ARRANGEMENT ACCORDING TO HAHNEMANN.
Mental and Moral: 1. He imagines he is receiving blows. Absence of mind. Horror of rain. Complete forgetfulness of one’s-self. 5. She wants to go out at the moment of retiring to bed. Irresistible desire to cry out. Vertigo, she falls forwards. Depression of spirits, she desires to be in a cavern, alone. Desire for country-air and sport. 10. Desire for solitude. Plans about travelling, &c. Quarrelsome.
Head: Pain in cerebellum, right side. The hairy scalp at the occipital protuberance feels raw, in the morning. 15. Painful constriction in the temples and eyes. Horrid pains when inclining the head backwards. Weight in forehead. Weight in right parietal region and pain penetrating to the nape of the neck. Sensation as of a foreign body in right temple. 20. Pain in the forehead. Boring pain from vertex to right eyebrow. Pain at the roots of the hairs on the occiput. Itching of the hairy scalp.
Face: Dark complexion. 25. Itching in the ear and cheek. Lancinations from the root of the nose to the ear. Boring pain from the lower jaw to the right eye, and then from the right eyelid to the ear.
Ear: Pinching at helix and lobule. Itching in the ear. 30. The cerumen is hardened and black. Itching in the right meatus. Deafness. Illusion of hearing, she hears a whistling and ringing. He imagines he hears some one speak. 35. Ringing. Constant buzzing in the meatus. Buzzing. Discharge of a serous fluid from the left ear. Discharge of blood from the ear. 40. Discharge of a greenish-yellow liquid from the ear, morning.
Eyes: Stye at left eye, with lancination. Tickling and red streaks of the sclerotica. The left eyebrow is painful and drawn down. Blood oozes from the eyes. 45. Blindness for some minutes. Violent itching in the left eye. Prickling in the eyebrows. Aversion to light. Burning of the eyebrows. 50. Bloating around the eyes, in the morning. Aching pain around the eyes, with vanishing of sight. Sharp prickling in the inner canthi. Desire to close one’s eyes. Lancination in outer canthus of left eye. 55. The eye is sensitive to cold water. Red eyebrows. Eyes red and inflamed. Difficulty of opening the eyes. Sand in the eyes. 60. Blear-eyed. Glassy look. Sensation in the right eye as of a gauze of a blueish-white or mother-of-pearl color. Black disk at a few feet from the eye, when walking. Greyish gauze before the eyes, gradually spreading over the whole field of vision. 65. Red bar before the eyes when opening them, and a red disk when shutting them. When closing the eyes, every thing looks red, dotted with black points. Sense of long, white filaments before the eyes.
Nose: Tickling at the nose. Stoppage of right nostril. 70. Bad smell from the nose. Distressing prickling in the superior nasal fossa. Tickling at the root of the nose. Swelling of the nose, with pain extending to the ear. Stoppage of the nostrils. 75. Heat in left nostril, and swelling of the septum. White and watery mucus is discharged from the nose.
Teeth: The teeth are loose. Prickling in left gums. Swelling of the gums on the last three molares. 80. Looseness of the gums at the roots of the teeth.
Mouth: Salt tasting saliva. Bitter, salt taste in mouth. Prickling at the tip of the tongue. Tongue swollen and whitish, in the morning. 85. Tongue black or dark-red.
Throat: The beverage is arrested in the œsophagus as by a spasmodic contraction of this organ, after which it descends like a heavy weight. Pulling in the œsophagus. Constriction with pressure, in the throat. Sensation as if the food turned like a screw while passing down. 90. Burning as from peppermint, from the larynx to the tongue. Sensation as of a valve in the trachea causing a column of air to ascend in the pharynx. Stoppage in the œsophagus, after eating, as if a sponge had lodged there.
Gastric Symptoms: Vomiting of green bile, followed by bilious diarrhœa. Weight at the stomach, after eating. 95. Acidity, with nausea and faint feeling. Violent thirst. Cold feeling in the chest, after drinking. Desire for food, with aversion to eating. Desire for food causing a violent headache, unless satisfied at once. 100. Violent hunger. Suffocative oppression after eating. Bloating of the stomach after eating. Acidity after every mouthful of food. Aversion to food. 105. Desire for cold water, ice. Sour eructation. Sense of coldness after drinking, as if ice-water were rising and descending through an opening in the left lung. She has to drink after every mouthful she swallows. Watery vomiting in the morning. 110. She feels hungry, but is unable to eat. Hunger, with continual vomiting, preventing one from appeasing the hunger. Aversion to meat, bread. Desire for oranges, acid. Loss of appetite. 115. Bread returns by the nose, and does not mix up with the other kinds of food, for a month. Bread tastes flat, like the poison. Fruit and cold drinks feel like ice in the stomach. Shuddering and chattering of the teeth, after taking a cold drink. Suffocative oppression while eating. 120. Eructations tasting like spoiled eggs. The dinner distresses him. Pulling in pit of stomach. The food descends violently into the stomach, which trembles.
