====== BUFO RANA ======
<span tc1>{{anchor:s1}}Bufo Rana. {{anchor:s2}}(Bufones.)</span>

<span grade2>{{anchor:s3}}Toads. {{anchor:s4}}Reptilia.</span>

{{anchor:s5}}Toads belong to the most poisonous reptiles.

{{anchor:s6}}In olden times, being looked upon as horrible things, they were given in horrible diseases. {{anchor:s7}}During the rage of improvement the remedy was thrown overboard, and even the poisonous qualities doubted, until rare experiments, especially those by Vulpian, have settled the question. {{anchor:s8}}In 1832 Henke, our great prover, was the first in our school to call attention to it; his observations were published in Meyer's Monatsblatt, 1860; in 1834 the Homeopathic Society of Thringen sent some symptoms to the Archives of Stapf (vol. xiv, No. 2, page 102). {{anchor:s9}}In 1849 Mure published a proving with his preparation, taken from the most common toad in Brazil, called by him Bufo satyhiensis. {{anchor:s10}}This was translated by Hempel and Allen. {{anchor:s11}}Houat published one of his provings in Nouvelles Donnes. {{anchor:s12}}This was translated three times --by Lippe, Lilienthal and Allen. {{anchor:s13}}In 1859, Destrone, in a French journal, collected notes from all old writers and also made some provings. {{anchor:s14}}His collection has been translated in Allen's Encyclopaedia, including the very doubtful numbers 6, 7 and half of 8. {{anchor:s15}}The provers mentioned have used about half a dozen different species, and nearly every one proved a different preparation. {{anchor:s16}}The cures are of the greatest importance and cannot be doubted in the least, even not by such who make profession of so-called skepticism. {{anchor:s17}}But now for nearly ten years we have not been able to find a single case in our journals. {{anchor:s18}}The cures have been epilepsy, cancers, beginning of malacie of the brain and cutaneous diseases. {{anchor:s19}}Many of Houat's symptoms have been verified.

{{anchor:s20}}The best way of getting the poison was proposed in 1861 by Roth in Paris, Allg. H. Zeit, vol. vi, page 112, mentioned in Schwabe's Pharmacopoeia, by faradization; but in 1862, in C. Müller's Quarterly, vol. xiii, the same author proposed a still better one. {{anchor:s21}}The toad was to be held with the left hand in a wooden forceps, the glands on the side of head pressed with a wire forceps and the juice caught on a glass plate; it is soluble in alcohol.

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

{{anchor:s23}}Desire for solitude, to practice masturbation.\\ {{anchor:s24}}Whimpered, then cried, until he fell into a state of coma.\\ {{anchor:s25}}Left his bed after apathy and ran like mad through the house, constantly howling; eyes injected; tongue dry; pulse regular; no febrile heat.\\ {{anchor:s26}}Stupor.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s27}}Weak memory; idiotic.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s28}}~</span> <span grade3>Spasms.</span>\\ {{anchor:s29}}Delirium or apathy, with hot head.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s30}}Mind not affected.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s31}}~</span> <span grade3>Epilepsy.</span>\\ {{anchor:s32}}Longs for solitude, yet dreads being alone. {{anchor:s33}}See 22.\\ {{anchor:s34}}Inclination to be angry, to bite.\\ {{anchor:s35}}Bites at surrounding objects.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s36}}Easily laughs or cries; cries much.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s37}}~</span> <span grade3>Epilepsy.</span>\\ {{anchor:s38}}Fear of disease, of animals, of death.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s39}}Great anguish.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s40}}~</span> <span grade3>Meningitis.</span>\\ {{anchor:s41}}Ill humor. {{anchor:s42}}See 23.\\ {{anchor:s43}}Becomes angry if misunderstood; before spasms.\\ {{anchor:s44}}Easily startled.

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

{{anchor:s46}}Vertigo.\\ {{anchor:s47}}Vertigo, as if house was turned up side down.\\ {{anchor:s48}}Giddiness, with heaviness of head.\\ {{anchor:s49}}Vertigo, spasms, fainting followed by death.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s50}}Attacks were ushered in by numbness of brain.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s51}}~</span> <span grade3>Epilepsy.</span>\\ {{anchor:s52}}Stupor and inability to speak.\\ {{anchor:s53}}Apathy following coma.

