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of a plum, between fifth and sixth ribs, right side, below nipple, occasioned by closing of an issue, Sil.; of right, Calc.; of sternal integument, painful (scirrhus), Ast. r.

Outer chest, tumor; hard, painless, near right nipple, size of hazelnut, then fist, scirrhous in character, lancinating pains from breast to axilla, ⁞Ferr. iod.; in right intercostal space, when convalescing from typhoid fever, broke open, discharge first thick, creamy pus mixed with blood, becomes thinner and more offensive, discharge then dirty, fetid, ichorous fluid, swelling hard and blue the surrounding parts, Sil.; right side, between ribs a small lump under skin like cartilage, painful to touch, on breathing, stinging, Calc.; nævus near right nipple (varioloid), Vacc.; osseous growth at angle of eighth right rib, Calc. fl.; right wall, especially around nipple, several, size from pigeon's eggs to hen's eggs, two suppurated, uneven, discolored, fetid ulcers, elevated borders, nipple lay upon hard, painful swelling, Cund.

BACK, abdomen; aching, to hypogastric region (dysmenorrhœa), Tarant.; pain, with laborlike colic, Kali c.; pain, as from incarcerated flatulence, Cochl.; pain to front into genitals (threatened miscarriage), Cham.; pain, extending over, Cimex; pain, down both sides to groins, Petrol.; with puffed, backache, Cimex; wind pressing against, Cupr. s.

Back, aching (backache): All. sat., Ars., Ars. s. f., Aur. mur., Bapt., Bism., Bry., Graph., Ind., Ipec., Kali br., Kalm., Lac c., Lyss., Med., Natr. c., Natr. m., Nux v., Petrol., Puls., Rhus, Sep., Sil., Trill., Vacc.; languid, 4 to 5 P.M., every day, Gels.; into arm, Calc. a.; with urging and burning in anus, Merc. per.; confines him to bed, Ars. s. f.; bilious attacks, Nux v.; as if it would break, Bell.; as if bones were broken in influenza and ague, Eup. perf.; with chilliness, Diosc.; constant for several years, Sul.; constant, dull, scarcely able to walk, rise, or stoop, Æsc. h.; with constipation, Psor.; especially in coccyx, Caust.; all day, Lyss.; with diarrhœa, Casc.; distress, Ptel.; dull, Polyp.; dull, distress in whole dorsal region, Erig.; dull, every morning on waking, Ptel.; in dysentery, Lil. tig.; after eating, Ant. t.; excessive, Psor.; in inflammatory fever, Gels.; with flooding, Bry.; in gleet, Calad.; intense, Eup. perf.; intolerable, Calc.; inwardly along last dorsal and first lumbar vertebræ, Asaf.; in kidney affections, Tereb.; with languor, Polyp.; with laughter, Cann. i.; down left side into hip, Kali bi.; also in legs and knees, Æsc. h.

Outer chest, ulcers: Caust.; acrid, ichorous secretion on ribs, Cund.; on ribs, high, uneven edges, deep, small islets of half-destroyed cellular tissue and muscular fibre at base, Cund.; about a centimetre in diameter on lower part of left, consequent upon an abscess which had never healed, Pæonia; ulcer on last rib, right side, Hep.; on false ribs, as large as hand, carcinomatous in appearance, Cund.; over sternum, Calc. p.

Outer chest, veins; of left up to throat dilated, Lach.

Outer chest, warts; on small sternum, Nitr. ac.; wart, size of a split horse bean, since proving Cundurango several years since (improved), Aur. met.

Outer chest, yellow: Chel., Thuya

in functional derangement of liver, Sep.; worse in lumbar region, extends around waist, Vacc.; in lower part, Clem.; worse lying in bed late (nervous debility), Curar.; during menses, Inul.; with threatened miscarriage, Vib.; for one hour in morning, Ptel.; in muscles of both sides, Calc.; with nausea, after suppressed itch, Psor.; especially at night (prolapsus uteri), Arg. nit.; worse at night, Amm. m.; pressing, at lower border of scapula, Rumex; better from pressure and lying on back, Natr. m.; violent, wants back pressed, Kali c.; aching, worse from pressure, Verbas.; after scarlatina (diphtheria), Lyc.; from scapulæ, down back or kidneys, Rumex; between shoulders, Ailant.; between shoulders, with soreness all over or in centre of chest, Ol. jec.; between shoulders, extends into left lung, worse on expiration, Sep.; between shoulders and sacrum, Calc. a.; and in sides, Kali bi.; must sit up or turn in bed, Nux v.; better sitting, but too weak to sit long, better by cloths dipped in warm milk, Ars. h.; worse sitting or lying, mostly morning, when awaking, Berb.; preventing sleep, Diad.; with sleeplessness, Lact. ac.; in smallpox, Ant. c.; length of spine, Lact. ac.; with stitches in sternum, Psor.; after stooping, Bov.; worse stooping, from walking and after coffee, Cham.; better straightening out and bending backward, Æthus.; after supper, Agar.; tired, lower part, with restlessness, Calc. fl.; along top of right trapezius, after dislocation, Phyt.; in prolapsus uteri, Aloe; violent

Ind., Inul., Lyss.; while walking, feels as if she could lie down on street to obtain rest and relief, Kali c.; when walking, with stitches in sternum, Psor.; violent, after walking, Natr. c.; as from weakness, better sitting and leaning against something, Zing.; cannot work, Asaf.; after hard work (rheumatism), Ars. ☞ bruised feeling, dull pain, pain

Back, air; diseases brought on by exposure to draught, Sil.

Back, bearing down: ☞ pressive

Back, beaten: ☞ bruised feeling

Back, biting: Agar.; with chilliness, Lyc.

Back, boils: Phyt., Thuya; bloodboils, Caust., Graph., Sul. ac., Thuya; small bloodboils, Iris; bloodboil on right, near spine, Kali bi.; half an inch in diameter, near spine, with violent burning, throbbing pain, Lach.; small suppurating, often leave scars, Kali iod.

Back, boring: Bism., Coccul.; aching, Ham.

Back, as if breaking: Alum., Kali c., Natr. m., Variol.; aching, as if bones were broken (intermittent fever), Eup. perf.; and hips (hemorrhoids), Æsc. h.; better lying on hard floor or with pillow under back, Rhus; at night, in bed, Ferr. iod.; in dysmenorrhœa, Xan.; in hemorrhoids, Bell.; at night, Magn. c.; with nephritic retinitis, Kalm.; before stool, Nux v.

Back, bruised feeling: Arn., Asar., Cornus, Eup. perf., Lyss., Merc., Nux v., Rhus, Ruta, Sabad.; on awaking, Grat.; as if beaten, Agar., Alum., Ang., Arn., Berb., Rhus, Zinc.; as if beaten on motion, Stram.; as if beaten, with stitches, Natr. m.; as from a blow or fall, Ruta; with colic, awakes her at 2 A.M., better lying on side, Natr. s.; lower dorsal region, especially left, Apis; with thick leucorrhœa, Magn. s.; while lying still in bed, better rising and walking about, Puls.; in morning, Calad., Dros.; worse at 3 or 4 A.M., Nux v.; in muscles, Cham.; tired, in muscles, from points of scapulæ to ilium on each side of spine, better from pressure, Vib.; at night, Natr. c.; pressive, early on rising, worse turning trunk and standing, better walking, Thuya; as if pounded all over, with prostration, Phyt.; during rest, Kali c.; in region of short ribs, Ran. b.; early on rising, better from motion, Ratan.; between shoulders, Acon., Ars.; with stitches, Natr. m.; after prolonged stooping, while straightening, Natr. m.; worse stooping and when touched, Stront.; cannot straighten, Psor.; above and in small of, with sensitiveness of parts to touch, also during menses, Magn. m.; upper part, as if beaten (headache), Anac.; violent, while walking in open air, with weakness, Zinc. ☞ aching, soreness

Back, bubbling sensation; muscles, Petrosel.

