====== ALUMEN ======
<span tc1>{{anchor:s1}}Alumen.</span>

<span grade2>{{anchor:s2}}Alum. {{anchor:s3}}Aluminii et Potassii Sulphas.</span>

{{anchor:s4}}The well-known astringent double salt, found as a native mineral near the volcanoes of the Lipari Isles, in Sicily; abundant in this country in Maryland and in Tennessee. {{anchor:s5}}One of the oldest medicines ever used.

{{anchor:s6}}Introduced and proved by C. Hg., in 1845, with the assistance of Drs. Husmann and Rhees. {{anchor:s7}}Also proved by Dr. Jeanes, whose frequently corroborated symptoms are included.

{{anchor:s8}}A full monography was published in the Journals, in 1872, and is contained in C. Hg.'s <span grade2>Mat. Med.</span>, Vol. I, published by Boericke and Tafel, 1873. 734 numbers on thirty-nine pages.

====== MIND. [1] ======

{{anchor:s10}}Lectrophilie, keeps bed without necessity, plaguing her family.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s11}}Anxiety, doubts if medicine will relieve her.</span>\\ {{anchor:s12}}Feels like after unpleasant news.\\ {{anchor:s13}}Spells of rage, attacks people.\\ {{anchor:s14}}Thinking about her disease causes palpitation.\\ {{anchor:s15}}Unpleasant news excites and causes nervous tremors.

====== SENSORIUM. [2] ======

{{anchor:s17}}Vertigo: lying on his back, with weakness in pit of stomach; amel. opening eyes; amel. turning on right side.\\ {{anchor:s18}}Giddy looking down, as if falling forward; rush of blood to head.\\ {{anchor:s19}}Deathlike fainting spell, with loss of all faculties.

====== INNER HEAD. [3] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s21}}Neuralgic headache.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s22}}~</span> <span grade3>Nasal polypus.</span>\\ {{anchor:s23}}Jerking in left forehead, evening.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s24}}Pressing on top of head.</span>\\ {{anchor:s25}}Pains coming and going, from place to place; in forenoon.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s26}}Pain agg. morning, on awaking.</span>\\ {{anchor:s27}}Shooting through temples, with sickness, amel. by drinking cold water.\\ {{anchor:s28}}Rush of blood to head.

====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s30}}Wild look, with spells of rage.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s31}}Sees things double by candlelight.</span>\\ {{anchor:s32}}Pupils dilated.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s33}}Right eye squints towards nose.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s34}}Spots on cornea.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s35}}Prolapsus iridis after cataract operation.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s36}}Staphyloma corneae.</span>\\ {{anchor:s37}}Bruised feeling on inferior edge of orbit of left eye, on pressure, or by moving eyelids.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s38}}Varicosities of conjunctiva.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s39}}Trachoma (topically and internally).</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s40}}Purulent ophthalmia of infants.</span>\\ {{anchor:s41}}Itching burning on border of lower lids; right to left.

====== HEARING AND EARS. [6] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s43}}Hears every little noise in sleep.</span>\\ {{anchor:s44}}Heat in both ears and left side of face at night.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s45}}Purulent otorrhea.</span>

====== SMELL AND NOSE. [7] ======

{{anchor:s47}}Dryness of nostrils and choanae.\\ {{anchor:s48}}Nosebleed.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s49}}Nasal polypus left side, with rough skin all over face and body, and neuralgic headache.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s50}}Lupus or cancer.</span>

====== UPPER FACE. [8] ======

{{anchor:s52}}Expression animated; with fever.\\ {{anchor:s53}}Left side red and hot.\\ {{anchor:s54}}Complexion sickly, sallow; yellow.\\ {{anchor:s55}}Pale as a corpse, lips blue.

====== LOWER FACE. [9] ======

{{anchor:s57}}Pain in left articulation of jaw close to ear.