Stomach: Burning in the stomach. 125. Sensitiveness of the pit of the stomach. Swelling of the stomach. Pulling at the cardiac orifice, with sense of hunger and boring to the spine. Weight in stomach, with desire to vomit, after eating.
Abdomen: Lancinations from the navel to the womb. Pains in the loins as from a band, extending to the uterus. Colic spreading from the cœcum to the rectum. Swelling of the inguinal glands. Colic, with urging to stool. Borborygmi. 130. Falling of rectum. Distress in abdomen. Pressure in right hypochondrium. Itching, drawing and pricking at epigastrium, hindering breathing. The intestines turn about one another, and then feel twisted as by a cord, and strung together in a knot, with strangulating sensation in the abdomen. 140. Formication at the anus, as from worms. Acute pains in the descending colon. Itching at the abdomen, especially when walking. Sensation as if the blood in the abdomen were flowing backwards, with violent pain and palpitations, succeeded by lancinations. Sudden colic, with diarrhœa. 145. Bloat in region of diaphragm. Sense of an iron bar pressing on the loins. Sensation in the abdomen as of a tube which can be closed by a valve and through which liquid is poured into the abdomen. Lancinations from both groins to the symphysis pubis.
Stool: Blackish and froth, diarrhœa. 150. Lienteria. Constriction of the sphincter. Watery, yellowish diarrhœa, with slime, also rumbling. Discharge of black, liquid blood from the bowels. Constriction of the sphincter, after bloody stool. 155. Bloody dysentery. Diarrhœa consisting of bile and bloody mucus. Discharge of black blood at stool, with colic as though the bowels would be twisted.
Urinary and Sexual: Red urine, with cloudy sediment. Thick urine with red sediment. 160. Pain in urethra while urinating. Red urine. Suppression of urine. Discharge of mucus from the urethra. Itching excoriation on the back of the penis. 165. Impotence. Lancinations and prickings in the penis. Weight and swelling of the testes. The skin of the prepuce is thick and inflamed. Discharge of prostatic fluid. 170. Discharge of black blood between the menses. Prickling in the uterus, vagina and pubic region. White, albuminous leucorrhœa. Weight at the uterus. Weight at the vagina, after an attack of hysteric colic. 175. Horrid formication at the vulva. Discharge of black blood from the womb. Metrorrhagia. Itching in the vagina. Premature menses. 180. Weight in the vagina, with acute pain preventing her from going up-stairs.
Bronchial: Coryza from the least currents of air. Constant cough. Fit of dry cough which ends in raising black blood, with tearing pains in every part of the lungs and especially in right side, superiorly. Taste of blood in mouth before coughing. 185. Loose cough. Hoarseness. Chronic loss of breath on going up-stairs. Violent distress in the chest. Sensation as if the pleura would be torn, and as if the lungs would be split by force.
Chest: 190. Spitting of black blood, with painful tearing as if proceeding from the heart. Constriction of the chest. Stitches in upper part of each lung. Painful pulling in right lung on which account he is unable to lean to the right side. Dull pain in right lung, worse when walking. 195. Dull pain in right lung, worse when walking, with rush of blood to the throat. Prickling and pulling in right lung. Palpitation of the heart.
Back: Lancinations in the dorsal muscles. Pain in the whole spinal marrow. 200. Pressure between the shoulders. Coldness in the back. Lancinations from the occiput to the sacrum, with pain in the temples.
Neck: Sense of excoriation at the nape of the neck. Painful pressure at nape of neck. 205. The parotid glands are painful. Bruising pain in sides of neck. Twitching in the parotid glands. Tension in nape of neck. Stiffness of the neck. 210. Beating in the nape of neck, like the ticking of a clock. Throbbing of the external carotid. When raising the hand to the right side of the neck, a penetrating pain in feet, spreading to the ear. The neck remains twisted when turned.
