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

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spot, Berb.; red spots, Bry., Carbo v., Cinnab., Lach.; red spots, with fine blisters, Tell.; red spot on nape, came and went, Ver.; round, red spots, frequent appearance (prosopalgia), Mez.; red spots on sides, Coccul.; red spots, filled with serum, gone after sweat, Astac.; pale, red spots, in syphilis, Phyt.; Rhus poisoning, Kali s.; scabs, painful when touched, Hep.; small scabs on left, itching, better by scratching, Natr. s.; scarlet, in children, Asim.; bright scarlet, like scarlatina, Lac c.; flushing, rash like scarlatina simplex, bright red, disappears on pressure, returns immediately after removal of pressure, Stram.; smarting, colorless, Ars.; spots faintly visible (incipient hydrocephalus), Apis; itching, moist, tetter, Caust.; tetter on nape, Sep.; tetter, itching, on nape, below hair, Sul.; urticaria, Sul.; vesicles, as large as peas, Merc.; on back of, tingling, itching vesicles, break, overflow other parts, with tendency to ulceration, Clem.; yellow spots, Iod.; yellowish-brown spots, scale off on rubbing, Sep.; yellow scabs cover diseased surface thickly, with fissures occasioning soreness and bleeding, with itching, Sul. ☞ boils

Neck, erysipelas: Apis, Graph.; on nape, bluish-red, Phos. ac.; on ninth day after vaccination, Crotal.

Neck, excoriation; in folds of skin, Hydras., Sul.

Neck, formicating pain; left side, Arund.

Neck, fulness: Glon., Iber.; crowded, in diaphragmitis, Ham.; in both sides, Glon.; must sleep with neck uncovered, Ham., Lach.

Neck, glands; sensation of air passing into, on breathing (goitre), Spong.; swell rapidly, in diphtheria, Merc. iod. flav.; engorgement, with moist scales, Hell.; enlarged, Caust., Led., Natr. p.; enlarged, in caries of lower jaw, Con.; enlarged, in diphtheria, Iod.; enlarged, in eczema capitis, Sil.; enlarged during fever, in girls, Bar. m.; enlarged lymphatic, Chim. umb.; enlarged, in nasal catarrh, Iod.; enlarged, numerous and small, Syph.; enlarged, in otorrhœa, Bar. m., Merc. viv.; enlarged, in incipient phthisis, Tuberc.; enlarged, in chronic rheumatism of left hip joint, Phyt.; enlarged, with scrofula, Merc.; enlarged, in scrofulosis of children, Still.; enlarged, sore when coughing, Natr. m.; enlarged, in right side of neck, under upper part of sterno-cleido-mastoid, painful when moving head, Med.; enlarged, even impending suppuration (scarlatina), Rhus; enlarged, in syphilis, Kali bi.; enlarged, in hereditary syphilis, Syph.; enlarged with tonsillitis, Merc. iod. flav.; fistulous openings of lymphatic, with caries of clavicle, Sil.; fluctuating (swelling of parotids), Bar. m.; hard, Bar. c., Con.; swollen to size of pigeon eggs, two like hen's eggs, hard, painful on pressure (swelling of parotids), Bar. m.; hard, with pressing pain and stitches, Merc. viv.; hard swelling at back, Cinn.; hard and swollen, Merc. cor.; induration, Arg. nit., Bar. m., Carbo a., Cist., Cup. m., Dulc., Jacea, Sil., Spong.; induration, abuse of mercury, Sars.; induration, in otorrhœa, Bar. m.; induration and infiltration, studding neck like row of pearls, Hekla

induration in incipient phthisis, Tuberc.; induration in scarlatina, Merc. iod. flav.; scrofulous induration, Rhus; induration in scrofulous children, Con.; induration, with stitching, Calc.; induration to stony hardness, Calc. fl.; induration of thymus, Agar.; inflammation, Bell., Dulc.; inflamed, in œdema laryngis, Sang.; inflamed, painful, worse by hot or cold application, Merc.; inflamed, with pressing pain and stitches, Merc. viv.; inflamed, with red streaks, as in scarlet fever, Rhus; inflamed, suddenly, Bell.; sub-inflammatory condition, painful at every turn of head, Dulc.; inflammatory swelling beneath ears after scarlatina, Rhus; jerking pain in right, Caps.; almond-shaped kernels of varying sizes, abundant after adenitis, Syph.; large soft-feeling, left side, Iodof. (followed by Tuberc.); left side, swollen and painful, Lil. tig.; lymphatic, on right side, enlarged, Merc. iod. flav.; lymphatic ganglia swollen, like beads, Æthus.; enlarged, felt like hard nodules under skin, Ars.; painful, Calc. p.; painful, in diphtheria, Kali perm.; painful eruption and periostitis, probably syphilitic, behind ears, Kali bi.; painful, especially near nape, Carbo v.; painful, when turning neck, Cham.; painful scrofulous induration, Carbo a.; painful, in stomatitis, Caps.; painful, as if cervical glands were swelling by side of trachea of larynx, Spong.; pressive pain, Ign.; right side, hard, Phyt.; sensitive, Cham.; on side, down to shoulder, swollen and painful when bending neck to one side or lying upon it, Graph.; sore, Ailant., Cup. ars.; sore to touch, Bry.; as if stiff and tense, Graph.; suppuration, in caries of lower jaw, Cist.; chronic suppuration (scrofula), Hydras.; suppuration, in scarlatina, Lach.; suppuration, after scarlet fever, with hæmaturia, Sec.; tendency to suppuration, Ananth.; swelling, Ananth., Ant. c., Arum t., Bar. m., Bell., Calc., Camph., Carbo v., Cham., Cist., Cund., Dulc., Euph., Hell., Ictod., Iod., Jacea, Kali c., Kali iod., Kali m., Kreo., Lyc., Magn. m., Merc. cy., Merc. d., Natr. c., Nitr. ac., Puls., Sil., Staph., Sul., Thuya; swelling, with aching, stitching pains, Calc.; swelling, in aphthæ, Hell.; swelling enormously, in caries of lower jaw, Calc.; swelling extending to chest, Natr. p.; swelling, in children and old people, Astac.; swelling, in chorea, Agar.; swelling, chronic, Natr. s.; swelling, chronic, in scrofula, Hydras.; swelling, in diphtheria, Ars., Carbol. ac., Kali perm., Lach., Merc. iod. flav.; swelling, with discharge of yellow ichor from nose, Rhus; swelling, in eruption and periostitis, probably syphilitic, behind ears, Kali bi.; swelling, in eczema, Brom., Calc.; swelling, with eruption on head, Calc.; swelling, in erysipelas traumatica, Apis; swelling, hard, Amm. c., Hep., Merc., Sil.; swellings, hard, size of eggs, Bar. m.; swelling hard, in scrofulous inflammation of eyes, Ferr. iod.; swelling worse by hot or cold application, Merc.; swelling, hard, in tubercular laryngitis, Selen.; swelling, hard, in scrofula, Ferr. iod.; swelling, hard