====== TEETH AND GUMS. [10] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s59}}Teeth loose.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s60}}Gums swollen, inflamed, spongy, with a grey, dirty coating; teeth surrounded by proud flesh.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s61}}~</span> <span grade3>Stomatitis.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s62}}Profuse hemorrhage after extraction of a tooth.</span>

====== TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] ======

{{anchor:s64}}Taste: <span grade3>bitter</span>; sourish, astringent; sweetish, disgusting after taste.\\ {{anchor:s65}}Tongue clean, except a slight coating of slime on back part.\\ {{anchor:s66}}Tongue: <span grade2>dry</span>; burning in evening; sour feeling; stitches worse at tip.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s67}}Scirrhus of tongue.</span>

====== INNER MOUTH. [12] ======

{{anchor:s69}}Mouth dry, without thirst.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s70}}Spreading ulcers in mouth.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s71}}Noma.</span>\\ {{anchor:s72}}Mouth burning, ulcerated; grey dirty spongy skin about a tooth, which is surrounded with proud flesh; offensive saliva.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s73}}Profuse ptyalism, mercurial in origin or not.</span>

====== PALATE AND THROAT. [13] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s75}}Uvula inflamed and enlarged.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s76}}Uvula elongated, relaxed after catarrh.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s77}}Predisposed to tonsillitis.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s78}}Veins about fauces distended; velum red; much hawking.</span>\\ {{anchor:s79}}Catarrh of fauces and throat.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s80}}Neuralgia of throat.</span>\\ {{anchor:s81}}Spat a lump of coagulated blood in morning after rising.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s82}}Throat sore and dry when talking or swallowing fluids; difficult swallowing.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s83}}Throat relaxed, ulcerated.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s84}}Burning and severe pains; heat up from stomach.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s85}}Spasmodic constriction in esophagus; fluids can scarcely be swallowed.</span>\\ {{anchor:s86}}Prickling sensation in both sides of throat and great dryness, with constant desire to drink.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s87}}Throat chronically affected; mucous membrane covered with mucus, causing troublesome cough.</span>

====== APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] ======

{{anchor:s90}}Appetite increased, even with fullness in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s91}}Loathes food.\\ {{anchor:s92}}Thirst: throat dry; and increased appetite; with heat in stomach, amel. by drinking cold water; intense, with fever.\\ {{anchor:s93}}Mouth dry, but no increase of thirst.

====== EATING AND DRINKING. [15] ======

{{anchor:s95}}Before breakfast: attacks of nausea; cough.\\ {{anchor:s96}}During breakfast: cough worse.\\ {{anchor:s97}}After breakfast: cough better.\\ {{anchor:s98}}Eating amel. her sinking feeling in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s99}}After meal, heaviness in stomach; throbbing; distension; vomited everything.\\ {{anchor:s100}}At dinner: erections.\\ {{anchor:s101}}Drinking cold water: relieves headache.

====== HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] ======

{{anchor:s103}}Squalmish at intervals, when awaking at night, prevents falling asleep again.\\ {{anchor:s104}}Nausea with headache, pain in stomach and retching.\\ {{anchor:s105}}Nausea with faintness and weakness more in morning, with restlessness and excitement, giddiness; chilliness.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s106}}Vomits large quantities of glairy mucus, or tough, colorless, sour slime, seldom containing bile, oftener food.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s107}}Atonic hematemesis; vomiting of blood.</span>\\ {{anchor:s108}}Habitual hematemesis in hard drinkers.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s109}}Vomits everything he eats.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s110}}Vomiting, with colic.</span>

====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ======

{{anchor:s112}}A sensation of fullness in pit of stomach urges him to take a deep breath, but he cannot.\\ {{anchor:s113}}Weak faint feeling in pit of stomach; sinking sensation.\\ {{anchor:s114}}Pain, nausea and rush of blood to head and drowsiness.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s115}}Pain with faintness, sickness and cold sweat.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s116}}Burning heat and feeling of fullness.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s117}}Heat in stomach, amel. by drinking cold water.</span>\\ {{anchor:s118}}Severe pain to left of scrobiculum, amel. standing still and pressing on it.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s119}}Pyrosis and gastric catarrh.</span>\\ {{anchor:s120}}Villi of stomach becoming disorganized; mucus lining dark red or brown; walls thickened, more at pylorus, and hardened, as if tanned (toxic).\\ {{anchor:s121}}Pressing followed by throbbing; lying on back in evening.

