====== ARANEA DIADEMA ======
<span tc1>{{anchor:s1}}Diadema Aranea. {{anchor:s2}}(Aranea Diadema.)</span>

<span grade2>{{anchor:s3}}The Cross Spider. {{anchor:s4}}Arachnida.</span>

{{anchor:s5}}A large spider found in Europe and America, its body ovoid, a longitudinal line on back, of yellow and white points, intersected by three similar lines. {{anchor:s6}}Used as a remedy by Wm. Gross as early as 1833, and mentioned in the older homeopathic works, but not proved until later by Grauvogl, see his Text Book, 2d edition, 1866, and Allen's Encyclopaedia, vol. 4.

{{anchor:s7}}The symptoms are mainly based on clinical experience.

{{anchor:s8}}The tincture is prepared by maceration of the insect in alcohol.

====== CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. ======

{{anchor:s10}}- <span grade2>Headache</span>, Grauvogl. p. 43; (2 cases), Hencke, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 70; <span grade2>Chronic headache</span>, Grauvogl; <span grade2>Toothache</span>, Grauvogl; Colic, Howard, Hom. Clinics, vol. 4, p. 86; <span grade2>Spasmodic pains in stomach and irregular menses</span>, Encyclopaedia, Hom. Clinics, vol. 4, p. 115; <span grade2>Cramps in stomach</span>, Nunez, Raue's Rec., 1875, p. 142; <span grade2>Enlarged spleen</span>, Grauvogl; <span grade2>Abdominal pains</span>, Nunez, Hom. Clinics, vol. 4, p. 111; <span grade2>Intermittent diarrhea</span>, Nunez, Raue's Rec., 1872, p. 137; <span grade2>Sensation as if hands and arms were swollen</span>, Chapman, Hales' Therap., p. 43; <span grade2>Spasms</span>, Nunez, Raue's Rec., 1872, p. 222; <span grade2>Catalepsy</span>, Grauvogl; <span grade2>Intermittent fever</span>, Hering, Husmann, Joffre, MSS.; <span grade2>Violent chill</span>, Heinigke, Allen's Int. Fevers, p. 18; <span grade2>Quotidian chill</span>, Grauvogl.

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

{{anchor:s12}}Dejected, pale face; dark circles under eyes; melancholy, will not leave the bed.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s13}}Deep melancholy.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s14}}~</span> <span grade2>Dysmenorrhea.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s15}}Morose and despondent, longing for death.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s16}}~</span> <span grade3>Intermittent.</span>

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s18}}Vertigo before headache; when sitting up; must lie down; with weakness before eyes.</span>\\ {{anchor:s19}}Confusion of head; after eating; with relaxation (lassitude).\\ {{anchor:s20}}Dullness and pressure in head, amel. when pillowing head.

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

{{anchor:s22}}Confusion of head; with lassitude; after eating; evening, when studying, with pressive pains, as if on bones of right temple; while resting head on hand.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s23}}Headache and confusion of head, both amel. by smoking and by going into open air.</span>\\ {{anchor:s24}}Long-lasting confusion of head, with pressing pain in forehead and temples, amel. by pressure of hand, amel. in evening, after eating.\\ {{anchor:s25}}Headache in forehead, amel. by smoking.\\ {{anchor:s26}}Heat in forehead and eyes.\\ {{anchor:s27}}Headache, with burning in eyes and heat in head.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s28}}Pressing in temples; vertigo on rising from a recumbent position; head and hands feel swollen.</span>\\ {{anchor:s29}}Continued headache spreading from forehead on vertex and occiput, only at times agg. on top of head; cannot receive company because talking or listening produces vomiting; she must lie quietly in bed for three or four days.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s30}}Chronic headache, preceded by flickering before eyes and vertigo, which forces her to lie down; headache attended with dullness, cannot think well, great heat in forehead and face, weariness, loss of strength; lasts one day.</span>\\ {{anchor:s31}}Headache coming on at regular hours; agg. by speaking, or when others speak; amel. by less smoking, or going out into open air.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s32}}Stitching and shooting pains in head with chill.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s33}}~</span> <span grade3>Intermittent.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s34}}Nervous headache; periodical.</span>

====== OUTER HEAD. [4] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s36}}Unpleasant sensation as if head and hands were greatly swollen.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s37}}~</span> <span grade3>Headache.</span>\\ {{anchor:s38}}Dullness of head: with tightness; after a meal; during evening studies; with pressure on right temporal bone, upper part of forehead, amel. on leaning head.\\ {{anchor:s39}}Drawing in head to lower jaw.