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with sticking when swallowing, coughing, or turning neck, Hep.; swellling, hard, in tinea capitis, Graph.; swelling and induration, Dulc.; swelling on left side, Graph.; swelling, left side, hard, or suppurating, Badiag.; swelling on left side, size hen's egg, hard and suppurating, Lith.; swelling, left cervical, in ulcerated throat, Lyc.; swelling, of lymphatic vessels, Hydrocot.; swelling on nape, Bell.; swelling in otitis media, Puls.; swelling, painful, Calc., Carbo a., Ign., Staph.; swelling, painless, at margin of hair, Calc.; swelling, painless, on side, Graph.; swelling, with pressing pain and stitches, Merc. viv.; swelling, in rachitis, atrophy of children, Staph.; swelling, with ranula, Thuya; swelling, rapid, Ant. t.; swelling, with red streaks, as in scarlet fever, Rhus; swelling, in right side, Merc.; swelling of right side, disappeared and then swelling of left throat, with difficult swallowing (ulcerated throat), Lyc.; swelling, in scarlatina, Bar. c., Calc., Lach.; swelling, in scarlet fever, Acon., Dulc., Lach.; swelling, scrofulous, Lyc., Sil., Spong.; swelling, in scrofulous children, Con.; swelling, in scrofulous opthalmia, Aur. met.; sensation of swelling, at night, and arteries distended with blood, Daph.; swelling, sensitive, Æsc. h.; swelling on both sides, painful to touch, as if bruised, pain extends to head, Psor.; swelling, in stomatitis, Caps., Staph.; swelling, with suppuration, Sil.; swelling, painful on swallowing (rheumatism), Merc.; swelling and tenderness on left side, Vespa; swelling, with tensive pain on moving neck, or when pressing them, Spong.; swelling, with humid tetter on ears, Kreo.; swelling, with sore throat, Sep., Sul.; swelling, tickling, better from pressing with cold hand, Kali c.; swelling in tinea capitis, Bar. c.; swelling, with toothache, scarlatina, etc., Merc. iod. rub.; swelling, on upper part (syphilis after abuse of mercury), Sars.; swelling, of several, size of walnuts, and stony hard (spinal disease), Apis; tearing pain, Graph.; tearing in right, Caps.; tender, Con.; very tender, in diphtheria, Phyt.; tender, in erysipelas erratica, Hydras.; tender, in ulcerated throat, Kali perm.; throbbing, not swollen, Amm. m.; thyroid, as if air were passing up and down on breathing, Spong.; enlargement of thyroid, due to hypertrophy, ⁞Kali iod.; thyroid, enlargement, after suppressed menses (exophthalmic goitre), Ferr. iod.; thyroid, as if hardened, Spong.; thyroid, hypertrophied, in Basedow's disease, Spong.; thyroid, increase, acute pain on pressure or motion of head, Iod.; thyroid, region of indurated, Spong.; thyroid, itching, Amb.; thyroid, round hard swelling on upper right part, Natr. c.; thyroid, swelling increasing rapidly, Kali iod.; thyroid, resistant swelling of middle lobe of (coryza), Natr. c.; thyroid, sensation of swelling, Benz. ac.; thyroid, slight swelling (ranula), Thuya; thyroid swollen, even with chin, suffocating spells at night, barking, with stinging in throat, and soreness in abdomen, Spong.; thyroid, right lobe swollen, having the appearance of an elastic cyst, Sil.; thyroid, swollen, painful on touching neck and on pressure, Spong.; thyroid, enlarged, tender, Ailant.

thyroid, tension, in region of, externally, Agar.; thyroid, tickling during cough, Amb.; thyroid, sensitive to touch and pressure, Kali iod.; malignant scrofulous ulcers of lymphatics, with caries of clavicle, Sil.; ulceration, discharging offensive dark-colored pus, dark-red areolæ around ulcers, Rhus v. ☞ goitre

Neck, goitre: ⁞Amm. c., ⁞Arum m., Aur. met., Calc., Carbo a., Carb. s., Ferr. iod., Fluor. ac., Form., Iod., ⁞Kali iod., Lach., Lapis, Merc. iod. flav., Merc. iod. rub., Natr. s., ⁞Phos., Pod., Sil., Spong., Tuberc., Urt. ur.; causes asthma, Spong.; sensation of constriction, Iod.; with diarrhœa, Cist.; sensation like distension, Spong.; size of a hen's egg, Brom., Cist.; exophthalmic, Cact., Ferr.; exophthalmic, especially after suppression of menses, Ferr.; hard, Iod., Spong.; marked hardness, Iod.; hypertrophy of two lobes, tumor becoming more swollen and painful at each return of menses, Iod.; gradual increase in size, especially right side, soft and without any fluctuation, Iod.; constantly increasing, becoming fuller, with slight pain and tenderness on handling, every time she has a cold, Spong.; large, irregular, knotty, Spong.; non-lobulated tumor in anterior and median portion as large as a child's head, rosy-red, heavy in weight and soft, Iod.; large, on right side, Lyc.; in persons with light hair, blue eyes, fair skin, Brom.; lumpy, Spong.; moving sensation on swallowing, Spong.; nodulated, Iod.; nodulated, great weight in parts, Phyt.; with otorrhœa, Calc.; pain, slight, πSpong.; pain on swallowing, Spong.; painless, well-marked, Iod.; pressing pain, Natr. c.; in thirteen cases the pressure was relieved in three to five days, in some cases a cure was affected, Natr. p.; large, interfered with respiration, caused oppression when ascending heights or walking quickly, Sul.; on right side, tense, smooth, shining appearance, with feeling of constriction in tumor, as if held in some unyielding envelope, while not very large, Lyc.; in scrofulosis, Iod.; sensitive to contact, Kali iod.; as if everything were shaking and moving about as if alive, particularly on swallowing, πSpong.; small ones (improved), Calc. fl.; soft, reddish, indolent, moveable, transversed with bluish veins, Calc.; soft, located especially in right lobe of thyroid body, Spong.; soft and recent, Iod.; becomes softened, Merc.; stinging on swallowing, πSpong.; stitches, Spong.; due to tonic spasm of cervical muscles after falling down stairs, Rhus; tender, Spong.; in inhabitants of valleys, Spong.; vascular, Apis; with vertigo, Iod.; of thirty-six years' standing, commenced at thirteen years, Calc. ☞ glands

Neck, heat: Chloral., Iber., Ver. v.; down back, with sweat of upper body, Paris; in back of, Æsc. h.; passes to ear and face, Lyss.; flashes of, Æsc. h.; flashes, with burning heat all over body, Med.; flushes, in prolapsus uteri, Æsc. h.; in labor, Lach.; sensation on left side below jaw, as if a red-hot iron were moving along close to part, Phell.; in nape, Coloc., Lyss., Nitr. sp. d.; as if warm

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water were running upward from nape, Glon. ☞ burning

Neck, heaviness; in albuminuria, Nux v.; load in nape, Calc. p.; in muscles, Menyanth.; painful, in muscles, Chrom. ac.; in muscles of nape, Chel.; in nape, to occiput, Petrol.; over nape, Sep.; towards nape, Agar.; nape of, sensation of a hundredweight, with stiff and paralyzed feeling in limbs during and after walking, Rhus; weight in back of (sore throat), Phyt.; feeling of weight, Carbol. ac.; feeling as of a great weight on nape (irritation of cerebrospinal nerves), Paris; feeling as if a weight were lying upon, with painful tension and stiffness of cervical muscles, Vinca; constant weight in upper part, Plumb.

Neck, induration; muscles become hard as wood (hysterical attacks), Cic. ☞ glands

Neck, inflammation: Astac.; cellulitis, Rhus; cellulitis, in scarlatina, Rhus; of skin, ninth day after vaccination (erysipelas), Crotal.

Neck, injury; after a fall, supersensibility of surface, Hyper.

Neck, itching: Anag., Ant. c., Ars. m., Gels., Mang., Oxal. ac., Sul., Tromb.; of back, Carbol. ac., Pallad., Therid.; burning, Calc.; on border of hair on neck, Ammoniac.; front and back of neck like minute insects or hairs, coming on towards morning, Chloral.; near larynx, Cist.; in lower part, Apis; of nape, Alum., Benz. ac., Natr. m.; in nape, with flushed face, Astac.; in nape, in morning, Therid.; at night, Ailant.; fine pricking, with feeling of warmth, begins in another place on scratching, Sars.; of right side, 3 or 4 A.M., lasts half an hour, slightly better by vinegar applications, followed by burning, Vespa; and stitching burning in nape (heartburn), Calc.

Neck, jerking; ushered in, with attacks, in epilepsy, Bufo.; painful in side where small goitre exists, πSpong.; of muscles, better moving shoulders up and down (irritability of cerebrospinal system), Ran. b.

Neck, lameness: Æsc. h., Bapt.; painful, as if bruised when moving head, Asar.; worse bending head back and forward, Badiag.; when moving head, Carbol. ac.; of muscles, Como.; muscles, on first moving, better during exercise, Rhus; in nape, Eup. pur.; and stiffness, in neuralgic headache (cerebrospinal meningitis), Gels.

Neck, lancinating; in left side, Elaps; nape to head, Canth. ☞ stitches

Neck, lying; sensation as if neck were grasped, Glon.; painful, when on right side, Ferr.