Upper Extremities: Painful drawing at the inner side of the arm. 215. Itching under the axilla, with tetter. The arm and hand are swollen, blueish, covered with red spots, also the right leg and foot. Bruising pain in the deltoid muscle. Painful drawing from axilla to wrist, at inner side. Crampy constriction at the bend of the elbow. 220. Pains in the elbows. Warmth in the hollow of the hand, after dinner. The right hand feels numb, with a stitch through the metacarpus. The hand looks congested, and is as if paralysed. Lancinations in the back of the hands. 225. Pulling in right hand. Prickling in the back of the right hand. Burning in the hands while preparing the drug. The right hand feels as if paralysed. Smarting under the nails. 230. The tips of the fingers peel off. Redness and pain under the nails, the parts look as if raw. Crampy constriction in the phalanxes and under the nails.
Lower Extremities: The lower limbs give way. Acute pain in the right iliac bone, as though the crest were swollen and inflamed. 235. Coldness behind the thighs. Cramps in the calves. Lancination at inner side of the knee. Cramps in the calves. Icy-coldness of the right legs. 240. Pains in the knees, especially the left, as if bruised and contused. Sense of spraining and stiffness in the knee-joint. Contusive pain at inner side of left leg, with sensation as if something were rising and descending in the tibia. The soles of the feet itch and peel off. Drawing-up of the feet. 245. The left foot is swollen and blue, with red spots. Pain in the right instep, as from walking. Lancinations in the soles of the feet while seated, ceasing when walking. Dartings in the left fourth toe, now and then. The heel peels off. 250. Prickling under the toe-nails.
Fever: Sensitive to cold. Sweat on the forehead and nape of neck. The arm shudders when dipping the hand in water. Shuddering of the arm when dipping the hand into cold water. 255. Cold sweat all over.
Sleep: Sleeplessness with uneasiness. Drowsy all day, no sleep at night. Dreams about previous business. Nightmare, with congestion about the head. 260. Anxious dreams. She dreams that she buries a dead person and digs in his wounds with a knife. She dreams that she is fighting with a man condemned to the galleys. She bites his hand during sleep. Dreams about dead persons, she kisses them and falls into pits. 265. Dreams about business.
Cutaneous: Red spot on the knee-pan. Boils on the arm. Crusty eruption on the ear and cheek. Itching pimple on the legs. Vesicular eruption on the feet. 270. Phlyctænæ here and there, especially on the extremities. Pimples full of serum. Red pimples at the tips of the fingers. Miliary pimples at the corner of the nose, upon a red base. Furfuraceous tetter at the hairy scalp. 275. Suppurating pimples on the hands, fingers, wrists, gums, &c. Numerous white pimples at the inside of the thighs, inflamed in the day-time. Little pimples, followed by desquamation. Yellow spots on the hand and fingers. Red tetter from the corner of the right nostril to the cheek.
General: 280. Lassitude in the limbs. Congestion first to the chest, then the abdomen. Stitch in the side. Pressure in left side, extending to the vertebral column. Black blood spirts out of the finger when pricked. 285. The right side feels sensitive, with inability to rise in the morning. Prickling as by spice, after triturating the drugs. Spirting of arterial blood from the nose and ears. Pain in the right side, up to the axilla. Stitch in the side. 290. Lassitude in all the limbs. At the least contrariety the body shudders and the blood boils, with prickling. Cramps in the right side. Quick lancinations in the back, sides and arms. The extremities look blue, with reddish spots. 295. Paralysis of the right side. The right side is numb and as if paralysed. Constrictive pain at the bend of the elbow and knee. A change of position is painful. Aching in left side. 300. Disposed to faint.
PEDICULUS CAPITIS
(Common Louse).
It is scarcely necessary to give a description of this species which is sufficiently known; we shall content ourselves with indicating the principal characteristics which distinguish it from the other vermin living on the surface of the human body. The louse is of an oval form; flattened, longer than the crab-louse; its head is very small; its thorax is composed of three not very distinct rings; the abdomen is all of one piece, rounded off on the sides; it is ash-colored, whereas the crab-louse is entirely white. The lice which have been made use of in our provings, were taken from the head of a healthy child of five years.
Even before undertaking this experiment we expected to derive from it important results. We entertained the belief that nature pointed out to us the louse as a specific for the hereditary psora, in which belief we were strengthened by the fact that psorin develops the lice-malady in healthy persons. And we are now prepared to affirm that we have found the louse one of the most useful agents in diseases of children. We offer the following pathogenesis with a sincere pleasure which none but those who devote themselves to such patient investigations, can appreciate.[2]