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s41}}Glimmering and glittering before eyes when reading or writing, which agg. headache.</span>\\ {{anchor:s42}}Flickering before eyes; precedes attack of headache.\\ {{anchor:s43}}Thick mist before eyes; so tired she thought she would drop.\\ {{anchor:s44}}Disagreeable trembling in eyes; reading, writing, agg. headache, with heat in eyes and forehead.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s45}}Burning in eyes, with heat in face and headache.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s46}}Stinging in eyes after the heat.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s47}}~</span> <span grade2>Intermittent.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s48}}Shooting in eyes.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s49}}~</span> <span grade3>Intermittent.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s50}}Large black circles under eyes.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s51}}~</span> <span grade3>Dysmenorrhea.</span>

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

{{anchor:s53}}Pinching pressure in right ear and parotid gland, shifting to right side, from up-down.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s54}}Affection of ears in dogs; they shake their heads until the ears are bloody.</span>

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

{{anchor:s56}}Coryza with thirst; tertian coryza.\\ {{anchor:s57}}Epistaxis.

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s59}}Dejected countenance and pale face; dark circles under eyes; lips blanched; dull expression of eyes; confusion of head; deep melancholy; malaise, with constant desire to lie down.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s60}}~</span> <span grade3>Spasmodic pains in stomach.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s61}}Face pale and sunken.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s62}}~</span> <span grade3>Dysmenorrhea.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s63}}Cheeks feel as if swollen.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s64}}~</span> <span grade3>Toothache.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s65}}Heat in forehead and face.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s66}}~</span> <span grade3>Headache.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s67}}Burning heat in face, forehead and eyes, with headache.</span>

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s69}}Lips colorless.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s70}}~</span> <span grade3>Dysmenorrhea.</span>

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s72}}Right lower incisors feel cold and are sensitive, especially on drawing in air; returns each day at same hour.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s73}}Pinching, pressing pain in upper incisors, regularly from 9 A. M. to 7 P. M.; leaving a sensitiveness and cold feeling on drawing in air; sensation as if gum or cheek were swollen.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s74}}Sudden violent pains in teeth of upper and lower jaw at night, immediately after lying down.</span>\\ {{anchor:s75}}Toothache amel. by smoking tobacco; agg. by humidity, at night, and after lying down.

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

{{anchor:s77}}Taste: bitter, amel. by smoking; nauseous, bitter, with coated tongue; unpleasant after milk.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s78}}Tip of tongue slightly red.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s79}}~</span> <span grade3>Ague.</span>

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

{{anchor:s81}}Stitches in palate and larynx.

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s84}}Anorexia.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s85}}~</span> <span grade3>Intermittent.</span>\\ {{anchor:s86}}Thirst during fever and with all other symptoms.

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

{{anchor:s88}}After eating: confusion of head, with lassitude.\\ {{anchor:s89}}After eating a few spoonfuls of soup, a crawling sensation over whole body.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s90}}At dinner, after first spoonful of soup, violent spasmodic bellyache with anxiety; oppression of chest and repeated gaping.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s91}}~</span> <span grade3>Dysmenorrhea.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s92}}She had no appetite and was afraid to eat, as it increased the complaints in the night.</span>\\ {{anchor:s93}}After milk, unpleasant taste.