Neck, neuralgia; in angina pectoris, Tabac.; in back of, Graph.; cervico-brachial, Chel.; cervico-brachial, worse after eating in morning and from touch, Nux v.; down arm to little and fourth finger, Kalm.; sudden flashes of pain in back part, spreading over head, involving eyes, with sudden flashes of pain like lightning through head, better from hard pressure, rest and darkness, Magn. p.; left side, Ars.; in nape (tendency to drawing head backward), Cic.; in nape, left side, every day at 6 P.M. till 4 A.M., Guaiac.; on both sides, to fingers, especially left side, worse from mental exertion, Paris; paroxysmal, worse in early part of night, with stiffness, Kalm.; periodic, Chin. s.; periodic, in lateral muscles, every day at 4 P.M., Chin. s.

in right side, in tic douloureux, Coloc.; in right side, extends down arm to wrist, Amyl.

Neck, numbness; pain, as if parts were asleep towards evening, Rhus; nape to vertex, scalp goes to sleep, Cast. eq.; in right side, Chel.

Neck, pain: Calc. p., Caust., Cic., Cund., Gels., Graph., Hell., Lil. tig., Phyt., Variol.; slightest draught of air, Calc. p.; in angina pectoris, Ars., Hep.; down left arm in evening, to right, could scarcely move her arm, πForm.; in back of, Calc. s., Carbol. ac., Eup. perf., Lac c., Myr. cer.; in back of, in yellow fever, Gels.; back of, in spinal meningitis, Natr. s.; down back of, especially in prominent bone there, and each side of it, Calab.; in back of, with stiffness, worse turning, better change of position (diphtheria), Rhus; at back, with difficulty of turning head, Calab.; worse on going to bed, in nape, Alum.; severe, better bending head backward (syphilitic neuralgia), Syph.; on deep breathing, Chel.; to clavicles, Gels.; as after a cold, in nape, Bry.; like that of cerebrospinal congestion, Gels.; constant, Lyss.; during cough, Sul.; darts down from ear, Merc. cor.; deep-seated, with distress in left, to occiput, better standing and walking, Chrom. ac.; in diphtheria, Phyt.; to distraction, in nape (Werlhoff's disease), Lach.; distressing, in nape, Æthus.; to ear, then to shoulder, worse turning neck, also when swallowing, Calc. p.; while eating and drinking, πForm.; before or after ague, Gels.; when hawking and gargling, πForm.; when pressing on forehead, Brach.; from head, Guaiac.; runs into head, in dysmenorrhœa, Ver. v.; into back part of head, πForm.; to back of head, in rheumatism, Phyt.; while eating and chewing, especially when closing jaws or when gargling or hawking, left side into back part of head, particularly behind ear, πForm.; over scalp to top of head and temples, also affects right side of face, Kalm.; over head, Stram.; as if head had been lying in uncomfortable position, Dulc.; worse on moving head, Cup. ars.; when moving head, as if cervical vertebræ were stiff (intermittent), Coccul.; on turning head, Plat.; on turning head to right, Spong.; on turning head, as if tumor would protrude there, Calc.; with headache, Gels.; worse when headache is better, during inward heat, Lyss.; left side, Glon.; in left, soon extending over whole side, and rendering arm powerless (affection of cerebrospinal nerves), Paris; up muscles of left side to one small spot in head, brought on and aggravated by blowing nose (chronic inflammation of Schneiderian membrane), Kali bi.; in left, prevents turning to left side, felt least when lying on back, best on right side, on awaking, Vespa; in nape, on looking up, as if broken, Graph.; as if one had been lying for a long time in an uncomfortable position, towards evening, Rhus; in cerebrospinal meningitis, Eup. perf., Glon.; on motion, Dros.; slightest motion extorts cries (after a fall), Hyper.; in muscles, Cact., Lyss., Mez.; in muscles, in angina, Merc.; in muscles, in morning, Zinc.; in muscles, right side, Chel., Dolich.; in muscles, as from efforts to vomit, Cadm. s.; myalgic, mostly in upper part of sterno-cleido

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muscles, back of parotid glands, Gels.; in nape, Amm. c., Anac., Cic., Con., Graph., Ipec., Ign., Lyc., Mez., Sang., Stram.; in nape, from damp, cold night air, Nux m.; in nape, when coughing, Bell.; in nape, as if dislocated when turning neck or bending head backward (diphtheria, scarlet fever), Lachn.; in nape, prevents bending head further than to a certain point, Stram.; from nape to forehead, Daph.; from nape, through centre of head, to forehead, Fluor. ac.; in nape, near occiput, as if head were weak, Bry.; in nape, rises to vertex, Sil.; in nape, with headache, Daph., Myr. cer.; in nape, alternates with pains in head, Hyos.; in nape, with dry heat, Graph.; in nape, with heat in right side of face and right ear, followed by headache in vertex and forehead, as soon as headache gets better, heat returns, heat comes from within and spreads from back of neck to ear and into eye and face, Lyss.; in nape (hemorrhoids), Chel.; in nape, as if he had lain in an uncomfortable position, Puls.; in nape, follows lumbar pain (spinal disease), Sil.; in nape, during menses, Calc.; in nape, in morning, Bar. c.; in nape, excited by moving hand or grasping anything (irritation of cerebrospinal nerves), Paris; in nape, from exhausted nerve-power or excessive grief, Phos. ac.; in nape, in onanism, Hyos.; in nape, periodical, worse evening and warm room, better cool open air, Kali s.; in nape, remittent, Magn. ph.; in nape, running to either side, shoulder and down to lumbar region, Med.; in nape, shifting, Magn. p.; in nape, to between shoulders, on turning (stiff neck), Amm. m.; in nape, in spinal irritation, Hep.; in nape, sudden, probably brought on by exposure, Merc.; in nape, to touch, Dros.; in nape, hinders turning, Jamb.; in nape, with vertigo, Alum.; near nape, Calc. a.; at night, as if head had been held in an uncomfortable position, felt even during sleep, Zinc.; after overlifting, Calc.; in right side, Gamb., Meph.; in right constant, deep, near œsophagus, Jamb.; down to between shoulders (oil) (catarrh), Apis; to right shoulder, Acon.; at intervals, on both sides, but chiefly on left, extending along sterno-cleido-mastoid muscles to shoulders and to left arm down to fingers, and in right to elbow (affection of cerebrospinal nerves), Paris; in side, commencing at 4 P.M. and continuing all night, gradually worse, Merc. cor.; worse after sitting up, better by application of hot iron, πForm.; up and down spine, worse lying down, Lyss.; in left sterno-mastoid, near its insertion at sternum, Elat.; in sterno-mastoid, from insertion of right, through head into orbit, Bapt.; in sterno-cleido-mastoid, when stretched, by turning of head, Arg. met.; better after stool, Ver.; going up to supra-orbital notch or foramen, then extending into eyes, Pic. ac.; with least turn or twist, πForm.; upper part, Plumb.; in upper part of trapezius muscle to shoulders, Brach.

Neck, paralyzed feeling; in nape, Ver.

Neck, parasites; numerous pediculi corporis cling to a girl æt. 18, of sallow complexion, but cleanly appearance, Psor.

Neck, peculiar sensation; with confusion in head and occiput, Kali m.

Neck, pinching; in nape, intermittent, Pæonia; scaleni muscles on left side, as if pulled by pincers, Inul.; on both sides, near trunk, Zinc.

Neck, pressing feeling: Agnus, Lyss.; dull, intermittent, as of a heavy load on right, Anac.; muscles, as if pressed upon by a dull edge, Asar.; as if seized with a hand, Grat.; intermittent, slow, right side, as if skin were compressed between fingers, downward, in region of carotid artery, Spong.; in muscles, felt even when swallowing, Colch.; in nape, Benz. ac., Carbo v., Card. m., Coccul., Nitr. sp. d.; in nape, particularly in open air, must bend head forward, Laur.; from nape into ear, Lyss.; in nape, left side, worse from turning, Coloc.; in nape, to left, in a spot size of a small coin, on level of mastoid process, then right, Card. m.; in nape, between attacks of mental disturbance, Staph.; in nape, in morning, Sil.; in a small spot in nape, Lyc.; painful, becomes burning shooting (metritis), Ars.; painful, during cough, Caps.; painful, cracking, frequently occurring in left posterior side, near shoulder blade, Spong.; painful, externally, when bending head backward and when touching part, Bell.; painful, left side, Puls.; painful, left side, in muscles, Chel.; painful, at nape, Elaps; painful, in nape, as if it would break in coughing, Bell.; painful, in nape, with oppression and shortness of breath, particularly when lying (rheumatism), Lyc.; painful, going up back, on right side only (sore throat), Phyt.; painful, down right, towards shoulder blade, Phyt.; with stiffness, Staph.; tensive, right side, near vertebræ, Bism.; as from a weight in back, Paris; forcing pain, better from pressure (eczema), Brom.