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

{{anchor:s55}}Pressure like two iron hands holding temples.\\ {{anchor:s56}}Headache: after breakfast; aggravated by light and noise; accompanied by cold feet and palpitation at heart; one-sided (r. side), relieved by bleeding of nose.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s57}}Dull headache in left side.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s58}}~</span> <span grade3>Softening of brain.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s59}}Headache, with epilepsy.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s60}}Violent orgasm in head.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s61}}Congestive headache, with flushed face.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s62}}~</span> <span grade3>Epilepsy.</span>

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

{{anchor:s64}}Headache in forehead and on vertex; parts tender to touch, especially in evening.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s65}}Lancinations in occiput, inclining head to fall backward.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s66}}~</span> <span grade3>Meningitis.</span>\\ {{anchor:s67}}Continued agitation of head and arms.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s68}}Head was at first drawn to one side, either right or left, then backward, before an attack.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s69}}~</span> <span grade3>Epilepsy.</span>\\ {{anchor:s70}}Profuse perspiration on head.\\ {{anchor:s71}}Hair falls out.

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

{{anchor:s73}}Cannot bear sight of brilliant objects.\\ {{anchor:s74}}Objects appear as if seen through a veil.\\ {{anchor:s75}}Amaurosis.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s76}}More acute vision, and eyes less sensitive to wind.</span>\\ {{anchor:s77}}Itching in eyes, with dimness of sight.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s78}}Pupils largely dilated and unaffected by light before attack.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s79}}~</span> <span grade3>Epilepsy.</span>\\ {{anchor:s80}}Ugly squinting look.\\ {{anchor:s81}}Eyes red, injected; itching, swollen, painful.\\ {{anchor:s82}}Spasmodic pain in eye, which appeared slightly injected.\\ {{anchor:s83}}Burning, itching and ulceration of lids, especially at canthi.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s84}}Eyes became highly injected; shrunken and lifeless in appearance, as the attacks multiplied.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s85}}~</span> <span grade3>Epilepsy.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s86}}Right eye open, left nearly closed; eyeballs rolled upward and to left before attack.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s87}}~</span> <span grade3>Epilepsy.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s88}}Left lid paralyzed, hangs down.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s89}}~</span> <span grade3>Softening of brain.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s90}}Edges of eyelids red and some crusts in lashes.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s91}}~</span> <span grade3>Epilepsy.</span>\\ {{anchor:s92}}A whitish crust over eyebrows.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s93}}Eyes sunken during spasm.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s94}}~</span> <span grade3>Epilepsy.</span>\\ {{anchor:s95}}Incapable of opening lids, in coma.

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

{{anchor:s97}}Least noise is disagreeable; music is unbearable.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s98}}Beating in heart reverberates in ears.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s99}}~</span> <span grade3>Meningitis.</span>\\ {{anchor:s100}}Hardness of hearing, especially for words.\\ {{anchor:s101}}Purulent otorrhea; ulceration and bleeding of external ears; pains worse from cold washing. {{anchor:s102}}See 8 and 12.\\ {{anchor:s103}}Swelling of ears and parotids.

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

{{anchor:s105}}Loss of smell.\\ {{anchor:s106}}Epistaxis almost producing faintness; relieves headache.\\ {{anchor:s107}}Sneezing in evening, when going to bed; coryza; pimples on upper lip.\\ {{anchor:s108}}Running of greenish-yellow, putrid mucus; agg. evening; cold air causes a feeling of corrosion.\\ {{anchor:s109}}Ulcerated, burning nostrils Mucus descends into posterior nares.

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

{{anchor:s111}}Face much altered.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s112}}Distortion and turgescence of face; mouth and eyes convulsed; profuse sweat on face.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s113}}First muscles of face commenced to twitch, extending thence over whole body.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s114}}~</span> <span grade3>Epilepsy.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s115}}Face greyish; red, bloated during spasms.</span>\\ {{anchor:s116}}Cold water causes a pricking of face. {{anchor:s117}}See 6, 12.\\ {{anchor:s118}}Momentary hot flushes of face.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s119}}Copious sweat running down face.</span>\\ {{anchor:s120}}Burning and redness of swollen face.\\ {{anchor:s121}}Phlegmonous erysipelas, which leaves face deformed.\\ {{anchor:s122}}Erysipelas.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s123}}Face bathed in sweat during spasm.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s124}}~</span> <span grade3>Epilepsy.</span>

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

{{anchor:s126}}Pimples on upper lip, with coryza.

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s128}}Toothache.</span>\\ {{anchor:s129}}Falling out of teeth.

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

{{anchor:s131}}Difficult mobility of tongue, it paralyzes rapidly; irritability of tongue and other muscles.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s132}}A kind of lapping motion of tongue, feeling of face and rubbing of nose before attacks.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s133}}~</span> <span grade3>Epilepsy.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s134}}Stuttering;</span> <span grade2>stammering; gets angry when incoherent speech is not understood.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s135}}~</span> <span grade2>Chorea.</span>\\ {{anchor:s136}}Stupor and inability to talk.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s137}}Bites the tongues.</span>\\ {{anchor:s138}}Dry tongue.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s139}}Tongue cracked, bluish-black.</span>\\ {{anchor:s140}}Lips and tongue black.