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

{{anchor:s95}}Vomits everything; has passed no urine in two days; backache, preventing sleep.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s96}}Vomiting after chill and after heat.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s97}}~</span> <span grade3>Intermittent.</span>

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s99}}Cutting in stomach, and spasmodic pain, with vomiting before chill.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s100}}~</span> <span grade3>Intermittent.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s101}}Burning in stomach during chill.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s102}}~</span> <span grade3>Ague.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s103}}After eating a very little food, violent convulsive pains in stomach, nausea, oppression of chest and repeated gaping.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s104}}Cramps in stomach, commencing during a meal, with great anxiety, pressure in chest, and frequent yawning; spasm at first confined to stomach, gradually becomes general, with trembling of whole body, spasmodic motions, and desire to keep constantly moving when sitting.</span>

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s106}}Epigastrium painful to pressure.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s107}}~</span> <span grade3>Ague.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s108}}Swelling of spleen, after checked intermittent fever with quinine; agg. in damp weather and exposure to damp walls.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s109}}Enlarged spleen, in man subject to ague, constantly chilly, agg. when it rained.</span>

====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ======

{{anchor:s111}}Sensation of heaviness and fullness in lower bowels as if a stone was lying there, with an unpleasant feeling of faintness in pit of stomach; gnawing and griping in abdomen; returns daily at the same hour.\\ {{anchor:s112}}Abdominal complaints with shuddering, towards evening; sensation of heaviness, snapping in belly, with unpleasant squeamishness in pit of stomach.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s113}}Colic, griping pains, sensation of heaviness in lower abdomen and feeling of faintness in epigastrium.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s114}}Colic recurs daily at same hour, with feeling as if arms and legs were asleep.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s115}}Every morning about 4 o'clock severe abdominal pains with loud borborygmi, followed by two or three small liquid stools, with sensation of numbness in upper and lower extremities, after that sleeps quietly until about 8 A. M., but feels tired and used up all day; no appetite, and fear of eating on account of pains during digestion.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s116}}~</span> <span grade3>Colic after a cold.</span>\\ {{anchor:s117}}Intermitting colic; flatulency.\\ {{anchor:s118}}Violent pain in abdomen with great rumbling.\\ {{anchor:s119}}Flatulency, with heaviness in thighs, each day at same hour.

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

{{anchor:s121}}Bowels which were bound 4 or 5 days, move daily.\\ {{anchor:s122}}Diarrhea, stools occur with great violence.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s123}}Diarrhea, stools thin fluid, with pain in abdomen, amel. by rubbing with hand; stool passed only partly with straining, and a half hour later, fermentation in abdomen.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s124}}Pain in bowels and diarrhea regularly every morning at 2 o'clock, with colicky pains and great rumbling in belly.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s125}}~</span> <span grade3>Diarrhea.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s126}}Diarrhea, arms and legs feel as if asleep.</span>

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

{{anchor:s128}}Waits long to urinate; no energy; sore on either side of bladder.\\ {{anchor:s129}}Awakens with desire to urinate, but nothing passes; no burning or urging, but sometimes severe pain from perineum to glans penis.\\ {{anchor:s130}}Constant desire to pass water, but cannot; fearful pain along urethra from glans.\\ {{anchor:s131}}Urine dark colored.

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

{{anchor:s133}}Produced a boil on left side of penis, near pubes.

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

{{anchor:s135}}Metrorrhagia; bright red.\\ {{anchor:s136}}Dysmenorrhea; spasms commencing in stomach.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s137}}Menses 8 days too early, too long lasting and too copious.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s138}}Courses irregular; either too late or too early; face pale and sunken; dark circles under eyes; dull expression of eyes; bloodless lips; melancholy features; general debility with constant desire to lie in bed; sensation of formication all over body; about noon, after eating only a few spoonfuls of soup, violent convulsive pains in stomach, with anxiety, nausea, oppression of chest, and constant yawning. {{anchor:s139}}Spasmodic affection of stomach soon spreads all over body, with trembling, so that she could not remain quiet in any position; confusion of mind; pains return with less intensity on going to bed and when rising in morning.</span>\\ {{anchor:s140}}Irregular menses; too often; too profuse, with colic three times every day.\\ {{anchor:s141}}Menses omit four weeks, then copious and red.\\ {{anchor:s142}}Slimy mucus from vagina; viscous leucorrhea.