Back, burning: Agar., Ant. t., Apis, Ars., Aur. mur., Bar. c., Berb., Bism., Chel., Como., Daph., Kali c., Kreo., Nux v.; in afternoon, pain as if in posterior wall of stomach, Lobel. i.; accompanies and follows stinging, almost itching in left chest, below nipple, Rumex; after coition, Magn. m.; constant (gastric disorder), Atrop. s.; drawing, Zinc.; along, beginning at coccyx as if under skin, Mur. ac.; after emission (spermatorrhœa), Merc.; with congestive headache, Glon.

while lying quietly on it (ovaritis), Ars.; near last ribs, right side, like heartburn, Lyss.; mostly between lower half of scapulæ, Helon.; between shoulders, in cerebrospinal meningitis, Lyc.; between shoulders, with irritable spine, Phos. ac.; between shoulders, with weak, gone feeling, Phos.; pain in small spots, Zinc.; in skin, as if he were sitting by a hot stove, Dulc.; superficial about middle of dorsal spine, Chrom. ac.; while walking in open air and becoming warm, Sil.; in women, Pic. ac. ☞ heat

Back, carbuncle; interscapular anthrax, with severe burning pain, cannot sleep, Tarant.; in left side, extending from upper border of scapula downward about six inches, surrounded by small pustules, pus offensive and scanty, pain deprives of sleep, Hep.; dorsal region to right of spine, six inches in diameter, with rigors, nocturnal sweat, fever and prostration (after bite of a cat), Lach.; nine inches long, five at greatest breadth, sloughing discharge of ichorous, terribly smelling pus, blood-poisoning by absorption of pus (pyæmia), Anthrac.

Back, catching pain; with gasping, Petrol.

Back, chest; stitching through, during inspiration, Berb.

Back, chill: Ant. c., Aph. ch., Asim., Bell., Berb., Calend., Carbo v., Cepa, Cham., Dig., Kalm., Led., Spong.; to arms, Calc. a.; begins, in intermittent, Caps.; begins, in evening, Puls.; as from an icy cold, wet handkerchief, extends to hips, Berb.; crawls from 10 A.M. to 2 P.M., Chlor.; cold creeps, evening and night, Ars., Thuya; creeps, running up, Gels.; creeps, ascending, when they reached neck a general shudder ensued, Merc. sul.; cold creeps, evening and night, Puls.; currents of cold air down, Coff.; in delirium tremens, Stram.; in evening, in diphtheria, Bapt.; runs down, Bell., Chel., Coff., Colch., Croc., Lobel. i., Samb., Staph., Vacc.; runs down, in dysentery, Colch.; runs down, in evening, Coccul.; chase each other down, after running pin into foot, Hyper.; in evening, Rhus, Stann.; feverish, Guaiac.; fugitive, Cinch.; across lower part, beginning in spine just above sacrum, Oxal. ac.; 8.30 to 9 A.M., Asaf.; pain before and during, Eup. perf.; pain during, Ign.; pain during, and when coming in contact with bed (ague), Samb.; rigor and formication, with heat of head and face, in forenoon (chronic bronchial catarrh), Puls.; shiverings, worse in afternoon, Asaf.; shivering after nervous attack, Calc.; shivering during stool, Tromb.; shivering, worse in evening, in bed, Sang.; shivering, with glowing cheeks and cold hands, Euph.; shivering, in quotidian ague, Sep.; shivering, extending into hypochondria and especially into anterior portion of arms and thighs, with coldness of limbs and a feeling as if they would fall asleep about 4 P.M., Puls.; shivering, with warm feet, Kali m.; shivering, better from warmth of stove, Niccol.; shivering, with external heat after lying down, Coff.; shivering, with internal chill, afternoons and evenings, Coccul.; begins across shoulders, Lach.; creeps along between scapulæ, Lac def.; commencing between shoulder-blades, Polyp.; shuddering, Cast., Guaiac.

Spong.; shuddering, in albuminuria, Calc. a.; shuddering, in evening, Ars. h.; shuddering, in evening, in scarlet fever, Dulc.; shuddering, with heat in face, and chest symptoms, Seneg.; shuddering, into feet and arms, Calc. a.; while sitting by a fire in forenoon, Bapt.; shuddering in cephalalgia periostitica, Mez.; shuddering, over single parts, Ars. h.; shuddering, with spasm of sphincter during or independent of stool, Colch.; shuddering, before vomiting, Raph.; spreads from, Arg. met.; during stool, Tromb.; like streams of ice water running down between scapulæ and to sacral region, Variol.; run up, Amm. m., Eup. perf., Gels., Puls., Sul.; run up, in whooping cough, Cepa; run up, in intermittent fever, Gels.; run up to head, Lach.; run up, from movement (diphtheria), Sul.; run up, with chattering of teeth and shaking, Natr. s.; run up, even when warm in a warm room, Rhus v.; run up and down, Med.; run up and down, then fever with drowsiness, Gels.; run up and down, with thirst (ague), Ipec.; walking up and down room, Ang.; as if cold water were running down, leaning back in chair, Agar.; run down like streams of cold water, causing shivering and chattering of teeth, at commencement of fever, Variol.; as from cold water, evening in bed, Berb.; zigzag, running down, Med. ☞ chilliness, coldness

Back, chilliness: Ang., Camph., Cham., Crot. t., Dig., Dulc., Ham., Lept., Natr. m., Nitr. sp. d., Puls., Raph., Sec., Spong.; in afternoon, Guaiac., Stram.; as if cool air were blowing, Benz. ac., Camph.; at 3 P.M., worse in evening after lying down, lasting a quarter of an hour, with cold feet, Lyc.; in open air, especially in draught, Dulc.; in anæmia of brain, Con.; down, Bry., πCean., Cepa, Gels., Sil.; down, when changing position ever so little, Eup. pur.; down, in immediate region of spine, in damp weather (posterior spinal sclerosis), Pic. ac.; after eating, in chronic hepatitis, Sil.; every evening, Dulc.; in evening, after a severe cold (perimyelitis), Sep.; in evening, for an hour, with subsequent heat, Sul.; in evening, after lying down, Nux v.; with dry heat in evening, after lying down, Coff.; with heat of face, Sul.; with heat of face and head, Jatroph., Nitr. sp. d.; with stitches in forehead, Sil.; with cold hands and blue nails, Con.; as if a piece of ice were lying between shoulders, gooseflesh all over, Lachn.; in influenza, in morning, with painfulness of skin, as if it had been frozen, Nux v.; when pain abates, Ascl. s.; spreading from, Dulc.; and trembling, as if cold water were poured down, Stram.; in tuberculous consumption, Spong.; chilliness in upper, worse at night and in cold air, Stront.; extending up, Æsc. h.; running up, with yawning and depression of spirits, Merc. sul.; running up and down, Aph. ch.; seeks a warm place, Kali bi.; like cold water, Stram.; as if cold water were poured down, Puls., Zinc.; as if cold water were dropping down, during chill, in intermittent, Caps.; as if cold water were poured down, with headache, Alum.; as if cold water were spurted upon, at 6 P.M., Lyc. ☞ chill, coldness, crawling

Back, coldness: Brach., Cact., Calc., Camph., Croc., Elaps, Lac def., Lactu. v., Op., Sec., Sul., Ver.

with chill, in evening, Mur. ac.; sensation, in intermittent fever subjective, Ars.; at night, Arum t.; coldness between shoulders, followed by general coldness, convulsive twitchings of right side and difficult respiration, Sep.; between shoulders, not better by feather or wool covering, followed by itching (pulmonary affections), Amm. m.; transient, Sul.

Back, constriction: Guaræa; painful, Cham.; painful dorsal muscles while sitting, better bending back, worse bending forward, Rhus; painful, as if in muscles (myelitis), Dulc.; in phthisis, Cetrar.

Back, contraction; as if it would contract backward, Brach.; with coldness, griping and sore feeling, Con.; cramplike, Mez.; muscles, Brach.; muscles, drawing head back on shoulders (cerebrospinal disease), Ver. v.; painful, Graph.

