moist, with cough (endocarditis), Aur. met.; moist, all over (pneumonia), Dig.; moist, crepitating in upper and middle lobes, less left side (albuminuria, typhoid pneumonia), Tereb.; before and after menses (phthisis), Ars. i.; with flying pains in chest, Seneg.; in phthisis, Cetrar., Pix.; in incipient phthisis, Senecio; in pneumonia, Hyos., Kali c., Lyc., Phos.; short, anxious, quick (pneumonia), Merc.; with every respiratory effort, followed by cough, Sang.; in right side (pneumonia), Zinc.; at apex of right, with slight dulness (incipient phthisis), Rumex; bubbling, in middle of right for a few minutes, chiefly in afternoon, Tell.; in right, at each inspiration, Elaps; through entire right, in typhus, Chin. s.; in upper right, Ant. t.; posterior surface of right, in phthisis, Ars. i.; heard at a distance, worse right side (acute catarrh), Ant. t.; sibilant, Caps., Elaps, Hep., Lach., Phos., Sang., Spong.; with heavy sleep (epilepsy), Op.; squeaking, in bronchitis, Lach.; stertorous, (pneumonia), Ant. t.; infantile syphilis, Syph.; in typhoid, Lyc., Rhus; whistling, Stann.; vomiting mucus, young children, Ipec. ☞ Breathing rattling ; also Chap. 27, Cough rattling

Lungs, raw feeling: ☞ Inner chest, rawness

Lungs, rheumatic pains; in left, better lying down, Oxal. ac.; peculiar, Dig.

Lungs, right; most affected, Brom.; acts on lower part, Kali c., Merc.; acts upon upper and middle portion, in phthisis, Calc.

Lungs, rivet; pain, like a rivet through upper third of left to scapula (tuberculosis), Sul.

Lungs, as if ruptured; sensation in lower and inner third of right, Chlor.

Lungs, sensitive; tender, Ailant.; right, to touch, Cinch. bol.

Lungs, sharp pain: Thuya; in apex and through upper third of right, Ars.; in forenoon, Amm. br.; in left, Med.; at bottom of left, Med.; in right, on inspiration, Cod.; through, worse sitting erect or lying down, better bending forward, throwing head back worse, Lach.; worse in upper part of right, Amm. br.

Lungs, shooting; at base, caused by cough, Med.; in left, Oxal. ac.; through right to back, worse during deep inspiration, movement, and cough, Chel. ☞ lancinating, stitches

Lungs, smoke; as if full of (after pneumonia), Bar. c.; as though inhaled, Natr. a.

Lungs, soreness: Arum t., Sil.; of apices, Puls.; difficulty in taking a full breath, Phos.; after a full breath, with rush of blood, Æsc. h.; as if her breath were forming a blister, Med.; when coughing, Chel.; in left, all day, Lact. ac.; dull, in apex of right, Iod.; excessive, Ailant.; in prevailing fever, Amm. m.; with hoarseness, Carbol. ac.; on deep inhalation, Chel.; in left, as during convalescence from pneumonia, Como.; spot size

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of silver dollar, begins at top of left and like a red-hot bolt, extends through to lower part of back, Med.; in left, like a wound, by deep breathing, coughing and sneezing, Chel.; worse during menses, Puls.; of right, Bapt.; on sneezing, Chel.; an old sore spot on top of left aroused, Med. ☞ Inner chest soreness

Inner chest, sounds: ☞ auscultation, percussion, rales

Lungs, spasm; from drinking cold water, Thuya; with cough, Op.

Lungs, stabbing; as if a knife were thrust into top of left, then turned around, with pain streaking off through left shoulder, Sep.; in right, below nipple, after dyspeptic pain, as from a stone or undigested food in epigastrium at 9.45 P.M., Lac c.

Lungs, stagnation; of circulation (uræmia, asphyctic form), Hydr. ac.