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s144}}Chest feels constantly so oppressed that a walk across his room puts him out of breath.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s145}}~</span> <span grade3>Enlarged spleen.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s146}}Respiration very short, raised the right side of thorax only, 30 in minute, could be heard at the very apex of the lung only.</span>

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

{{anchor:s148}}Cough with bloody sputa.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s149}}Cough.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s150}}~</span> <span grade3>Intermittent.</span>

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s152}}Oppression of chest, nausea and gaping, with convulsive pains in stomach after eating.</span>\\ {{anchor:s153}}Expectoration bloody; haemoptysis among subjects weak and anemic through privation of all kinds, and dyspeptics.\\ {{anchor:s154}}Violent hemorrhages from lungs.

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s156}}The heart was pressed to the right, beat feebly, 98 in a minute.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s157}}~</span> <span grade3>Enlargement of spleen.</span>

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

{{anchor:s159}}Excruciating neuralgia along spinal nerves.\\ {{anchor:s160}}Jerking in back and left arm with vertigo, blackness before eyes and falling down.\\ {{anchor:s161}}Back so painful she cannot sleep; passes no urine.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s162}}Pain in back before and after chill.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s163}}~</span> <span grade2>Intermittent fever.</span>

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s165}}Every night for several years, distressing sensation as if hands and arms were enormously swollen, in very nervous woman; apprehension so strong that she often struck a light to ascertain whether it was so or not.</span>\\ {{anchor:s166}}Forearms and hands so heavy that he imagines he cannot lift them.\\ {{anchor:s167}}Pains in bones, dull, digging in all parts of body, more in humerus, forearm and fingers.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s168}}Ring and little fingers of both hands feel as if they had gone to sleep; formication.</span>\\ {{anchor:s169}}Fibrillar twitching in muscles of left upper arm.\\ {{anchor:s170}}Quivering, twitching in muscles of left upper arm, afternoon.

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

{{anchor:s172}}Heavy feeling in thighs, they can hardly be carried forward; confusion of head; heaviness in abdomen.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s173}}Stitches through knee with the chill, coming and going suddenly.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s174}}~</span> <span grade3>Ague.</span>\\ {{anchor:s175}}Feet feel heavy, with weariness.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s176}}Boring in right os calcis when first moving foot; disappears from continued motion.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s177}}Ulcer on left heel.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s178}}Caries or gangrene; pains agg. and amel. periodically.</span>

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s180}}Arms and legs feel as if asleep.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s181}}~</span> <span grade3>Diarrhea.</span>\\ {{anchor:s182}}At times dull, digging bone-pains.\\ {{anchor:s183}}Early in morning and at intervals during day, dull digging pains in right humerus, radius, ulna and tibia.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s184}}Pains in limbs, great inward soreness with chill; pain from right side up into shoulder-blade.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s185}}~</span> <span grade3>Intermittent fever.</span>

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

{{anchor:s189}}Lying down: desire to lie down; vertigo amel.; dullness and pressure in head amel.; toothache agg.; pain in stomach amel.; aversion to leaving bed; must lie down; lies as if dead.\\ {{anchor:s190}}Rising from recumbent position, vertigo; pain in stomach amel.\\ {{anchor:s191}}Rests head on hand: confusion in head.\\ {{anchor:s192}}Leaning head: amel. pressure in forehead.\\ {{anchor:s193}}Shaking head: in dogs till ears are bloody.\\ {{anchor:s194}}Walking across room; puts him out of breath.\\ {{anchor:s195}}Moving: desire to keep constantly moving when sitting; first moving foot agg. boring in right os calcis, amel. from continued motion; obliged to move on her feet during colic.