Neck, pricking: Calc.; drawing through left, Spong. ☞ sticking, stinging

Neck, pulling; feeling as though some one pulled downward on cords, Sil.

Neck, purple; almost black, Vespa; deep dark, Vacc.; livid, with sopor, Apis

Neck, quivering; of muscles, left side, Ang.

Neck, redness: Amyl., Vespa; dark, ninth day after vaccination (erysipelas), Crotal.; dark, in scarlatina, Rhus; as if ecchymosed, Iod.; flush, color of a red rose, with swelling, Lac def.; dark, in seventh month of pregnancy in a woman with albuminuria, dropsy, headache, etc., Œnan.; scarlet, Bell.; on sides, Merc. viv.

Neck, retracted; in catarrhal croup, Ant. t.; head, in spotted fever, Act. rac.; head, on shoulders, in cerebrospinal disease, Ver. v.; during sleep (spinal disease), Alum.

Neck, rheumatism: Act. rac., Calc. p., Carb. s., Colch., Nux v., Puls.; followed by burning, Bapt.; drawing, in left side, Cycl., Gels.; drawing, in nape, extending to left shoulder and scapula, evening, in open air, Bor.; drawing, in right side, worse bending to right side and raising arm, Calend.; drawing to shoulder, Calend.; drawing, from side into limbs, Stram.; drawing, with stiffness, Staph.; with headache, Sang.; intense pain, Sticta; in nape, Ant. c., Caust., Sang.; in nape, with painful numbness, worse lying on back, Spig.; worse at rest, cloudy, stormy weather, Rhod.; in right side, worse stooping head, Lact. ac.; along right side, in gonorrhœa, Med.

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Neck, screwing pain; ear, to shoulder, Daph.

Neck, scrofulous: ☞ glands

Neck, sensitive; loosens clothes to get breath, Sars.; must loosen clothes, sensation as if they hinder circulation of blood, with kind of suffocative feeling, heat, as of orgasm of blood, Lach.; cannot bear clothes, in sore throat, Phyt.; clothing, as if too tight, Glon., Lach.; large clothing feels tight, Kali c.; during short intervals of consciousness, in encephalitis, Coccul.; intolerance of tight neckbands, Lach.; as if paralyzed, Coccul.; to pressure and touch, Lach.; nape, to external pressure, Lach.; right side painful to pressure, Niccol.; to pressure, in yellow fever, Lach.; right side, Niccol.; right side, tender to touch, worse waking in morning (angina), Lach.; sides tender, Merc. viv.; tender, in scarlatina, Ailant.; coverings felt too tight (chronic meningitis), Sep.; could bear nothing to touch (bee sting), Lach.; does not like anything to touch, unbuttons collar, Ant. t.; painful to touch, in diphtheria, Kali bi.; external, below angle of lower jaw, painful to touch, Bell.; left side, painful to touch, Kali bi.; in nape, painful to touch, Lach.; sore to touch, Lach.; sore to touch, and on moving them, Kalm.; nape, sore to touch, Sang.; spot tender to touch, on anterior portion (menstrual irregularities), Lach.; cannot bear to be touched, Lach.; pains become excessive when touched, Ign.; touching or turning causes suffocative attacks, Bell.

Neck, sharp pain; in nape, Magn. p.; left side, Chel.

Neck, shock; awakes as from electric shocks (above larynx), Manc.; sensation, like a jerk or shock, in nape, Cornus

Neck, shooting; back of, in left ear (diphtheria), Sul.; left side, Chel.; in left anterior inferior triangle near clavicle, Arum d.; in nape, Agar., Cinch., Magn. p.; in nape, to vertex, Sil.; in nape, to vertex, with headache (eczema capitis), Sil.; from occiput, Act. rac.; to occiput, Cinnab.; with rapid respiration, Sul. ac.; in right side, posterior part, Alum.

Neck, small; feels too small, Chim. m.

Neck, soreness: Bapt., Brach., Calc. p., Hydras., Lach., Natr. a.; on bending backward, Psor.; worse bending head back and forward, Badiag.; as if bruised, Ferr.; about old cicatricial tissues, result of scrofulous abscesses, Sil.; from least cold, Nitr. ac.; in remittent fever, Carbol. ac.; up into head, better external pressure, πForm.; worse moving head, of left side, Ars. i.; in muscles, Hydras.; in nape, πCarbol. ac.; painful, in scarlet fever, Acon.; painful, in hydrocephaloid, Ipec.; both sides, Bor.; of sides, when touched or on moving, Ferr. iod.; spreading rapidly, exudes offensive smelling serum, painful when washed, Sep.; in region of attachments of sterno-mastoid muscles, Brach.; up and down, Natr. s.

Neck, spasm: Cic., Codein.; chin suddenly drawn to sternum, three or four days, then relaxed, Cann. i.; convulsive movements, Codein.; convulsive movements, of muscles, worse right side, Agar.; convulsive action in tetanus, Phyt.; on attempting to drink a little water, preceded by a gasp or sigh as if she might just have plunged into cold water, Lyss., Ran. b.

followed by partial relaxation, which was again succeeded by same tetanic condition, Phyt.; notably sterno-mastoid, drawing chin firmly down to breast, Med.; frequent, painful, in single muscles on right side of, particularly in morning, Pallad.; sterno-hyoid frequently drawn to ridges by tonic contraction, worse talking and in presence of individuals (irritability of cerebrospinal system), Ran. b.; on attempting to swallow, with great mental disturbance, Lyss.; tonic tetanus, Cic.

Neck, sprained feeling: Ars., Niccol., Ruta; turning head to left, Agar.; between left shoulder and neck, on rising from sleep 4 P.M., Chin. a.; in left side, Con.; paralytic, in nape, with stiffness, Sul. ☞ bruised feeling, stiffness

Neck, startings: Arum m.

Neck, sticking; in nape, as with a blunt needle in left side, disappears on sitting down, Tarax.; in nape, in rheumatism, Puls.; painful, in right, near œsophagus, Jamb. ☞ pricking, stinging

Neck, stiffness: Æsc. h., Agar., Ananth., Arg. met., Ars., Arum t., Bapt., Bar. c., Bell., Brach., Calc. p., Canth., Carb. s., Caust., Chel., Cinch., Con., Coral., Cup. ars., Ferr., Form., Ind., Jatroph., Lach., Lact. ac., Magn. c., Menyanth., Merc. iod. flav., Mez., Natr. a., Natr. c., Nitr. ac., Petrol., Phyt., Rhus, Rhus v., Sep., Sil., Spig., Squilla, Tarant., Zinc., Zing.; from cold air, Act. rac.; on side, when walking in open air, Camph.; in albuminuria, Nux v.; awoke in morning, Phyt.; of back, Apis, Kali c.; back of, with headache, Graph.; back of, with headache and nausea, Zing.; from base, through muscles and cords, into brain, Syph.; from base, through muscles and cords, into brain, on bending neck, Hyos.; feels as stiff as a board, Puls.; after cold, Dulc.; from least cold, Nitr. ac.; from cold, muscles of shoulders and spine affected, Guaiac.; contracted, Act. rac.; cramplike, in left side, Zinc.; cramplike, to vertex, Calc.; from damp, cold air, Dulc.; in diphtheria, Brom., Lach., Lachn.; with drawing and tension (myelitis acuta), Calab.; with tense drawing in muscles, worse on motion, Var.; with dysmenorrhœa, Calc.; feeling, Lyss.; in remittent fever, Carbol. ac.; of glands at back, Cinnab.; half-sided, Berb.; cannot bend head backward, Stram.; with cold in head, preceded by beating in head, worse vertex and right side, with heat, Lach.; head drawn one side (diphtheria, scarlet fever), Lachn.; worse flexing head, Badiag.; on moving head, Chel.; in muscles of nape, when moving head, Coloc.; painful, to back of head, worse from least motion, πForm.; on turning head, Carbol. ac., Selen.; of one side, cannot turn head on account of pain, Sil.; with headache, Bell., Calc. a., Curar., Sang., Sil., Ver.; with hoarseness, from cold, Nux v.; with heaviness, Carbol. ac.; in influenza, Ant. t., Euphor.; tension as if laced, Glon.; with laming pain, Cycl.; in chronic laryngitis, Merc.; left side, Ascl. t., Chrom. ac., Puls.; on left side, extending into ear, in no way impedes movement of neck, Thuya; worse on moving head, left side, Ars. i.; on left side, with headache, Zing.; left side, painful