Lungs, stinging; on coughing or deep inhalations, Chel.; violent, in lower right, slept well until 2 A.M., pain lasts whole day, with external soreness, Zing.; sharp, through left (pleurodynia), Rumex; with sneezing, Chel. ☞ stitches

Lungs, stitches: Apis, Chel.; to back, Merc.; worse by deep breathing, coughing or sneezing, 2 P.M., Chel.; from above downward, Gels.; dull, during inspiration, Asar.; fine, in left, at 3.30 P.M., while writing, Rumex; especially on deep inspiration, Phos.; in left, Rumex; in left, while breathing, Codein.; through left to spine, Camph.; through left, in pleurodynia, Rumex; in lower left, through chest, Zing.; in lower, Ham.; in right, Arum t., Bor.; sharp, especially about right, probably myalgic, Sang.; at bottom of right, Med.; in right or both, during inhalation, Asar.; in right, two inches below nipple, through to back, worse on motion and deep breathing, Sil.; in right, while walking, Agar.; in apex of right, Bell.; in lower right (pleurisy), Kali c.; through right to back, worse during deep inspiration, movement and cough, Chel.; through central portion of right, Sep.; through right, with hæmoptysis, Mang.; from without inward through upper right, posterior, to second rib, Bor.; in both sides, Clem.; over surface of both, Med.; in upper, better when walking, Elaps ☞ lancinating, sticking

Lungs, stonecutters; affections, copious fetid expectoration, Sil.

Lungs, suppuration: Hep., Hippoz., Plumb., Puls., Sil.; of both, in measles, Lach.; rapid, with formation of cavities and purulent exudation into cavity of thorax, with infiltration of mesenteric glands and tubercular ulcers in intestines, Phos.; with hectic, Lyc.; after hæmoptysis, Cinch.; after hemorrhages, in pneumonia, Merc.; in left, with pain at third left costal cartilage, Pix.; in those addicted to use of liquors, Op.; in phthisis, Psor.; after neglected pneumonia, Led. ☞ abscess, cavity, ulcers

Lungs, tearing; low down, as though something were tearing away, followed by expectoration of greenish dirty mucus, causing gagging, with cough, Nitr. ac.; as if lungs were torn out, Elaps

Lungs, throbbing; dull, in apices, Chel.; in left, Chrom. ac.

Lungs, tickling; in upper anterior lobes, causes dry, hollow cough, worse morning, better evening, Myrtus

Lungs, tight; pain, as if constricted by a thin wire, Asar.

Lungs, trembling; with numbness and bloating of left hand, Lac. c.; with numb prickling in body, arms and legs, Lac. c.

Lungs, tubercles: ☞ consumption

Lungs, ulcers: Kali c., Millef., Sil.; in different parts, Sul.; broke, expectoration foul (phthisis), Sul. ac.; expectoration in stonecutters, Calc., Sil.; as if two ulcerated surfaces were in contact on breathing, Iodof. ☞ abscess, cavity, suppuration

Lungs, uneasy pains; in right, Carbol. ac.

Lungs, vibration; of inspiration audible, and perceptible to touch, Chlor.

Lungs, water; as if ice water were rising and falling through a cylindrical opening in left, Elaps

Lungs, weak: Polyg.; feel so weak they cannot take a full breath, weak, hysterical women, Plat.; want of power, difficult breathing, Bapt.; causes short, difficult respiration, Stann.; feel as if sinking down, Badiag.; unable to use, from weakness and hyperæmic stagnation (typhoid pneumonia), Phos. ☞ paralysis

Lungs, wheezing: Ars., Elaps, Nux m., Sabad., Sul.; when taking deep breath, Calad.; during cough, Kali c.; in fever, Calad.; in lower part, with cough, seeming to come from lowest ramifications of bronchial tubes (bronchitis), Squilla; at night (hay catarrh), Sticta; with oppressed respiration (asthma thymicum), Samb. ☞ Chap. 26, Breathing noisy

Lungs, whistling: Kali bi.; during breathing, Amb.; in bronchial catarrh, Ant. t.; on inspiration, Nitr. ac.; in apex of left (incipient phthisis, following amenorrhœa), Sang.; loud, with but little cough, Phos. ac.; at night (hay catarrh), Sticta; shrill, Iod.; behind sternum, with dry cough, Agar.; wheezing (phthisis), Kali c. ☞ Chap. 26, Breathing, noisy

PLEURA, adhesions; after pleuritis, acute thoracic pains, suggestive of adhesions, Ran. b. ☞ exudation, inflammation

Pleura, ecchymoses; subpleural, Anthrac., Hippoz.

