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

47. Stages of Life and Constitution

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large sore surrounded by small pustules, Hep.; with tertiary syphilis, Iod.

Skin, ulcerative pain: Puls.; when touched, Caust.

Skin, unhealthy: Calc., Cham., Chlorof., Hep., Lyc., Petrol., Psor., Tarax., Tarant.; feeling (chronic passive hemorrhage from kidneys), Tereb.; general tendency to fester, Petrol.; slow to heal, Bar. c., Chlorof., Petrol.; will not heal, Mang., Sars.; slight injuries suppurate, Bor.; every injury suppurates, Graph.; in rachitis, atrophy of children, Staph.; every little scratch has a tendency to fester, Sul.; inclined to suppurate, Cham.

Skin vermin: ☞ Eruption vermin.

Skin, warts: ☞ Eruption warts.

Skin, water; cold, causes burning, Dolich.; ☞ Eruption water ; also Chapter 39.

Skin, welts; flesh in ridges, as if struck with a stick, Lyc.; with raw feeling, Petrol.

Skin, white: Ars., Carbo v., Sumb.; in ovarian dropsy, Apis; grayish (dropsy), Fluor. ac.; in infantile derangement, Apis; in inflammation of leg and foot, Como.; milky, Kali c.; patch on arm amidst surrounding redness (scarlatina), Apis; parts which are usually red, Bor.; in scrofula, Ars.; almost transparent (ovarian dropsy), Apis; in typhoid, Coccul.; watery or milky, with pallid anæmia when disease is due to an original inertia and phlegmatic state, Natr. c. ☞ pale.

Skin, wilted: ☞ flabby, wrinkled.

Skin, withered: ☞ dry, shrivelled, shrunken, wrinkled.

Skin, wrinkled: Ars., Con., Kreo., Spig., Sul.; of affected parts, like hands of a woman who had been washing (syphilis), Lyc.; morbus Brightii, Phos. ac.; wilted, in children with aphthæ, Bor.; in cholera, Sec.; corrugated, Kali br.; corrugated, in cholera infantum, Kali br.; corrugated, with muco-purulent diarrhœa, Kali br.; yellow fever, Ver.; in folds, Sars.; in folds, in pruritus senilis, Mez.

AGE, boys; epistaxis (hydrocele), Abrot.; severe spontaneous epistaxis, Cop.; enuresis, a stout light-haired boy, Arg. nit.; nocturnal enuresis, light complexion, Sep.; constantly pulling at genitals, Stram.; overgrown, weak chest, Iod.; pining, lifeless, low-spirited, lacking in go, bad memory, Aur. met.; scrofulous, whooping cough after vaccination, Thuya; complaints from tobacco, Arg. nit.; constant dribbling of urine, Caust., Rhus; ☞ puberty, youths.

Age, children: Acon., Æthus., Agar., Amb., Ang., Ant. c., Ant. t., Arn., Ars., Asaf., Aur. met., Bar c., Bell., Bor., Bry., Calc., Calc. p., Camph., Canth., Caps., Cepa, Cham., Chel., Chloral., Cic., Cina, Cinch., Clem., Coccion., Coccul., Coff., Croc., Con., Cup. m., Cypr., Dig., Dros., Euphor., Ferr., Gels., Graph., Hell., Hyos., Ign., Iod., Ipec., Jacea, Kali br., Kali c., Kali m., Kali ph., Kreo., Lach., Laur., Lyc., Magn. c., Magn. p., Mar. v., Merc., Millef., Mosch., Mur. ac., Natr. c., Natr. m., Nux m., Nux v., Op., Plumb., Pod., Psor., Puls., Rheum, Rhus, Ruta, Sabad., Sabina, Sec., Seneg., Sep., Sil., Spig., Spong., Squilla, Stann., Staph., Sul., Sul. ac., Tereb., Thuya, Ver., Viol.

in a suckling a few weeks-old, Op. ☞ dry, shrivelled, shrunken.

Skin, yellow: Agnus, Ars., Ars. h., Bry., Bufo., Calc., Calc. p., Ced., Cham., Chel., Chloral., Chlor., Cornus, Crotal., Dig., Ferr., Graph., Hell., Hep., Med., Merc., Myr. cer., Natr. m., Nitr. ac., Nux v., Oleand., Plumb., Sil., Spig., Tabac.; during apyrexia, Elat.; bilious attacks, Nux v.; bilious color, in gastric neurosis, Phos.; brownish, Iod.; brownish, in jaundice, Phos.; clay-colored (ulcer of os uteri), Curar; in biliary colic, Cinch.; in cystitis, Hell.; dark, in jaundice, Aur. met., Hydras.; diarrhœa, during dentition, Ars.; dirty, Iod.; dirty, in psoriasis, Merc.; earthy, Natr. m.; in bilious fever, Crotal., Ipec.; in yellow fever, Lach., Merc.; golden, Aloe; grayish, Bufo.; greenish, Ars. h.; greenish, in icterus, Hydras., Sul.; gray, Bufo., Chel.; gray, in hepatic affections, intestinal catarrh, valvular disease, typhus, Chel.; with external heat, Merc. cor.; in hepatitis, Merc.; in intermittent, Diad., Elat.; in jaundice, Absin., Aur. mur. nat., Cham., Cinch., Con., Cup. s., Eup. perf., Iod., Lept., Merc., Myr. cer., Nitr. ac., Nux v., Plumb., Pod., Sul.; as in jaundice, Chion. v.; jaundice, biliary concretions, Sang.; jaundiced, during pregnancy, Acon.; jaundiced, in remittent fever, Sul.; with pain in liver, Polyp.; jaundiced, in pneumonia, Ant. t.; in liver complaint, Alum., Chel., Merc., Nux v.; subacute inflammation of liver, Hydras.; menorrhagia, Plumb.; mouldy, blotchy look, especially face and upper chest, Lil. tig.; orange (icterus neonatorum), Elat.; pale (hæmatemesis), Natr. m.; with scrofula, Calc.; in spots, all over, itching at night, Dolich.; tawny, Psor.; tawny, in ague suppressed by Cinchona, Natr. m.; particularly about temples, Caust.; dark, walnut color (jaundice), Tabac.; ☞ Chap. 18, Liver jaundice.

abdomen hard, hot, distended, Sil.; abdomen large, Calc., Sil., Staph.

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extremely affectionate, manifested by kissing and caressing, Puls.; anæmic, dentition, Coff.; anæmic, blue eyes and blonde hair, nosebleed, Puls.; full-blooded, strong, well-fed (dentition, eclampsia), Art. v.; bottle-fed, marasmus, abdomen swollen, liver large, colic after eating, stomach containing undigested food, Natr. p.; cachectic (scarlatina miliaria), Nitr. ac.; want to be carried, Ant. c., Cham.; do not want to be carried, lie quiet, Bry.; catarrh, with great nervous irritation, sleeplessness and spasms, Sumb.; chafing ☞ Chap. 46, Skin intertrigo; always chilly, refractory, clumsy, Caps.; chubby (whooping cough), Seneg.; take cold readily, Calc.; take cold readily with change of weather, Sep.; colic ☞ Chap. 19; three months' colic, Illic.; constitutional condition results in chest catarrhs and asthmatic complaints, Natr. s.; constitutional disturbances with copious excretion of urate of ammonia, Puls.; convulsions ☞ Chap. 36; cross, Lyc.; crusta lactea ☞ Chap. 4, Eruption; cry for things which after getting they petulently push or throw away, worse in early morning, Staph.; delicate, anæmic, Lyc.; delicate, scrofulous, especially if syphilitic, chronic recurrent phlyctenular inflammation, Syph.; develop too rapidly or slowly (epistaxis), Croc.; dwarfish, do not grow, Bar. c.; after exhausting diseases, Carbo v.; red ears, Sul.; earache ☞ Chap. 6; earache, especially boys, Zinc.; watch every one eating, Sul.; emaciated, Calc. p., Psor., Sul.; emaciation, especially of legs, Abrot.; rapid emaciation (gastromalacia), Kreo.; emaciation ☞ Chap. 44; enuresis ☞ Chap. 21, Urination involuntary; excitable, Coff.; excitable, gastric irritability, Nux v.; excitable, nervous, weak, Amb., Anac.; delicate eyelashes (atrophy), Phos.; sensation of falling, Gels.; fear of falling, Bor., Cupr.; fair and plump, Calc.; fat, Badiag.; fat, chubby, shortnecked, disposed to croupous inflammation, Kali bi.; fat, flabby, Calc.; fat, in whooping cough, Badiag.; feeble, scrofulous diathesis, frequently troubled with diarrhœa from debility, Nux m.; overfed (chronic diarrhœa), Sec.; fever, Acon., Stram.; flabby, thin, Calc. p.; lose flesh, will not stand, do not learn to walk, Calc. p.; softness of flesh, with debility, Pod.; grow too fast, Phos., Phos. ac.; growing pains, Guaiac., Phos. ac.; large heads, Calc.; large heads, open sutures, Calc. p.; large heads, open sutures, much sweat about head, large bellies, Sil.; cannot hold up head (brain affection, whooping cough), Cup. m.; irritable, Lyc.; irritable, sensitive, sometimes wakeful, Gels.; jaundice ☞ Chap. 18, Liver jaundice; excess of lactic acid, from overfeeding of milk or sugar, Natr. p.; marasmus ☞ Chap. 19; becomes disgusted with meat, Ferr.; nervous, Lyc.; nervous, during dentition, convulsion, Melil.; newborn ☞ Chap. 24, Infants; old looking, Kreo., Nux v., Op.; old looking, hard to awaken, Kreo.; look old, withered, dried up, Arg. nit.; pale, delicate, sickly, will not sleep day or night, but worry, fret and cry, or child is good, plays all day, is restless, troublesome, screaming all night, Psor.; pale, lean, with large abdomen, love sugar and highly seasoned food, abhor to be washed, Sul.