====== HYPOCHONDRIA. [18] ======

{{anchor:s123}}Warm creeps running down, followed by jerking contractions of abdominal muscles, towards linea alba.\\ {{anchor:s124}}Relaxed feeling in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s125}}Distension from wind.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s126}}Burning pain low down and in small of back prevents him getting up; as if back would break.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s127}}Colic pain amel. from pressure; agg. when walking, with fullness and heaviness.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s128}}Spasmodic wind-colic.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s129}}Abdomen sensitive to touch during colic.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s130}}Abdomen and navel sunken in; walls hard and retracted towards spine.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s131}}Potter's colic with sleeplessness, headache, crawling, tingling in limbs, constipation; amel. from pressure; abdomen retracted; tongue dry, black; urine red and scanty; violent delirium and debility; also after opium.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s132}}Lead colic, violent as if drunk and enraged; pulse slow; tongue in folds and dry; trembling of limbs and pain as if beaten.</span>

====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ======

{{anchor:s134}}Violent ineffectual urging.\\ {{anchor:s135}}Stool: less frequent, dryer and harder; large, black, hard or in small pieces like sheep's dung; no relief afterwards.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s136}}Difficult stool with some blood and subsequent beating in anus.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s137}}First hard, then soft stools and pains following.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s138}}Diarrhea yellow as an infant's; slimy after colic pains, causing great weakness.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s139}}Diarrhea ichorous, mixed with blood of an offensive odor</span>; abdominal typhus; <span grade3>great exhaustion.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s140}}Very weakening colliquative diarrhea.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s141}}Masses of coagulated blood.</span> <span sbitared>{{anchor:s142}}~</span> <span grade4>Typhus abdominalis.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s143}}Putrid dysentery.</span>\\ {{anchor:s144}}Violent pains going from rectum down thighs.\\ {{anchor:s145}}During stool: <span grade3>dyspnea</span>; pains in rectum; tenesmus.\\ {{anchor:s146}}After stool: <span grade4>scarcely endurable pain, with scirrhous indurations in rectum</span>; no fissures.\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s147}}Ulcerations in rectum, painful excrescences; fetid bloody ichor.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s148}}Anus protruding, tumors inflamed and painful.</span>\\ {{anchor:s149}}A small lump at anus itching violently, agg. at night.\\ {{anchor:s150}}Itching at anus all evening; pruritus.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s151}}Long-lasting pain in rectum after each stool.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s152}}Painful, bleeding piles; with aching in anus.</span>\\ {{anchor:s153}}Bleeding from anus after wine or whiskey.

====== URINARY ORGANS. [21] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s155}}Diabetes mellitus.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s156}}Contractive sensations deep in pelvis with complaints of rectum and bladder.</span>\\ {{anchor:s157}}Urine increased, free, acid.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s158}}Frequent urging, with scanty, clear flow, containing lumps of blood; sediment slimy, tough or membranaceous.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s159}}Frequent and painful urging, with painful passing of small quantities; now and then mixed with blood, at others, clear; after standing, thick as if mixed with clay, dirty, fibrous sediment; catarrh of bladder, mostly with the aged.</span>\\ {{anchor:s160}}Incontinentia urinae; enuresis.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s161}}Must urinate every hour or two, night and day.</span>\\ {{anchor:s162}}Urine has an oily, iridescent film on it.\\ {{anchor:s163}}Urine scanty, reddish, in colic; bloody.\\ {{anchor:s164}}Blennorrhea urethrae.\\ {{anchor:s165}}Itching of orifice of urethra.

====== MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] ======

{{anchor:s167}}Unusual erections while at dinner.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s168}}Male parts weak, frequent emissions.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s169}}~</span> <span grade3>Onanism.</span>\\ {{anchor:s170}}Spongy, sycotic warts.\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s171}}Gonorrhea; gonorrhea preputialis; gleet.</span>\\ {{anchor:s172}}Shooting pain from middle line of belly, as along a thread, down into penis.\\ {{anchor:s173}}Cutting pain in left side of penis.

====== FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [23] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s175}}Affections of left ovary with troublesome constipation.</span>\\ {{anchor:s176}}Insupportable pain near left groin, towards region of ovary.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s177}}Weight of uterus presses down collum; granulations of vagina; leucorrhea copious; emaciation, yellow complexion.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s178}}Indurations of uterus, even scirrhus.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s179}}Ulcers of uterus.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s180}}Discharge of coagula from uterus (and rectum).</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s181}}~</span> <span grade3>Typhus.</span>\\ {{anchor:s182}}Menses scanty, watery; during menses, hands weak.\\ {{anchor:s183}}Metrorrhagia with atony.\\ {{anchor:s184}}Vagina very sensitive, narrowed by swellings of various size.\\ {{anchor:s185}}Pruritus vaginae.

