====== OPIUM ======
<span tc1>{{anchor:s1}}Opium.</span>

<span grade2>{{anchor:s2}}Poppy. {{anchor:s3}}Papaveraceae.</span>

{{anchor:s4}}Introduced by Hahnemann.

{{anchor:s5}}For provings and toxicological reports which are numerous, see R. A. M. L., vol. 1, p. 278, and Allen's Encyclopaedia, vol. 7, p. 173.

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

{{anchor:s7}}- <span grade2>Ill effects of anger</span>, Schmid, B. J. H., vol. 5, p. 271; <span grade2>Mental disturbance; Idiocy</span>, Sonnenberg, Schler, Kiesselbach, Rck., Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 36; Bigler, Hom. Phys., vol. 6, p. 249; <span grade2>Delirium</span>, Elwert, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 8; <span grade2>Delirium tremens</span>, Strecker, Weber, Trinks, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 146; Battmann, Kurtz, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 65; <span grade2>Apoplexy</span>, Higgins, N. A. J. H., vol. 22, p. 58; Scholz, Schmid, Knorre, Frank, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 94; Lw, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 30; <span grade2>Stupor</span>, Sawyer, Hom. Phys., vol. 7, p. 337; <span grade2>Sunstroke</span>, Espinay, N. A. J. H., vol. 22, p. 80; from Bib. Franc, Dec., 1872; <span grade2>Vertigo</span>, Müller, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 22; Schmid, B. J. H., vol. 1, p. 377; <span grade2>Headache</span>, Schmid, B. J. H., vol. 1, p. 378; Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 190; <span grade2>Meningitis</span>, Hartmann, Hirsch, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 46; <span grade2>Cerebro-spinal meningitis</span>, Raue, Analyt. {{anchor:s8}}Therap., vol. 1, p. 248; <span grade2>Affection of stomach, vomiting</span>, Hofrichter, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 319; <span grade2>Colic</span>, Welsch, Times Ret., 1875, p. 73; A. H. Z., vol. 90, p. 173; <span grade2>Flatulent colic</span>, Hirsch, B. J. H., vol. 26, p. 108; <span grade2>Lead colic</span>, Rückert, Fleischmann, Rothhansl; Trinks, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 758; Huber, Mattoli, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 369; Ussher, Hah. Mo., vol. 23, p. 601; Hom. World, July, 1888; <span grade2>Intestinal catarrh</span>, Müller, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 425; <span grade2>Ileus</span>, Cserno, Raue's Rec. 1872, p. 149; H. Kl., 1871, p. 50; <span grade2>Intestinal obstruction</span>, Lw, Kafka, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 374; <span grade2>Intestinal obstruction and fecal tumor</span>, Plimpton, Hah. Mo., vol. 10, p. 393; <span grade2>Abdominal complaint</span>, Bartl, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 777; <span grade2>Constipation</span>, Swan, Hom. Times, vol. 4, p. 275; Stoaks, Hom. Phys., vol. 8, p. 439; Foster, Times Ret., 1877, p. 35; Am. Hom., vol. 1, p. 114; Luchs, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 396; Lobeth., Hrg., Mschk., Kirsch, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 817; Rafinesque, Bernard, Bernard and Strong, p. 85; <span grade2>Cholera</span>, Hirsch, B. J. H, vol. 26, pp. 107-112; Lobeth., Rentsch, Roth, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 952; Engelhard, Gerstel, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 479; <span