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Brom.; in left, worse after walking and laughing, Kali c.; in cerebrospinal meningitis, Apis, Ced.; in tubercular meningitis, Lyc.; in morning, Asar., Bov., Brom., Lyss., Zinc.; in morning, with coryza, Calc.; worse in morning and after eating, and from touch, Nux v.; in morning, worse going out or moving, Ars. h.; on motion, Coccul., Dros., Sang., Zing.; on first moving, better during exercise, Rhus; muscles feel too short, Cic.; with difficult swallowing, ten days after cut on right side of forehead (traumatic tetanus), Nux v.; of nape, Anac., Bar. c., Bell., Camph., πCarbol. ac., Carbo v., Dig., Lach., Lyc., Mang., Mez., Phos., Plat.; in nape (catarrh), Lach.; in nape, in diphtheria, Ign.; sensation in nape, extending into ear, in no way impedes movement of neck, Thuya; sudden, in nape, probably from exposure, Merc.; in nape, on bending head, Kali bi.; in nape, to head, Caust.; in nape, with headache, Calc., Glon., Myr. cer.; in nape, before nervous headache, Ign.; in nape, in morning, Kali c., Rhod.; in nape, with paralytic sprained pain, Sul.; in left half of nape, during periods of exacerbation, in prosopalgia, Chel.; nape rigid, cannot turn head to right, Cinch. bol.; in nape, with soreness of muscles of neck and shoulders, Pod.; in nape, in spinal irritation, Hep.; in nape, with wandering pains (rheumatism), Lac c.; with nausea, Hyos.; in acute neuralgia, Lac c.; neuralgic, in right side, down arm to wrist, Amyl.; as far as occiput, Hell.; with pain in occiput, Vib.; in spasmodic constriction of œsophagus, Hyos.; in chronic otitis media, Natr. c.; painful, Ang., Led., Natr. m., Psor., Spong., Thuya; painful, with chill (quotidian), Puls.; painful, following pain in coccyx, as if ulcerated (rachitis coccygodynia), Phos.; painful, in croup, Spong.; pain, as if stiff in nape (typhoid fever), Ign.; pain, going over whole head and down nose, Lachn.; painful, in left side, Laur.; painful, in left side, on turning head, Spong.; pain, on moving, Coccul.; painful, on moving head towards shoulders, Bry.; pain, on moving neck and yawning, Coccul.; painful, worse moving, Acon.; painful, in nape, Dulc., Laur., Thuya; pains shift to nape, with spasmodic rigidity, Caulo.; painful, in articular rheumatism, Sal. ac.; painful, in right side, from touch and turning head, Bry.; painful, in right side, mostly on motion, Mez.; painful, especially after sleep, could scarcely move neck, Manc.; with paleness of skin (hydrocephalus acutus), Cup. ac.; rheumatic, Guaiac., Merc.; rheumatic, in nape, Bry., Caulo.; rheumatic, with neuralgic headache or diphtheria, Lac c.; with rheumatic pain in cervical vertebræ, Calc.; rheumatic, right side, down arm to wrist, Amyl.; right side, Chel., Elaps, Lyss.; head drawn to right side, Lachn.; right side sore to touch, Lach.; after dancing and cooling draughts from right side, Kali m.; worse on right side, and in bed after midnight, Phyt.; rigid, Fluor. ac., Hell., Stram.; rigid, head drawn back, Tabac.; rigid, on moving head, Como.; rigid, in cerebrospinal meningitis, Hell.; rigid, worse right side (tetanic symptoms), Hyper.; rigid, from overstraining at lifting, with headache, Calc.; sensation as if becoming stiff, both sides, above first dorsal vertebræ, towards noon, Pallad.

down to between shoulders (oil) (catarrh), Apis; head inclined to left shoulder, shoulder raised, Kali s.; in side, Dig.; only in one side, Benz. ac.; of one side to small of back, worse moving, Guaiac.; after sleep, could scarcely move, Manc.; sore feeling in nape, Vib.; in spinal irritation, Coccul.; on stooping and turning head, Spong.; after stool, Puls.; and swollen, one side, Lyc.; tensive, Cham.; painful tension when moving, of rheumatic origin, from a draught, Rhus; throat feels sore, Stram.; on turning head, Spong.; unable to turn all morning, Ang.; if turned around, Paris; with cracking of vertebræ on bending head backward, Sul.; with sensation as if a weight were lying upon them, Vinca ☞ tension, wry

Neck, stinging: Bar. c., Lyss.; with dulness in head, Calc.; in lower part, Apis; down right side towards shoulder blade, Phyt.

Neck, stitches: Bov., Natr. m., Sul., Zinc.; darting from side into upper arm, Berb.; into ear, Thuya; fine, in suppurating pimples, Bar. c.; frequent, in nape, left side, from scapula to occiput, Guaiac.; left side, transient, Spong.; in nape, Ign., Lyss.; in nape, worse bending head back and forward, Badiag.; in nape, on motion, Niccol.; in nape, in fungus hæmatodes, Phos.; in nape, at night, Natr. s.; in nape, on stooping, Sul.; in nape, tearing, Dig.; at night, Kalm.; in nape, prickling, Carbo a.; in right side, Carbol. ac.; in right side, rheumatic, Apis; near right shoulder, on motion, Camph.; in right, great, slow, just after awaking, pass off while swallowing, but soon return, Spong.; while speaking, Calc.; pass off on swallowing, Spong.; tearing, pass into each other, Zinc.; along upper part, Lach. ☞ lancinating

Neck, streaks; red or purplish, in meningitis, Bufo.; red, as in scarlet fever, with inflamed and swollen glands, Rhus

Neck, stretched: ☞ retracted

Neck, suppuration: ☞ abscess, boils, carbuncle, glands

Neck, suprasternal fossa: ☞ throat pit

Neck, sweat: Amyl., Ant. t., Calc., Euphor.; in children, Samb.; after diarrhœic stool, Como.; copious, exhausting, Calc.; from least motion, Cinch.; after first nap (phthisis), Lach.; on nape, Calc., Sul.; at night, Calc.; only on neck, Cann. s.; in ophthalmia, Con.; profuse, Med.; profuse, during sleep, Med.; goes off with sleep (croup), Samb.; sour smelling, Bell.; warm, Chel.; warm, profuse, in colic, Coloc.; with weakness, Como.

Neck, swelling: Æsc. h., Ars., Bell., Croc., Lach., Merc., Merc. cor., Spong., Ver., Vespa; bulbous, Sil.; of cellular tissue (scarlatina), Bar. c.; about old cicatricial tissues, result of scrofulous abscesses, Sil.; of cords, with aching in base of brain, Med.; in diphtheria, Merc. iod. flav., Tarant.; cellular tissue, infiltrated in diphtheria, Merc. cy.; accompanying eczematous eruption after any severe exertion, Psor.; emphysematous, Lyss.; enormous, in Hodgkin's disease, Syph.; fatty, from ear to ear, ⁞Amm. m.; feels swollen, if turned around, Paris; on nape, over

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whole head, redness, pain, as from ulceration, glands swollen, Bar. c.; hard, from injury to œsophagus, Cic.; sensation of inward, Berb.; lateral muscles appear swollen to him (periodic neuralgia), Chin. s.; left side, Kali bi.; left side, almost even to jaw, Lac c.; in left side, suppurated abscess opened with lancet, discharges foul and copious pus (after scarlet fever), Lach.; left side smooth, livid, touching causes suffocative sensation (bronchocele), Lach.; hard lumps extend to left side, gouty subject, Sil.; before menses, Iod.; worse at night, Phos.; from wounding œsophagus with splinter, Cic.; painful, Bell.; painful, on left side, Lobel. i.; painful, in nape, Bell.; in seventh month of pregnancy, in a woman with albuminuria, dropsy, headache, etc., Œnan.; puffy, down both sides, Lach.; puffy, in scarlatina, Amm. c., Crotal.; skin, color of a red rose, generally morning and during day and evening (headache), Lac def.; red streak on left side, Mang.; rheumatic, Merc.; right side, red and burning, Vespa; great, sensitive, in scarlatina, Ailant.; of sides, Merc.; subcutaneous (diphtheria), Apis; large, suppurating, on right side, Sul. ac.; followed by suppuration, thereupon formation of callous, fistulous openings, from which oozed a serous discharge, Lyc.; when talking, Iod.; thickened feeling of muscles, Ailant.; whitish, violently itching (paralysis), Apis ☞ abscess, glands, tumors