Pleura, exudation: Bry., Canth., Œnan., Sul.; abundant, pleuritic, displacing heart, could not sit up, Sul.; two pints of reddish brown, odorless fluid in cavities, Ars. h.; four fingers in height, with no tendency to decrease, Ferr. mur.; left overfilled, not a trace of respiratory murmur, fluctuation and formation of abscess, which broke, Sul.; plastic, Alum., Bry., Hep., Sul.; plastic, intercostal spaces prominent, motionless during respiration, Hep.; in pleuro-pneumonia, Camph.; purulent, Ars. i., Calc., Hep., Phos., Sil., Sul.; on right side, Kali c.; serous, Anthrac., Apis, Ars., Bry., Dig., Hell., Iod., ⁞Jab., Natr. m., Tereb.; serous, in ascites, Ars.; serous, with hectic, worse in evening, Carbo v.; serous, in pneumonia, Bright's disease, Kali iod.; a soaplike deposit, as in cholera, Lyss.; subacute, chronic, Seneg.; with sweat and diarrhœa (indura-

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tion of liver), Ratan. ☞ Inner chest, dropsy

Pleura, inflammation (pleurisy): Abrot., Acon., Act. sp., Apis, Arn., Ars., Ascl. s., Ascl. t., Bor., Bry., Cact., Calc. p., Cann. s., Canth., Carbo a., Carbo v., Card. m., Colch., Dig., Ferr. mur., Hep., Iod., Kali c., Kali iod., Kali m., Merc., Mur. ac., Nitr. ac., Nux v., Ran. b., Rhus, Sabad., Sang., Seneg., Sep., Sinap., Squilla, Stann., Sul., Sul. ac., Ziz.; with pulmonary abscess, Hippoz.; after Acon. when stitching pains and difficult respiration continue or return, Kali c.; acute, with typhoid symptoms, Rhus; in afternoon, Amm. br.; resulting in anæmia (diaphragmitis), Dig.; arthritic, Colch.; at beginning, Cochl.; at beginning, if small bronchi are irritated, Laur.; in persons who have lost much blood, Cinch.; especially after bloodletting, Squilla; particularly in morbus Brightii, Canth.; similar to Bryonia, Ascl. t.; dry cough, worse 3 A.M., or suppressed cough, Kali c.; in drunkards and melancholic persons, Laur.; with fever and hoarseness, Aur. mur.; with remittent fever, Crotal.; in course of articular gout, Sul.; after chronic headache had suddenly vanished, Sep.; after mechanical injuries, must change position, bed feels so hard, Arn.; latent, Seneg.; left side, particularly affected, Kali c.; lingering, Carbo a.; neglected, Ars., Ars. i., Calc., Camph., Canth., Carbo v., Cinch., Ferr., Hep., Iod., Lach., Lyc., Seneg., Sep., Sil., Sul.; in old men, Sep.; of old and cachectic people, protracted cases, Nitr. ac.; pains, worse cough (tuberculosis), Lach.; where Phos., though apparently indicated, failed, Sep.; acute, plastic form, Sul. (after Acon.); with left-sided pneumonia, Ran. b.; pressing remains, impeding breathing, Abrot. (after Aconitum and Bryonia); rattling respiration, must sit up, Squilla; rheumatic, Ant. t., Dulc.; in course of acute articular rheumatism, Sul.; particularly right side, Chel.; right side arched like a barrel from axilla downward (with plastic exudation), Hep.; serous form, especially rheumatic cases with Bright's disease, from hyperæmia of kidneys, Dig.; acute stabbing in chest, Ran. b.; first stage, Ferr. ph.; second stage, plastic exudation, Kali m.; last stage, Phos., Sul.; stitches with chill, Lach.; stitches in left chest with violent palpitation, Kali c.; stitches in pneumonia (Bright's disease), Kali iod.; stitches in lower right lung, Kali c.; subacute, Arg. nit.; subacute, and effusion into chest, left side being nearly two-thirds filled with fluid, Kali iod.; subacute, left side, or in phthisical subjects, Arg. nit.; of tuberculous patients, Kali c.; vocal fremitus, absence of, with plastic exudation, Hep.