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

{{anchor:s142}}Fetid odor from mouth.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s143}}Mouth wide open before an attack.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s144}}~</span> <span grade3>Epilepsy.</span>\\ {{anchor:s145}}Mouth burning, as from acid; worse from cold water.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s146}}Sanguinolent salivation.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s147}}Bloody saliva.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s148}}~</span> <span grade2>Spasms.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s149}}During violent agitation of muscular system, ejection of frothy, bloody saliva from mouth.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s150}}~</span> <span grade3>Epilepsy.</span>\\ {{anchor:s151}}Carried objects within his reach to his mouth to bite them.

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

{{anchor:s153}}Mucus descends from nose into posterior nares.\\ {{anchor:s154}}Dryness in throat, impeding deglutition (morning).\\ {{anchor:s155}}Difficult swallowing, can hardly swallow saliva.\\ {{anchor:s156}}Convulsive and constrictive motion in throat, with a sensation like a stone there.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s157}}Fearful sore throat, could eat neither supper nor breakfast for it; verified at another time in same person.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s158}}Eruption in pharynx, like spots on skin.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s159}}~</span> <span grade3>Epilepsy.</span>

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

{{anchor:s162}}Desire for sugar-water.\\ {{anchor:s163}}Desire for sweetened water and milk, yet they cause nausea and colic.\\ {{anchor:s164}}Longing for brandy; delights in getting drunk.\\ {{anchor:s165}}Aversion to food and drink.

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

{{anchor:s167}}Dizzy, drunken feeling after dinner.\\ {{anchor:s168}}Sleepiness after meals, especially after dinner. {{anchor:s169}}See 4.\\ {{anchor:s170}}After eating, irresistible sleepiness.\\ {{anchor:s171}}Colicky pain after drinking milk, and after smoking tobacco.

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

{{anchor:s173}}Hiccough.\\ {{anchor:s174}}Eructations, as from rotten eggs.\\ {{anchor:s175}}Nausea and vomiting after the swelling.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s176}}Nausea in morning for a week.</span>\\ {{anchor:s177}}Vomiting after drinking.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s178}}Yellow fluid in vomit, like that from eruption.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s179}}~</span> <span grade3>Epilepsy.</span>\\ {{anchor:s180}}Vomiting of bile or of blood; burning, cramping in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s181}}Nervous excitement, with nausea and vomiting.

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

{{anchor:s183}}Sensation as if he would faint, from emptiness in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s184}}Weak, faint feeling in stomach. {{anchor:s185}}See 36.\\ {{anchor:s186}}Burning in stomach; lancinating pains radiating to liver and heart.

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

{{anchor:s188}}Rapid motion of diaphragm.\\ {{anchor:s189}}Pulsating, laming pain in liver, like an abscess; vomiting of bile.\\ {{anchor:s190}}Enlargement of liver.

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

{{anchor:s192}}Colicky pains after milk, or from smoking tobacco.\\ {{anchor:s193}}Violent colic, with convulsive movements of jaws and limbs.\\ {{anchor:s194}}Spasms end by convulsive movements in abdomen.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s195}}The attack originates in abdomen.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s196}}~</span> <span grade3>Epilepsy.</span>

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

<span grade4>{{anchor:s198}}Dysentery, with delirium, headache and sleeplessness.</span>\\ {{anchor:s199}}Bowels torpid.\\ {{anchor:s200}}Stools white.\\ {{anchor:s201}}Difficult, hard stool, with cold body and hot head.\\ {{anchor:s202}}Ascarides.\\ {{anchor:s203}}Hemorrhoidal tumors, with discharge of bright red blood.

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

{{anchor:s205}}Burning pain in kidneys, with oppressed breathing and faintness.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s206}}Urine passes off involuntarily.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s207}}~</span> <span grade3>Softening of brain.</span>\\ {{anchor:s208}}Frequent discharge of pale urine.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s209}}During violent agitation of entire muscular system, discharge of urine.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s210}}~</span> <span grade3>Epilepsy.</span>\\ {{anchor:s211}}Urine brown, of offensive odor.\\ {{anchor:s212}}Suppression of urine.