Back, cough: ☞ Chap. 27, During cough, back

Back, cramp: Lyss.; in brain affection, Hell.; in hypochondriasis, Arg. nit.; cramplike pain, Euph.; between shoulders, while walking, Calad.

Back, crawling (creeping): Agar., Ars. h., Ars. m., Berb., Calend., Cepa, Cham.; afternoon, Asaf.; gentle creeping, as if soft air were blowing through it, Sec.; slight, after drinking (intermittent), Ars.; in morning, Ars. met.; in evening, Lyc.; as of fleas, Pallad.; creeps and flushes run up (meningitis), Gels.; as of a mouse running up, before a fit, Sul.; on parts, Ars. h.; in smallpox, Variol.; upward, Ang.; up and down, Crotal.

Back, crick: ⁞Calc. p., Ferr. ph.; sacrum to nape of neck, Agar.; caused by sudden strain when lifting, worse on first attempt to move, better by continued motion, hurts in riding, or from a jar or misstep, Sep. ☞ stitches, and other acute sensations

Back, cutting: Arg. nit., Aur. mur., Calc. p., Eup. pur., Gels., Guaræa, Natr. m.; running up, with constriction of arms, Coloc. ☞ lancinating, stabbing, stitches

Back, decubitus: Merc. cor.

Back, in diphtheria; aching, Lyc., Phyt.; peculiar hard ache, Lach.

Back, distress; across, Lac def.

Back, dragging; as before menses, followed by slight show, †Canth.

Back, drawing: Ast. r., Cham., Cinch., Crotal., Lyss., Nux v., Op.; dull aching between shoulders at 6 P.M., Zing.; as far as arms, in paroxysms, and terminating in a stitch when sitting or lying, Natr. c.; worse awaking, Calc. p.; backward (functional disturbance of heart), Lil. tig.; burning, during sleep, in morning, Zinc.; down (angina), Merc.; before leprous eruption, Ant. t.; worse in evening and morning, Calc. p.; with gaping, stretching and bending backward, Calc. p.; to hips, with urging to urinate, Lach.; with lassitude, on exercising in open air, Tereb.; in liver affections (hepatic typhus), Chel.; worse on motion, Colch.; in muscles, Card. m., Chel.; pain extending towards scapulæ, with nausea, Puls.; into neck, with headache in right hemisphere of brain (chronic catarrh), Sang.; painful, Caps., Coccul., Lyc.; painful, then fatigue

Card. m.; painful, in paralytic rheumatism, Phos.; painful, on right side, from shoulder blade to lumbar region, changing locality, Card. m.; pulling, after sexual excess, Ars.; rheumatic, worse stooping, Carbo v.; following course of left rhomboid muscle, Ind.; between scapulæ, Puls.; sharp, Natr. m.; as if too short to allow stooping, Calab.; between shoulders, during menses, Sil.; when sitting, Carbo v.; while sitting, in evening, Tereb.; when sitting, better on motion, Bry.; spasmodic, from behind, into genitals and into thigh (cancer uteri), Kreo.; twisting pain, as if stomach were tightly drawn against spine, Ver. v.; painful, after stool, Caps.; pain, had to go to stool, Zing.; extends to hips, with urging to urinate, Lach.

Back, dull pain: Crotal., Hydras., Ind.; in dysentery, Cub.; constant, three or four times an hour (ovaritis), Ustil.; on each side, above innominata, running into rectum, worse in wet weather, Aloe; worse, deep inspirations, Cup. ars.; on each side, about six inches above kidneys, to chest, Ferr. iod.; a little lower down than inferior angle of right scapula, but nearer the spine (hemicrania, asthma), Chen. a.; in prolapsus uteri, Pod. ☞ aching, soreness

Back, ears; pains ascending to occiput, affecting ears, Gels.

Back, eating; pain after, Kali c.

Back, emaciation: Tabac.; muscles wasted, Calc.

Back, eructation; pain, relieved by, belching, Sep.

Back, eruption: Stram.; aching like a sore, Bry.; red blotches, Ascl. t.; eczema capitis, Sil.; hivelike elevation, Lact. ac.; herpes zoster, like a girdle around abdomen, Merc.; unbearable pains, in herpes zoster, from external application of Rhus, Lach.; irritation, then rash, Calc.; itching violently, Bry.; itching acne, Carbo v.; itchlike, Psor.; maculæ (secondary syphilis), Syph.; miliary spots, Sumb.; white miliaria in typhoid, Val.; moist, burning, itching, eats into surrounding parts, large vesicles filled with clear serum form, become turbid, burst and become confluent, Rhus; pimples, Dig., Hyper.; red pimples, Phos. ac.; small pimples, Kali c.; small, dry, red pimples, Iod.; small red pimples (incipient phthisis), Rumex; patches of psoriasis, size of a crown piece, and indolent, Kali ars.; pustules, Bell.; dark red pustules, Chim. umb.; pustules, in leucorrhœa, Aur. mur. nat.; pustules, size of a pea to a five-cent piece, Lach.; pustules, contain thin, yellow pus (stomatitis), Sul.; rash, Psor.; itching rash, always worse and gnawing, after scratching and sticking, as from needles, Mez.; red rash, with sweat after dulness of senses and anxiety, Stram.; red, Tabac.; scurf like fish scales, Mez.; secondary, dark blotches in scarlatina, Lyc.; flushing, rash like scarlatina simplex, bright red, disappears on pressure, returns immediately after removal of pressure, Stram.; spots from which scurf comes off "like fish scales," when scratched (pityriasis capitis), Mez.; spots like ringworms, All. sat.; aching, after suppressed, Psor.; of vesicles, itch in evening, Kali c.; vesicular, Sep.; vesicular, becoming pustular, itching in evening, Iris

like zoster, Cist.

Back, erysipelatous; broad belt of erysipelatous inflammation across from point of right shoulder to upper part of left arm, Apis

Back, faint feeling; while standing, Sep.

Back, feet; ache extending to feet, Bor.

Back, fever; aching before and after chill, Diad., Pod.; aching with chill, Ant. t.; aching, with chill, 9 A.M. to 3 P.M. (ague), Ipec.; aching, in intermittent, Cham.; pain, during chill, Ign., Lact. ac.; pain, during heat (intermittent), Caps.; with sleepiness and weakness during day, Cornus; pain causes fever, πCarbo a.; pains in intermittent, Gels., Polyp.; pain before and after chill, in intermittent, Diad.; excruciating pain in intermittent, Caps.; violent pains, in intermittent, Sul.; violent pains, in relapse of intermittent, Ars.; fever, from lower part upward and through whole body, with drowsiness, 6 to 8 P.M., Kali iod.; aching, in prodroma, Ipec.; violent pain, in typhoid, Ver. v.; pain in yellow, Sul. ☞ burning, fever

Back, flesh; sensation as if flesh were loose on lower part, Lyc.

Back, fluttering; creeping sensation between shoulders, Cup. ac.

Back, formication: Phos. ac.; to legs, Phos.; worse in rest and during rough weather, Rhod.; tingling, Natr. c.

Back, fulness; after eating, Cham.

Back, gimlet; pain like, running into spine, Lyc.

Back, gnawing; painful, Alum., Amm. c.; below shoulder blades, Agar.; while walking, Canth.

Back, hammer; sudden pain as if struck, when stooping, better pressing against something hard, Sep.

Back, head; dull aching to occiput, Gels.; aching with dulness of head, Calc.; pain, to crown of head (convalescence from yellow fever), Calc.; pain, with heaviness in head, Gamb.; pain starting up from back into head, as if something were working at top of head, with a sense of screwing from behind forward, Plumb.

Back, headache; backache with, Cina, Kali c.; aching, with sick, Phyt.

Back, heart; pain, caused by audible beating of heart (arthritic rheumatism), Spig.