Pleura, pain (undefined): Chlor., Form., Ziz.; in lower edges, Sul.; in quotidian intermittent, Caps.; slight, in left, better by chewing a small piece of gum camphor, Elaps; acute, in right, Ascl. t.; old adhesions in right, Sep.; severe and localized, Laur.

Pleura, pleurodynia: ☞ Inner chest, rheumatism

Pleura, stitches: Bry., Kali c.; in typhoid fever, Phos.

with deep inspiration or cough, Ferr. ph. ☞ Inner chest, stitches

Pleura, thickening; after pleurisy, Seneg. ☞ exudation

Pleura, tubercles; small, Hippoz.

STERNUM, aching: Sul.; heavy, dull, pain, with constant sensation of weight in centre of sternum, Sul.; sharp, behind, when breathing (angina pectoris), Kali c.; sprainlike, near, with cough, Rumex; excited by talking, Stram. ☞ bruised feeling

Sternum, anxiety; in region of, feels as if he must go into open air and busy himself, Anac.

Sternum, ball; sensation of a large, rising from a point about lower end to upper end of œsophagus, causing sensation of suffocation, Lac. def.

Sternum, bruised feeling: Kreo., Sars., Sul. ac.; above manubrium (pneumonia), Zinc.; worse stooping and when touched, Stront. ☞ aching, soreness

Sternum, burning: Clem., Sang., Tereb., Zinc.; behind, with anxiety and pressure in chest, amounting to real suffocation, so that deep inspiration was difficult, Phos.; behind, in influenza, Sang.; like fire, behind (sciatica), Lach.; beneath, Acon., Ant. t., Asaf., Carbo v., Coccus, Sang.; in acute bronchial catarrh, Kali bi.; in upper, after coughing, Ferr.; beneath, to mouth, Cham.; distress, accompanied by fine neuralgic pains in same region, last three minutes, come on every ten or fifteen minutes for several hours, Ustil.; under, worse at night (bronchitis), Merc.; pain under, constant (gastric disorder), Atrop. s.; painful, Cham.; under, in phthisis pulmonalis, Carbo v.; into shoulder, during cough, Kali bi.; slight, behind (typhoid fever), Rhus; sore, on bone, Mez.; sore pain under, especially on motion and every deep inspiration, Seneg.; pain, with tenderness to touch, caused by warm drinks in their descent, Tereb.; behind top, Diosc.; soreness behind xiphoid cartilage, Ran. sc.; under upper, Magn. s. ☞ heat

Sternum, caries: Ars. s. f.

Sternum, coldness; in middle, Apis

Sternum, constriction; under, with oppression of chest, Phos.; in middle, as if compressed by iron pincers, worse from motion, Cact.; painful, Castor.; under, Iber.; under, after walking, Nitr. sp. d.

Sternum, contraction; peculiar sensation, Agar.

Sternum, contractive pains; in heart trouble, Dig.; after eating hurriedly, Led.

Sternum, cramps; from middle to epigastrium, with vomiting, Iris

Sternum, crawling; downward beneath, with dry cough, Sang.

Sternum cutting: Ang.; worse on inhalation and moving body, Ang.; intermittent, benumbing, frightful, near left side of ensiform cartilage, Verbas.; after lying down at night, ceases when wind passes but returns, Stram.; from middle to right scapula, worse during inspiration, better during motion, Phos.; pain near fourth and fifth ribs, Psor.; under (catarrhal complaints), Petrol. ☞ lancinating, shooting

Sternum, darting; in middle to between shoulders, Kali bi.

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Sternum, deathly feeling; behind ensiform cartilage (cholera), Cup. ac.

Sternum, digging; beneath upper, Cann. s.

Sternum, drawing; towards back, Ind.; tearing in left border to nape of neck and shoulder (angina), Dig.; from lower towards right side to spine, Chel.; gradually drawn towards dorsal vertebræ, causing asthma, Syph.