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

{{anchor:s214}}Inclination to touch genitals.\\ {{anchor:s215}}Desire for solitude to practice onanism.\\ {{anchor:s216}}Involuntary seminal emission.\\ {{anchor:s217}}Impotence; semen is ejaculated too quickly, or fails entirely.\\ {{anchor:s218}}Semen in discharged too quickly, without pleasurable sensation, sometimes with cramps or painful heaviness in limbs.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s219}}Impotence of worst kind; produced in some and cured in others.</span>\\ {{anchor:s220}}Spasms during coition.\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s221}}Buboes.</span>

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

<span grade2>{{anchor:s223}}Burning and swelling of ovaries.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s224}}Burning heat and stitches in ovaries.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s225}}Swelling and great sensitiveness of ovarian region.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s226}}Violent cramps in ovarian region, extending into groins.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s227}}Hydatids in ovaries.</span>\\ {{anchor:s228}}Epileptic aura from uterus towards stomach.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s229}}Distending, burning pains or cramps in uterus; sharp, dagger-like pains; worse on walking or sitting too long.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s230}}~</span> <span grade3>Carcinoma uteri.</span>\\ {{anchor:s231}}Ulceration of cervix uteri, with burning pains; offensive, purulent leucorrhea.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s232}}Enormous blisters on tumefied uterus, discharging a thin, serous, yellow fluid.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s233}}~</span> <span grade3>Epilepsy.</span>\\ {{anchor:s234}}Menses: suppressed (epilepsy); regular but rather scanty (epilepsy); too early, with headache; too early, preceded by headache, burning in uterus and vagina.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s235}}Spasms occur just before menses.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s236}}~</span> <span grade3>Epilepsy.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s237}}Attacks worse at time of menses, which return every three weeks.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s238}}~</span> <span grade3>Epilepsy.</span>\\ {{anchor:s239}}During menses, contractive pain in liver, palpitation; shivering in legs.\\ {{anchor:s240}}After menses, ill-humored.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s241}}Yellow fluid in leucorrhea, like from eruption.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s242}}~</span> <span grade3>Epilepsy.</span>

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

<span grade4>{{anchor:s246}}Haematuria in childbed.</span>\\ {{anchor:s247}}Inflammation of mamma; purulent sinuses; sensation as if breasts were torn towards belly.\\ {{anchor:s248}}(OBS:) Puerperal convulsions if suppuration is suspected.\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s249}}Cancer mamma occultus.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s250}}Mammary cancer.</span>\\ {{anchor:s251}}Milk mixed with blood.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s252}}Tumefaction like a cord from groin to knee.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s253}}~</span> <span grade3>Milk leg.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s254}}Child became epileptic in consequence of mother having a fright or fit of anger during nursing period.</span>

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

{{anchor:s257}}Burning, excoriation in larynx; bleeding fissures, causing quick, jerking cough.

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s259}}After convulsive movements became less rapid and violent, breathing became heavy and stertorous, with usual puffing of lips at every expiration, directly culminated in a deep-drawn sigh, and patient sank into coma, soon followed by the restlessness and convulsions as before.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s260}}~</span> <span grade3>Epilepsy.</span>\\ {{anchor:s261}}Difficult breathing from compression of larynx, trachea and heaviness of chest; must sit up or bend forward. {{anchor:s262}}See 21.\\ {{anchor:s263}}Sensation as if chest and heart were constricted.\\ {{anchor:s264}}Breathing anxious, difficult, gets shorter and shorter, with fever.\\ {{anchor:s265}}Dyspnea; pants like a dog.

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

{{anchor:s267}}Cough from any emotion.\\ {{anchor:s268}}Cough from burning or stitches in larynx.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s269}}Cough nocturnal, provoked towards 3 or 4 A. M. by a tickling in larynx, which he feels only at this hour.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s270}}Cough in consequence of cold feet.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s271}}Violent cough, with vomiting.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s272}}Cough dry, with sharp pain or burning in chest.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s273}}Sputa mucous or sanguinolent, or formed of pure blood, raised most in morning and evening, with sensation of cold in chest; a sensation which is often succeeded by heat and congestion.</span>

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

{{anchor:s275}}Stitches in chest (r. side).\\ {{anchor:s276}}Burning like fire in lungs.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s277}}Laryngitis, haemoptysis, phthisis pulmonalis.</span>

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

{{anchor:s279}}Palpitation; with headache; after a meal; with nausea; during menses; on awaking; evening.\\ {{anchor:s280}}Palpitation and oppression from walking fast.\\ {{anchor:s281}}Sticking pains about apex of heart.\\ {{anchor:s282}}Heart feels as if too large, as if drowned in a basin of water.\\ {{anchor:s283}}Sense of constriction about heart and chest. {{anchor:s284}}See 3.\\ {{anchor:s285}}Heaviness about heart.\\ {{anchor:s286}}Paralysis of heart.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s287}}Pulse became more and more rapid and threadlike as the paroxysms multiplied.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s288}}~</span> <span grade3>Epilepsy.</span>