Neck, tearing: Cham., Lyss., Zinc.; in back, up forward to frontal region, Caust.; on bending backward, Psor.; burning, to left axilla, Stram.; during chill, Ars. h.; cutting, Kali c.; drawing, pains to insertion of deltoid muscles (rheumatic ophthalmia), Led.; to elbow, Lyc.; in faceache, Anac.; into head, Camph.; in nape, left side, before midnight, Sul.; frequent, violent, in left side, always disappearing on pressure, in morning, Zinc.; in muscles, Bry., Canth., Carbo v.; in nape, Acon.; in nape, extends halfway down back, worse night in bed, must rise, Rhod.; in nape, with oppression and shortness of breath, particularly when lying (rheumatism), Lyc.; in nape, in paroxysms, evening, Nux v.; in nape, to head, Canth.; in nape, on bending head forward, Camph.; in nape, up either side to top of head, Lach.; in muscles of nape, Carbo v.; with rheumatism, Nux v.; in right side, posteriorly, Zinc.; in sides, alternating with tearing in cheek, Amm. m.; sticking posteriorly and inferiorly in a small spot in right side, Zinc.; in nape, tension as if tendons were drawn up, Stront.; tensive pains, Puls.; in nape, pain to vertex when it is throbbing, worse from motion or stooping, better lying still, Glon.; better in warmth, worse cold, worse getting up in morning, Stram. ☞ neuralgia, rheumatism

Neck, tension: Bar. c., Berb., Glon., Zinc.; in back, as if cords were breaking, Lyc.; drawing in nape, Thuya; to ears, when moving head, Plumb.; accompanying eczematous eruption, after any severe exertion, Psor.; with bending head backward (meningitis), Spong.; in left side of nape, before midnight, Sul.; before menses, Iod., Natr. c.; of muscles, Agar., Cic., Viol.; in anterior cervical muscles, Zinc.; in muscles of nape, Chel.

in muscles, as if too short on bending neck, Hyos.; as if muscles were too short, even at rest, especially stooping, Aur. met.; in nape, Bry., Con.; in nape, on motion, Niccol.; in nape, extends as far as shoulders, Ipec.; in nape, feels as if too short, after waking in morning, must cry out with pain, worse during rest, Sul.; in nape, with stitches, particularly in morning on rising, with great sensitiveness to touch, better by walking, Magn. s.; with nausea, worse in evening, when sitting in room and when becoming cold, better in open air and when becoming warm, Mosch.; numb sensation in nape close to occiput, as if tightly bound, Plat.; painful, on turning head, Spong.; painful, in left side of nape, Thuya; painful, in left side near thyroid cartilage, on turning head to right, Spong.; painful, in muscles, with sensation as if a weight were lying upon them, Vinca; painful, in nape, Lyc., Puls.; painful, in muscles of nape and lower portion, worse motion, Camph.; painful, in right side, Thuya; painful, on stooping, Canth.; in nape, rheumatic fever, Rhus; in right side, Meph., Zinc.; particularly right side, on bending head backward, Spong.; long continued, in right side, drew body to right side, Caust.; with stiffness, Staph.; in muscles, felt even when swallowing, Colch.; tightening around (cerebrospinal meningitis), Glon. ☞ stiff, wry

Neck, thin: ☞ emaciated

Neck, throat-pit (suprasternal fossa); bruised feeling, after expectorating, Arund.; as if a button were stuck fast, Lach.; choking on falling asleep, Val.; constricted feeling, with constant desire to cough, Cham.; constriction, after anger, worse when swallowing, Staph.; constrictive sensation above, causes cough, Ign.; contraction, better when bending neck, Phos. ac.; spasmodic cramplike feeling, like a pressure from below upward, or as when swallowing, Zinc.; drawing, roughness or stinging when coughing or sneezing, Bor.; dryness, Calc. a.; irritation to cough, Apis, Card. m.; irritation causes cough, in catarrhal aphonia, Rumex; lump, with asthma, Lobel. i.; as of a small lump like a button, feels as if it might loosen, but does not, Lach.; oppression, Lobel. i.; pain extends to root of tongue, and to hyoid bone, and to left tragus, behind which it shoots out, Lach.; as if pressed against trachea, Brom.; pressure, after anger, worse when swallowing, Staph.; pressure, as if something had stuck there, Æsc. h.; pricking, above, Spong.; soreness, Apis; internal soreness, worse in morning, Arg. nit.; constantly recurring needlelike stitches, externally, in lower part (goitre), Spong.; sensation of fumes of sulphur or dust causes hollow, spasmodic cough, Ign.; as if something were swollen and would suffocate him, cannot be swallowed, Lach.; constant tickling, Phos.; tickling causes cough, Ign., Lach., Phos., Rumex, Sang.; constant tickling, worse on expiration, Iod.; tickling, worse at night, Cham.; tickling, to behind sternum and stomach, causes dry, incessant, fatiguing cough, Rumex; titillating, with lisping voice, causing paroxysms of coughing, Con.

Neck, throbbing: Glon.; in back of, then to

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sides, worse on stooping or moving, Ferr.; in dysmenorrhœa, Ver. v.; thence over head to forehead, with burning on vertex, Phos.; left side, Codein.; in mania, Bell.; in nape, better when bending head backward, Lyss.; in nape, before menses, Nitr. ac.; in nape, with mental disturbance, Staph.; in nape, with painfulness to touch, Daph.; to occiput, Chel.; pain, better after rising, Eup. perf.; pain, preventing writing, Manc.; nape to left shoulder, extends over head, motion of head towards right, causes pain to shoot to right, Apis; of vessels, Bell. ☞ carotids

Neck, tightness: ☞ tension

Neck, trembling: Ang., Merc. viv.

Neck, tumor; encysted, both sides, Brom.; recurrent fibroid, size of a hen's egg, and hard, on left side, better on wrapping up, Sil.; large fungous excrescence back of left ear, one inch and a half in diameter and about same from base to top, tender and vascular, bleeding from slightest touch (fungus hæmatodes), Thuya; lipoma, with hectic fever, Phos.; malignant, Calc. p.; discharges yellow pus, Sec.; sarcoma, burning, Bar. c.; studded with, Cist.; swelling, size of a hazelnut, burning, fiery red, pointed, hard (carbuncle), Anthrac.; lump size of a walnut, movable, itches occasionally, Tuberc. ☞ gland

Neck, twanging; like wires, in left, followed by burning, as if losing her reason, Kali bi.

Neck, twitching; in cords, which looked like wires, with neuralgia, in paroxysms, in head, after profuse menses, Med.; in lower portion of side, Tarax.; in muscles, Agar., Zing.; in muscles of right, while lying, Spong.; of muscles, better on moving shoulders up and down (irritability of cerebrospinal system), Ran. b.; of right side (pregnancy), Agar.; sterno-cleido-mastoid muscle, in right (meningitis), Carbol. ac.

Neck, ulcerative pain; during cough, Caps.

Neck, ulcers: Ast. r.; scrofulous, left side, two inches broad, extending from border of hair to clavicle, edges hard and elevated, Ast. r.; small and scattered about, Lach.

Neck, uneasiness; in muscles, Ang.; with inclination to stretch neck, Calab.

Neck, veins; distended, Spong.; jugular, distended, Camph.; distended, in inflammation of lungs, Acon.; distended, in puerperal convulsions, Chin. s.; jugular, murmur, Puls.; jugular, murmur in left, Ferr.; jugular, strong pulsations, venous murmur (menses irregular), Dig.; swollen, Op.; swollen, in asthma, Tabac.; swollen, with cough, after catching cold (chronic bronchitis), Kali bi.; induration of jugular, in pregnancy, Ipec.

Neck, vertigo; with complaints, Calc. p.

Neck, vibration; inward, from neck into limbs, Camph.

Neck, wandering pains; in nape, with stiffness (rheumatism), Lac c.