Sternum, dulness; about middle and deep in, better by pressing and rubbing with hand, cannot keep still, constantly tossing from side to side (nausea of pregnancy), Colch.

Sternum, dull pain; in right side (diarrhœa during climaxis), Rumex

Sternum, excoriation; behind, on coughing or inspiring, Rumex

Sternum, exostoses: Merc. cor.

Sternum, fulness; under, Iber.; soreness under upper third, Gamb.

Sternum, gnawing; behind, causes dyspnœa, Ran. sc.; about midway and deep, better pressing and rubbing with hand, cannot keep still, constantly tossing from side to side (nausea of pregnancy), Colch.

Sternum, grasped; sensation as if (hepatic disorder), Sil.

Sternum, griping; behind, Cact.

Sternum, heat: Bell., Caust., Phos.; under, Cast. ☞ burning

Sternum, heaviness; as though something heavy lay under, on taking deep breath, Cast.; with dull headache, Ailant.; worse on motion or turning body, Eup. perf.; at night, Amm. c.; beneath, towards shoulders, impeding respiration, Bry.; under (catarrh of lungs), Hep.; weight, Amyl.; weight, in angina pectoris, Aur. met.; weight above ensiform cartilage, with empty gone feeling in stomach, Natr. p.; constant sensation of weight in centre of, with heavy dull aching, Sul.; weight under, Acon.

Sternum, irritation; from behind sternum felt through to back, as if whole right side of chest and belly were pressed together, worse on inhalation and on moving body, Ang.; causes cough, Ang., Arg. nit., Cham., Rumex; beneath causes dry cough, Phos.; at middle, causes dry incessant cough, Mang.

Sternum, itching; under, causing dry periodic cough, Con.; behind, causes violent racking paroxysmal cough, Kali bi.; under ensiform cartilage, Sinap.

Sternum, jerking; through lower to back, Chel.

Sternum, lancinating; from middle to dorsal spine when sitting, goes off when rising, Dulc.

Sternum, lump; sensation of a lump or bunch behind, Rumex

Sternum, mucus; hawking much, seemingly from middle, Lith.

Sternum, murmur; upward from each side (aneurism), Spig.

Sternum, nausea; squeamish, in region of, Arg. met.

Sternum, oppression: Eup. perf.; behind, Agar.; behind two borders, along whole length, Agar.; beneath, with nausea and sensation of weakness, Samb.; at night, Amm. c.; in region of, Anac.

Sternum, pain (undefined): Bor., Carbo a., Kreo., Mur. ac.; from upper to back, and crosswise between shoulders, tenderness on pressure, Sul.

behind, Chel., Eup. perf., Lobel. i., Syph.; below, Ast. r., Cepa, Sang.; impedes breathing, Bry.; directly over cardiac region, while yawning, Chel.; in centre, worse from pressure and breathing, Manc.; caused by cough, Bell.; during cough, Bell., Sul.; with cough, Cinch., Coral.; caused by hoarse cough, awaking at midnight (catarrhal fever), Ruta; all day, Zing.; must double up, Calc. s.; dull, on raising head and drawing breath, Jacar.; behind ensiform cartilage, in cholera, Cup. m.; behind ensiform cartilage, with deathly feeling, Cup. m.; running over ensiform cartilage, from seventh rib on right side diagonally through chest to back, Cinnab.; compelling to press hand on, with cough, Bry., Kreo.; heavy beneath, Tereb.; in middle, on deep inspiration, child disposed to convulsions, Bell.; internally, especially on inspiration, Chel.; below to right, in region of pylorus, Cepa; in lower end, Ferr. iod.; under manubrium (pharyngitis), Arg. nit.; behind middle, with cough, Rumex; in middle, sudden to both arms and hands, in angina pectoris, Diosc.; in middle, on or behind, Tell.; in middle, worse from pressure during respiration, Manc.; in middle, worse walking about, Ars. h.; through middle, with cough, Phyt.; through middle to back, with cough, Kali bi.; dull, under middle, Chim. umb.; pit of, to around under heart, corresponding to situation of stomach, after eating (gastric ulcer), Arg. nit.; in middle, when retching (child disposed to convulsions), Bell.; retrosternal, worse or only felt out of doors, after meals, when hurried or going up hill, Jugl.; slight, under, at articulation of third rib, Iber.; severe, behind lower portion of right, Ind.; short, painful to pressure, Ruta; small spot in region of, Puls.; severe, to spinal column, Sticta; sudden, reaches through chest to spinal column, constant, worse by movement, Sticta; spot in second right rib, Bry.; behind, caused by bloating of stomach, Nux m.; with sweat, while walking, Caps.; under, Sil.; under, in angina pectoris, gastralgic form, Agar.; beneath upper, causes cough, Sang.