====== PREGNANCY. PARTURITION. LACTATION. [24] ======

{{anchor:s189}}Faintish weakness during pregnancy, no vomiting; flushing, followed by throbbing of heart.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s190}}Flooding after childbirth.</span>\\ {{anchor:s191}}(OBS:) Cancer of mamma.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s192}}Sore, inflamed nipples.</span>

====== VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA. [25] ======

{{anchor:s195}}Hoarseness; voice shrill, cannot talk loud; agg. from talking.\\ {{anchor:s196}}Voice sometimes high, sometimes low.\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s197}}Voice entirely lost.</span>\\ {{anchor:s198}}Talking increases hoarseness, causes tickling cough.\\ {{anchor:s199}}Scratching in larynx as from dust, roughness, brings up much clear much.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s200}}Epidemic membranous croup.</span>\\ {{anchor:s201}}Constrictive feeling in windpipe.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s202}}Bronchitis.</span>

====== RESPIRATION. [26] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s204}}Inclined to take a deep breath.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s205}}Cannot take a full breath.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s206}}Oppression of chest, with colic.</span>\\ {{anchor:s207}}Breathing oppressed, anxious, as from a heavy stone in chest.\\ {{anchor:s208}}Tightness across upper part of chest.\\ {{anchor:s209}}Rapid, short breathing with uneasiness in stomach.

====== COUGH. [27] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s211}}With cough scraping in throat.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s212}}Dry cough in evening after lying down.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s213}}Cough from tickling in larynx caused by talking.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s214}}Coughs a long time every morning, with scratching in middle of sternum, pain in groin, in region of ovary.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s215}}~</span> <span grade2>Whooping-cough.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s216}}Cough immediately after rising, excited by a tickling in throat; agg. during, amel. after, breakfast.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s217}}Chronic morning cough of old people.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s218}}Sputa: ropy (bronchitis and phthisis), scanty.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s219}}Atonic haemoptysis.</span>\\ {{anchor:s220}}(OBS:) Phthisis.

====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ======

{{anchor:s222}}Pain under clavicle and right shoulder when inhaling.\\ {{anchor:s223}}Stinging from upper chest through to back, awakens at night.\\ {{anchor:s224}}When bending, sore pain under right nipple or in left chest.\\ {{anchor:s225}}Feeling of weakness in lower part of chest and in abdomen.

====== HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION. [29] ======

{{anchor:s227}}Feels warm in left side opposite shoulder, also very tired.\\ {{anchor:s228}}At times feels well, then, when beginning to think of her disease, she feels the heart beat, and yet to the hand it seems to beat very little stronger than natural, and at other times motion is scarcely perceptible; sometimes contractions are frequent, at others seldom.\\ {{anchor:s229}}Violent palpitation from a throbbing in epigastrium extending to heart.\\ {{anchor:s230}}Palpitation from mental excitement.\\ {{anchor:s231}}Rapid, violent palpitation, agg. lying on right side, or a length of time in one position.\\ {{anchor:s232}}Palpitation in attacks.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s233}}Dilatation of heart.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s234}}Pain from heart to lower part of right leg.</span>\\ {{anchor:s235}}Pulse frequent with fever; slow or threadlike with colic; intermitting.\\ {{anchor:s236}}Strong pulsation through whole body.

====== OUTER CHEST. [30] ======

{{anchor:s238}}Chest sore and tender to touch above clavicle and over second or third rib, left side.

====== NECK AND BACK. [31] ======

{{anchor:s240}}Spine weak; evening.\\ {{anchor:s241}}Feels as if cold water was poured down back, with headache.\\ {{anchor:s242}}Pain where shoulder blade ends, near spine, right side.\\ {{anchor:s243}}A warm, cramplike feeling below hips, going up left side.\\ {{anchor:s244}}Pain all evening on both sides of spine on a line with inferior angles of scapulae, with every deep inhalation.

====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ======

{{anchor:s246}}Weakness in shoulders, amel. bending forward.\\ {{anchor:s247}}Pain in left shoulder; amel. from motion.\\ {{anchor:s248}}Feels as if a cord was drawn tightly around upper arm, causing pain in lines from ligature Trembling and twitching of arms.\\ {{anchor:s249}}Right wrist feels sprained.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s250}}Hands weak, dropping things.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s251}}~</span> <span grade2>During menses.</span>\\ {{anchor:s252}}Pains in hands with other suffering.