Neck, warts; with horny excrescence in centre, Sep.; several old, Thuya; pedunculated pinhead (hereditary syphilis), Syph.; small, Nitr. ac.; soft to touch, like lipoma and pointed, Thuya

Neck, weakness: Arn., Ars. met., Coccul., Viol.; in back part, Cact.; with heaviness of head, Coccul.; cannot hold head up, in whooping cough, meningitis, Ver.; muscles do not support head steadily, Arn.

in nape, Stann.; of nape, head inclines forward, Plat.; and tired feeling, cannot support head, Glon.; and weariness, Æsc. h.

Neck, weariness: Bapt., Chim. m.; cannot hold head easily in any position, Bapt.; of nape, as from a heavy load, Paris; on motion, evening and night especially, Acon.; of nape, tired from writing, or any exertion, Zinc.; painful, in neuralgia, Lach.; pains as if wearied by too great effort, Zinc.

Neck, whiteness; deathlike, Pic. ac.

Neck, wry (torticollis): Ars., Bell., Calc., Cina, Cinch. bol., Colch., Dulc., Eup. pur., Lac c., Lach., Lachn., Lyc., Nux v., Rhus, Sul.; in cattle, Æsc. g.; contraction of muscles on one side, twisting neck to one side, Hyos.; in diphtheria and scarlet fever, Lachn.; after fright, due to spinal disease, Nux v.; of left side, Lyc.; turned obliquely, Hyos.; drawn to right shoulder (chorea), Cup. m.; twisted to right shoulder by hard swelling (after scarlatina), Aur. mur.; drawn towards right side (heart disease), Lyc.; from spondylitis sub-occipitalis, Asaf., Mez., Natr. m., Phos., Sil., Sul.; twisted by hard swelling to right shoulder (after scarlatina), Con.; head drawn to one side by swellings in, Cist. ☞ stiff

SACRUM, aching: Calc. p., Fluor. ac., Jamb., Phyt., Ptel., Sil., Variol., Zing.; across, Gels.; also into buttocks, Helon.; burning and tired, Helon.; constant, worse walking and stooping, Æsc. h.; dragging pains, with prolapsus uteri, Helon.; dull, Gels.; violent, like a gathering in a small spot, steady throbbing, worse night, and hinders sleep, better day, when up and walking about, but unable to lift anything, Kali bi.; follows pains, in all directions, through head, with violent and continuous vomiting, Med.; dull, into kidneys, Eup. pur.; in leucorrhœa, Æsc. h.; heavy, before menses, Vib.; dull, around side of pelvis, lasts seven hours after stool, Sul.; in evening, better by pressure, Sep.; in sciatica, Act. rac.; sore, Agar.; in spermatorrhœa, Sil.; in sacro-iliac symphysis, worse from motion, Æsc. h.; constant, into thighs, Lil. tig.; at top, Cup. m.; dull, worse walking, Æsc. h. ☞ dull pain, pain undefined

Sacrum, after-pains: ☞ labor-pain

Sacrum, anæsthesia; in a certain part no sensibility, Phos.

Sacrum, bearing down: ☞ pressing

Sacrum, boils; painful furuncle, Æthus.

Sacrum, boring: Calad.

Sacrum, feeling as if broken; with cough, Phos.; in metritis, Ars.; as if back would give way at point of sacro-iliac symphysis (uterine complaints), Æsc. h.; in sacro-iliac symphysis, as if separated in walking, Calc. p.

Sacrum, bruised feeling: Eup. perf., Fluor. ac., Natr. s., Sabad., Ver.; as if beaten, Agar., Bry., Natr. m.; in sacro-lumbar region, Coccus; lying on side, Act. sp.; pain in, as if one had been lying on too hard a couch (coccygodynia), Merc.; in morning, Calad.; in sacro-iliac symphysis, to lower limbs, standing, sitting or lying causes limping when walking, Hep. ☞ soreness

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Sacrum, burning: Coloc.; at 4 p.m., Lachn.; intense, Lac def.; steady, after several premature labors, Thuya; menses, passive flow, Carbo v.; with retarded menses, pains from motion, better lying down, Pod.; with rash after confinement, Cup. m.; between scapulæ, Thuya; along course of sciatic nerve, behind great trochanter of right leg, worse from warmth of bed (ischias), Coloc.; near sacro-iliac symphysis, Rumex; in uterine congestion, Ferr. ☞ heat

Sacrum, burrowing: Calad.

Sacrum, chill; over back, Kali iod.; runs to base of occiput, Gels.; descends to posterior part of thigh in morning, Stront.

Sacrum, chilliness: Puls.; constantly creeps up to back without subsequent heat or thirst, Sul.; during menses, Puls.

Sacrum, coldness: Benz. ac.; flying along side of vertebræ over whole body, alternating with heat, Camph.; skin feels cold, Arg. met.

Sacrum, cramplike pain: Ananth.; in prolapsus uteri, Bell.

Sacrum, creeping; to coccyx, in bone, later in bones of whole body, Aloe

Sacrum, cutting: Guaræa; better by heat, Sul.; in left outer side, shooting up and down, Kali bi.; during menses, Senecio; in morning, All. sat.; in muscle just above sacro-iliac symphysis, on left side, Gamb.; across top, Gamb.; in prolapsus uteri, Bell. ☞ lancinating

Sacrum, digging: Calad.

Sacrum, dislocated feeling: Agar.

Sacrum, dragging; painful, Sep.; painful, towards, Carbo v.; weakness, with prolapsus

Sacrum, drawing: Ast. r.; in intermittent, Ant. c.; in liver affections, Chel.; painful, Diosc.; painful, during menses, Zing.; painful, prevents erect position, after long sitting, Thuya; dull pain on upper part, place size of a hand, interferes with respiration, swells and feels as if something were filled up, Ars. h.; piercing, to uterus, Helon.; radiates over body and limbs, Diosc.; to right side of scrobiculum (gastralgia), Chel.; into thighs, Nux v.; in prolapsus uteri, Bell.

Sacrum, dull pain: Ham., Sep.; across, Lil. tig.; constant, in sacrum and hips, Ascl. h.; symphysis of right ilium and sacrum, while standing, Spong.

Sacrum, feeling as if falling apart; sacro-iliac synchondrosis, wants to be bound tightly (hemorrhage), Trill.

Sacrum, fluttering; sense of, like movements of a watch, commencing region of, and gradually rising to occiput, Ol. jec.

Sacrum, gurgling sensation; dull, in sacral bone, Ang.

Sacrum, heat: Sars., Sul.; in prolapsus uteri, Sep. ☞ burning

Sacrum, heaviness; constant, dull, painful, Phyt.; dull, painful, in region of sacro-iliac symphysis, Diosc.; down along pelvis and hips, Arg. nit.; while sitting, better by motion, Aloe; constant, dull, painful, to thighs and legs, Sep.; weight, Act. rac.; weight, in lower part, better standing, worse sitting and at stool, Arg. nit.; weight, in uterine congestion, Ferr.

Sacrum, itching; prickling, when walking, Merc.

Sacrum, labor-pains: Puls.; laborlike, in cancer uteri, Carbo a.; laborlike, to crest of ilium or around to uterus, with leucorrhœa after parturition, Sars.; into thigh, Cham.; after-pains pass around pubes and down thighs, Sul.; after instrumental delivery, Hyper.