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s197}}Great exhaustion, lassitude.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s198}}~</span> <span grade3>Intermittent fever.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s199}}Weary and thirsty.</span>\\ {{anchor:s200}}Weariness, with headache; with heavy arms and feet; thirst.\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s201}}Languor and lassitude.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s202}}Must lie down; weak as if dead, after heat.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s203}}~</span> <span grade3>Intermittent.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s204}}Feels as if she would drop.</span>\\ {{anchor:s205}}Numb feeling in periphery of ulnar nerve, also in ring and small finger of both hands.\\ {{anchor:s206}}Trembling, lameness, spasm; subsultus tendinum.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s207}}Menses irregular, too often and too profuse, with colic three times every day; melancholy; will not leave bed; creeping as of ants all over body; about noon with first spoonful of soup, cramp pains in abdomen; great anguish in chest and yawning; soon afterwards general spasms.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s208}}Spasms in abdomen changing into general convulsions of whole body, during which she was obliged to move to and fro on her feet continuously, while the pain in belly continued and her consciousness was slightly depressed.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s209}}~</span> <span grade3>Dysmenorrhea.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s210}}Catalepsy; periodical headache; agg. from damp weather, or the use of baths; constantly chilly, cold hands and feet, even in a warm room.</span>

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s212}}Sleeplessness.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s213}}~</span> <span grade3>Intermittent.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s214}}As soon as she lies down at night, a sudden violent pain in all the teeth, lasting one hour.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s215}}Sleep unquiet, with frequent awaking.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s216}}Sleep restless; on awaking, hands and forearms feel as if greatly swollen and as strong and large again as natural; they feel so heavy he imagines he can hardly lift them.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s217}}Deep sleep during heat.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s218}}~</span> <span grade3>Intermittent fever.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s219}}Frightful dreams, screams out and cannot sleep again.</span>

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

{{anchor:s221}}Early morning: dull pain in right arm.\\ {{anchor:s222}}Noon: violent convulsive pains in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s223}}All day: tired feeling.\\ {{anchor:s224}}From 9 A. M. to 7 P. M: pain in upper incisors; 9 A. M. chill.\\ {{anchor:s225}}Evening: confusion of head; pressing pain in head amel.; abdominal complaints amel.; heat.\\ {{anchor:s226}}Night: pain in teeth; complaints agg.

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

{{anchor:s228}}Summer: bones feel like ice.\\ {{anchor:s229}}Open air: headache amel.; confusion in head amel.\\ {{anchor:s230}}Warm room: cold hands and feet.\\ {{anchor:s231}}Chill not amel. by external warmth.\\ {{anchor:s232}}Fever: from sleeping on cold floor.\\ {{anchor:s233}}Drawing in air: incisors sensitive.\\ {{anchor:s234}}Damp air and rain: swelling of spleen agg.; headache agg.; chilly as if bones were of ice; all symptoms agg.\\ {{anchor:s235}}Damp walls: agg. swelling of spleen.\\ {{anchor:s236}}On the water: return of chills.\\ {{anchor:s237}}Rough weather: chills return.\\ {{anchor:s238}}Rainy weather: spleen trouble agg.\\ {{anchor:s239}}Cold weather: symptoms agg.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s240}}Worse from bathing.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s241}}Cannot tolerate damp or wet weather, or damp habitations, even being on the water.</span>