Back, heat: Glon., Nitr. sp. d., Ver. v.; with aching, Agar.; burning, Dulc.; burning, in locomotor ataxia, Phos.; flashes, Acon., Coca, Merc. per.; flashes, down, Coff.; flashes running up, after stool, Pod.; sudden flashes, Mang.; flashes in floods from (heart affection), Sumb.; flashes up, after stool, Pod.; glow after chilliness, Ars. h.; pain, as if a hot iron were thrust through lower vertebræ, Alum.; in lower part, Berb.; extending up, in stricture of œsophagus, Phos.; prickly heat, Apis; runs up, Hyos.; between shoulders, follows sensation as if she were going to faint, Med.; between shoulder into limbs, Camph.; under shoulder blades, πElat.; cannot tolerate any heat near, hot sponge on back causes him to wince (caries of vertebræ), Phos.; intense, running up, Phos.; running up, with menses, Phos.; worse, warm sensation passes up into head, Sarrac.; warmth ascending neck

after crackling in occiput, Calc.; warmth, better by expulsion of wind, Berb.; sensation as if hot water were creeping through, from below upward, Nitr. sp. d. ☞ burning

Back, heaviness; as if she had lain in a wrong position, Sep.; lower part feels heavy, Zing.; in morning, awaking as if she could not turn or raise herself, Sep.; pain in muscles, Chrom. ac.; a pain or ache in and between both shoulders, lasting two hours, Lyss.; painful, Hydras.; heavy feeling of, worse at rest and rough weather, Rhod.; as if a load were hanging between scapulæ, Carb. s.; almost as if gone to sleep, Sep.; with soreness of muscles and joints, Pic. ac.; weight, Hel.; weight, with dyspnœa, Natr. m.; pain, as from a weight, during menses, Kali c.; weight in, from womb and ovaries (uterine polypi), Con.; better by expulsion of wind, Berb.

Back, hemorrhoids; with pains (gleet), Sul.

Back, hypertrophied; scaleni muscles, Sars.

Back, injury; bruises and falls, Arn.; acute pain, after a fall, in dorsal region, Arg. nit.; sprained, Rhus; feeling as if wrenched, Calc.

Back, itching: Ant. c., Ascl. t., Carbol. ac., Caust., Cist., Daph., Nitr. ac., Sep., Sil., Spong., Therid.; biting when she feels cold, rubbing makes spot red and vesicles arise, soon vanishing again, Spong.; with chilliness, Lyc.; corrosive (by day), Guaiac.; as from flea bites, Thuya; fulness, Aloe; as from crawling insects, worse evenings on going to bed, Osm.; in muscles, πCup. m.; at night, Ailant.; nocturnal, better by scratching, but immediately returning on some other place, Mez.; better by scratching, but soon appears in a place near the spot, Pallad.; skin, as if he had worn a stout, woolen, flannel shirt, Ferr. s.; spots, Zinc.; in tarsal tumors, Zinc.; when undressing, Natr. s.

Back, jerking; like electric shocks, Ang.; painful, Calc. p.; painful, with inhalation, Calc. p.; in muscles, between shoulders, better moving shoulders up and down (irritability of cerebrospinal system), Ran. b.; with vertigo, Diad.

Back, labor; backache after, Hyper.; during, complains of, Chlorof.; laborlike pain, during menses, Cycl.; pains, worse in back, Nux v.

Back, lacerating: Coccul., Nux v., Op.

Back, lameness: Berb., Fluor. ac., Hyper., Zing.; with soreness in lower abdomen (prolapsus uteri), Lyss.; in albuminuria, Nux v.; across sacro-iliac articulations, worse walking (leucorrhœa), Æsc. h.; nocturnal emissions, as after physical exertion, Vib.; in hemorrhoids, Æsc. g.; in region of liver so lame it is almost impossible to turn in bed, better by motion, Diosc.; lower part, from walking or standing, Zing.; worse from motion, better in rest, Cup. ars.; with nausea, Cup. ars.; evening, in bed, Kalm.; cannot sit up without support, Diosc.; stiff feeling, Cup. m.; with stitches, Natr. m.; worse walking (prolapsus uteri), Æsc. h.; a kind of, after walking, Zing. ☞ numbness

Back, laming pain: Cinch.

Back, lancinating; with constriction of anus during stool, Coloc.; rhomboid muscle, following course of left, Indig.; running up, with constriction of anus, Coloc.; from womb and ovaries (uterine polypi), Con. ☞ cutting, stabbing, stitches

Back, legs; backache, extends into, Calc. a.; languid aching down (incipient typhoid), Gels.; pain through to knees (vicarious menses), Dig.; shooting down outside of left thigh, sometimes down sciatic nerve, on first moving, or rising after sitting (sciatic rheumatism), Ruta; pain into, Camph.; frequent pains, extending down into feet, Sep.; tearing to, Phos.; pain, extending into thighs, Lyc.; severe pain, down thighs through hips, Act. rac.; acute pain, gradually extending down thighs with great torture, seeks relief in change of position, Oxal. ac.; backache with weariness in, Brach.

Back, leucorrhœa; with backache, Mur. ac., Puls.; with backache, alternating with catarrh, Kali c.; with pains, Lyss.

Back, limbs; pain, at same time, Ipec.; tearing with backache (typhoid fever), Rhus

Back, liver; pain, from congestion, Lyc.

Back, lying on: Apis; on back or side only possible (affection of liver), Magn. m.; can lie best on, Lyc.; aching worse in horizontal position, Rhus; as if on a board, changes position, bed feels so hard, worse sacral region (typhus), Bapt.; cannot, on account of rush of blood to head (nightmare), Sul.; cannot lie for any length of time, Hyper.; aggravates cough, Eup. perf.; with closed eyes, Stram.; with open, staring eyes (apoplexy), Stram.; in gastric nervous fever, Lach.; desires to lie upon, with head elevated, Lyc.; prefers to lie on, with head low, Dig.; inclination to lie on (tuberculosis), Ferr. iod.; with knees drawn up (Potts' disease), Merc. cor.; with one leg stretched and other drawn up (pregnancy), Stan.; with legs drawn up (typhoid), Hell.; legs turned on stomach (typhoid), Puls.; with limbs flexed, Tarant.; with mouth open (malignant scarlatina), Lach.; finds himself in night lying on, Sul.; something hard relieves pain, Natr. m.; pain at night allowing to lie only on abdomen, worse coughing, Nitr. ac.; does not stir, pain worse at each motion (pneumonia), Zinc.; could not lie upon, or either side, Glon.; pain, particularly in places upon which she must lie, Ferr.; in pneumonia, Puls.; in bilateral croupous pneumonia, Kali iod.; relieves all symptoms (catarrh of bladder), Uva ursi; impossible, in cardiac rheumatism, Phos.; if moved to side, rolls on to back (typhoid), Lach.; not able to turn (spinal curvature), Cic.; in typhoid, Zinc

Back, menses; aching before, Brom., Caust., Gels.; aching, every two weeks, Cann. i.; aching, two days before, heavy, with sharp pain across abdomen from hip to hip, followed by expulsive pains, pain diminishes as flow commences, and stops with it, Ustil.; aching, during, Aloe, Calc. p., Graph., Ign.; aching, when walking, during, Kali c.; aching, after, Calc. p.; bearing down, during, Pod.; pain, as if broken, during, Phos.; burning, before, Kreo.; cramp, after, Bor.; cutting, in small of, during too early, Ol. an.; griping, during, Calc.; pains, as if coming on, Coccul.; pains, as if coming on, worse early evening and in close room, better in open air and moving

about, Vib.; pain, before, Bar. c., Berb., Hydras., Lyc., Puls., Spong.; pain laborlike, before, Dig.; pains, before, commence in and go around, ending in cramps in uterus, Vib.; pains, before, scanty and irregular (cardialgia), Zinc.; pain, during, Bell., Caust., Croc., Crotal., Hydras., Iod., Kalm., Thuya; pain, during, in anæmia, Sul.; pain, during, in asthenopia, Sep.; dreadful pain, during, Sars.; pains, like labor pains, during, Agar., Calc., Nitr. ac., Sul.; pain, during, on rising in morning, she was unable to move during, Lyc.; pain, during, in prolapsus uteri, Amm. m.; pains, with profuse, five months after delivery (menorrhagia), Sabina; pain, with scanty, Lac def.; pain, from suppressed, Puls.; pain, every few minutes (dysmenorrhœa), Ustil.; pain, during, worse when walking, Magn. m.; pressing from within outward, during delivery, Nux m.; tearing, during, Caust.; weakness, during, Lyss. ☞ Lumbar region menses

Back, metastasis; pains from other parts, Sep.