pale, scrofulous (tonsillitis), Chen. a.; pale, spasms during teething, Zinc.; peevish, Calc. p., Cham.; push everyone away angrily, Lyc.; peevish, changeable, pale and chilly, Puls.; peevish, unhealthy looking, with a disagreeable odor, Psor.; perspire easily (enuresis), Merc.; pot-bellied, colic and scald head, Psor.; during dentition, Staph.; psora, Hep., Sul.; puny, rachitic, large abdomen (constipation), Magn. m.; rachitic, Magn. m.; rachitic, voracious appetite, Ol. jec.; rachitic bronchial affections, Sil.; rachitic, otitis with tenderness of head, Kali iod.; rachitic, crooked legs, Calc., Calc. p.; restless ☞ Chap. 36, Restlessness children; school-children, headaches from overuse of eyes (asthenopia), Phos. ac.; scrofulous, Amm. c., Ant. c., Bar. c., Bell., Calc., Calc. p., Camph., Cina, Curar., Dig., Jacea, Phos. ac., Sil., Sul.; scrofulous, ascarides and lumbrici, Spig.; scrofulous, large bellies, sweat about head, worm fever slow and chronic, Sil.; scrofulous, caries of femur, Stront.; scrofulous, outrageously cross, Hep.; scrofulous, diarrhœa, Sec.; scrofulous and syphilitic, enuresis, Kali iod.; scrofulous, cervical glands indurated and swollen, Con.; scrofulous, hydrocele, Rhod.; scrofulous, subacute and chronic hydrocephalus where effusion has not progressed too far, Sul.; scrofulous, indurations, Carbo a.; scrofulous, mesenteric disease, teeth ill and irregular formation in lower jaw, Phos.; scrofulous, catarrhal ophthalmia, Merc. d.; scrofulous, spasms (hydrocephalus), Sul.; scrofulous, pale, inflamed, swollen tonsils, Chen. a.; self-willed, Calc.; crying or screaming from undue sensitiveness, Kali ph.; shrunken, Calc. p.; sickly, nervous, yellow leucorrhœa, worse at night (inherited syphilis), Syph.; delicate skin (dentition), Caust.; will not sleep in the dark but soon fall asleep in lighted room, Stram.; snoring, Mez.; sour smelling, cry a great deal, Rheum; sour, despite careful washing, Sul. ac.; stammering, Bov.; get stiff (whooping cough), Cup. m.; swallow everything, Sul.; sycotic or syphilitic taint, rather thin than fat, prone to eruptions which on healing leave purple spots (meningitis), Thuya; syphilitic (cancrum oris), Phos. ac.; scrawny, scrofulous child, a few weeks after birth, impetigo, Ipec.; thin, scrawny, with shrivelled skin (cyanosis), Sec.; thin, scrawny, with sweaty head and sweaty offensive smelling feet, diarrhœa, Sil.; cannot bear to be touched or looked at, Ant. c.; tuberculous parentage, inordinate appetite for meat, Magn. c.; slow learning to walk, Calc., Natr. m., Sil.; slow in walking, meningeal tuberculosis, Caust.; unable to walk, Mang.; dislike washing, Amm. c., Sul.; weak, Ferr. ph., Sul.; weak, delicate, Caust.; weak, of a rambling disposition, Apis; weak, excitable, Coff.; weak, with well developed heads but puny, sickly bodies, Lyc.; weakness, muscular, Calc.; weak, sicklg (chronic diarrhœa), Staph.; withered, dried up, Arg. nit.; worm affections ☞ Chap. 20; unmanageable when sick, Lyc.; under seven years, rheumatic inflammatory condition, epidemic during winter, Stram. ☞ Chap. 10, Dentition, and Chap. 24, Infants.

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Age, climacteric period: ☞ Chap. 24.

Age, girls: Bar. c., Bell., Ferr., Filix, Lach.; acne faciei, Puls.; weakness of bladder, Rhus; blonde, pale, gentle (pneumonia), Chel.; blonde, red-cheeked, scrofulous, Brom.; catarrh of pancreatic duct, Puls.; chlorotic, Alet., Ferr., Phos.; chlorotic, phthisis florida, suppurative stage, Puls.; delicate, growing, near puberty, Calc. p.; mild disposition when puberty is unduly delayed, or menstrual function is defectively or irregularly performed, Puls.; dropsical condition, amenorrhœa, Senecio; gastric affections, Bry.; headache of schoolgirls, Calc. p., Natr. m., Phos. ac.; schoolgirls, headache with diarrhœa, Calc. p.; nervous headache, at every menstrual period, Ver.; hysterical, Hyos.; hysterical, erotomania, Plat.; hysterical, menstruating irregularly, pain in stomach, Millef.; leprosy, Agar.; leucorrhœa, Caulo.; leucorrhœa, preceded by headache and sleeplessness, Senecio; menses delay, Natr. m.; menses irregular, dysmenorrhœa, Millef.; moles or freckles, Puls.; nervous, Senecio; nervous, whooping cough, Viol.; nosebleed, during menses, Sep.; onanists, warts, Sep.; palpitation, chronic, Lach.; phthisical, spasmodic cough (when Dros. failed), Meph.; romantic, Coccul.; scrofulous, chlorosis with dropsy, Senecio; sensitive, Coccul.; tall, thin, nervous, mild, impressionable, of fair complexion, tuberculous, Viol.

Age, men: Acon., Act. sp., Agar., Alum., Anac., Ars., Aur. met., Bar. c., Bry., Canth., Caps., Carbo a., Carbo v., Caust., Cinch., Clem., Coff., Coloc., Dig., Euphor., Graph., Hep., Ign., Kalm., Lach., Lyc., Magn. m., Merc., Natr. c., Natr. m., Nitr. ac., Nux v., Op., Phos., Rhus, Sil., Staph., Sul., Thuya, Ver., Zinc.; corpulent, advanced in life, gout, Staph.; addicted to drinking and sexual excesses, with disposition to gout and hemorrhoids, apoplexy, Sep.; debilitated, acute articular rheumatism with shifting pains, Staph.; intellectual, large heads and prominent mastoid processes, deafness due to congestion to ears after typhoid fever, Phos.; an intelligent, educated man, melancholia, Lobel. c.; a man of irate temper (diaphragmitis), Cact.; irritable, plethoric, 40 to 50 years of age, infraorbital neuralgia, Coloc.; literary, and others who suffer from periodical nervous headaches, Niccol.; invalided, from tropical climates, disordered livers, Phos.; rheumatic, exposed to weather and devoted to manual labor, fetid sweat of feet, Rhus; sedentary, accustomed to great mental exertion (headache), Nux v.; strong, much dosed with quinia, Arn.; studious, hypochondriasis, with abdominal complaints and constipation, Nux v. ☞ puberty ; also Chap. 22.

Age, old people: Amb., Anac., Aur. met., Bar. c., Bry., Cic., Coca, Colch., Con., Hydras., Iod., Mar. v., Millef., Natr. m., Op., Sabad., Sul. ac.; women accustomed to taking alcohol (asthma), Bry.; insensibility, after apoplexy, Op.; ascites complicated with liver and heart affections, Kali c.; asthma, Amb., Amm. c., Ant. c., Ant. t., Ars., Aur. met., Bar. c., Camph., Carbo v., Caust., Cinch., Lach., Mar. v., Op., Sul.; man, asthma when attempting coitus, Amb.

asthma, colds, Amb.; asthma, with tickling cough, Con.; previously asthmatic, or suffered from chronic mucorrhœa, threatened paralysis of lungs at an early stage of pneumonia, Phos.; atheromatous condition ☞ Chap. 29 Blood-vessels, atheromatous; atony, Millef.; atony of bladder, Ars.; atrophic conditions, Kali p.; chronic belching, Alum.; disease of bladder, Alum.; women, irritation of neck of bladder and urethra, Cop.; blennorrhœa vesicæ, Carbo v.; women, quantities of blood discharged at once, with constipation and hypochondriasis (hemorrhage from rectum), Psor.; full-blooded, strong (bedsores), Arn.; disease caused by blow or fall, cancerous and scrofulous people, rigid fibre, Con.; nonunion of fractured bones, Calc. p.; tendency to atrophy of brain, Phos.; losing breath, Coca; bronchial affections in cold weather, accumulation of mucus and much difficulty in raising it, Ammoniac.; bronchitis, Amm. c., Carbo v., Dros., Eucal., Hippoz., Hydras., Lyc., Nux v., Seneg., Ver.; catarrh, Ictod., Kreo.; bronchial catarrh, with muco-purulent sputa, ⁞Tereb.; chronic bronchial catarrh, with more or less profuse expectoration, also asthma of like character, especially when these always return or increase during the cold season and only abate on return of warm weather, Phell.; diseases with chilliness (men), Aurant.; during cholera season, women (cholerine), Æthus.; indolent circulation, Agar.; after climacteric period (hemorrhages), Merc.; colic and diarrhœa, Aloe; constipation, Op., Phyt.; alternate constipation and diarrhœa, Phos.; coryza, Amm. c.; dry cough, of a hard, racking, spasmodic character, worse at night, Sal. ac.; fatiguing cough, Kreo., Seneg.; violent winter cough, with spasmodic turns at night, and copious light-colored mucous sputa, Kreo.; must cough long time to expel phlegm, Dulc.; cramps in legs, Cup. ac.; deafness, Cic.; paralytic deafness, Petrol.; decrepit, Sec.; depression, Aur. met.; diarrhœa, Ant. c., Gamb.; alternate diarrhœa and constipation, Ant. c.; diarrhœa, after cholera, Coff.; diarrhœa, chronic, men, Con.; diarrhœa, in morning, Ars.; diarrhœa, painful, Carbo v.; diarrhœa, with great weakness, Nitr. ac.; diarrhœa, in hot weather, Gamb.; dysuria, Benz. ac.; feeble digestive powers, Dios.; dropsies, paralyses, Kali c.; dysentery, Bapt.; dyspepsia, Nux m.; dyspepsia, in those inclined to obesity or after great loss of vitality, Kali c.; cardiac dyspnœa, at night, Aur. met.; emaciated, mania-a-potu, Op.; emphysema, Ipec.; enuresis, Sec.; eruption, sero-purulent, Con.; erysipelas, Amm. c., Lach.; men, fear a long spell of sickness before dying, Cic.; intermittent fever, Op.; flabby, chronic incontinence of urine, from paralysis of sphincter vesicæ, Thuya; flatulence, Phos.; flatulency in dyspepsia, Carbol. ac.; fleshy, Kali c.; fleshy, dyspectic, All. sat.; gangrene, Crotal., Euphor.; gangrene, dry, Sec.; gangrene, after bruise, Sul. ac.; swelling of cervical glands, Astac.; gouty complaints, Bar. c.; gout and chronic rheumatism, with rigidity of muscles and tendons, Ol. jec.; gouty, in ophthalmia, Nux v.; trembling of hand when writing, Sabad.