grade2>Proctitis</span>, Lindner, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 355; <span grade2>Retention of stool and urine</span>, Hrg., Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 28; <span grade2>Renal colic</span>, Trinks, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 28; <span grade2>Strangury</span>, Allen, Hom. Phys., vol. 7, p. 212; <span grade2>Urethral stricture</span>, Rosenberg, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 547; <span grade2>Sloughing of scrotum</span>, Sircar, Raue's Rec., 1875, p. 169; Calcutta M. J., vol. 3, p. 122; <span grade2>Menorrhagia</span>, Weil, Times Ret., 1877, p. 109; <span grade2>Menostasia</span>, Gross, Raue's Rec., 1872, p. 179; H. Kl., 1871; <span grade2>Constipation during pregnancy</span>, Knorr, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 384; <span grade2>Disorders of pregnancy</span>, Wheeler, Times Ret., 1877, p. 113, Mass. {{anchor:s9}}Trans., vol. 4, p. 883; <span grade2>Abortion</span>, Griessel, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 319; <span grade2>Ineffectual labor pains, Afterpains</span>, Battmann, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 656; <span grade2>Use in labor</span>, Battmann, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 34; <span grade2>Puerperal convulsions</span>, Hartmann, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 2, pp. 394, 408; Briry, N. E. M. G., vol. 8, p. 348; Baer, Raue's Rec., 1874, p. 247; from Trans. A. I., 1872, p. 225; <span grade2>Bronchitis with dyspnea</span>, Kafka, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 800; <span grade2>Dyspnea</span>, Morrison, Hom. Rev., vol. 21, p. 157; <span grade2>Asthma Millari</span>, Times Ret., 1877, p. 84, <span grade2>Cough</span>, Gross, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 3, p. 46; <span grade2>Haemoptysis</span>, Lobethal, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 805; <span grade2>Pneumonia</span>, Bernrenter, Raue's Path., p. 392; Müller, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 3, p. 310; <span grade2>Heart disease</span>, Knorre, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 3, p. 447; Huber, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 860; <span grade2>Spasms, Epilepsy</span>, Hrg., Attom., Hromada, Knorre, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 4, p. 586; <span grade2>Spasms</span>, Pritchard, Raue's Rec., 1875, p. 248; from Trans. N. Y. S., 1873-4, p. 314; <span grade2>Convulsions</span>, Ping, Times Ret., 1875, p. 36, from Bib. Hom., vol. 7, p. 79; <span grade2>Epilepsy</span>, Groos, Hom. Cl., vol. 4, p. 93; Stens, Raue's Rec., 1872, p. 228; from A. H. Z., vol. 83, p. 128; Spalding, N. E. M. G., vol. 8, p. 208; <span grade2>Sleep, Sleeplessness</span>, Lw, Rentsch, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 60; <span grade2>Cold</span>, Underwood, B. J. H., vol. 33, p. 574; <span grade2>Ague</span>, Hrg., Gauwerky, Seidel, Rummel, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 4, p. 968; Seidel, Allen's Int. Fever, p. 195; from Hom. Cl., Lippe, M. I., vol. 6, p. 345; Fischer, A. J. H. M. M., vol. 4, p. 18; <span grade2>Typhoid fever</span>, Lobeth., Lw, Gross, Hartmann, Trinks, Wislicen., Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 4, p. 761; <span grade2>Scarlet fever</span>, Hahnemann, Trinks, Hartmann, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 4, p. 58.