Back, nausea; aching with, and tenesmus, Manc.; aching causes, while standing, Sep.

Back, neck; pain extending into, with tension, Coloc.

Back, neuralgia: Cornus; from below upward, most on left side, Eup. pur.; constant, night and day, Zinc.; to right hip, Pallad.; between shoulders (angina pectoris), Sabad.; acute, boring, darting, Magn. p.; with tenderness of spinal column, Ran. sc.; extends to thoracic and abdominal walls (spinal curvature after a fall), Sul.; running up, particularly left side, Nitr. ac.

Back, numbness; as if broken or bruised, Oxal. ac.; in chorea, Agar.; causing cold sensation (angina pectoris), Oxal. ac.; as if dead, Sil.; in intermittent fever, Coccul.; in side on which he has been lying, after siesta, Calc.; sensory nerves as if paralyzed and numb, similar to pain in tooth when nerve is dying, Calab.; with uneasiness, Calc. p.; better by expulsion of wind, Berb. ☞ lameness, tingling

Back, œsophagus; pain in a spot corresponding with about centre, worse eating and drinking, food refuses to go further when it reaches this spot, can take only fluids (œsophagitis), Rhus

Back, pain (undefined): Apis, Bism., Brach., Cain., Carbo a., Chrom. ac., Dory., Euphor., Form., Gels., Gymn., Hydras., Hyper., Ign., Kali c., Kalm., Merc. cor., Murex, Nitr. ac., Nitr. sp. d., Ol. jec., Phos., Puls., Senecio, Stram., Sul., Tarant., Ver., Zinc., Zing.; towards abdomen, Cann. s.; in threatened abortion, Caulo.; awakes with, Myr. cer.; gets out of bed at 4 A.M., better from rising, and walking about (pregnancy), Nux v.; makes him bend backward, with heat, evening, disappearing in morning, Jamb.; especially on bending backward, or after short walk, with nausea and weariness, Con.; at times better bending forward, at others bending back, better from hard pressure, Plumb.; prevents deep breathing, πCarbo a.; with burning and general heat, Kalm.; in chronic cardialgia, Sul.; with chilliness, Elaps

with internal chilliness (puerperal fever), Plat.; from cold air, and after taking cold, Dulc.; after taking cold (cystitis), Sars.; after catching cold, in nervous ailment, Magn. p.; constant, down, Sep.; constant, with cold limbs, Pallad.; constant, worse when lying (enlargement of liver), Ferr.; on coughing, ascending stairs, stepping hard, jumping, πCarbo a.; with abdominal cramps and throbbing headache before menses, Lach.; all day, Camph.; deep seated, Sarrac.; in diabetes, Phos. ac.; with diarrhœa, Amm. m.; after dinner, Agar.; in dysentery, Arn.; worse in evening, Naja; in evening, on entering warm room, thirst, Gels.; periodical pains, in evening and in warm room, better cool open air, Kali s.; as after excessive exertion, Chel.; in intermittent fever, during apyrexia, Ign.; before or after ague, Gels.; in typhoid fever, Ign.; extending to front and down (prolapsus), Arg. met.; to groins and down limbs, Plat.; with hæmoptysis, Dig.; unusual, in chronic passive hemorrhage from kidneys, Tereb.; with uterine hemorrhages, Trill.; now here now there, Zinc.; to right hip, Pallad.; with ill humor and lassitude, Ran. b.; in influenza, Eup. perf., Euphor.; in inspiration, Inul.; intense, Staph.; intolerable, Ign.; depending upon spinal irritation, Ran. b.; with kidney disorders, Ipom.; with severe pain in left kidney (renal calculus), Ipom.; region of kidneys, worse after urinating (secondary syphilis), Syph.; with lameness, Helon., Meph.; with lame feeling, in diabetes, Helon.; in locomotor ataxia, Arg. nit.; all over, to loins, worse drawing a long breath, Cinnab.; in lower, Calc. s.; in lower, with cough, Calc.; in lower, all night, Lact. ac.; in lower, to uterus, piercing drawing, Helon.; to front of both lungs, Diosc.; when her violent paroxysms were off, in puerperal mania, Plat.; after meals, Daph.; during menses, Helon.; in mental derangement, Brom.; in morning, Calc. p.; worse at 4 A.M. and 4 P.M., Nux v.; does not allow him to move or stand, Petrol.; worse from motion, better in rest (chronic otitis media), Natr. c.; on moving, Cupr. s.; worse from slightest motion, after a cold (perimyelitis), Sep.; on motion, in rheumatism of muscles of thorax and back, Kalm.; with loss of muscular power (constipation), Amb.; in upper, in morning, Zinc.; in muscles, Lach.; from nape to sacrum, Chel.; with nausea and anxiety, Bell.; with ciliary neuralgia with acute conjunctivitis, Tereb.; at night, Agar., Arg. nit., πCarbo a., Natr. m.; worse at night, Helon., Syph.; at night, worse lying, Kreo.; while nursing, Sil.; occasional, after vaccination, Thuya; constant, with pain through ovarian region, worse in left (displacement of uterus), Sep.; returning periodically about midnight and extending into head (spinal irritation), Chin. s.; did not permit her to lie, stand or sit quiet, must change position, Lach.; as if all power were going and back were turning to pulp, Colch.; with ptyalism pain, Cinnam.; to pubes, in constipation, Sabina; worse during rest, Nux m.; with restlessness, with yawning and stretching of arms and legs, Lach.; in right rhomboid muscle, when sewing or exer-

cising, and in damp weather, Natr. c.; under short ribs, worse from motion and deep inspiration, Lobel. c.; unable to ride in a carriage, Ustil.; in right side, Cp.; in right side, before sneezing, Anag.; in right side, while breathing, Brach.; in right side, with pain in occiput (hepatitis), Chel.; in right side, between tenth dorsal vertebra and side, Benz. ac.; in middle, right side of spinal column, worse sitting, Chen. v.; goes from right to left, shoots down legs, Lobel. c.; better by quick, hard rubbing with hand, Puls.; between scapulæ, Med.; into shoulder blade, Anag.; in left scapula, Gels.; under scapulæ, Elat.; under scapulæ, worse mornings, Apis; after rising from seat, Canth.; with sensitiveness of affected spot by leaning on it in afternoon, better after rubbing, Plumb.; severe, Sil., Tereb.; worse from sewing, Sec.; shifting, worse drawing a long breath, Sang.; below right shoulder, towards spine, after long sitting, Cepa; across between shoulders and waist, at 2 P.M., Lyss.; between shoulders, πCarbo v., Con., Eup. perf., Ferr., Kob., Nux m., Syph., Therid.; between shoulders, in angina pectoris, Tabac.; between shoulders, with cough, Calc.; between shoulders, pain during fever at night, Rhus; between shoulders, in hæmoptysis, Ferr.; itching between shoulders, Gamb.; between shoulders, and lower down in back, Calab.; between shoulders, in morning, Pod.; between shoulders, worse by movement or exertion (cerebrospinal pains), Oxal. ac.; between shoulders, to sacrum, Zinc.; after sitting or from long stooping, Puls.; returns after sitting awhile, Cup. ars.; especially while sitting, with violent dry coryza all day, Zinc.; along spine, Iodof.; especially near spine, Lyc.; terrible on right side of spine, Variol.; small spot, low down, Lach.; as after continual stooping, Agar.; in left side, as after stooping too long, Bism.; with sweat, Cornus; in syphilis, Lyc.; in edge of trapezius at occipital and clavicular insertions, flabby weak feeling, Lact. ac.; with tympanitis (typhoid), Colch.; in upper part, Naja; upward, Eup. pur.; in uterine disease, Calc. p.; with elongated uvula, Lac c.; with irritation of vagina, Helon.; violent, in influenza, Chel.; torture, on crossing ferry soon after eating, from noise which water made, Lyss.; with weakness, Calab.; with weakness of knees and legs, Nux m.; with attacks of paralytic weakness, Coccul.