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s290}}Attacks ushered in by a jerk in nape of neck.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s291}}~</span> <span grade3>Epilepsy.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s292}}A swelling of bone size of fist.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s293}}~</span> <span grade3>Caries of dorsal vertebrae.</span>

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

{{anchor:s295}}Great desire to exercise arms. {{anchor:s296}}See 36.\\ {{anchor:s297}}Burning, lancinating in bones of arms. {{anchor:s298}}See 44.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s299}}Arms became stiffened before an attack.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s300}}~</span> <span grade3>Epilepsy.</span>\\ {{anchor:s301}}Arms go to sleep easily.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s302}}Numbness of left arm.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s303}}~</span> <span grade3>Epilepsy.</span>\\ {{anchor:s304}}Swelling of wrists and finger joints, with burning and pulsating.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s305}}A blister in hand which recurred annually.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s306}}After a slight contusion of (little) finger, tearing pain, with redness along whole arm, following lymphatic vessels into armpit, causing there painful glandular swellings.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s307}}Contractions of fingers of right hand, then left, followed the lapping motion of tongue, with thumbs drawn into palms; before an attack.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s308}}~</span> <span grade3>Epilepsy.</span>\\ {{anchor:s309}}Panaritium, swelling blue black around nail (thumb), followed by suppuration.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s310}}Panaritium; pains run in streaks all the way up arm.</span>

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

<span grade4>{{anchor:s312}}Ischias.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s313}}Lower limbs are more in motion than upper.</span>\\ {{anchor:s314}}Cramps in legs, awaking him from his sleep.\\ {{anchor:s315}}Legs drawn backward until they touch glutei.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s316}}Lower limbs straight and stiff before attack.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s317}}~</span> <span grade3>Epilepsy.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s318}}Lower limbs get weak, has to take first one stick, then two to be able to walk.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s319}}~</span> <span grade3>Softening of brain.</span>\\ {{anchor:s320}}Great weakness of legs.\\ {{anchor:s321}}Shooting, boring in knees, ankles, feet; worse moving.\\ {{anchor:s322}}Swelling of knees, with pulsative and distending pains.\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s323}}Podagra.</span>

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

{{anchor:s325}}Limbs are very easily moved.\\ {{anchor:s326}}Contusive pains in arms, legs and loins, during movement.\\ {{anchor:s327}}Trembling of limbs; heaviness.\\ {{anchor:s328}}Cramps in limbs; worse in cold air.\\ {{anchor:s329}}Arthritic swelling.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s330}}Swelling of hands and arms; burning pains.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s331}}~</span> <span grade3>Erysipelas.</span>\\ {{anchor:s332}}Large yellow blisters in palms and soles, of three inches circumference; the fluid oozing out is yellowish and corroding; repeatedly on several places.

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s336}}Pain in limbs since months, he is bent and cannot walk without a stick.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s337}}~</span> <span grade3>Caries of dorsal vertebrae.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s338}}Each attack heralded by restless movements of limbs and body.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s339}}~</span> <span grade3>Epilepsy.</span>\\ {{anchor:s340}}Sitting too long, uterine pains.\\ {{anchor:s341}}Must sit up: dyspnea.\\ {{anchor:s342}}Inclined to lie on left side.\\ {{anchor:s343}}Lying on back increases sufferings.\\ {{anchor:s344}}Walking: distending, burning pain or cramps in uterus; dagger-like pains agg.; fast, palpitation and apprehension.\\ {{anchor:s345}}Sitting: distensive, burning pain; cramps in uterus; dagger-like pains agg.; difficult breathing better.\\ {{anchor:s346}}Bending forward: difficult breathing better.\\ {{anchor:s347}}Motion: discharge of urine from violent agitation of muscular system; desire to exercise arms; lower limbs move more than upper; shooting, burning in knees, ankles and feet agg.; contusive pains in arms, legs and loins.