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

<span grade2>{{anchor:s11}}Confusion of mind.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s12}}Dullness of head; has no mental grasp for anything and cannot comprehend the sense of what he is reading.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s13}}Imbecility of will, as though annihilated.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s14}}Insensibility, accompanied by complete apoplectic respiration.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s15}}Unconscious, eyes glassy, half closed; face pale; deep coma.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s16}}Stupid indifference.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s17}}Drunkenness, with stupor; as if from smoke in brain; eyes burning, hot and dry.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s18}}Sopor: painless, complains of nothing, wants nothing; with delirium; depression of lower jaw; dilated pupils; general symptoms of paralysis of brain.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s19}}Profound coma; cannot be aroused from stupor; pupils greatly contracted or widely dilated; face puffed, with dark red or cherry brown appearance; stertorous breathing; pulse full and labored or slow and feeble.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s20}}Talkative; glistening eyes and mental activity; inclines to gayety.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s21}}Thinks he is not in his own house; imagines himself living in a locality three hours distant from his house; detains all passers-by and wishes to take them into his house; will brook no opposition, meets force with force, face flushed; stupor, forgetfullness, he does not at once recognize friends; anxiety; wildness; inclination to sleep without being able to do so; constipation with meteoric distension of abdomen; urine retained, a paretic condition apparently preventing evacuation; while smoking forgets to draw; lively and cheerful, yet very drowsy.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s22}}Said many disconnected things and pointed to masked people who seemed to approach him.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s23}}Sees frightful ghosts; easily frightened.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s24}}She appears to see most frightful animals and other objects.</span>\\ {{anchor:s25}}Vivid imagination, exaltation of mind.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s26}}Imagines parts of body very large.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s27}}Thinks she is not at home.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s28}}Delirious talking, eyes wide open, face red, puffed up.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s29}}Delirium: muttering; violent, with red face, glistening eyes and great physical activity.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s30}}Constant delirium day and night; declares he is not alone in bed; when spoken to answers intelligently, but at once becomes delirious again; frenzy; desires to escape; says a regiment of horsemen are upon his bed and that he fears to be trodden upon; when told that horses are very careful, answered that he feared he would be crushed by the wagons that followed them.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s31}}~</span> <span grade2>After pneumonia.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s32}}Mania a potu: with dullness of senses, at intervals sopor, with snoring; in old, emaciated persons; sees animals coming towards him; people want to hurt him, execute him; creeping under covers or jumping out of bed; in "old sinners" whose long lives of excess have thoroughly destroyed their constitutions; in those who have had the disease repeatedly, it taking but a small quantity of liquor to throw them again into delirium; face wears a constant expression of fright and terror; preceded by epileptiform fits; imagine they see frightful objects and are in great fear; believe themselves to be murderers or criminals to be executed; want to run away; staring look; twitching of muscles of face and mouth; lockjaw; tremor.</span>\\ {{anchor:s33}}Fantastical insanity with frightful visions; talks in a confused manner; commits indecent actions; cheerfullness and feeling of great strength; contempt of death; riotous hilarity with buffoonery and subsequent angry savageness or tearful sorrow; instability and imbecility of will; indifference to joy and suffering; complete dementia, does not recognize his own relatives; excessive debility, stupor, frequent sweats and eruptions on skin; diminished secretion of urine. <span sbita>{{anchor:s34}}~</span> Mental derangement.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s35}}After practising masturbation for many years fell into a state of despair respecting his health, this degenerated into complete idiocy.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s36}}Nervous and irritable; tendency to start.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s37}}Ailments from excessive joy, fright, anger or shame.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s38}}After fright, fear of the fright still remaining.</span>\\ {{anchor:s39}}Anxiety; apprehension; fear of impending death.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s40}}Started at least noise; a fly upon any part of body was a burden to him.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s41}}After a fright with fear, convulsions, or a hot head, with twitching about mouth.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s42}}Grief over insults is followed by convulsions.</span>\\ {{anchor:s43}}Mendacity. {{anchor:s44}}[Obs. "Opium eaters are chronic liars."]\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s45}}Screaming before or during spasm.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s46}}Dislikes to talk during sweat.</span>