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heart disease, gouty diathesis, Aspar.; incarcerated hernia, constriction coming on gradually, Sul. ac.; slow protrusion with squeezing pain in hernial region, Nux v.; hydrothorax, Crotal.; hydrothorax with œdema of feet, woman, Cain.; hypochondriacal or suffering from chronic diseases, especially catarrhs, Alum.; men, "old sinners," with impotence and gleet, Agnus; acute inflammatory conditions, Bry.; influenza, Eup. perf.; profuse secretion of mucus in lungs, with loose rattling cough, Seneg.; men, Hyos.; menorrhagia, with melancholy, Plat.; metrorrhagia, Merc.; man, brittle finger nails, Amb.; nosebleed, Agar., Sec., Sul. ac.; obesity, Amm. c., Aur. met., Fluor. ac., Kali c., Op., Sec.; paralysis, Kali c., Op.; women, general paralysis of voluntary muscles, paralyzing first peripheral nerve and finally spinal cord, Con.; brown patches, Aur. met.; petechiæ, Con.; phthisis, Natr. s.; pityriasis, Tereb.; plethoric, well nourished, painful cramp in calves or toes, worse at night, Nux v.; especially venous plethora, blue cheeks, blue lips, debility, etc., Carbo a.; pleurisy and pneumonia, protracted cases, Nitr. ac.; pleurisy, men, Sep.; pneumonia, with catarrhal irritation, Nux v.; pneumonia, notha, with sinking of forces, Camph.; premature old age, in consequence of syphilitic mercurial dyscrasia, Fluor. ac.; premature old age, from abuse of sexual powers, Agnus; woman, prosopalgia, Staph.; enlarged prostate, Aloe, Calc., Nux v.; chronic prostatitis, Staph.; rheumatism, Ars., Eup. pur.; scrofulous, Bar. c.; sedentary habits, catarrh of bladder, Tereb.; loss of sexual feeling in men, Lyc.; sleeplessness, Acon., Bar. c.; staggers when rising from seat, Calc. p.; hard stools, causing vertigo and headache, Calc. p.; sweating, from opium, Merc.; tendency to syncope, Crotal.; complaints in consequence of syphilitic-mercurial dyscrasia, Fluor. ac.; bitter taste, with clean tongue, women, Carbo v., Natr. m.; varicose ulcers, Sec.; tickling and itching in urethra, with constant desire for urinating, worse in morning in bed, better sitting or standing, Petrosel.; difficulty in urinating in morning, men, Cornus; scanty urine, Ars.; paralysis of sphincter, inability to retain urine, Kali ph.; dribbling or spurting of urine, Caust., Cepa; varicose veins, Caust., Fluor. ac.; vertigo, Bar. c., Con., Sinap.; with atheromata or earthy deposits on the cerebral or cardiac arteries, Alum.; vertigo with costiveness, Calc. p.; vertigo, worse rising from lying, turning or stooping, Rhus; vision weak, Aur. met.; weakness, men, Con., Curar., Nux m.; weakened from bleeding (apoplexy), Bar. c.; suffering during cold weather, Ammoniac.; women, Guaiac., Kreo., Lyc.

Age, puberty; chlorosis, with longing for indigestible substances, Alum.; chlorosis, retarded, Ferr.; girls, Aur. met., Bell., Lach., Puls.; unduly delayed in girls of mild disposition, Puls.; girls, melancholia, Hell.; girls, nervous palpitation, Puls.; girls, tall slim, epistaxis, Phos.; schoolgirls, Calc. p.; precocious, chlorosis, anæmia, with excessive muscular debility, Phos. ☞ boys, girls, youths.

Age, women: Acon., Act. rac., Ailant., Alum., Amb., Amm. c., Amm. m., Arund., Asaf., Bell., Bor., Calc., Caust., Caulo., Cham., Cic., Cinch., Coccul., Coff., Con., Croc., Ferr., Gels., Graph., Helon., Hep., Hyos., Ign., Ipec., Kalm., Lach., Lil. tig., Lyc., Magn. c., Magn. m., Merc., Millef., Mosch., Mur. ac., Natr. c., Natr. m., Nitr. ac., Nux m., Nux v., Op., Phos., Puls., Rhus, Ruta, Sabad., Sabina, Sec., Sep., Spong., Spig., Stann., Staph., Stram., Sil., Sul., Thuya, Val., Ver., Zinc.; tired, aching feeling and some burning in back and legs, Pic. ac.; anæmic, Cycl., Ferr., Lact. ac.; anæmic, amenorrhœa, Sep.; anæmic, dry mouth and skin, aversion to coitus, Natr. m.; anæmic, bronchopneumonia, Puls.; aneurism of mesenteric artery, Sec.; arthritic pains, Sabina; atonic, nervous headache, with menstrual irregularities, Ustil.; weakness of bladder, Rhus; blush easily, worse after wine (pulmonary consumption), Ferr.; who have suffered from inflamed or broken breasts and various glandular swellings and abscesses, profuse thick, tenacious leucorrhœa from swollen nabothian glands, Phyt.; cachectic, Cinnam.; cachectic, painless flooding, Sec.; cachectic, with rough skin, Sec.; have not recovered from change of life, Lach.; post-climaxis, cough, Lactu. v.; long past climacteric period, passive uterine hemorrhage, Vinca; choleric, freckles and red hair, Lach.; chronic ailments, Sabina; constipation, Sep.; short, dry cough, evening, Sep.; every fit of coughing causes passage of a few drops of urine, Caust., Natr. m., Rumex; cramps, Coccul.; complexion dark, hysteria, Phos. ac.; delicate, Ferr.; delicate, sensitive, nervous, faceache, Sep.; dwarfish, Bar. c.; dysuria, catarrhal, Senecio; ennervated by indolence and luxury, better when attention is engaged, Helon.; emphysematous, Ipec.; exhausted from venous hemorrhage, Sec.; disposed to faint (constipation), Nux m.; feeble from loss of blood, too profuse and frequent, Helon.; feeble, painless flooding, Sec.; cachectic, having a wan, anxious countenance, threatened abortion, Sec.; feeble, with prolapsus or other displacements, Helon.; feeble, delicate thin skin, amenorrhœa, Sep.; muscular fibre lax, Sec.; fibre rigid, easily excited, as well as those of the opposite temperament, Con.; inclined to be fleshy, Calc., Puls.; scanty menses, Kali br., Kali iod., Puls.; florid, plethoric, sensitive, Glon.; gouty, diarrhœa, Sabina; full habit (dysmenorrhœa), Bell.; hæmaturia, Cop.; hair dark, thin, sanguine or bilious temperament, too frequent and profuse menstruation, sexual organs exceedingly sensitive, Plat.; headache, Act. rac.; passive hemorrhages, Sec.; hysterical, Hyos., Mosch., Plat., Stann., Val.; hysterical, irritation of angina pectoris, Crotal.; hysterical, spasm of bladder, Puls.; hysterical, flatulent colic, Kali br., Puls.; hysterical, coryza, Amm. c.; hysterical, flatulent dyspepsia, Nux m.; hysterical, nervous headache, at every menstrual period, Ver.; hysterical, disposed to faint, feel chilly, catch cold easily, Nux m.; hysterical, periodic headache, Coff. t.; hysterical, hemicrania, Sep.; hysterical, suffer during menses, subject to den-