====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ======

{{anchor:s254}}Pains in limbs, particularly at night.\\ {{anchor:s255}}Lassitude, numbness.\\ {{anchor:s256}}Bruised pain when standing.\\ {{anchor:s257}}Feels as if a cord was tied around leg under knee.\\ {{anchor:s258}}Cramps in calves.\\ {{anchor:s259}}Soles sensitive to pressure, when walking.\\ {{anchor:s260}}Stitches in right big toe.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s261}}Feet numb and cold, although covered up warm in bed.</span>\\ {{anchor:s262}}Legs cold from knees down.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s263}}Frozen feet.</span>\\ {{anchor:s264}}(OBS:) Ingrowing toe nails.

====== LIMBS IN GENERAL. [34] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s266}}Bruised pains.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s267}}Crawling, tingling.</span>\\ {{anchor:s268}}Cold hands and feet with stomachache.

====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ======

{{anchor:s272}}Lying on back: vertigo; pressing followed by throbbing in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s273}}Lying down: dry cough in evening.\\ {{anchor:s274}}Lying on right side: palpitation worse.\\ {{anchor:s275}}Lying in one position long: palpitation worse.\\ {{anchor:s276}}Turning on right side: relieves vertigo.\\ {{anchor:s277}}Standing still: pain in scrobiculum amel.; bruised feeling in limbs.\\ {{anchor:s278}}Motion: of eyelids, bruised feeling of orbit; pain in left shoulder better.\\ {{anchor:s279}}Bending: sore pain in chest; weakness in shoulders better.\\ {{anchor:s280}}Cannot get up: pain in small of back.\\ {{anchor:s281}}Can hardly hold head up: with fever.\\ {{anchor:s282}}Walking hold head up: with fever.\\ {{anchor:s283}}Walking: colic worse; soles sensitive.

====== NERVES. [36] ======

{{anchor:s285}}Trembling, after rising, most in arms; excited.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s286}}Trembling with pain as if beaten.</span>\\ {{anchor:s287}}Nervous tremor and excitability of feeling as if agitated by unpleasant news.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s288}}Weak.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s289}}~</span> <span grade3>Typhus.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s290}}Weak and relaxed in stomach, abdomen and all the limbs.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s291}}Tired, faint, as if he would fall from his seat, forenoon.</span>

====== SLEEP. [37] ======

{{anchor:s293}}Light sleep, hears every little noise.\\ {{anchor:s294}}Cannot get to sleep on account of orgasm.\\ {{anchor:s295}}Anxiety at night, nausea, headache.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s296}}Sleepless from fever.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s297}}~</span> <span grade2>Colic.</span>\\ {{anchor:s298}}Wakened by stinging in chest.\\ {{anchor:s299}}Disturbed by nightmare, 4 A. M.

====== TIME. [38] ======

{{anchor:s301}}Night: heat in ears and face; squalmish when awaking; itching lump in anus worse; stinging in chest; pain in limbs; anxiety, nausea and headache.\\ {{anchor:s302}}Night and day: must urinate.\\ {{anchor:s303}}Forenoon: pains in head change from place to place; tired and faint; internal heat.\\ {{anchor:s304}}Evening: jerking in left forehead; tongue burns; pressing and throbbing in stomach; itching at anus; dry cough; spine week; pain on both sides of spine.\\ {{anchor:s305}}Morning: pain in head on awaking; spat coagulated blood after rising; nausea, fainting, giddiness and chilliness; coughs a long time.\\ {{anchor:s306}}At 4 A. M.: nightmare.

====== TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s308}}Very sensitive to cold.</span>\\ {{anchor:s309}}After taking cold, has a sore throat.\\ {{anchor:s310}}While washing, chest pains.\\ {{anchor:s311}}Exposure to air: roughens and chaps skin.

====== FEVER. [40] ======

{{anchor:s313}}Chill: metallic taste, slight nausea, palpitation; pain striking from heart across to lower extremity of right lung; sensation as of cold water poured down back, and numbing coldness of feet, though covered warmly in bed; deathlike faintness with chill.\\ {{anchor:s314}}Chilly with sick stomach.\\ {{anchor:s315}}Coldness followed by headache.\\ {{anchor:s316}}Coldness of skin followed by heat and tingling.\\ {{anchor:s317}}Fever with intense thirst, nausea, etc.\\ {{anchor:s318}}Inward heat throughout body, in forehead.\\ {{anchor:s319}}Warm creeps over belly.\\ {{anchor:s320}}Chilliness, and another time inward heat.\\ {{anchor:s321}}Coldness with stomach pain, followed by heat with rush of blood to head; can hardly hold it up.

====== ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s323}}Sudden attacks disappearing quickly: of beating or fluttering of heart.</span>\\ {{anchor:s324}}Nausea, flushes, cramps, etc., disappear soon, return quickly.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s325}}Same hour, 3 P. M., pain in arm.</span>\\ {{anchor:s326}}Every other morning: nausea, faintness and weakness, with restlessness and excitement.\\ {{anchor:s327}}Every hour or two: must urinate.

====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ======

{{anchor:s329}}Right: eye squints towards nose; pain under shoulder; soreness under nipple when bending; pain to leg through heart; pain near spine; wrist feels sprained; stitches in big toe.\\ {{anchor:s330}}Right to left: itching on border of eyelids.\\ {{anchor:s331}}Left: jerking in forehead; heat in side of face; nasal polypus; pain in jaw; pain in scrobiculum; cutting side of penis; affection of ovary; pain in groin; pain in chest when bending; soreness about clavicle and second and third ribs; warm feeling from hips up side; pain in shoulder.\\ {{anchor:s332}}Above downward: warm creeps in abdomen; pains from rectum to thighs; shooting from belly to penis; pain from heart to right leg; feeling as of water being poured down back.\\ {{anchor:s333}}Front to back: stinging in upper chest.\\ {{anchor:s334}}Diagonally: pain from heart to right leg.\\ {{anchor:s335}}Below upward: warm sensation from hips.

====== SENSATIONS. [43] ======

{{anchor:s337}}As if agitated by unpleasant news; sinking faint feeling in stomach; warm creeps running down abdomen; relaxed feeling in abdomen; pain in limbs as if beaten; as from a heavy stone in chest; uneasiness in stomach; as if cold water was poured down back; warm cramplike feeling below hips; as if a cord was drawn tightly around upper arm; as if a cord was tied around leg under knee; as if he would fall from his seat, faint.\\ {{anchor:s338}}Pain: in left articulation of jaw close to ears, to left of scrobiculum; from rectum down thighs; in groin; in ovary; under clavicle and right shoulder; from heart to lower part of right leg; where shoulder blade ends; in both sides of spine; in left shoulder; in hands; in limbs.\\ {{anchor:s339}}Jerking: in left forehead.\\ {{anchor:s340}}Burning: in lids; in tongue; in throat; in stomach; low down and in small of back; in anus.\\ {{anchor:s341}}Shooting: through temples; from middle line of belly as along as thread down into penis.\\ {{anchor:s342}}Cutting: in left side of penis.\\ {{anchor:s343}}Stitches: in tip of tongue.\\ {{anchor:s344}}Stinging: in vertex; in temple; in tip of tongue; in rectum; from upper chest through to back; in chest.\\ {{anchor:s345}}Prickling: in throat.\\ {{anchor:s346}}Sore pain: under right nipple.\\ {{anchor:s347}}Bruised feeling: orbit of left eye; in lower limbs; joints of arms; hands and feet.\\ {{anchor:s348}}Sprained feeling: in right wrist.\\ {{anchor:s349}}Scraping: in throat.\\ {{anchor:s350}}Scratching: in middle of sternum.\\ {{anchor:s351}}Pressing: on top of head; in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s352}}Throbbing: in epigastrium; in stomach; in anus; through whole body.\\ {{anchor:s353}}Tightness: across chest.\\ {{anchor:s354}}Constriction: in esophagus; in windpipe.\\ {{anchor:s355}}Contractive sensation: deep in pelvis.\\ {{anchor:s356}}Cramps: in calves.\\ {{anchor:s357}}Neuralgia: of throat.\\ {{anchor:s358}}Crawling tingling: in limbs.\\ {{anchor:s359}}Tingling: in skin.\\ {{anchor:s360}}Itching burning: on border of lower limbs.\\ {{anchor:s361}}Itching: in eyelids; in small lump at anus; of orifice of urethra; of scrotum; of shoulder.\\ {{anchor:s362}}Tickling: in larynx.\\ {{anchor:s363}}Heaviness: in stomach; in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s364}}Fullness: in pit of stomach; in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s365}}Faintish weakness: during pregnancy.\\ {{anchor:s366}}Weakness: in lower chest and abdomen; in shoulders.\\ {{anchor:s367}}Heat: in ears; in left side of face; from stomach; in left side opposite shoulder; in skin.\\ {{anchor:s368}}Coldness: of skin.\\ {{anchor:s369}}Dryness: of nostrils and choanae; of throat; of skin.