Back, paralysis; of muscles to neck, Cup. m.; difficulty of moving, with paresis of limbs and numbness, in consequence of a wetting, Rhus ☞ Spine, paralysis

Back, piercing; only during rest, Natr. s.

Back, pinching; over spine, directly behind epigastrium, Ferr. iod.; in middle, Cann. s.; in small spots, Zinc

Back, pregnancy: ☞ Chap. 24, Pregnancy, back

Back, pressing: Berb., Kali c.; forcing asunder feeling, with pain in stomach through to back (biliary obstruction), Sul.; bearing down, Kali c., Vib.; bearing down, in paroxysms (labor), Sep.; bearing down, in uterine hemorrhage, Ham.; as if bones would be pressed asunder, relieved by expulsion of wind, Berb.

cramplike, under right shoulder blade, Lyss.; heavy dragging on exertion between menses, pain shoots up back from hip to shoulder, Ustil.; dull, as from sitting too long in a stiff position, afternoon, Pallad.; hard, as from flatulence in sides of, morning in bed, worse walking, better after stool and renewed when walking again, Zinc.; with heat, Lyss.; to left hypochondrium, as from a swelling, Agar.; in muscles, Euphor.; sudden pain, as if a broad body armed with points were pressing upward in dorsal muscles of left side, broad, with many fine stitches, Spong.; outward, with displaced uterus, Nux v.; painful, with profuse menses, Agar.; painful, as from a sprain or as if he had stooped long, Mur. ac.; painful, beneath scapulæ, in evening, Sul.; painful, in dorsal muscles, below scapulæ, wandering, Brom.; painful, between shoulders, felt as a throbbing, Tereb.; painful, between shoulders, walking or sitting, Bell.; painful, opposite pit of stomach, with feeling as if no blood could circulate there (diarrhœa), Thuya; painful, when walking, sitting or stooping, Bor.; painful, as if a piece of wood stretched across small of back, pressing from within outward, before menses (dysmenorrhœa), Nux m.; as of a plug, had to put pillow under it, Carbo v.; five inches below point of right shoulder, one inch from spine, has had some sensation during each of her pregnancies, always right side, inward from lowest rib to breast bone, Lyss.; below shoulder blades, Card. m.; below right shoulder blade, Lyss.; near right shoulder blade, with heat, draws into nape of neck, thence into muscles of left upper arm, Lyss.; between shoulders, Ars. h.; from between shoulders to occiput and across right ear, in morning, Lyss.; right side, better bending backward, Chen. v.; squeezing pains, Arg. nit.; tensive, upon a small spot by border of right scapula, Zinc.; as from a thumb and tingling in it, which increases pain, worse on stooping, drawing upward, Menyanth.; while walking, Canth.

Back, pricking: Aur. mur.; into chest, in evening, Bor.; causing cold sensation (angina pectoris), Oxal. ac.; in skin, Sil.

Back, rheumatism: Act. rac., Bell., Bry., Chrom. ac., Colch., Como., Cornus, Hep., Nux v., Rhod., Rhus; chronic, Kali iod., Phyt.; during climacteric period, Ustil.; towards evening and on rising from a seat, Ars.; after heat is relieved, Aur. met.; in left suprascapular muscles, Lyc. vir.; worse towards morning, Nux v.; worse in morning before rising, Petrol., Ruta; worse on motion, Variol.; myalgia of great muscles, Sang.; between shoulders, Calad., Magn. s., Rhus v.; in right side, Amb., Cain.; stitching, pressing pains after taking cold while sweating, pains worse at night and during rest, better by motion, Dulc.; in tendon of left trapezium, on turning head, Bry.; wandering, Lyc. vir. ☞ neuralgia, stiffness

Back, riding; aching when riding in a carriage, Nux m.

Back, seminal emissions; backache, Dig., Kali br., Kob., Sars.; better after emission, Zinc. ☞ sexual excess ; also Chap. 22, Seminal emissions backache

Back, sensitive; during short intervals of con-

sciousness in encephalitis, Coccul.; as if paralyzed, Coccul.; spot pains when touched (myelitis), Stram.; spot in region of left hypochondrium soon after having eructated, Chen. v.; tender along top of right trapezium, after dislocation, Phyt.; of upper part and neck, to touch or from lying on it, with swelling heat, Glon.; painful to touch on sides (erysipelas), Rhus

Back, sexual excess; backache, Calc., Carbo v., Cinch., Natr. m., Nux v., Phos., Phos. ac., Puls., Sep., Staph., Sul. ☞ seminal emissions

Back, sharp pain: Con., Merc. iod. flav.; after exposure to draught of cold air while in a sweat, Sars.; with constriction of anus during stool, Coloc.; with chills, in dysmenorrhœa, Con.; spasmodic, running to crest of left ilium, Hel.; neuralgic, Iod.; shooting through, Lith.; also in sides, Kali bi.; sudden, at intervals, like a stab in lower part, as if she could not straighten spine, Alum.; running up, with constriction of anus, Coloc.

Back, shocks; painful, in right side, during breathing, Calc.; painful, in laryngo-tracheitis, Puls.

Back, shooting: Calc. a., Calc. ph.; through body to back, then into chest, with sensation of rush of blood to chest (rheumatism of diaphragm), Cact.; when breathing (facial neuralgia), Aur. met.; constant, through body to both sides, and along spine to occiput and even to temples, worse by walking and stooping, Coccul.; in cough, Caps.; to epigastrium, Rhod.; to gluteal region or hips, Kali c.; into glutei muscles, or buttocks, in pregnancy, Kali c.; from below left nipple, on walking, Asaf.; down right side, Ferr s.; also in sides, Kali bi.; below shoulder blade, Agar.; in tetanus, Lach.

Back, sitting; worse aching, Zinc.; pain after, can hardly rise, Puls.; pain when sitting still, disappearing on touching, Menyanth.; pain worse, Zinc.

Back, sleep; aching awakens, Hydras.; aches, disturbing, at night, cannot find a position to lie on, Agar.; so painful she cannot, Diad.

Back, smarting; from grief, Naja

Back, soreness: Agar., Arn., Benz. ac., Carbol. ac., Cornus, Pod., Rhus, Sang., Sarrac.; as if beaten, in evening, Lyss.; especially back of neck, as if beaten, Ars. i.; to chest, Ol. jec.; in cholerine, Apis; across, after an attack of chronic diarrhœa, Natr. s.; in kidney affections, Tereb.; during labor, Caust.; in prolapsus, Rhus; in right, near spine, on a small spot, worse pressure, morning, on rising, Lith.; in rheumatism, Lact. ac.; between shoulders, Ars. s. f.; between shoulders, in irritable spine, Phos. ac.; trapezius, from pressure, and painful at every movement of head and shoulders (rheumatism), Sang. ☞ aching, bruised feeling

Back, spasm; intense action of dorsal muscles, Œnan.; convulsive movements, Codein., Mygale; of erector spinal muscles, thrusts right side forward when lying on left side (after sunstroke), Stram.; with mental irritability and delirium (spinal meningitis), Natr. s.; opisthotonos, Canth., Œnan., Op., Stram.; rigidity of muscles, Calab., Lach., Nux v., Stram., Syph.; rigidity of muscles, head drawn back, Tabac.

rigidity extending as far as anus, in paroxysms, and terminating in a stitch when sitting or lying, Natr. c.; intermittent tonic spasms, muscles stretched, every morning at 8, lasting until 11, Natr. m.; tetanic, Cann. s.; twitchings extending to, πArt. v. ☞ Chap. 36, Convulsions opisthotonos

Back, spasmodic pains: Pallad.; with acid eructation, at 6 P.M. (ovarian troubles), Pallad.