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tal neuralgia, sleepy most of time, sleep does not rest, Nux m.; hysteric pulsation all over body, Kali c.; hysterical, morbid sensitiveness of surface, Codein.; hysterical, ulceration of skin, Nux m.; hysterical, spasms, Gels.; hysterical, spasms of chest, Stram.; hysterical, tea-drinkers, Sep.; hysterical, too much chamomile tea, Val.; hysterical, great tympanitis, with fainting, Mosch.; hysterical, vomiting of food after each meal, especially if subjected to exciting emotions, Kali br.; after chronic indigestion, enlargement and congestion of liver, Magn. m.; acarus itch, after abuse of sulphur, itching worse evening, Sep.; thin, scrawny, Sec.; large, corpulent, of venous constitution, subject to tettery eruptions, itching and emitting glutinous fluid, Graph.; suppressed lochia, chlorosis, hysteria, Ant. t.; lymphatic, Cinnam.; cold, lymphatic, aversion to an embrace, Petrol.; lymphatic, feeble, cachectic, with lassitude and languid circulation, Cinnam.; lymphatic, clear, white skin, Ustil.; old maids, abdomen puffed big, protrudes here and there as from arm of a fœtus, motions as if containing something alive, Thuya; old maids, hypochondriacal, Con.; old maids, metrorrhagia, blood clotted, after abuse of mercury, Magn. m.; old maids, palpitation, Bov.; old maids, sleep interrupted by beating through chest, Puls; married, neuralgia of bowels, Kalm.; especially if married, urethritis (with vesical irritability), Cub.; menstrual disturbances, Arg. nit.; menses deficient, Natr. c.; middle aged, uterine affections, Kreo.; tendency to miscarry, Sabina; moth patches on forehead (headache), Sep.; nervous, Anac., Coccul., Gels., Ign., Mosch., Nux m., Senecio, Tereb., Val.; nervous, hysteric cough, Aur. met.; nervous, fainting, during menses, Lach.; nervous, irritable (prolapsus uteri), Bell.; nervous, laryngismus stridulus, Mosch.; nervous, sanguine, plethoric, red face, Arn.; nervous, sensitive, Amyl.; nervous, seasick, shut their eyes to get rid of the motion of the vessel, and grow deathly sick, Therid.; nervous, sensitive surface, Codein.; nervous, profuse light colored urine, Xan.; nervous, vomiting during menses, Coccul.; noses red, Bor.; bridge of nose yellow streak across and under eyes (headache), Sep.; obesity (constipation, delaying menses), Graph.; who have born children, rightsided ovaritis coming on suddenly from an imprudence in walking, getting wet or from sexual intercourse during or too soon after menses, or from excessive use of sewing machine, Pod.; strong, plethoric, menses painful and slight or even absent, with lumbar or inguinal pains (intermittent), Petrol.; plethoric, menstrual colic, Ver. v.; plethoric, young, suffered for years from headaches, Asar.; old and middle aged, polypi in ears and nose, Mar. v.; pot-bellied mothers, Sep.; prolapsus, from atony, enervated by indolence and luxury, better when attention is engaged hence when doctor comes, worn out with hard work, do not care for sleep, so tired, and strained muscles burn and ache so, Helon.; of high rank (prosopalgia), Coccul.; relaxed, phlegmatic habits (prolapsus uteri), Aloe; rheumatic, Caulo.; rheumatic, with diarrhœa, Sabina; rheumatic, membranous dysmenorrhœa, Rhus

rheumatic, menorrhagia, Rhus; sanguine, profuse and long-continued menses of bright red blood, Kali c.; sciatica, pain worse moving, yet not better lying, worse rainy, stormy weather, Ran. b.; scrawny, Sec., Sep.; scrawny, feeble, dried up looking (prolapsus uteri), Arg. nit.; scrofulous, leucorrhœa, Calc.; sedentary, muscular burning pains in shoulder blades about lower margin, often over a small space, greatly worse by long-continued needlework or writing, Ran. b.; sensitive, easily excited, Ign.; sensitive, extremely severe after-pains, Op.; slim, disposed to stoop, Phos.; spare habit, delicate, nervous temperament, dysmenorrhœa, Xan.; spasmodic and hysterical complaints complicated with uterine diseases, Magn. m.; sterile, uterine troubles, Calc.; stout, sedentary, readily catch cold, Amm. c.; strong, plethoric (ague), Petrol.; thin, Plat.; thin, scrawny, with prolapsus uteri, leucorrhœa, etc., Sec.; thin, ill-conditioned, frequent and prolonged forcing pain during pregnancy, Sec.; awake with a dry tongue (leucorrhœa), Nux m.; toothache, Cham.; have lived long in tropical climates, painless flooding, Sec.; uterine irritation, prolapsus and its attendant nervousness, with sleeplessness, Senecio; weakly, chest affections, great nervous and paralytic weakness, with suppressed or very painful menstruation, Coccul.; young, with irritable fibre, extreme delicacy and sponginess of organic tissue, hysterical, Phos. ac.; young, with menstrual troubles, especially deficiency, eruption on face, Sang.; young, nosebleed, Acon., Sec. ☞ Chaps. 23 and 24.

Age, young people: Acon., Calc., Gels.; anæmic, Absinth., Ars., Ferr., Phos.; anæmic, scrofulous, Ars.; asthma, from a general, bronchial catarrh, afterwards with every change of weather, Natr. s.; blonde hair, blue eyes, delicate skin, slender stature, with cachectic cough, diarrhœa, frequent, exhausting sweats, great debility, with orgasm of blood, Phos.; cancer, Kali ph.; cataract, with headache, vertigo, and roaring in ears, Sec.; digestion feeble, Diosc.; fever, violent pains in joints, congestions, swelling of limbs, Sil.; growing pains, Phos. ac.; growing too fast (chorea), Hippoz.; grow too fast, diarrhœa from acids, Phos. ac.; grow too fast, inclined to stoop, Phos.; overgrown, bronchitic, subacute attacks, Phos.; have not gotten their growth, with rheumatic symptoms in chest, and sleeplessness, Kali iod.; full habit, pneumonia, Bell.; obesity, Ant. c., Calc.; look very old, Fluor. ac.; from abuse of sexual powers, melancholy, apathy, mental distraction, self-contempt, general debility, frequent loss of spermatic fluid, Agnus; old, prematurely, in consequence of syphilitic-mercurial dyscrasia, Fluor. ac.; phthisical (hæmoptysis), Phos.; phthisis florida, Eerr. ph., Natr. p.; plethoric, Acon., Stram.; articular rheumatism, when first attack makes its appearance, Colch.; scrofulous, Carbo a.; scrofulous (mumps), Merc.; acute catarrh of stomach, Sep.; strong, sparks before eyes (neuralgic and rheumatic headaches), Magn. p.; sanguine or nervo-sanguine temperament, also people who are

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habitually cold and deficient in vital reaction, gay disposition, fitful mood, Ver.; tremors from emotional or physical causes (myelitis), Calab.; varicose veins, Ferr. ph., Ham.

Age, youths; fast growing, cough, hæmoptysis, typhoid fever, with diarrhœa and rumbling in bowels, Phos. ac.; overgrown, with weak chest, Iod.; lymphatic, chronic bronchial catarrhs, with more or less profuse expectoration, also asthma of like character, especially when these always return or increase during the cold season, and only abate on return of warm weather, Phell. ☞ boys, young people

COMPLEXION (including color of eyes and hair), dark (brunette): Bry., Caust., Coff., Ign., Kreo., Lac c., Nitr. ac.; olive brown, disposed to constipation, sad, gloomy, taciturn, Aur. met.; excitable, Alumina; with rigid fibre, Acon., Anac., Arn., Ars., Bry., Kalm., Natr. m., Nitr. ac., Nux v., Plat., Puls., Sep., Staph., Sul.; ophthalmia, Apis; slight, lean, Kreo.; swarthy, Cinch., Nitr. ac.; yellow, spare habit (icterus calculosus), Calc.; from eight patients, seven were spare and dark, the eighth blonde, Lac c.

Complexion, eyes; black, Caust., Mur. ac., Nitr. ac.; blue, Brom., Calc., Caps., Lobel. i., Puls.; dark, Acon., Aur. met., Guaiac., Iod., Lach.; dark, baby, epistaxis, Lact. ac.; dark, disposed to sluggishness and indolence, Lach.; dark, sycosis, Sars.; gray, Med.; lashes delicate, Phos.

Complexion, fair (blonde, light): Apis, Brom., Bry., Calc., Hep., Lobel. i., Petrol., Phos., Sabad., Sil., Spong.; with lax fibre, Bell., Brom., Calc., Caps., Cham., Clem., Coccul., Con., Dig., Graph., Hyos., Kali bi., Lach., Lyc., Merc., Rhus, Sil., Sul.; grows too rapidly (tuberculosis), Calc.; sandy hair, sanguine (whooping cough), Arn.; lymphatic ascites, ophthalmia, Apis; thin, white, delicate skin, light hair and eyebrows (croup, diphtheria), Brom.; skin fine, Sil.; spare and thin (chronic diarrhœa), Apis; graceful women (metritis), Phos. ☞ pale

Complexion, florid: Acon., Chin. s.; blotchy, red, thick skin, Kali bi.

Complexion, freckled: Lach. ☞ Chap. 46, Skin freckles

Complexion, pale: Calc., Kali ph., Spig.; delicate, Led.; livid, Kreo.; livid, disposition sad, irritable, Kreo.; flabby, scrofulous (inflammation), Merc. d.; nervous affections, neuralgia, sciatica, lumbago, with deficiency of animal heat, Ol. jec.; scrofulosis, diseases of joints, Ol. jec.; sensitive, irritable, Kali ph.; sickly, Lach.; very white, light hair, and more or less tendency to scrofula, post-scarlatinal dropsy, Dig. ☞ fair

Complexion, hair; black, Aur. met., Caust., Nitr. ac.; black, dark complexion, tendency to constipation, Bry.; black, dark complexion, blue eyes, rheumatism, Calc.; black, children, enuresis nocturna, Caust.; blonde, Calc., Coloc., Cycl., Phos.; blonde, asthma, Phos.; blonde, deafness due to congestion to ears, after typhoid fever, Phos.; blonde, blue-eyed girl (earache), Bar. m.; blonde, red-cheeked, scrofulous girls, Brom.; blonde, hemorrhages, Merc.; blonde, irritable, weakly, Camph.

blonde, leuco-phlegmatic, chlorotic, disinclination for any kind of labor, easily fatigued, special senses enfeebled or with functions suspended, Cycl.; blonde, pale face, low spirits, Graph.; blonde, mild temperament, gonorrhœa, Puls.; dark, Acon., Dulc., Ferr., Guaiac., Ign., Iod., Kali c., Mur. ac., Nux v., Sep.; dark, baby, epistaxis, every morning, Lact. ac.; dark, firm, fleshy fibre, Bry.; dark, lax fibre, inclined to obesity, Kali c.; dark, rigid fibre, Arn., Caust.; dark, rigid fibre, mild and easy disposition, Sep.; dark, hysteria during change of life, Phos. ac.; dark, skin delicate, sensitive to cold, liable to eruptions from being exposed to cold, Dulc.; dark, women, Plat.; light, Agar., Bor., Brom., Caps., Clem., Coccul., Con., Cup. m., Dig., Hep., Hyos., Kali bi., Lobel. i., Merc., Mez., Op., Petrol., Sabad., Spong., Spig., Sul. ac.; light, asthma, Aur. met.; light brown, nervous, excitable temperament, Cham.; light, debilitated, pale, thin, bloated persons, complaining of weakness, Spig.; light, lax fibre, Spong.; light, skin and muscles lax, Agar., Bor., Merc.; light, inclined to be fleshy, Lobel. i.; light, lax muscles and want of bodily irritability, the well-chosen remedy makes no impression, Op.; light, with a weakened, relaxed muscular system, Sabad.; light (scrofula), Aur. met.; sandy, Arn., Phos., Puls., Rhus; sandy, blue eyes, pale face, inclined to grief and submissiveness, Puls.; sandy, freckles, women, Lach.; soft, Phos.; soft, atrophy of children, Phos.; soft, straight, more often than crisp and curly, Nux m.