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s243}}Before chill: cutting cramp in stomach; backache.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s244}}Cold all the time, cannot get warm; chilly as if bones were made of ice, even during summer; agg. during rain.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s245}}Chill returns daily at same hour or every other day with sleeplessness, but neither heat nor sweat.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s246}}Chill returns after each cold or in rough weather.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s247}}Constant chilliness from being on the water.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s248}}Chilly day and night. {{anchor:s249}}T Enlargement of spleen.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s250}}Felt stiff in limbs, tired and sick; chill began at 7 A. M. and lasted till precisely 8 in morning, every day at same hour, without heat or sweat, with cough, loss of appetite sleeplessness, and great exhaustion.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s251}}Sudden violent attacks of chills at 9 A. M., in March.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s252}}During chill: stinging in head; stitches in knees.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s253}}Chill, no heat; sweat with thirst; headache; hemorrhages from uterus or lungs.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s254}}Chill at regular hours; thirst during attack.</span>\\ {{anchor:s255}}The paroxysm often unattended by either heat or sweat, consisting only of coldness, which is persistent and severe, and not amel. by anything; it is usually without thirst in any stage; if any, usually during the heat.\\ {{anchor:s256}}Quotidian fevers of paludal origin; chill occurs precisely at same hour daily; lasting chill, either without any heat or sweat, or with little or short heat, not followed by sweat; great lassitude and disinclination to work; liver and especially spleen enlarged; urine dark colored; after a while ascites, loss of strength, lassitude, irritability, or more often apathy; great thirst during chill.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s257}}Fever coming twice a day; at sunrise, and about 5 P. M.</span>\\ {{anchor:s258}}Chill lasts from an hour and a half to three hours.\\ {{anchor:s259}}Before chill: cramp-like pain in stomach and vomiting.\\ {{anchor:s260}}During chill: stinging and shooting pains in head; stitches through knees, coming and going suddenly; pain in limbs and great soreness; pain going from right side into right shoulder-blade; burning in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s261}}After chill: vomiting.\\ {{anchor:s262}}Heat lasts two hours.\\ {{anchor:s263}}Before heat: vomiting.\\ {{anchor:s264}}During heat: headache, but not so violent as during chill, with great drowsiness.\\ {{anchor:s265}}After heat: vomiting and great prostration; lies as if dead; stinging in eyes.\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s266}}No sweat.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s267}}Chill, preceded by stretching and yawning.</span>\\ {{anchor:s268}}Backache before and after chill.\\ {{anchor:s269}}Very little heat and no sweat.\\ {{anchor:s270}}Poor appetite and great weakness.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s271}}Emaciation, yellow skin; malaise, moroseness, anorexia, epigastrium painful to pressure, slight redness of tip of tongue, despondent, longs for death.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s272}}~</span> <span grade3>Intermittent.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s273}}Chill and other symptoms are agg. every other day, at precisely same hour.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s274}}Great regularity of paroxysm.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s275}}Violent shaking chill, lasting uninterruptedly for 24 hours, without being followed by heat or sweat, or anything else.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s276}}Continuing chill, not alleviated by external warmth.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s277}}Fever from sleeping on a cold floor.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s278}}~</span> <span grade3>Intermittent.</span>\\ {{anchor:s279}}Heat in evening, with heaviness in hypogastrium, as from a stone; qualmishness; rumbling; thighs heavy; can scarcely drag limbs along.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s280}}Sweat absent; or sweat without thirst.</span>

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

{{anchor:s282}}Coming and going suddenly: stitches through knees.\\ {{anchor:s283}}Attacks of chills: 7 to 8 A. M.; at 9 A. M.\\ {{anchor:s284}}At times: headache on top of head; dull digging bone-pains.\\ {{anchor:s285}}At intervals: dull digging pains in right humerus, radius and ulna.\\ {{anchor:s286}}Repeated: gaping.\\ {{anchor:s287}}Frequent: awakening.\\ {{anchor:s288}}Periodical: nervous headache.\\ {{anchor:s289}}Regular hours: headache; sensitiveness of right incisors; gnawing and griping in abdomen; flatulency; chills.\\ {{anchor:s290}}Three times every day: colic.\\ {{anchor:s291}}Twice a day: fever at sunrise and 5 P. M.\\ {{anchor:s292}}Every morning 4 A. M., severe abdominal pains; 2 A. M., diarrhea; colicky pains; rumbling; chill at 7 A. M. until 8 A. M.; chill at 9 A. M. lasting one hour, followed by heat lasting two hours.\\ {{anchor:s293}}Daily: movement of bowels which were bound for four or five days; chill at same hour.\\ {{anchor:s294}}Every night for several years: sensation as if hands and arm were swollen; chilly.\\ {{anchor:s295}}Every other day: at same hour, chill; attacks of pain in ulcerated foot.\\ {{anchor:s296}}One hour to three hours: chill lasts.\\ {{anchor:s297}}One hour: toothache lasts.\\ {{anchor:s298}}Two hours: heat lasts.\\ {{anchor:s299}}Afternoon: twitching in muscles of left upper arm.\\ {{anchor:s300}}One day: headache lasts.\\ {{anchor:s301}}Two days: no urine.\\ {{anchor:s302}}Three or four days: headache amel. by lying in bed.\\ {{anchor:s303}}In midsummer: chilly day and night.