Back, spasmodic sensation; between shoulders, in walking, as if he would fall headlong, Calad.; sensation in muscles as if something in them were drawn back and forth, more spasmodic sensation than painful, Nux v.

Back, sprained pain: Sul.; left side, Con.; in cerebrospinal meningitis, Rhus; on motion, Puls.; after overlifting, Calc. ☞ injuries

Back, stabbing; intense pain, like a knife thrust through, on slightest motion (pleurodynia), Ran. b.; through to umbilical region, Ver. v. ☞ cutting, lancinating, stitches

Back, step; pain as from a false, Sul.

Back, sternum; pain striking through to, with cough and expectoration of tough, black mucus, Kali bi.

Back, sticking: Lyc., Puls.; fine, Puls.; lightning-like, in tabes dorsalis, Nitr. ac.; to right scapula, Lyc.; towards scapulæ, with nausea, Puls.; as if something were sticking in spine, worse bending back, Jamb.; while stooping, in evening, Rhus ☞ stinging

Back, stiffness: Acon., Ananth., Aur. mur., Bapt., Berb., Carbo v., Helon., Med., Petrol., Phos., Puls.; on getting up from bed, but better during day, Ferr. iod.; in cerebrospinal meningitis, Apis; cramplike, Nitr. ac.; now in back, now in hip, painful in turning over, obliged to hold breath, Sul.; in influenza, Rhus; as if he had been injured, or from overlifting, Prun.; lame feeling, Cup. m.; left side, Chrom. ac.; lower part, Zing.; lower part, on stooping, difficult to stand up, Berb.; every morning, Phyt.; every morning and in damp weather, Phyt.; on motion, Æsc. h., Cupr. s.; worse on motion, better in rest, Cup. ars.; in muscles, Chel.; upper dorsal muscles, in morning, Zinc.; pain as if stiff, Nitr. ac.; painful, Helon.; painful, in rheumatic paralysis, Rhus; painful, like a board, Puls.; painful, especially on rising from chair, Caust.; painful, making change of position difficult, Calc.; rheumatic, Bry.; rheumatic, of whole left side, from nape to sacrum, pain on motion, Guaiac.; in chronic rheumatism, Apis; can hardly rise from a chair (chronic gout), Bar. c.; on rising in morning, Sul. ac.; between shoulders, Ang.; between shoulders, morning on rising, Bar. c.; between shoulders, neck, peculiar sensation of stiffness, Agar.; between shoulders, worse going out or moving, Ars. h.; after sitting, Amb.; pain as from a sprain, Rhus; after stooping, Bov.; tetanic, concussion of brain, Cic.; trapezius, before nervous headache, Ign. ☞ rheumatism, spasm

Back, stinging: Apis, Cham.; as of minute insects, transient, Chlor.; accompanies and follows stinging, almost itching in left chest below nipple, Rumex; nettlelike pains over where it touched bed, sixty hours after deliv-

ery, Kali c.; below right shoulder blade, Lyss.; periodical, spasmodic pain (asthma), Sul. ☞ sticking

Back, stitches: Bry., Caust., Cornus, Hep., Kali c., Kreo., Lach., Plumb., Sec., Stann.; on turning in bed (tertian ague), Sep.; through breast, interrupting respiration, Berb.; also when breathing, Spig.; from behind forward, when breathing, Psor.; in cancer uteri, Kreo.; with cardialgia and headache, Kali c.; frequent, towards chest, when breathing, Psor.; through to chest, with every motion, Sars.; sometimes as far as left side of chest, evening and night, Natr. c.; during cough, Caps., Merc., Sep.; drawing between shoulder blades, Camph.; as from flatus, Calad.; painful when kicking foot against something, Sep.; shooting down into gluteal region or hips, Kali c.; as from a sharp knife through loins to legs, Ign.; in left side, Cinch.; left side, near coccyx and sacrum, Agnus; after lifting, so severe she cannot turn during night without pain, better morning, Bor.; when lifting, cannot move without pain, Sep.; through lower, morning in bed, Coccul.; violent, in middle, Alum.; violent, in middle, while standing, Zinc.; pains awaken at 3 A.M., must get up and walk (lumbago), Kali c.; worse on motion, Colch.; in muscles, Asaf., Chel.; in pertussis, Bry.; pressive, worse walking or stooping, but more on rising up again, Rhus; prickling, pressing in region of left, Form.; rheumatic, Como.; right side, better bending backward, Chen. v.; painful in right side, with herpes zoster after external application of Rhus, Lach.; in right, goes to chest, worse night, cold air (disease of liver with hydrothorax), Kali c.; painful in right side, going through chest, worse at night, when lying down or rising (angina pectoris), Kali c.; extend into left scapula, Zinc.; very severe in various parts, Calc.; shooting, through chest, Bry.; between shoulders, particularly when breathing, Berb.; sudden, Cinnab.; sudden, when turning with dull pain while sitting, Nux v.; with unsteadiness, back, knees and feet, Merc. sol.; upper part, on inspiration, Calc.; violent, upward, Staph. ☞ cutting, lancinating, stabbing

Back, stomach; pain from stomach frequently moves to, Kali c.; some pain opposite stomach comes on an hour or so after meals, causing difficulty in speaking, Sul.; pain opposite stomach, with dyspeptic pain, better by eating a few mouthfuls of food, about 11 A.M., Phos.; pain starts from posterior wall of stomach and spreads under short ribs of left side, obliging patient to bend forward, Nux v.

Back, stool; backache after, Puls.; backache, with desire for, Plat.; backache, during, Apis, Ars., Colch., Nux v.; backache, before and during, in dysentery, Cub.; backache, after hard, Ferr.; in pain, as if broken, during, Lyc.; pain continues, after (diarrhœa), Caps.; pain during, Dulc., Puls.; pains, worse during, and continue after, Pod.; pain, with painful pressure in rectum, as if to stool (menstrual colic), Puls.; squeezing in back, with efforts to, Berb.

Back, stooping; dorsal muscles feel short on bending forward, Agar.

pain, Clem., Con., Lyc., Menyanth., Nitrum, Paris, Rhus, Sep., Sul., Tell., Ver.; violent pain, on rising after, Phos. ac.; pain in left trapezius, as from bending forward, worse from turning head to left, Pallad.; pain, when rising from, Phos.; sensation similar to that which comes from continued stooping in hard work, rising from bed in morning, Arn.; could not straighten (albuminuria), Calc. a.

Back, stretching; with chilliness at night, Phos.

Back, swallowing; pain, Kali c.

Back, sweat: Hyos., Petrol., Stram.; with chilliness, Casc.; with sensitiveness to cold air, morning, Chim. m.; cold, during and after cough and in croup, Cub.; in evening, Anac.; after meals, Card. m.; during menses, Kreo.; from least motion, Cinch.; cold at night, Sep.; during effort at stool, Kali bi.; worse, Dulc.

Back, swelling: Berb.; whole right side from cervical vertebræ to lumbar, swollen, elastic, width of three or four inches, dull pains after exertion, has to lie down in a kind of tetanic state (infiltration of cellular tissue), Lach.

Back, tearing: Berb., Caps., Cham., Cinch., Cinnab., Nux v.; burning, between spine and right scapula, Zinc.; during chill, Caps.; extorting cries causing him to double up, during chill (intermittent), Caps.; after eating, afterwards to abdomen, Cham.; into limbs, with paralysis, Phos.; during menses, Sep.; profuse menses, Agar.; especially in morning, Canth.; in muscles, πCup. m.; in right dorsal muscles, worse moving, Brom.; rending, Calc. p.; after sexual excess, Ars.; from shoulders to loins, Berb.; below shoulder blades, Agar.; between shoulders and spine, Berb.; when sitting, worse standing, better afternoon, Berb.; worse from least touch (acute rheumatism), Chel.; while walking, Canth.