Complexion, sallow: Fluor. ac.; bilious, Hep.; cold extremities, Lyc.; jaundice, Pod.; pale, lupus, recent cases, shallow ulceration, Lyc.; dirty, yellow, greasy skin, with a partially developed eruption on forehead and chest, with constant fretting and worrying, cases which do not respond promptly to the indicated remedy, Psor. ☞ dark, pale

CONSTITUTION (diathesis), anæmic: Ars., Calc., Calc. p., Cycl., Ferr., Lach., Natr. m., Phos., Sil., Spig., Sul., Ver.; debilitated, rheumatic, scrofulous children, afflicted with ascarides and lumbrici, Spig.; faceache, Cinch.; after loss of fluids or vitality, Cinch., Kali c.; headache, with congestion, indurated glands, Ferr. iod.; laryngeal catarrh, Mang.; nervous affections, neuralgia, sciatica, lumbago, with deficiency of animal heat, Ol. jec.; palpitation, Ferr., Ver. ☞ Chap. 29, Blood anæmia, chlorosis, leucæmia

Constitution, asthmatic: Amb., Arg. nit., Ars., Asaf., Aur. met., Colch., ⁞Eucal., Illic., Ipec., Kali c., Kali iod., Kali n., Mosch., Natr. s., Phos., Puls., Sul.; affected by odor of blossoms, Ailant. ☞ Chap. 26, Asthma constitution

Constitution, bilious: ☞ Temperament bilious

Constitution, cachexia (in general): Ars., Badiag., Caps., Chim. umb., Clem., Coccus, Cund., Form., Iod., Kali bi., Natr. m., Nitr. ac., Seneg.; Africana, Caps.; bronchitis, subacute attacks, Phos.; bronchial catarrh of old people, Hydras.; cinchona, Ferr.

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condylomata, of long standing, Kali iod.; catarrhal, or nerve deafness, Syph.; chronic disease, deep-seated progressive, Lyc.; with cough, Nitr. ac.; debility and emaciation, Iod.; deep-seated, child weak and exhausted, with no other symptoms, Sul. ac.; dry habit, Nux v.; dysentery, or gout, Colch.; long-lasting cases of intermittent fever when liver is involved and blood is anæmic, Nitr. ac.; disturbance of gastric and hepatic functions, Hydras.; glands enlarged and tender, Kali m.; helminthiasis, Cina; low state, Iod.; mercurial, Aur. met., Ferr. iod., Iod., Kali m.; nosebleed, Sul. ac.; from faulty nutrition and assimilation, Ferr.; with œdema, Ol. jec.; nervous palpitation, Natr. m.; phosphatic, Calc. p.; purpura, rheumatism, Sec.; quinine, Eucal., Natr. m., Phos.; salt-eaters seldom have male issue (Old Book), Phos.; with stomach and liver troubles, Hydras.; loss of strength, Arg. nit.; caused by a suppression of habitual secretions, and excretions, Graph.; syphilitic eruption, pustular, or squamous, Kali iod.; weakened by loss of blood, Chin. s.; vomiting, Sul. ac.; ordinary wounds and ulcers tend to take on a bad appearance, Cund.; remains long impressed by slight mechanical injuries, Arn.

Constitution, cancerous: Con., Hydras., Mez., Sep.; ulcer of os uteri, Curar.

Constitution, carbo-nitrogenoid: Aur. met., Aur. mur. nat., Cup. ac., Cup. m.

Constitution, catarrhal: Hep., Kali bi., Natr. m., Sep., Sul. ☞ Chap. 7, Nose catarrh ; also Chap. 25, Air passages catarrh

Constitution, dwarfish; cretinism, Lapis; mentally and physically, Bar. c.

Constitution, dyspeptic: Diad., Nux v.; old or young, flatulence after meals, in stomach or bowels, but unattended with any hepatic derangement or irregularity of bowels, these persons, from excess in eating, or from fasting or from some error in diet, as eating old uncooked fruit, pastry, etc., especially if they are great tea-drinkers, may be suddenly seized with violent colic, Diosc. ☞ Chap. 17, Stomach dyspepsia

Constitution, fibre; lax, Agar., Bor., Calc., Caps., Cinnam., Hep., Kali c., Magn. c., Op., Sabad., Sil., Spong.; lax, abortion, Ustil.; lax, in blonde persons, Bell., Brom., Calc., Caps., Cham., Clem., Con., Coccul., Dig., Graph., Hyos., Kali bi., Lach., Lyc., Merc., Rhus, Sil., Sul.; lax, flooding, with fainting, Trill.; lax, light-haired children, Thuya; lax, hemorrhages, Merc.; lax, hepatitis, Merc.; lax, too frequent and copious menses, Thlaspi; lax, indolent enlargement of tonsils, Kali bi.; lax, women, Sec.; rigid, Acon., Coff. t., Nitr. ac., Nux v., Sep.; rigid, cancerous and scrofulous people, Con.; rigid, in dark persons, Acon., Anac., Arn., Ars., Bry., Caust., Kalm., Natr. m., Nitr. ac., Nux v., Plat., Sep., Staph., Sul. ☞ lymphatic

Constitution, gouty: Apis, Aspar., Benz. ac., Calc., Calc. p., Caps., Carb. s., Cham., Colch., Crotal., Guaiac., Led., Lith., Lyc., Magn. c., Menyanth., Sabina, Urt. ur.; chronic bronchitis, Sul.; paralytic deafness, Petrol.; drunkards, Nux v.; intermittent headache pains semi-lateral, tearing, drawing, crampy, Coloc.

protracted uterine hemorrhage, Sabina; flatulent indigestion, Lyc.; iritis, Rhus; hard lumps on neck, extend to left side, Sil.; neuralgia, Coloc.; ophthalmia, after catching cold, Bell.; renal colic, Pareira; serous effusion in chest in arthritic pleurisy, Colch.; mercurial ulcers, Lyc.; uric acid diathesis, Colch., Lith., Lyc.; glycosuria, Phos.; fetid urine, Benz. ac.; fetid urine viscous, Form.; vesical irritability, Colch. ☞ Chap. 34, Joints gout

Constitution, hemorrhagic (bleeders): Chloral., Crotal., Diad., Ferr., Ham., Lach., Phos., Tereb.; apoplexy, Crotal.; atonic, Millef.; from fluidity and dissolution of red blood corpuscles, Amm. c.; hemorrhoids, Crotal., Nux v., Sul.; ovaritis, Crotal.; nervo-sanguine temperament, Ham.; slight wounds bleed much, Phos.; slightest wound causes bleeding for weeks, discharge of sanious liquid, tendency to putrescence, tingling in limbs and great debility, weakness is not caused by previous loss of fluids, Sec. ☞ Chap. 29, Blood hemorrhage

Constitution, hemorrhoidal: Æsc. h., Calc., Caps., Caust., Crotal., Graph., Ham., Mur. ac., Plat.; constipation, Æsc. h., Hydras., Natr. m., Nitr. ac., Nux v., Sul.; deafness, Sil.; hæmoptysis, Millef. ☞ Chap. 20, Hemorrhoids

Constitution, herpetic: Bov., Calc., Graph., Lyc.; chronic bronchitis, Sul.; with tumors, Sil. ☞ Chap. 46, Eruption, herpes

Constitution, hydrogenoid: Ant. c., Ant. t., Arn., Ars., Caust., Diad., Dulc., Natr. s., Nitr. ac., Rhus, Thuya; attacks at regular hours, Diad.; feels every change from dry to wet, cannot tolerate sea air, nor eat plants that thrive near the water, feels best on a dry day, a constitution in which the gonorrhœal poison is most pernicious, Natr. s. ☞ Chap. 39, Weather wet aggravation

Constitution, lymphatic (flabby, relaxed, torpid): Amm. c., Apis, Arn., Ars., Ast. r., Aur. mur., Bapt., Bar. c., Bar. m., Bell., Calc., Calc. a., Cann. i., Carbo v., Cinch., Dulc., Ferr., Graph., Hep., Kalm., Lyc., Merc., Murex, Natr. m., Nitr. ac., Petrol., Phos., Puls., Rhus, Sep., Sil., Sul., Thuya; agalactia, Agnus; prophylactic in apoplexy, Merc.; bronchitis, Caust.; tendency to mucous and serous exudations, Seneg.; flabby, Ast. r.; liable to glandular swellings, Bell.; light hair and complexion, slow to act, muscles soft and flabby, Hep.; weak and defective reaction, Phell.; scrofulous and tuberculous, Calc. a. (after Con.); light skin, blue eyes, feeble (ascites), Apis; venous, disposed to hemorrhoids, constipation or morning diarrhœa, scrofulous diseases seem to get almost well when they return, diseases caused especially by suppressed eruptions, peevishness, sudden and frequent flushes of heat all over body, followed by perspiration, hot palms, soles and vertex; faintness in epigastrium, at 10 or 11 A.M., Sul. ☞ Temperament lymphatic

Constitution, phthisical: ☞ tuberculous

Constitution, plethoric: Acon., Aur. met., Bell., Cact., Calc., Glon., Nux v., Op., Ruta, Sec., Seneg., Ver. v.; apoplectic, subject to paralysis, Con.; constipation, Op.