Sternum, piercing; midway between, and nipple, myalgic surface tender on pressure, Sang.

Sternum, pinching; nipping, from hypochondrium, Calc.

Sternum, pressing sensation: Ars., Ars. h., Astac., Brom., Calc. p., Cop., Gymn., Ictod., Kreo.; above and across, Ars. h.; behind, Nitr. sp. d., Rumex, Syph.; beneath, Coccus, Ferr. iod.; beneath, with nausea and sensation of weakness, Samb.; in region of, worse breathing deeply, Agnus; burning, Ang.; burning, more on exhalation than inhalation, Tarax.; burning, under ensiform cartilage, Sinap.; with catarrh and cough, Ferr.; under, in catarrh of lungs, Hep.; seems to lie too close, breathing oppressed, Cina; as if compressed, difficult breathing, All. sat.; constrictive, near fourth and fifth ribs, Psor.; during cough, into os hyoides, Kali bi.; after drinking, Ver.; after eating, Ver.; in upper, after eating, Zinc.; with feeling of emptiness in chest, Vinca; behind, better sitting erect,

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Kalm.; on sides, especially on expiration, Castor.; as if all food lodged under upper end, oppressing and distressing for hours, Lact. ac.; under, with herpetic dyscrasia, Carb. s.; heavy, in bronchitis, Kreo.; heavy, when turning over in morning, Kreo.; inward, at left edge, Led.; on lower left side, Lobel. i.; at lower, to spine and lower angle of right shoulder blade, Elat.; between mammæ, Lyss.; in middle, Cycl., Phos., Zinc; on middle, increasing during inspiration, Agar.; behind middle, worse morning, evening, and when stooping, Kalm.; painful behind, Tereb.; painful, beneath, Aloe, Phos. ac.; painful, beneath, impedes breathing, Cham.; painful, beneath, especially in forenoon, with transient sticking here and there, Euph.; painful, beneath (hæmoptysis), Sul.; painful, towards epigastrium, Sil.; painful, as though food had lodged behind, Cepa; painful, in middle, Cann. s.; painful, in middle, worse inhaling (incipient tuberculosis), ⁞Agar.; painful, worse when touched, Sars.; painful, worse under (angina pectoris), Phos.; painful in upper part, with short breathing, Phos.; in region of sixth rib, Carbol. ac.; on both sides, Agar.; spasmodic, behind middle of, awoke him at night, extending into bronchi, Chel.; with a counter pressure from spine to sternum, Samb.; stitchlike, while sitting or standing, Euphor.; as from a stone, in lower, Sil.; when stooping, better by deep breathing, Asaf.; under, Acon., Asaf.; under (hyperæmia from stenocardia), Aur. mur.; under, in phthisis pulmonalis, Carbo v.; as if something were being pressed away from under, Kalm.; in upper, as from a load, Camph.; under upper, Syph.; as of a great weight, lying on middle of (cardiac rheumatism), Phos.; when writing, better by deep breathing, Asaf.; in xiphoid cartilage, Agnus, Tarax.; in xiphoid cartilage, as if finger pressed, when swallowing, Asaf.

Sternum, pricking; like pins and needles, with cough with blackish sputa, Kali bi.; under, Jac.

Sternum, quivering; above, Lyss.; around, with a die-away feeling, seems to extend through heart to back, Lyss.

Sternum, rawness; painful, in acute bronchial catarrh, Kali bi.