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

{{anchor:s305}}Left: boil on side of penis; jerking in arm; twitching in muscles of upper arms; ulcer on heel.\\ {{anchor:s306}}Right: pinching pressure in ear shifting to side: lower incisors feel cold; respiration raises side of thorax only; heart pressed to right side; boring in os calcis; digging pain in humerus, radius and ulna; pain from side up into shoulder-blade.\\ {{anchor:s307}}From up down: pinching pressure from ear to side.

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

{{anchor:s309}}As if in bone of temple, headache; as if head and hands were greatly swollen; cheeks and gums as if swollen; as if a stone was lying in lower bowels; as if arms and legs were asleep; as if arms were greatly swollen; as if he could not lift forearms and hands; ring and little fingers feel as if they had gone to sleep; feels as if she would drop; hands and forearms feel as strong and large again as natural; as if bones were made of ice.\\ {{anchor:s310}}Pain: in bowels; in back; in bones; in limbs; from right side up into shoulder-blade; in joints.\\ {{anchor:s311}}Excruciating neuralgia: along spinal nerves.\\ {{anchor:s312}}Fearful pain: along urethra from glans.\\ {{anchor:s313}}Sudden violent pain: of teeth in upper and lower jaw; in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s314}}Severe pain: in abdomen; from perineum to glans penis.\\ {{anchor:s315}}Cutting: in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s316}}Anguish: in chest.\\ {{anchor:s317}}Shooting pain: in head; in eyes.\\ {{anchor:s318}}Stitching pains: in head.\\ {{anchor:s319}}Stitches: in palate; in larynx; through knee.\\ {{anchor:s320}}Cramps: in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s321}}Gnawing: in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s322}}Griping: in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s323}}Boring: in right os calcis.\\ {{anchor:s324}}Spasmodic pains: in stomach; in whole body; in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s325}}Convulsive pain: in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s326}}Burning: in eyes; in face; in forehead; in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s327}}Ache: in head, spreading from forehead to vertex and occiput; in back.\\ {{anchor:s328}}Pinching pressure: in right ear; in parotid gland; in right side; in upper incisors.\\ {{anchor:s329}}Pressive pain: in head; in forehead; in temples.\\ {{anchor:s330}}Pressure: in head; in temples; on right temporal bone; in chest.\\ {{anchor:s331}}Stinging: in eyes; in head.\\ {{anchor:s332}}Soreness: either side of bladder; in limbs.\\ {{anchor:s333}}Digging: in all parts of body; in humerus; in forearms; in fingers; in limbs; right humerus; radius; in ulna; in tibia.\\ {{anchor:s334}}Sensitiveness: of incisors.\\ {{anchor:s335}}Distressing sensation: in hands and arms.\\ {{anchor:s336}}Confusion: of head.\\ {{anchor:s337}}Oppression: of chest.\\ {{anchor:s338}}Drawing: in head to lower jaw.\\ {{anchor:s339}}Tightness: in head.\\ {{anchor:s340}}Heaviness: in lower bowels; in thighs; in forearm; in hands; in feet.\\ {{anchor:s341}}Dullness: in head; in all parts of body; humerus; forearms; fingers.\\ {{anchor:s342}}Faintness: in pit of stomach; in epigastrium.\\ {{anchor:s343}}Jerking: in back and left arm.\\ {{anchor:s344}}Twitching: in muscles of left upper arm.\\ {{anchor:s345}}Stiff feeling: in limbs.\\ {{anchor:s346}}Crawling sensation: over whole body.\\ {{anchor:s347}}Formication: all over body.\\ {{anchor:s348}}Snapping: in belly.\\ {{anchor:s349}}Heat: in forehead; in eyes; in head; in face.\\ {{anchor:s350}}Fullness: in lower-bowels.\\ {{anchor:s351}}Weariness: in head; in feet.\\ {{anchor:s352}}Tired feeling.\\ {{anchor:s353}}Numbness: in extremities; in periphery of ulnar nerve; in ring finger; in little finger.\\ {{anchor:s354}}Cold feeling: of right lower incisors; in upper incisors.