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ebullitions ☞ Chap. 29, Blood ebullition; phlegmonous inflammations, Bell.; nervous persons, spasms, Kali br.; robust, Nux v., Ruta; seemingly plethoric, Ferr., Glon.; strong, sedentary, Con., Nux v.; adults, headaches with congestion, giddiness, flushed face and constipation, Nux v.; veta, Coca; vigorous, gout, Colch.

Constitution, psoric: Ars. i., Calc., Graph., Hep., Kreo., Psor., Sul.; chronic diarrhœa, Mez.; impetigo, especially after abuse of mercury, Clem.; patient emits a disagreeable odor, Psor.; remedies fail to impress, lack of reaction after disease, Psor. ☞ Chap. 46, Eruptions

Constitution, rachitic: Calc., Calc. p., Rhus, Sil. ☞ Chap. 44, Bones rachitis

Constitution, relaxed: ☞ fibre

Constitution, rheumatic: Acon., Act. rac., Act. spic., Badiag., Benz. ac., Calc., Caust., Cham., Colch., Crotal., Form., Guaiac., Lact. ac., Led., Lyc., Kali iod., Kali m., Kalm., Med., Phyt., Rhod., Rhus, Sabina, Sal. ac., Spig., Sul., Tereb.; abuse of alcohol, Led.; angina pectoris, Phyt.; progressive locomotor ataxia, Nux m.; chronic bronchitis, Sul.; caries, with tetter, Rhus; intermittent headache, semi-lateral, tearing, drawing, crampy, Coloc.; neuralgia, Coloc.; periosteal and fibrous tissues affected, Phyt.; prosopalgia, Phyt.; renal colic, Pareira; serous effusion in chest with arthritic pleurisy, Colch.; sclerotitis, Kalm.; night sweats, tearing, lancinating, sensation of cold in affected parts worse at night (neuralgia), Merc.; syphilitic or gonorrhœal patients, Benz. ac.; especially in syphilitic and mercurial patients, Guaiac.; ardor urinæ, Sabina; women, Phyt. ☞ Chap. 34, Joints and Limbs rheumatism

Constitution, scorbutic: Carbo v., Diad., Kali m., Merc., Natr. m., Nitr. ac., Sul. ac.; caries of teeth, Phos. ac.; granular vegetations in vagina, Staph. ☞ cachexia mercurial ; also Chap. 10, Gums scorbutic

Constitution, scrofulous (strumous): ⁞Agar., Alum., Alumina, Ant. t., ⁞Anthrok., Apis, Ars., Ars. iod., ⁞Arum m., Asaf., Ascl. t., Aur. met., Aur. mur., Aur. mur. nat., Badiag., Bar. c., Bar. m., Bell., Brom., Bufo., Calc., Calc. a., Calc. p., ⁞Calend., Caps., Caust., Chim. umb., Cist., Coca, Con., Coral., Cornus, Cund., Dulc., Ferr., Ferr. iod., Ferr. mur., Ferr. ph., Ferr. s., Graph., Hep., ⁞Hippoz., Hydras., Iod., Iris, Kali bi., Kali c., Kali iod., Kreo., Lac c., Lach., Lapis, Lith., Lyc., Magn. c., Merc., Mez., Natr. c., Natr. m., Natr. p., Nitr. ac., Nux m., Nux v., Phyt., Rhus, Rumex, Sars., Sep., Sil., Spong., Staph., Stilling., Sul., Therid., Thuya; sensitiveness to cold air, Cist., Hep., Merc.; albuminuria, Calc. a.; chronic bronchitis, Sul.; soft chancre, Nitr. ac.; suffocating cough, Con.; debilitated, Hep.; difficult dentition, Sil.; unhealthy, offensive discharge (ciliary blepharitis), Psor.; dysmenorrhœa, Senecio; emaciation, Iod.; excoriation in throat and nose, Mez.; eye troubles, Con.; pale face, rather fair complexion and disposition to corpulence, Calc.; enlarged glands, Badiag., Bar. c., Bar. m., Bell., Brom., Carbo v., Con., Dig., Graph., Merc., Therid.

light-haired, sanguine temperament, ruddy complexion, Aur. met.; herpes on face, with dry, croupy cough, Spong.; hydrocele, Sil.; hypopion, Seneg.; diseases of joints, Caust., Kali c., Ol. jec., Sil., Sul.; lymphatic œdema, blonde hair, pale face, low spirits, Graph.; nervous, restless, easily startled, Psor.; ophthalmia ☞ Chap. 5, Ophthalmia scrofulous; exophthalmus, Sec.; suppurating fistula, Sil.; liver complaint, Sil.; pale, thin, cachectic, Ol. jec.; ulceration of velum palati, Kali iod.; incipient phthisis, Stilling.; pleurisy, with croupous exudation, Hep.; protracted, ill-treated cases with hectic and profuse fetid suppuration, Petrol.; ruddy complexion, Aur. met.; slender, lean figure, thin, transparent skin, frequent pulse, great excitability of nervous system, urine of high specific gravity, Ol. jec.; syphilis, Cinnab., Phos. ac.; secondary syphilis, Kali iod.; especially if syphilis or mercurialization is added, Kali iod.; with sycosis, Cinnab.; varicosis, Carbo a.; venous congestions, especially of portal system, Sul.; young persons, Carbo an. ☞ Chap. 44, Glands indurated, swelling

Constitution, sycotic: Ast. r., Diad., Med., Natr. p., Natr. s., Nitr. ac., Sars., Thuya; a kind of phthisis, not true tuberculosis, Natr. s. ☞ Chap. 22, Sycosis ; also Chap. 46, Skin, warts

Constitution, syphilitic: Ars., Ascl. t., Aur. met., Benz. ac., Clem., Coral., Crotal., Cund., Euphor., Ferr. iod., Fluor. ac., Guaiac., Kali bi., Kali iod., Merc., Merc. cor., Merc. d., Merc. iod. rub., Mez., Nitr. ac., Petrol., Phos., Phos. ac., Phyt., Sars., Sil., Stilling., Sul., Syph., Thuya; hereditary, keratitis parenchymatosa, Merc.; hereditary, in a girl æt. 13, Sul.; hypopion, with sloughing ulcer, Sil.; mercurial, Aur. mur. nat., Daph., Kali iod., Lach.; mercurial-scrofulous, Apis; large doses of mercury (deafness of left ear), Petrol.; mothers, to prevent disease in offspring, Aur. mur. nat.; prosopalgia, Phyt.; torpid, cachectic swelling and induration of glandular system, Clem. ☞ Chap. 22, Syphilis

Constitution, tuberculous: Acet. ac., Agar., Ars., Ars. iod., Arum t., Brom., Calc., Calc. a., Calc. p., Hep., Iod., Kali c., Kali iod., Lach., Lyc., Mang., Merc., Natr. m., Natr. s., Phos., Pix, Psor., Rhus, Sep., Sil., Spong., Stann., Stram., Sul., Tuberc.; aphonia, Phos.; oppression of chest, with constant irritation to cough and expectoration, causing evening fever, with hot hands and cheeks, Kali n.; chronic cough, Natr. m.; slight hacking cough, Tuberc.; bloody expectoration, shortness of breath, no pain in chest, palpitation, Ferr.; hæmoptysis, Myrtus; hyperæmia, Kali iod.; bloody or purulent sputa, alternately, Plumb. ☞ Chap. 28, Lungs consumption ; also Chap. 44, Tubercles

Constitution, venous: Carbo an., Carbo v., Ham., Lach., Nux v., Sul., Sul. ac. ☞ hemorrhoidal

Constitution, weakly: Ars., Calc., Calc. p., Carbo v., Chin. s., Cinch., Coccul., Colch., Ferr., Fluor. ac., Hep., Lach., Merc.

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Natr. m., Nux v., Phos., Phos. ac., Sec., Sep., Sil., Spig., Sul., Ver.; assimilation imperfect, Sil.; asthma, Carbo v.; by loss of blood, Chin. s., Cinch.; bookworms, sensitive romantic girls, onanists, rakes and drunkards, Coccul.; broken down, Crotal., Nitr. ac.; broken down, mania-a-potu, Op.; broken down, with neuralgia, Phos.; broken down, caries following syphilitic nodes, Staph.; broken down, intemperate, abdominal and renal dropsies, Chim. umb.; broken down by continued influence of syphilis and mercury, Aur. met.; cachectic, profound debility and great emaciation, Iod.; cachectic, diarrhœa and colliquative sweats, glandular affections, Phos.; soft chancre, Nitr. ac.; chorea, Stram.; delicate persons, Ign.; delicate (chorea), Natr. m.; dysmenorrhœa, Graph.; emaciated, Alet.; erysipelas phlegmonous, phlyctenous or œdematous, Crotal.; intermittent fever, Phell.; florid, sanguine and nervous, Chin. s.; loss of fluids and excesses, violent acute diseases, chagrin, or a long succession of emotions, Phos. ac.; after loss of fluids or of vitality, especially in anæmia, Kali c.; headache, with congestion, Ferr.; intermittent action of heart, with obstruction to hepatic circulation, Ver.; diminished animal heat, Alumin.; hectic fever, worse after meals, Sil.; abdominal hernia and prolapsus, Kali ph.; irritable, lymphatic, weak, and defective reaction, Phell.; meagre, melancholy, chlorotic, sickly complexion, hot flushes, burning vertex, headaches, pain in back, or hot flushes by day and cold flushes by night, insomnia, Lach.; menopause, Crotal.; subjects with mucous discharges, Hydras.; muscular development feeble, intellect keen, Lyc.; nervous cough, Phos.; nervous, cold sweat, Act. sp.; nervous, fat, or plethoric persons and such as have disease of heart and lungs, suffer from veta, Coca; nourished imperfectly, Sil.; poorly nourished (scrofulous ozæna), Merc. cor.; paraplegia, Coccul.; sallow, emaciated, Fluor. ac.; fine skin, pale face, light complexion, lax muscles, Sil.; starving persons, Ign.; pain in stomach, after eating, Mang.; prolapsus uteri, ⁞Calc. p.; large varix from slight cause, Sul.