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

{{anchor:s349}}Great muscular strength; prefers jumping to walking.\\ {{anchor:s350}}Great mobility of limbs.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s351}}Repeated shocks through whole body.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s352}}Up to period of beginning, muscles were in a state of tonic contraction, but then jactitations or twitchings commenced.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s353}}~</span> <span grade3>Epilepsy.</span>\\ {{anchor:s354}}Twitching of muscles.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s355}}Twitching over whole body increased rapidly in severity, till entire muscular system became violently agitated.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s356}}~</span> <span grade3>Epilepsy.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s357}}Tonic and clonic spasms.</span>\\ {{anchor:s358}}Spasms begin in solar plexus.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s359}}Loss of consciousness and falling down.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s360}}Convulsions.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s361}}~</span> <span grade3>Epilepsy (after fright).</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s362}}Epilepsy after onanism. {{anchor:s363}}Compare Sulphur.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s364}}Spasms caused by or associated with suppuration of internal parts.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s365}}Convulsion of limbs.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s366}}~</span> <span grade3>Softening of brain.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s367}}Spasms: from fright; at new moon; after onanism; during coitus.</span>\\ {{anchor:s368}}Before spasm: <span grade2>angry for several days</span>; <span grade3>face greyish-yellow, eyes sunken</span>; jerks in back of neck.\\ {{anchor:s369}}During attack: <span grade3>face distorted, red, biting tongue</span>; bloody saliva; violent movements of limbs; <span grade2>profuse sweat.</span>\\ {{anchor:s370}}After attack: spasmodic movements of intestines; <span grade3>profound sleep.</span>\\ {{anchor:s371}}Subsultus tendinum.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s372}}Falls to ground unconscious, with a blood-curdling, wild cry, followed by spasms in limbs; distorted facial muscles, grinding teeth and foaming mouth; ending in loud, snoring sleep.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s373}}~</span> <span grade3>Epilepsy.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s374}}Spasms very severe, followed by sleep.</span> <span sbitared>{{anchor:s375}}~</span> <span grade4>Epilepsy pain.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s376}}Attacks come on in sleep, are followed by severe pain and pressure in top of head.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s377}}~</span> <span grade3>Epilepsy.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s378}}Dreadful paroxysm several times a week.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s379}}~</span> <span grade3>Epilepsy.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s380}}Fifty paroxysms occurred during fifteen hours, with complete unconsciousness.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s381}}~</span> <span grade3>Epilepsy.</span>\\ {{anchor:s382}}Trembling, faint, with a sensation of emptiness in stomach; tottering gait. {{anchor:s383}}See 33.\\ {{anchor:s384}}Great weakness; fainting.\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s385}}Paralysis.</span>

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

{{anchor:s387}}Sleepiness: after meals; when he smokes tobacco in forenoon.\\ {{anchor:s388}}Sleepy, stupid after eating, or after having been in open air.\\ {{anchor:s389}}Sleepy, as if drunken; congestion to head.\\ {{anchor:s390}}Drowsy, but cannot sleep, from agitation; constantly turning in bed.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s391}}After a deep-drawn sigh, patient sank away into a comatose condition, from which no effort could rouse him.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s392}}~</span> <span grade3>Epilepsy.</span>\\ {{anchor:s393}}Continued yawning, could not keep lips open.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s394}}Very profound coma subsequent to attacks.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s395}}~</span> <span grade3>Epilepsy.</span>\\ {{anchor:s396}}Child cries and complains, finally becomes comatose.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s397}}Stupid sleep after epileptic attack.</span>\\ {{anchor:s398}}Starts in sleep, awakens as if frightened; palpitation.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s399}}At midnight seized with convulsions, recurring every twenty minutes till 4 P. M. of next day.</span>\\ {{anchor:s400}}On awaking, aggravation of all sufferings; neck stiff; arthritic pains.

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

{{anchor:s402}}Midnight: convulsions, returning every twenty minutes, till 4 P. M.\\ {{anchor:s403}}Morning: dryness in throat; nausea; mucous or sanguinolent sputa agg.; aggravation of all symptoms; neck stiff; arthritic pains; sweat towards morning.\\ {{anchor:s404}}Evening: headache in forehead and vertex; sneezing; putrid greenish-yellow mucus from nose agg.; mucous or sanguinolent sputa agg.; palpitation with headache; symptoms generally worse.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s405}}Attacks appear with change of moon.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s406}}~</span> <span grade3>Epilepsy.</span>

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

{{anchor:s408}}The warm room is unpleasant.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s409}}Headache and flushed face much agg. in warm room or near stove; amel. from cold bathing or in cold air.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s410}}~</span> <span grade3>Epilepsy.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s411}}Putting feet in hot water and drinking something hot, sometimes breaks up the attack.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s412}}~</span> <span grade3>Epilepsy.</span>\\ {{anchor:s413}}Great sensibility to open, cold air and wind. {{anchor:s414}}See 34, 37, 40.\\ {{anchor:s415}}Open air: coldness; moist skin; nervousness and trembling worse.\\ {{anchor:s416}}Cold: air causes corrosion of nostrils; water causes pricking of face; water, burning of mouth agg.; air, cramps in limbs.\\ {{anchor:s417}}Wind: eyes less sensitive to.