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

{{anchor:s356}}Hemorrhages; hemorrhagic disposition; bleeders; bleedings from all the orifices of body.\\ {{anchor:s357}}Scorbutic dyscrasia.\\ {{anchor:s358}}Pains in bones and joints.\\ {{anchor:s359}}Dull digging bone-pains.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s360}}Emaciation.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s361}}~</span> <span grade3>Intermittent.</span>\\ {{anchor:s362}}Insufficient calorification, great sensibility to cold; symptoms agg. by damp or cold weather, as well as by cold or warm baths.

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

{{anchor:s366}}Pressure amel. headache; painful in epigastrium.\\ {{anchor:s367}}Rubbing: pain in abdomen amel.\\ {{anchor:s368}}Wounds which bleed.

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s370}}Yellow skin.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s371}}~</span> <span grade3>Intermittent fever.</span>\\ {{anchor:s372}}Eruption of pimples, nodes and tubercles; ulcers on heel.

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

{{anchor:s374}}Anemia from privations; with haemoptysis.\\ {{anchor:s375}}Hydrogenoid constitution, when attacks come at regular hours.\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s376}}Suitable to those who cannot live in damp places or on the water; ague dyscrasia, dyspeptics.</span>\\ {{anchor:s377}}Miss L., who formerly lived in a miasmatic locality, has had repeated attacks of intermittent fever during last year, which were always suppressed by quinine; the attacks returned after each cold, or in rough weather.\\ {{anchor:s378}}Mrs. G., aet. 22, lymphatic temperament and weakly constitution, large blue eyes; spasmodic pains in stomach and irregularity in menstrual function.\\ {{anchor:s379}}Woman, aet. 22; spasms.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s380}}A man, aet. 23, pupil at the School of Fine Arts, lived in a damp house close to the water; enormously enlarged spleen after suppressing chill with frequent 20 gr. doses of quinine.</span>\\ {{anchor:s381}}E. Manson, aet. 24, athletic build, courier, followed a course of allopathic treatment for two months at home, and subsequently in a Paris hospital, without least benefit; intermittent fever.\\ {{anchor:s382}}Mrs. P., suffering with chronic liver complaint, was taken suddenly with violent chills at 9 AM. on 21st of March.\\ {{anchor:s383}}A lady, aet. 40, slender, erethistic, hydremic constitution, after taking cold; chills.\\ {{anchor:s384}}Teamster, aet. 43, 6 feet 2 inches in height, and well developed, never sick before, slept on some straw on barroom floor, on a winter night; quotidian chill.\\ {{anchor:s385}}Mrs. G. M., aet. 48, sanguine temperament, strong constitution, copiously menstruating, mother of nine children, has always enjoyed good health; in consequence of catching cold, abdominal pains.\\ {{anchor:s386}}Woman, aet 50, unmarried, graceful, nervous; headache.\\ {{anchor:s387}}Woman, aet. 54, intermittent fever every fall, which was suppressed by quinine; the fever returned this time in spring; she tried allopathy for three weeks without any relief.

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

{{anchor:s389}}Antidoted by smoking tobacco; relieves headache.\\ {{anchor:s390}}It antidotes: <span grade2>Cinchona, Mercur.</span>\\ {{anchor:s391}}Compatible: after <span grade2>Ipec., Nux vom., Rhus tox.</span>, and <span grade2>Samb.</span>, in intermittent fevers; after <span grade2>Silica, Calc. ostr.</span> and <span grade2>Arsen.</span>, in caries of os calcis (Grauvogl's case); with <span grade2>Nux vom.</span> in pneumonia.\\ {{anchor:s392}}Compare: <span grade2>Arnica, Arsen., Cedron, Cinchona, Dulcam., Lycop., Mercur., Mygale, Nux vom., Pulsat., Rhus tox., Tarantula, Theridion.</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:r286|Aranea diadema]] |
^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r286|Aranea diadema]] |
^ Author: | Hering, C. |
^ Year: | 1879 |
^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting |
^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}