Back, tension: Berb., Bry.; before dinner, Niccol.; worse on motion, Colch.; painful, Arg. nit.; painful, between shoulders during rest and motion, Zinc.; painful, on standing erect, Ign.; pressing in lower portion, Caps.; pressing, beneath right scapula, down back and towards axilla, Zinc.; between shoulders (rheumatic fever), Rhus; between shoulders, in spinal irritation, Zinc.; between shoulders, with stitches, particularly in morning on rising, with great sensitiveness to touch, better by walking, Magn. s.

Back, testicle; pains, with painful retraction of left (chronic catarrh of bladder), Pareira

Back, thighs; drawing through, during stool, Stann.

Back, throbbing: Aloe, Bar. c., Calc. a., Lyc., Phos., Sil., Thuya; driving out of bed, Calc. a.; worse coughing, Nitr. ac.; isolated, right side, Brach.; pain between shoulders, Merc. iod. flav.; pulsating feeling, Natr. m.; between shoulders (impotence), Bar. c.

Back, tingling: Arn.; to fingers and toes, Sec.; into limbs, with paralysis, Phos.; waking at night, Bar. c. ☞ numbness

Back, tired: ☞ weariness

Back, trembling: Coccul., Eup. perf., Lil. tig.; during fever, Eup. perf.

Back, tumor; in central part, as large as a

cherry, growing on a half inch pedicle, tumor and pedicle bluish, Con.; on right shoulder blade, soft in centre (scirrhus mammæ), Carbo a.; steatomous over first dorsal vertebra, violet color, rounded shape, yields slightly to pressure of finger, tumor pedunculated, could be handled without pain, but lying on back in bed caused bruised or smarting pain, Thuya

Back, twinges; better drawing shoulders backwards, worse by reverse, Cycl.

Back, twitching: Zinc.; in chorea, Mygale; like electric shocks, Ang.

Back, ulcers; scrofulous, Cist.

Back, uneasiness; with prostration, Brach.; between shoulders, Cupr. s.

Back, urination; relieves backache, Lyc.; backache, during, Ant. c., Ipec., Kali bi.; backache, with remittent dysuria, Vespa; backache, with slight incontinence, Thuya; heavy pain in lower part, with difficult urination, Clem.; pain before, Lyc.

Back, uterus; backache with prolapsus, worse during menses, Aur. met.; pains, in hydrometra, Sep.; reflex spinal irritation, Phos.; weakness, when walking, Sep.

Back, vaccination; backache after, Sil.

Back, variola: Ant. t., Variol.

Back, vibration; better by expulsion of wind, Berb.

Back, wandering pains: Senecio; in amenorrhœa, Senecio; shifting, Magn. p.

Back, wavelike pain; ran up right trapezius, Sarrac.

Back, weakness: Æsc. g., Calc., Chrom. ac., Guaræa, Med., Murex, Natr. m., Natr. p., Petrol., Pod., Rhus, Sep., Sil., Tell.; after abortion, Kali c.; always feels weak, Puls.; feels too weak to support body (angina pectoris), Oxal. ac.; with burning along spine, brought on by study, Pic. ac.; in chlorosis, Sep.; in chorea, Agar.; disabled, Berb.; pressing headache, in morning, Coloc.; as if it would soon give out, Phos.; as after taking long journey, Chin. a.; wants to lean on something, Sarrac.; must lean against back of chair, in sitting, Lyss.; more in left, Ol. jec.; in leucorrhœa, Graph.; with backache, wants to lie down, Casc.; extending into limbs, Lach.; in lower, Chen. v.; with copious menses, Lyss.; worse from mental annoyance, Calc.; in morning, Pallad.; in morning, with headache, Pallad.; worse in muscles, can hardly sit straight, Agar.; in myelomalacia, Crotal.; numb feeling in left side, Cup. ars.; ovarian pains, Abrot.; pain, Ham.; feeling worse at rest and in rough weather, Rhod.; after seminal emissions, Natr. p.; below shoulders, Sarrac.; between shoulders, Sarrac.; between shoulders to neck, peculiar sensation of, Agar.; with soreness of muscles and joints, Pic. ac.; on both sides of spinal column, could not lie on back, Apis; as if it would split and fall apart (lyssophobia), Lyss.; can scarcely stand alone, Sul. ac.; unable to stand erect (myelitis acuta), Calab.; in tabes dorsalis, Graph.; with vertigo, Ananth.; child does not learn to walk (marasmus), All. sat.; better walking about, Hydras.; on walking, Graph.; gives out on walking (prolapsus uteri), Sep.

Back, weariness: Apis, Natr. m., Puls., Sarrac.

aching feeling, in women, Pic. ac.; dull tired ache (nervous debility), Curar.; pain as from fatigue, Aur. met.; fatigued from breathing deeply, Carbo v.; in lower, Chen. v.; pain as from fatigue, worse after eating and sitting, Ant. t.; pains as if wearied by too great effort, Zinc.; tired feeling, Form.; tired and weak, Helon.; feels tired after exciting dreams, in morning, Lyss.; wandering, pains in muscles, worse left side, Vib. ☞ weak; ☞ Lumbar region

COCCYX, aching: Calc. p., Zinc.; dull, extends around side of pelvis, lasts seven hours after stool, Sul. ☞ coccygodynia

Coccyx, bruised feeling: Carbo a., Ruta, Sul.; as after a fall, Kali iod., Ruta; preventing sitting, worse from touch, Cist.

Coccyx, burning; worse on any attempt to sit, evening (chronic rheumatism), Apis; preventing sitting, worse from touch, Cist.; when touched, Carbo a.

Coccyx, coccygodynia: Act. rac., Agar., Agnus, Æsc. h., Alum., Amm. c., Amm. m., Ang., Apis, Asaf., Bell., Bor., Bov., Calc. p., Cann. s., Canth., Carbo v., Cist., Colch., Con., Euphor., Fluor. ac., Gamb., Graph., Hep., Hyper., Ign., Iod., Kali c., Kreo., Lach., Lactu. v., Led., Lobel., Magn. c., Merc., Mur. ac., Paris, Petrol., Phos., Phos. ac., Plat., Plumb., Rhus, Ruta, Sep., Sil., Staph., Thuya, Ver., Zinc.; after confinement, Tarant.; with milky leucorrhœa, Kreo.; during first menses after parturition, Cic.; with excessive aching, especially in rheumatic subjects, Fluor. ac. ☞ pain undefined

Coccyx, cramps; painful, Grat.

Coccyx, creeping; to sacrum, Aloe

Coccyx, drawing: Calc.; dull, in evening, Graph.; dull, painful, Caust.; pain prevents erect position, after long sitting, Thuya; during menses (coccygodynia), Cic.; down to rectum and vagina, better rising from sitting, Kreo.

Coccyx, dryness: Agar.

Coccyx, eruption; itching, moist, scurfy, Graph.; elevated scabby spots, above fissure of nates, Sil.; sore moist places (scarlatina), Arum t.

Coccyx, gnawing: Kali c.; repeated, Gamb.

Coccyx, heat: Calc.

Coccyx, heavy; weight at lower part, better standing, worse sitting and at stool, Arg. nit.; weight, Ant. c.; weight, in chronic metritis, Ant. t.

Coccyx, injury; cannot stoop after a fall, Hyper.

Coccyx, itching: Spig.; upward, worse at night, from heat, heat of bed and rubbing or scratching, better from cold, cold water and pinching parts, Petrol.; on tip, near to scrotal parts, sore and raw, Bov.

Coccyx, jerking; in dysmenorrhœa, Cic.

Coccyx, lancinating: Canth.

Coccyx, numbness: Plat.; as after a blow, while sitting, Plat.

Coccyx, pain (undefined): Calc. p., πFluor. ac., Iod., Med., Mur. ac.; extending to bladder on pressure, worse motion and exercise, πFluor. ac.; as if in bone, worse rising from sitting, and beginning to move, Euphor.; chronic, worse, Calc. s.; continual, Lach.