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

{{anchor:s419}}Coldness and shivering, with moist skin, nervousness and trembling; agg. going into open air.\\ {{anchor:s420}}Heat, with apathy or delirium, and cold feet.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s421}}The limbs get cold, head and face increasingly hot, as paroxysms multiply.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s422}}~</span> <span grade3>Epilepsy.</span>\\ {{anchor:s423}}Burning heat in various parts.\\ {{anchor:s424}}Limbs burning hot during fever.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s425}}Hot head, cold body; delirium or apathy; constipation.</span>\\ {{anchor:s426}}Profuse, oily sweat on head and face.\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s427}}Bathed in sweat, weak; spasms.</span>\\ {{anchor:s428}}Sweat during sleep, towards morning.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s429}}The body, and especially hands and arms, bathed in a clammy perspiration, as attack multiplied.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s430}}~</span> <span grade3>Epilepsy.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s431}}Checked sweat, now very copious, most towards morning.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s432}}~</span> <span grade3>Softening of brain.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s433}}Cold sweat.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s434}}Quartana.</span>\\ {{anchor:s435}}(OBS:) Plague.

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s437}}Every week, on one day, four attacks.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s438}}~</span> <span grade3>Epilepsy.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s439}}About once on week, always in night, followed by some hours of coma.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s440}}~</span> <span grade3>Epileptic spasms.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s441}}Has from ten to twelve attacks yearly.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s442}}~</span> <span grade3>Epilepsy.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s443}}Attacks since about five years.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s444}}~</span> <span grade3>Epilepsy.</span>

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

{{anchor:s446}}Right: eye open; stitches in chest.\\ {{anchor:s447}}Left: dull headache; eye nearly closed; lid paralyzed.

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

{{anchor:s449}}Vertigo as if house was turned upside down; heart as if too large, as if drowned in a basin of water; as if breasts were torn towards belly.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s450}}If awake she has some warning, from a feeling of general numbness, immediately followed by a spasm.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s451}}~</span> <span grade3>Epilepsy.</span>\\ {{anchor:s452}}Lancinating: in occiput; in stomach to liver and heart; in bones of arms.\\ {{anchor:s453}}Stitching: in ovaries; in larynx; in chest, right side; about apex of heart; in skin.\\ {{anchor:s454}}Pricking: of face from cold water.\\ {{anchor:s455}}Shooting: in knees, ankles and feet.\\ {{anchor:s456}}Tearing: along arm.\\ {{anchor:s457}}Contusion: in arms, legs and loins during motion.\\ {{anchor:s458}}Pressure: like two iron bands holding temples; in top of head.\\ {{anchor:s459}}Aching: of head after meal; one-sided headache; of head with epilepsy; in forehead and vertex; of teeth; of head during menses.\\ {{anchor:s460}}Soreness: of throat.\\ {{anchor:s461}}Burning: of eyelids; of nostrils; of face; of mouth; in stomach; in kidneys; of ovaries; pain in uterus; in uterus and vagina; during menses; in larynx; in chest; like fire in lungs; in bones of arms; of wrists and finger joints; in knees, ankles and feet; in hands and arm; heat in various parts; of skin.\\ {{anchor:s462}}Pain: of eyes; spasmodic in eye; colic after drinking milk or smoking; dagger-like in uterus; in streaks up arm; arthritic pains on awakening.\\ {{anchor:s463}}Cramps: in ovarian region; in uterus; in legs.\\ {{anchor:s464}}Tenderness: of forehead and vertex; of ovarian region; of bones.\\ {{anchor:s465}}Twitching: of whole body.\\ {{anchor:s466}}Compression: of larynx, trachea.\\ {{anchor:s467}}Contraction: in liver; of chest and heart.\\ {{anchor:s468}}Constriction: about heart and chest.\\ {{anchor:s469}}Distension: in uterus; pain in knees.\\ {{anchor:s470}}Largeness of heart.\\ {{anchor:s471}}Emptiness: in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s472}}Heaviness: in limbs, from coition; of chest; about heart; of limbs.\\ {{anchor:s473}}Stone: sensation of, in throat.\\ {{anchor:s474}}Pulsating: pain in liver, abscess-like; of wrists and finger joints; pain in knees, with swelling.\\ {{anchor:s475}}Beating: in ear.\\ {{anchor:s476}}Weakness: of legs; great weakness and fainting.\\ {{anchor:s477}}Faintness: from epistaxis; in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s478}}Heat: of head and face.\\ {{anchor:s479}}Shivering: in legs.\\ {{anchor:s480}}Coldness: of feet, with headache; of feet, causing cough; in chest; of limbs, with moist skin.\\ {{anchor:s481}}Numbness: of brain; of left arm.\\ {{anchor:s482}}Tickling: in larynx.\\ {{anchor:s483}}Itching: in eyes, with dimness of sight; of eyelids; of lower limbs.\\ {{anchor:s484}}Dryness: of tongue; in throat.