HABIT, drunkards: Absin., Act. rac., Agar., Ant. c., Ant. t., Ars., Asar., Bell., Bar. c., Cadm., Calc., Cann. i., Carbo v., Card. m., Chim. umb., Cinch., Coccul., Coff., Crotal., Dig., Eup. perf., Gels., Hyos., Illic., Kali br., Lac c., Lach., Led., Meph., Natr. c., Natr. m., Natr. s., Nux m., Nux v., Op., Phos., Ran. b., Selen., Sep., Stram., Sul., Sul. ac., Zinc.; acne ☞ Chap. 8, Eruption acne; amblyobia, Cinch.; apoplexy, Crotal.; catarrh of bladder, Coff. t.; brain troubles, Merc.; brandy-drinkers, Ferr.; cholera (a teaspoonful of salt in a glass of water), Natr. m.; coffee should be used by wine-drinkers; cold after overheating, apoplectic, Bar. c.; congestion to head and heart, Dig.; cough, Stram.; deafness, Petrol.; diarrhœa, Lach.; dropsy, Sul.; dyspeptics, beer-drinkers, Kali bi.; atonic dyspepsia, Op.; dyspepsia and debility, Natr. s.; delirium and mental derangement, Merc. viv.; easily intoxicated, Con.; eczema, Led.

yellow fever, Cadm. s.; glossitis, with paralysis, Nux v.; gonorrhœal rheumatism, Crotal.; gout, Astac.; hæmoptysis, Nux v., Op.; light hair, blue or gray eyes, florid complexion, fat or corpulent, Lobel. i. (opposite of Nux v.); hands trembling, Nux v.; headaches, Agar., Nux m., Selen.; headache, hemorrhoids, erysipelatoid inflammation, Lach.; heartburn, Nux v.; hemorrhoids, Crotal., Sul. ac.; hypochondriasis, from gastric or liver troubles, Nux v.; insensibility, after apoplexy, Op.; cures longing by removing irritation of stomach, Phos.; enlarged liver, Nux v.; œdema pulmonum, gangrena pulmonum, Crotal.; suppuration of lungs, Op.; thin, irritable, nervous disposition, Nux v.; trembling, shaking of hands, Magn. p.; nosebleed, Sec.; red nose, Lach.; old inebriates, Crotal., Illic.; paralysis, Op.; phthisis, Cinch.; pneumonia, Nux v.; rakes, Coccul.; popular in Russia, Asar.; sensitiveness of stomach to contact, especially of clothes (cancer of stomach), Lach.; spasmodic stricture, Op.; tendency to syncope, hemorrhage, epistaxis, menorrhagia, petechial eruption, or œdema of lungs or legs, effusion into joints, ophthalmia, diarrhœa, dysentery, Crotal.; tea-drinkers, Ferr.; vomiting, Sul. ac.; vomiting of mucus, Zing.; unsuccessful vomiturition, Op. ☞ Chap. 15, Drinking alcoholic liquors

Habit, dirty persons; dread the air, Caps.; prone to skin affections, Sul.; filthy smell, Psor.

Habit, high living; gluttony, All. sat.; addicted to use of much wine or coffee, sedentary habits combined with considerable mental exertion, Nux v.

Habit, drugged subjects: Nux v.; too much medicine has produced an oversensitive condition, and remedies fail to act, Mar. v. ☞ Chap. 48, Antidotes

Habit, tobacco: ☞ Chap. 15, Tobacco

OCCUPATION, actors; sore throat, Arum t.

Occupation, auctioneers; sore throat, Arum t.

Occupation, bookworms: Coccul., Nux v.

Occupation, business men; brain fag, and headache in occipito-cervical region, Pic. ac.; nervous and dyspeptic troubles caused by worry and much mental strain with too little bodily exertion, Nux v.; wearing out under mental and physical strain, Coca

Occupation, clergymen; hoarseness, Caps., Phos., Rhus; sore throat, Arum t., Ferr. ph.

Occupation, emigrants; amenorrhœa, constipation, Plat.

Occupation, foundrymen; diseases of optic nerve and retina, Merc.

Occupation, literary people; brain fag, Pic. ac.

Occupation, miners; asthma, produced by inhalation of coaldust, Natr. a.

Occupation, nurses; exhausted by long nursing, Coccul., Crotal., Nitr. ac.

Occupation, orators; sore throat, Arum t.

Occupation, workers in plaster; cachectic, Calc. s.

Occupation, sailors; asthma, on going ashore, Brom.

Occupation, sedentary; constipation, Nux v., Pod.; constipation, with co-existing menstrual troubles, Plat.; dyspepsia, Nux v.

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combined with mental exertion (paralysis), Nux v.; irritation and inflammation of ovaries, Nux v.; paralysis of intestines from protracted diarrhœa, Op.; plethora, etc., Nux v.; vertigo, Nux v.

Occupation, servants; girls from the country become chlorotic in the city, Puls.

Occupation, singers; nervous dread, Gels.; sore throat, Arum t. ☞ Chap. 25, Voice singing

Occupation, speakers; nervous dread, Gels. ☞ Chap. 25, Voice talking

Occupation, stonemasons; chest affections and total loss of strength, consumption, dropsy of chest, emphysema, Sil.

Occupation, students; cough, Nux v.; headaches, Calc. p.; headaches in occipito-cervical region, Pic. ac.

Occupation, teachers; brain fag, Pic. ac.; lady, in seminary, after miscarriage, sleeplessness, Cypr.

Occupation, washerwomen; toothache, Phos.

SIZE, dwarfed; stunted, Med.; puny, incipient tubercular disease, Tuberc.; though 17, looked 12, was so reduced and dwarfish, Syph.

Size, large; bloated (spongy), Amm. c., Ant. c., Ars., Asaf., Bell., Calc., Caps., Cup. m., Ferr., Hell., Kalm., Lach., Merc., Puls., Rhus, Seneg., Spig., Sul.; fat persons dread the air, Caps.; fat, chubby, shortnecked children, disposed to croup, Kali bi.; fat, light-haired, suffer from catarrhal, syphilitic, or scrofulous affections, Kali bi.; fat, prosopalgia, Calc.; fat and sluggish, fat body but legs thin, Amm. m.; fleshy, aged people, complaints following parturition, diseases characterized by stitching pains, Kali c.; catarrh, or dyspepsia in fleshy people, All. sat.; fleshy, flabby, tabes mesenterica, with hypertrophied glands, Kreo.; plump, yet flesh is flabby and muscles withered (child), Hep.; obesity, Amm. br., Amm. m., Ant. c., Ars., Aur. met., Bell., Brom., Calc., Calc. a., Caps., Cup. m., Ferr., Graph., Kali bi., Kali br., Kali c., Lobel. i., Lyc., Phyt., Puls., Sul., Thuya; obesity, uterine complaints, Graph.; obesity of young people, Ant. c.; stout and robust, Ailant.

Size, tall; lean, spinal anæmia, Phos.; lean, stooping, with dark complexion, Coff.; slender, phthisical, Phos.; slender, weak-chested, growing rapidly, Phos.; slender, dark or fair-haired, hysterical subjects, Vib.; slender, phthisical, delicate eyelashes, soft hair, Phos.; slender, tuberculous, pale, clear scleroticæ, great nervous irritability and sensitiveness to external impressions, cough, Phos.; slender, disposed to stoop, Phos.; sanguine temperament, fair skin, blonde or red hair, quick, lively perceptions, sensitive nature, Phos.; slim, fair complexion, consumptive, Ustil.

Size, thin (emaciated, lean, slender, spare): Amb., Ars., Bry., Cinch., Coff., Ferr., Graph., Hep., Ign., Ipec., Kreo., Lac c., Lach., Lyc., Merc., Natr. m., Nitr. ac., Nux v., Phos., Petrol., Plumb., Puls., Sec., Sep., Sil., Spig., Stann., Staph., Sul., Ver.; abdominal plethora, Chel.; complexion bilious, pimply, and subject to erysipelatous inflammation, pallor of face when excited by movement, or very red and flushed, Hep.

rigid fibre, swarthy, black hair and eyes, brunette rather than the blonde nervous temperament, Nitr. ac.; invalids, subacute attacks of bronchitis, Phos.; irritable, choleric, dark hair, make great mental exertion, or lead a sedentary life, Nux v.; legs thin, body fat, Amm. m.; predisposed to lung and hepatic affections, Lyc.; nervous affections, neuralgia, sciatica, lumbago, with deficiency of animal heat, Ol. jec.; nervous temperament, delicate organization, Xan.; relaxed, Acet. ac.; disposed to rheumatism and catarrh, Colch.; scrawny, Sec.; scrofulous diseases of joints, Ol. jec.; spare, dry, Alum.; walk and sit stooped, standing is the most uncomfortable position, Sul.; incipient, tubercular disease, Tuberc.; upper body wasted, lower semi-dropsical, Lyc.; weak, Ferr.; weak and melancholy, Lach. ☞ Chap. 44, Emaciation

TEMPERAMENT, bilious: Acon., Æsc. h., Ailant., Amb., Ant. c., Ant. t., Bell., Berb., Bry., Cann. i., Cham., Cinch., Coccul., Ipec., Lach., Merc., Nux v., Plat., Pod., Puls., Sul.; asthma, Phos.; tendency to constipation, Cub., Nux v.; dry subjects, ague, where disease degenerates into a slow fever, Tarax.; sick headache, Iris; hepatic affections, Merc., Nux v.; lymphatic, Bell.; especially after mercurialization, Pod.; nervous (hydrothorax), Amb., Apis; stout and robust, Ailant.