Sternum, rheumatic pains; better by sweat, Ars. h.

Sternum, roughness: Iod.; under, worse at night (bronchitis), Merc.

Sternum, scraping; behind, with short cough, Cimex; under, causing dry, periodic cough, Con.

Sternum, scratching; under manubrium, causes dry, short cough (pneumonia), Merc.; in middle (whooping cough), Alum.; behind upper part, causes a continued short cough, Cimex

Sternum, sensitive; painful, when pressing it, as from festering under skin, Dros.; painful on pressure beneath clavicle, Cina; lower end sore on pressure, Asim.; to touch, Benz. ac., Osm., Sars.; painful to touch, Castor., Cimex, Ran. sc., Stront.; painful to touch, with cough, Cimex; sore to touch, Cann. s.; xiphoid cartilage, painful to touch, also at circumscribed spots on each side, about size of a fifty-cent piece, two inches below, Ziz.

Sternum, sharp pain; behind, Merc. iod. flav.; in centre, Bapt.; on left side (diarrhœa during climaxis), Rumex; along right edge of, changing to left edge, Med.

Sternum, shooting: Calc. p., Sul.; from centre to armpit and sides of chest below (suppressed syphilis), Kali n.; around to back, Sil.; from centre, around chest, on coughing (pleurisy), Nux v.; from lower to back, Chel.; jerking, left side, sneezing, Calc. a.; sharp pain through to left shoulder blade (heart disease), Lyc. vir.; upward and downward, Osm. ☞ cutting, lancinating

Sternum, soreness: Osm.; beneath, Coccus, Led.; beneath, worse at night (bronchitis), Merc.; behind, Eup. perf., Rumex; as if bruised, at lower end, walking, Cic.; with cough, Oxal. ac.; behind, with catarrhal headache, Rumex; behind, cannot take natural inspiration, or twist body to right or left, Eup. perf.; at lower end, Nitr. ac.; middle to end, Bor.; painful, Calc. p.; painful, behind lower, Lact. ac.; behind, caused by respiration, Rumex; spreads to each side, worse during cough (asthma), Rumex; under upper part, Cann. s.; under upper part (catarrh), Apis ☞ aching, bruised

Sternum, spasmodic pain; in heart trouble, Dig.

Sternum, spasms; from middle to epigastrium, with vomiting, Iris

Sternum, sprained feeling: Rumex

Sternum, sticking; dull, in middle, Zinc; behind, with anxiety, and pressure in chest, amounting to real suffocation, so that deep inspiration was difficult, Phos.; under, with inability to take a deep breath, Tabac.

Sternum, stinging; on taking deep breath, Bor.; with cough, Oxal. ac.

Sternum, stitches: Ang., Ars., Canth., Jacea, Sul., Vinca; single, along, Natr. m.; with backache when walking, Psor.; behind, Inul.; behind, worse end of expiration, Agar.; from deep breathing, Caust.; fine, in centre, Bism.; two dull piercing, in quick succession beneath clavicle, near sternum, during deep inspiration, Cina; with cough, Bry., Petrol., Psor.; with night cough, Bell.; on coughing, must hold with hands, Bry.; severe, extends downward, could with difficulty get his breath, Squilla; dull continuous, Oleand.; dull, beneath, while eating, Zinc; below ensiform cartilage, Stront.; intermittent, dull, needle-like, near left side of ensiform cartilage, Verbas.; fine, Phos. ac.; on inhalation, Bapt.; as of a sharp instrument going through end, during day, Calc. p.; sharp, with fine itching, in upper part, beneath pit of throat, provoke scratching, Staph.; acute, along left margin on inspiring, afternoon, while riding, Rumex; from lifting, Caust.; in middle, Manc.; in middle, at times, on stooping, so severe that he cried out at times, followed by painful pressure, deep internally, extends up into throat, Zinc; severe, sharp, in middle, passing through chest when sitting, Ind.; violent, in middle, extending to shoulders, Kali iod.; between sternum and nipple, Agar.; continual, from within outward, worse motion, Hyper.; pleuritic, from middle towards right side, Lactu. v.; repeated, Gamb.; under, worse during deep breathing and on