====== TISSUES. [44] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s371}}Hemorrhages from leech bites, extracting teeth, etc.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s372}}Parenchymatous bleeding from mouth, gums, nose, uterus.</span>\\ {{anchor:s373}}Mucous membrane: dry in nose, on tongue, in mouth, larynx.\\ {{anchor:s374}}Emaciation.\\ {{anchor:s375}}Joints of arms, hands and feet feel bruised.

====== TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] ======

{{anchor:s379}}Touch: abdomen sensitive; tenderness of upper left chest.\\ {{anchor:s380}}Slight scratches bleed.\\ {{anchor:s381}}After extracting teeth, profuse bleeding.\\ {{anchor:s382}}After cataract operation, prolapse of iris.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s383}}After metallic pessaries, scirrhus.</span>\\ {{anchor:s384}}Pressure relieves or increases colic.\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s385}}In powdered substance or solutions, in burns or scalds, after a plunge of arm in boiling oil.</span>\\ {{anchor:s386}}Pressure: causes bruised feeling in orbit; relieves pain in scrobiculum; colic better.

====== SKIN. [46] ======

{{anchor:s388}}Itching in eyelids, anus, scrotum and shoulder.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s389}}Skin dry; exposed to air, rough and chapped.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s390}}Rough skin all over body and face.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s391}}~</span> <span grade3>Nasal polypus.</span>\\ {{anchor:s392}}Furuncles on body, on thighs.\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s393}}Ulceration less after a burning, or such as remain after different other applications to skin.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s394}}Fungous granulations.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s395}}Proud flesh.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s396}}Chilblains.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s397}}Indolent ulcers.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s398}}Scorbutic ulcers.</span>

====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ======

{{anchor:s400}}Old people. <span sbita>{{anchor:s401}}~</span> Disease of the bladder. {{anchor:s402}}See 21.\\ {{anchor:s403}}Children, profuse bronchial catarrh.

====== RELATIONS. [48] ======

{{anchor:s405}}Similar to its relatives, <span grade2>Aluminium, Alumina</span>, etc., and to: <span grade2>Aloes</span> (rectum); <span grade2>Capsic.</span> (long uvula); <span grade2>Ferrum</span> (relaxed abdominal walls, prolapsed uterus, etc.); <span grade2>Ferr. jod.</span> (leucorrhea and prolapsus); <span grade2>Kali bichr.</span> (stringy discharges from mucous membranes); <span grade2>Mercur.</span> (prolapsed vagina, uterus and rectum; tenesmus of rectum, etc.); <span grade2>Merc. corr.</span> (burning and tenesmus of rectum); <span grade2>Mur. ac.</span> (fluttering of heart, anal pains after stool with fissures); <span grade2>Nitr. ac.</span> (ulcers; cancer recti; hemorrhages from all orifices; clots from rectum in typhoid; tenesmus, fissures, etc., of rectum); <span grade2>Nux vom.</span> (rectum); <span grade2>Opium; Plumbum</span> (colic; tenesmus of rectum; granular lids, etc.); <span grade2>Ratan.</span> (fissure of rectum); <span grade2>Stannum</span> (prolapsed vagina); <span grade2>Sulphur</span> (pain through left lung, etc.); <span grade2>Sulph. ac.</span> (hemorrhages, etc.); <span grade2>Zinc. met. et. sulph.</span> (eyelids; ulcers of cervix uteri; colic, etc.)\\ {{anchor:s406}}Antidote to: <span grade3>lead poisoning</span>; calomel and other mercurial preparations: <span grade2>Aloes</span> (for vomiting of blood).\\ {{anchor:s407}}Antidoted by: <span grade2>Chamom.</span> (cramps in abdomen); <span grade2>Nux vom.; Ipec.</span> (nausea and faintness); <span grade2>Sulphur.</span>

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====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ======
^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 01, 1879 |
^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r202|Alumen]] |
^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r202|Alumen]] |
^ Author: | Hering, C. |
^ Year: | 1879 |
^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting |
^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}