Temperament, choleric (irritable, inclined to anger): Acon., Ars., Aur. met., Bry., Carbo v., Caust., Cham., Coff., Ferr., Hep., Hyos., Kali p., Kalm., Lach., Lyc., Natr. m., Nitr. ac., Nux v., Phos., Plat., Sec., Sil., Sul.; ardent, disposed to anger, spite or deception, always irritable and impatient, Nux v.; bilious, dark hair and complexion, with firm fibre, Bry.; dissatisfied with everything (diarrhœa), Apis; especially children, Magn. c.; without reaction, in intermittent fever, Phell.; foxy, mischievous, destructive, Tarant.; haughty, Lyc., Plat.; irascible, Nux v.; mistrustful, when sick, Lyc.; very particular, zealous persons, inclined to get angry or excited, or of a spiteful, malicious disposition, Nux v.; peevish, Ign.; plethoric, Sec.; sedentary, Nux v.; vigorous persons of dry habit, tense fibre, ardent, irascible, tenacious, Nux v.

Temperament, mild (bland): Amb., Bell., Calad., Chim. m., Cic., Coccul., Ign., Phos. ac., Puls., Sil., Sul.; easy, Sep.; quick to perceive, rapid in execution, Ign.; tearful, Puls.; tearful, anxious (constipation and catarrh), Alum.; submissive, yielding, Puls.

Temperament, melancholic (hypochondriacal): Acon., Anac., Aur. met., Aur. mur., Bell., Bry., Calc., Cinch., Coccul., Colch., Graph., Ign., Lach., Lil. tig., Lyc., Murex, Natr. m., Plat., Puls., Rhus, Stram., Sul., Ver.; spasmodic asthma, caused by anxious dreams, sensation as if clothing were too tight, Nux v.; choleric, bilious, Chel.; wind colic, Millef.; constipation, Sul.; inclined to grief, Ign., Puls.; phlegmatic, dark eyes, indolent, Lach.; pneumonia, Nux v.; sanguine, lymphatic, Murex; subject to skin diseases, Lyc.; timid, fearful, Coccul.

Temperament, nervous: Acon., Agar., Alum., Amb., Anac., Arg. nit., Ars., Bar. c., Bell.

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Calc., Cann. i., Carbo v., Cham., Chin. s., Cinch., Con., Cup. m., Dig., Graph., Hep., Hyos., Ign., Lach., Laur., Lyc., Magn. c., Magn. p., Mar. v., Merc., Natr. c., Natr. m., Nux m., Nux v., Phos., Phos. ac., Plat., Puls., Rhus, Sabina, Sec., Sep., Sil., Stann., Stram., Sul., Val., Viol., Zinc.; ardent, Nux v.; bashful, timid, ill at ease in society, Coca; largely developed brains, Bell.; brunettes, Nitr. ac.; careful, Nux v.; choreic, Tarant.; whooping cough, Kali ph.; delicate (megrim), Calc.; delicate, pale, sensitive (toothache), Kali ph.; flatulent dyspepsia, Lyc., Nux m.; noises aud singing in ears, Coff.; excitable, Cham., Hyos., Ign.; excitable, attacks from sudden or intense emotions, or smothering passion, Kali ph.; excitable, melancholic, Asar.; excitable, violent throbbing, toothache drives to madness, Ver.; easily exhausted, take cold easily, Nux v.; full habit, Caps.; dark hair and gray eyes (prosopalgia), Calc.; hysterical headache, Coff.; hysterical, Arg. nit., Castor., Plat., Gels., Ign., Viol.; hysterical, asthma, palpitation, dyspnœa, prostration, and digestive troubles, Mosch.; hysterical, spasmodic asthma, caused by anxious dreams, sensation as if clothing were too tight, Nux v.; hysterical, inclined to taking cold, Bar. c.; hysterical, wind colic, Millef.; hysterical, spasmodic dysuria, Vib.; hysterical, sensation of great coldness in head, Val.; hysterical, neuralgic headaches, Plat.; hysterical headaches from mental causes, dulness of head, Arg. nit.; hysterical, hemorrhoidal patients, perhaps such as suffer from gout or worms, especially those of mournful mind, or alternately sad and gay, who cry easily, are pale, easily fatigued, suffer from wandering pains, are inclined to spasms, Plat.; hysterical palpitation, Sumb.; not hysterical, Atrop.; intellectual, Chim. m.; irritable, excitable, sanguine, Hyos.; irritable, hysterical, intellectual faculties predominate, hysterical neuralgia, Val.; irritable, lax fibre, sour smell, Magn. c.; irritable, canine hunger, Sil.; irritable, dry skin, profuse saliva, diarrhœa, night sweats, Sil.; lymphatic, Dig.; lymphatic (dropsy), Apis; melancholic, indigestion, venous constitution, with tendency to hemorrhoids, Nux v.; premature and profuse menses, Kali p.; mild, amiable, refined, sensitive, intellectual, Chim. m.; paraplegia, Coccul.; particular, Nux v.; quick motioned, plethoric, skin excessively sensitive to atmospheric changes, Sul.; sanguine, Cann. i.; sanguine, readily affected, Glon.; sensitive, Acon., Ailant., Ant. c., Ars., Calc., Canth., Chim. m., Chin. s., Cinch., Coff., Cup. m., Ign., Kali p., Lach., Lyc., Nux v., Pallad., Phos., Plat., Sabad., Sil.; sensitive, amblyopia, Sil.; sensitive, sluggish circulation, Kali p.; sensitive, especially hysterical subjects, anomalous functional disorders of heart, Sumb.; sensitive, neuralgic headaches, Plat.; sensitive, remains long impressed by even slight mechanical injuries, Arn.; sensitive, have taken too much medicine, Mar. v.; sensitive, imperfectly nourished from imperfect assimilation, Sil.; sensitive, cannot bear pain, Arn., Cham., Coff.; sensitive to pain, querulous or discontented, Cinch.; sensitive, peevish, excitable, hysterical, with sanguine nervous temperament, is delicate, falls easily in love, is romantic, bears trials meekly, readily falls into clonic spasms after mental agitation, Ign.

sensitive, disposed to rheumatism and catarrh, Colch.; sensitive, spoiled natures, Mosch.; tenacious, Nux m.; timid, Calc., Puls.; timid, anxious, during cholera season, Asar.; timid, dread storm and are afraid of thunder, Rhod.; weak, desires to be magnetized, Phos.; women of a sensitive, easily excited nature, dark hair and skin, but mild disposition, quick to perceive, rapid in execution, Ign.; zealous, Nux v. ☞ Chap. 36, Hysteria, Nervousness

Temperament, phlegmatic (indolent, slow, torpid): Aloe., Amm. m., Ant. t., Bell., Calad., Calc., Caps., Coccul., Cinch., Clem., Cycl., Dulc., Ferr. ph., Hep., Kreo., Lach., Merc., Mez., Natr. c., Natr. m., Puls., Seneg., Sep.; dread open air, Caps.; aversion to open air and dislike to exercise, physical or mental, Natr. c.; awkward, easily offended, indolent, melancholic, lack of reaction, gastric troubles, Caps.; malignant blennorrhœa, Thuya; bronchitis, Caust.; always cold and chilly, Led.; comprehension slow, memory weak, Lyc.; constipation, Op.; faceache, Cinch.; fat, unclean, dread of open air, Caps.; good natured, timid women, and especially during pregnancy, Puls.; light hair, irresolute, Mez.; chronic headache with relaxed muscles and general debility, Sul. ac.; indolent, Caps., Lach.; irresolute, Mez., Puls.; want of bodily irritability, well-chosen remedy makes no impression, Op.; lax, Calad.; lax, fibre, light hair, great sensitiveness to slightest contact of ulcers, eruptions and parts affected, Hep.; mild and sluggish, light hair, Coccul.; ill nourished, prophylactic in apoplexy, Merc.; weakly, pale, timid, Calc.; plethoric, Seneg.; scrofulous, restless and irritable, take cold in damp cold changes, Dulc.; slow, sandy hair, blue eyes, pale face, easily moved to laughter or tears, affectionate, mild, gentle, timid, yielding, Puls.; indolent, enlargement of tonsils, Kali bi. ☞ Constitution lymphatic

Temperament, sanguine: Acon., Ars., Aur. met., Calc., Cham., Chin. s., Coff., Ferr., Hyos., Ign., Murex, Nitr. ac., Nux v., Phos., Plat.; affectionate persons, Puls.; amiable persons, Chim. m.; asthma, in lively subjects, Phos.; bilious, injured knee, Apis; frequent and great changes in sensations, feelings changing suddenly from greatest hilarity to deepest despondency, Croc.; choleric, pettish, quarrelsome, disputative, easily excited, least contradiction angers, women are weak, delicate, chlorotic, yet have a very red face, Ferr.; good natured, Puls.; hæmoptysis, Phos.; black hair, dark eyes, lively, restless, anxious, Aur. met.; nervous, hysterical, headache, Coff.; imagination vivid, Lach.; easily moved to laughter or tears, Puls.; muscles soft, flabby (goitre), Calc.; nervous, bilious, (paralysis), Apis; plethoric, Acon., Arn.; quick perception, Phos.; romantic, falls in love easily, Ign.; choleric, Coff. c.; voluptuous, excitable, nervous, especially women, Ced.