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

{{anchor:s486}}Bleeding\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s487}}Redness and swelling along course of lymphatics, after wounds, etc. {{anchor:s488}}See 24, 32.</span>\\ {{anchor:s489}}Subsultus tendinum and contraction of muscles.\\ {{anchor:s490}}Bones sensitive; bones of legs brittle; caries of spinal vertebrae; pains in joints as if crushed; arthritis; tophi on knees and feet.\\ {{anchor:s491}}Scrofulosis; fistula; carbuncles.\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s492}}Open cancer.</span>\\ {{anchor:s493}}Swelling of whole body, which turns a deep yellow.\\ {{anchor:s494}}Swelling of body like hydrops, with great oppression.

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

{{anchor:s498}}Small wounds suppurate much.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s499}}Tendency of wounds to suppurate, with throbbing and lancinating pains.</span>\\ {{anchor:s500}}Lymphatics swell after a wound.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s501}}Depression of skull from a horse's kick on occiput.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s502}}~</span> <span grade3>Epilepsy.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s503}}Convulsions after having teeth extracted.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s504}}~</span> <span grade3>Epilepsy.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s505}}When suppurations seem to be the cause of convulsions.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s506}}~</span> <span grade3>Epilepsy.</span>\\ {{anchor:s507}}Touch: tenderness of forehead and vertex; ovarian region sensitive.

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s509}}Stitches in skin prevent sleep at night.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s510}}~</span> <span grade3>Softening of brain.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s511}}Red or purplish streaks in neck, back or other parts.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s512}}~</span> <span grade3>Meningitis.</span>\\ {{anchor:s513}}Yellow color of skin.\\ {{anchor:s514}}Skin greenish, dirty, oily, or <span grade3>greyish-yellow.</span> {{anchor:s515}}See 36.\\ {{anchor:s516}}Erysipelatous eruptions.\\ {{anchor:s517}}Pustules, tetters and eruption of small nodules.\\ {{anchor:s518}}Large yellow blisters, like pemphigus, mostly on palms of hand and soles of feet; burning.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s519}}Pompholyx in hand returning every year.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s520}}Phlyctenoid eruption, discharging a thin, yellow fluid, similar to that appearing in vomit and leucorrhea.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s521}}~</span> <span grade3>Epilepsy.</span>\\ {{anchor:s522}}Moist tetters, with suppurating places resembling flat ulcers, in mane of horses.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s523}}Bluish-black swelling around (thumb) nail, followed by suppuration.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s524}}~</span> <span grade3>Panaritium.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s525}}Ulcers, with burning pains.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s526}}Malignant pustule.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s527}}Carbuncles; blue far around.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s528}}Carbunculus pestilentialis.</span>\\ {{anchor:s529}}Chilblains.

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

{{anchor:s531}}Boy, aet. 6, inclination to touch genitals.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s532}}Boy, aet. 11, good constitution; epileptic attack six months ago, without apparent cause.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s533}}Woman, aet. 30, wreck in mind and body from epilepsy.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s534}}Woman, aet. 40, suffered thirty years with epileptic spasms.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s535}}Woman, aet. 24, suffered for more than a year with epilepsy.</span>\\ {{anchor:s536}}Child, aet. 6, had some poison spirted into his right eye by a toad, during a dry, hot June day in Rome.

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

{{anchor:s538}}Antidoted by: <span grade2>Laches., Senega.</span>\\ {{anchor:s539}}Compare: In convulsions from low grades of suppuration, <span grade2>Arsen., Canthar., Laches., Tarent.</span>; in epilepsy, aura starting in solar-plexus, <span grade2>Artem., Calc. ost., Nux vom., Silica</span>; aura starting in arm, <span grade2>Laches., Sulphur</span>; in chorea, patient cannot walk, must run or jump, <span grade2>Kali brom., Natr. mur.</span>; in masturbation, impotence, etc., <span grade2>Hyosc., Mercur.</span>, <span grade4>Sulphur</span>; in malignant pustule, <span grade2>Antim. crud., Laches.</span>; in bullae, panaritia, etc., <span grade2>Hepar, Laches., Phosph. ac., Silica.</span>\\ {{anchor:s540}}Cubebae is similar to <span grade2>Bufo</span> (Lippe).\\ {{anchor:s541}}Complementary: <span grade2>Salamandra</span> (epilepsy, cerebral softening).

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====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ======
^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 03, 1881 |
^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r102|Bufo rana]] |
^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r102|Bufo rana]] |
^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. |
^ Year: | 1881 |
^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting |
^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}