Sacrum, lameness: Calc. p., Sil.; in pneumonia, Ant. t.; worse resting after exercise, Rhus; left sacro-iliac articulation, Como. ☞ numbness

Sacrum, lancinating: Ananth., Zinc. ☞ cutting, stitches

Sacrum, numbness: Calc. p., Plat.; asleep, cannot get up from seat, Calc. p.; painful, down legs (dysmenorrhœa), Graph. ☞ lameness

Sacrum, pain: Absin., Act. rac., Chel., Cimex, Eup. perf., Iod., Kali c., Lobel. i., Med., Psor., Sarrac., Sep.; across, Lactu. v.; sudden, at 4 p.m., with discharge of clear mucus from vagina (false labor-pains), Puls.; beginning of uterine cancer, Bell.; in cardialgia biliosa, Lobel. i.; with chill, Nux v.; after confinement, Phos.; continual (coccygodynia), Lach.; when coughing, Chel.; with crawling and stitching, Graph.; in chronic diarrhœa, Cup. ars.; distressing, beneath, Lept.; especially during exertion in day and while sitting, Agar.; in extremity (hydrometra), Sep.; after a fall (traumatic periostitis of sacrum and lower vertebræ), Sil.; during fever, Ars.; with fever (suppression of menses), Lobel. i.; in typhus, Bapt.; from flatus, Agnus; through to front, Ign.; in gastralgia, Arg. nit.; in hemorrhoidal colic, Abrot.; in hemorrhoids, Berb.; in hemorrhoids and dysentery, Caps.; and hip (prolapsus uteri), Æsc. h.; across hips, Sep.; across hips, lasting all day, Lyss.; pain through hips and thighs to below knee, with weakness and lassitude when moving, especially going up stairs, as if limbs would refuse to act before reaching top, Sep.; severe, to hips, terminates in uterus, Tarant.; to below knee, has to loosen garter and lie down, Cimex; after labor, Phos.; like labor-pains, Kali c., Kreo.; with lameness and stiffness, Helon.; through legs into feet, worse sitting, πKob.; from lifting, Sang.; violent, when lifting, takes her breath, Anag.; after overlifting, Calc.; violent, to lumbar region (lumbago), Ant. t.; to lumbar region and across left ilium to superior spinal process, throbbing, worse pressure over lower vertebræ (traumatic periostitis of sacrum and lower vertebræ), Sil.; cannot lie on either side, Natr. s.; lying on back, morning in bed, Ign.; during menses, Puls.; violent, in chronic metritis, Ant. t.; threatened miscarriage, Act. rac.; across, worse on motion, Form.; in myelitis, Sec.; severe, pelvic, commences in passing forward and down to right knee, Sep.; in pneumonia, Ant. t.; with pollutions, Graph.; during pregnancy, Xan.; severe, extending to pubes (dysmenorrhœa), Laur.; to pubes, during menses, caused by hemorrhoids with discharge of bright red blood, Sabina; to pubes, in pregnancy, Sabina; worse during rest, Nux m.; while riding in a carriage, Nux m.; worse rising from a seat, Lyc.; in left sacro-iliac articulation, running into groin (labor, pregnancy), Thuya; sharp and

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sore, came on as soon as she went to bed, Puls.; to shoulders, worse from labor (fistula in ano), Berb.; violent, could not sit (spinal disease), Apis; when sitting, Asaf.; worse sitting or bending backward, Puls.; disturbs sleep, Lith.; soreness through to pubes, Lyss.; during stool, Pod.; with urgency to stool, Amm. ben.; worse during and after stool, Pod.; cannot straighten himself, Kali bi.; from a strain while lifting a heavy weight (orchitis), Puls.; intense, across supersacral region, right nates, down right sciatic nerve, prevents sleep, Lac c.; severe, from ileo-sacral symphysis, down leg, Act. rac.; in sacro-iliac symphysis, lameness, worse walking, Æsc. h.; in region of sacro-iliac synchondrosis, Ol. jec.; passing into right thigh, worse when pressing at stool, coughing and laughing (sciatica), Tell.; down thighs (uterine hemorrhage), Sec.; at top, with nausea, Lil. tig.; about upper part, worse at night, Helon.; with frequent urging to urinate (diarrhœa), Cup. ars.; when urinating, Graph.; in prolapsus uteri, Lil. tig., Pod., Sep.; in uterine displacement, Pod.; in uterine troubles, Alum.; to uterus, Helon.; commencing internally and apparently coming around to uterus, Syph.; violent, Ars. h.; violent, in relapse of intermittent, Ars.; a kind of weakness, in morning, Calad. ☞ aching

Sacrum, paralysis; feeling of, Kalm.; paralytic condition, Gels.

Sacrum, paralytic pain; drawing into thigh, Cham.; down along pelvis and hips, Arg. nit.

Sacrum, piercing pain: Sul.; as from knives in middle, while sitting in evening, Natr. s.

Sacrum, pinching pain; with hysterical spasm, Caust.

Sacrum, pressing feeling: Anag., Cann. s., Ign., Sec., Zinc.; bearing down, with ineffectual urging to stool, Nux v.; bearing down, Bell., Berb., Merc. per.; bearing down towards, with chronic parenchymatous metritis, Nux v.; bearing down, as if parts would be forced out, worse in moving, Sec.; as if bones would be forced asunder, worse sitting and lying, Berb.; burning, Cepa; deep internal, when severe, worse sitting and lying, Berb.; dragging pain, Sep.; pain, dull, feeling of pressure and fatigue from long stooping, extends around hips and down right leg, Bapt.; often placed hand as if to support, Ol. jec.; sacro-iliac articulation, in left, with tingling in sole of foot, Coloc.; sacro-iliac articulation intermittent outward, pain in left, better by walking, Como.; in sacro-iliac symphysis, sharp, to lower limbs, sitting, standing or lying, causes limping when walking, Hep.; like a heavy load, as if it would burst, Agar.; all night, awakens her, Ang.; painful, as if broken, in upper part, Nux v.; painful, as from fatigue, in evening, Puls.; painful, in right side, later to middle of back (repeated eight times), Lyss.; painful, tensive, on stepping, Acon.; painful, only while walking and particularly on setting down left foot, Spong.; while sitting, better by motion, Aloe; constant, uninterrupted pressure to stool felt in, this pressure, though distressing, seems utterly ineffectual (dysentery), Merc. cor.; causing tensive pains in thighs, Puls.; in uterine congestion, Ferr.

Sacrum, pulling feeling; and pain as if menses were coming on, Med.; in prolapsus uteri, Bell.

Sacrum, rheumatic pain: Ol. jec.; after heat is relieved, Aur. met.; affects muscles, Zinc.; while stooping, felt as if something cracked across sacrum, cannot stoop or move for pain which remains during rest, but worse on movement of trunk or legs, Kali bi.

Sacrum, sensitive; left sacro-iliac articulation to pressure, Como.; in affection of sympathetic nervous system, Phos.; extreme tenderness, least pressure unbearable, Lobel. i.; right side painful to touch, Phell.

Sacrum, sharp pains: Calc. p., Coloc.

Sacrum, shocks; with rash after confinement, Cup. m.

Sacrum, shooting; between hips, Sil.; down outside of both hips, Phyt.; he must keep quiet, worse from motion, Coloc.

Sacrum, soreness: Sarrac., Sep.; of left iliac articulation, Como.; painful, near iliac symphysis, Rumex; before menses, Spong.; to shoulders, worse from labor (fistula in ano), Berb.; spot as if ulcerated, sensitive to touch, Colch. ☞ bruised feeling

Sacrum, sticking; along course of sciatic nerve, behind great trochanter of right leg, down as far as knee, worse from warmth of bed (ischias), Coloc.; flying along vertebræ over whole body, alternating with heat, Camph.

Sacrum, stiffness: Ananth., Apis; worse on resting after exercise, Rhus; bending or beginning motion, extending to hip joint and thigh, as if sinews were too short, Lach.; painful, especially rising from a chair, Caust.; down along pelvis and hips, Arg. nit.; cannot walk straight, Rheum.

Sacrum, stinging; burning, tearing, prevents sleep, Sil.

Sacrum, stitches: Lith., Nitr. ac.; to anus, Asaf.; burning, causing one to start, Mur. ac.; constant, Berb.; on a small spot between sacrum and left ilium, with slightest motion, Calc. p.; to loins, Aloe; needlelike, Chim. m.; in pertussis, Bry.; sudden, violent, walking in open air, Agar.; when walking, Calad. ☞ lancinating

Sacrum, sweat; cold, Plant.

Sacrum, tearing; along course of sciatic nerve, behind great trochanter of right leg as far as knee, worse from warmth of bed, Coloc.; fine, while sitting only, passing right to left side and upward, Spong.; especially near spine, Lyc.

Sacrum, tension: Sul., Zinc.; to left hip, pain as if muscles were too short, Caust.; pressive, deep internal when severe, worse sitting and lying, Berb.

Sacrum, throbbing: Sars.; constant, Berb.; in evening, Tabac.

Sacrum, tired feeling; after exciting dreams, in morning, Lyss.

Sacrum, ulcers; hard, black, bedsores, Arg. nit.; decubitus, in typhoid, Zinc.; skin, vitality of destroyed by pressure (sacral sores), Pæonia; after typhoid, Ars.

Sacrum, weakness: Lyss., Zinc.; in sacro-iliac region, Sep.; in sacro-iliac symphysis, as if bones were loose, Arg. nit.; at night, Lith.; with numbness and aching in head, Phos.