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

<span grade4>{{anchor:s48}}Great sensibility to sound, light and faintest odors.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s49}}Apoplexy: vertigo, congestion to head, with great roaring in ears; eyes open, pupils dilated; face red, muscles twitching; sinking of jaw; tongue drawn to one side; speech impeded; inability to swallow; slow, irregular, stertorous breathing; limbs cold, paralyzed; drowsiness; in persons addicted to spirituous liquors or oppressed by care or grief; convulsive motions of extremities or tetanic stiffness of whole body; hot sweat on head; after consciousness is restored cannot retain what he reads and forgets connection of consecutive thoughts; paralysis of right side.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s50}}Coma: incomplete insensibility; will be aroused for a moment when addressed in a loud tone of voice and then relapse into stupor; extremities and face bluish or livid; loud, stertorous inspirations; coldness of skin; uremic.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s51}}Sunstroke; unconsciousness; deep coma; eyes glassy and half closed.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s52}}After sleeping in sun during afternoon could not be awakened following morning; she slept quietly and normally, pulse regular, skin cool.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s53}}~</span> <span grade2>Sunstroke.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s54}}Passive cerebral congestion, with somnolence after meals in patients predisposed to apoplexy.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s55}}Fainting turns with vertigo whenever he attempts to rise from bed, with sudden return of animation on lying down.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s56}}Vertigo: with anxiety and delirium; when rising; after typhus; from injuries to head; as after intoxication; with darkness before eyes; with dullness of head and stupefaction; sympathetic, accompanying diseases of precordial organs, suppressed hemorrhoids, menses, heart affections, etc.; after fright; with sensation as if he were flying or hovering in air.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s57}}Sensation in head like that following sleep after excessive debauch.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s58}}Great heaviness of head, making thought and writing difficult.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s59}}Dull, stupid, as if drunk.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s60}}Congestion of blood to head, with pulsations in it.</span>

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s62}}Headache: pressing pain in temples; vertigo, red face, sleepiness; agg. on closing eyes; congestive, nervous, abdominal.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s63}}Throbbing of arteries; rush of blood to head.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s64}}Cerebro-spinal meningitis: stupor; spasms; drawing body backward and rolling from side to side; deep, slow, stertorous breathing; very quick or very slow pulse; after violent emotions, fear, grief, fright, which acted like a blow, stunning whole nervous system.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s65}}Meningitis, particularly if caused by insulation or when child has slept near hot stove.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s66}}Traumatic encephalitis.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s67}}Hydrocephalus acutus: early and late stages; heavy and stupid sleep, with red face; stupid even after waking; extremely acute hearing; child seems to be afraid of something and starts as if frightened; constipation, stools resemble small, black balls; chronic.</span>

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s69}}Head hot and covered with hot or cold sweat.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s70}}~</span> <span grade3>Apoplexy.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s71}}Occiput feels heavy as lead, head falling back constantly.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s72}}~</span> <span grade3>Apoplexy.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s73}}~</span> <span grade3>Cerebro-spinal meningitis.</span>

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s75}}Obscuration of sight; amblyopia.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s76}}Scintillations before eyes.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s77}}The pupils are dilated and insensible to light, contracted or sluggish.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s78}}Sensation as if eyes were too large for orbits.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s79}}Eyes: glassy, protruded, immovable; staring look; half open, balls turned upward; red, half closed, burning hot and dry; red, glistening and prominent.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s80}}Sensation of sand or dust in eye, with burning.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s81}}Swelling of lower lids; lids hang down as if paralyzed.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s82}}Total paralysis of accommodation, with impaired sensibility of right retina, and partial paralysis of accommodation of left eye; supposed to be due to use of cosmetic which probably contained carbonate of lead; almost constantly frontal headache, vertigo with darting pains from occiput to forehead, distressing feeling of emptiness in stomach, especially in morning, bowels constipated, and a sensation of pain and constriction as of a band encircling her chest in line of pleura.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s83}}Embolism of central artery of retina; arteries blood-less, veins engorged and stagnant, and hemorrhagic spots on disk; after a severe attack of neuralgia; face very red and drawn to right side, tongue protruded to right side, speech imperfect, nearly voiceless, except with effort; pain in back; all pains on right side.</span>

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

<span grade4>{{anchor:s85}}Acuteness of hearing; clocks striking and cocks crowing at a great distance keep her awake.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s86}}Buzzing, humming and violent roaring in ears.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s87}}Congestion to ears; hematorrhea.</span>

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

{{anchor:s89}}Loss of smell.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s90}}Stitches in right nostril on taking a long inspiration.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s91}}Stoppage of nose; dry coryza.</span>

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

<span grade4>{{anchor:s93}}Face: flushed; red, bloated, swollen; livid; pale, earthy, eyes weak, full of water; pale, clay-colored, sunken countenance and eyes, with red spots on cheeks; bluish (purple), swollen; of sucklings three or four weeks old, like that of an old man; affrighted, mania a potu; debauched, distorted.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s94}}Trembling, twitching and spasmodic motions of facial muscles.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s95}}Muscles of face relaxed, lower lip hangs down; veins distended.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s96}}Cold sweat on forehead.</span>

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s98}}Corners of mouth twitch; distortion of mouth.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s99}}Lips livid; foam at mouth.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s100}}Lower lip and jaw hang down.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s101}}Lockjaw.</span>

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

<span grade2>{{anchor:s103}}Taste: lost; bitter; sour; disagreeable, sweet (lead colic).</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s104}}Paralysis of tongue and difficult articulation.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s105}}Unable to talk with mouth open; answered in a stammering manner with interrupted articulation.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s106}}Tongue: quivering; coated dirty yellow, or white; unctuous; purple black.</span>

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

{{anchor:s108}}Dryness of mouth, thirst and want of appetite.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s109}}Saliva lessened or ptyalism; spitting of blood.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s110}}Ulcers in mouth and on tongue.</span>

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s112}}Dryness of throat.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s113}}Inability to swallow; daily attacks of distension and strangulation.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s114}}Dysphagia becoming true aphagia, a from paralysis of muscles.</span>

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s117}}Appetite ravenous or lost.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s118}}Disgust at food, or food is desired, but no sooner is first morsel swallowed than it is followed by oppression.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s119}}Violent thirst or absence of thirst.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s120}}Desire for spirituous liquors; costive.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s121}}Longing for beer or brandy.</span>

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

{{anchor:s123}}Aggravation from brandy or wine.

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s125}}Hiccough; sour eructations.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s126}}Nausea and inclination to vomit when moving and after eating.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s127}}Retching which has come on in consequence of a moral emotion, as loathing.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s128}}Unsuccessful vomiturition in drunkards.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s129}}Vomit: green, bloody or bitter; putrid; stercoraceous; intussusception, with violent colic and convulsions; first of food then of fecal-smelling substance (hiccough), great thirst, cold limbs, distorted face (ileus, incarcerated hernia); of enormous masses of mucus intermixed with large bubbles of air, occasionally greenish, accompanied by great nausea, pressure in stomach, constipation, etc.</span>

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

<span grade2>{{anchor:s131}}Painful swelling in precordia.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s132}}Violent cutting in epigastric and umbilical region.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s133}}Constrictive pain in stomach.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s134}}Heaviness and pressure in stomach.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s135}}Fullness and oppression in stomach, with shortness and difficulty of breathing.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s136}}Digestion slow, disturbed, weakened, with sensation of fullness, heaviness, pressure, constriction and pain in stomach and praecordium; inactivity of digestive organs; atonic dyspepsia of drunkards; subacute gastritis.</span>

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

<span grade2>{{anchor:s138}}Swelling of spleen.</span>

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s140}}Rumbling in abdomen; griping, grumbling.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s141}}Abdomen tense, distended, tympanitic, hard, swollen, sensitive to touch.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s142}}Pressive pain in abdomen, as if intestines would be cut to pieces.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s143}}Tension in hypogastric region, which is extremely painful to touch.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s144}}Pressure and heaviness as from a stone or weight in abdomen, in umbilical region.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s145}}Accumulation of gas in stomach and intestines, causing painful swelling; amel. for a time by motion; if gas passes off it is immediately renewed.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s146}}Anxious sensation in epigastrium; colic, with great pressure downward upon rectum and bladder, without any discharge of gas, feces or urine.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s147}}Colic: transient, very violent; griping, with constipation (in sucklings); cutting; flatulent; as if intestines were cut to pieces; from lead poisoning.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s148}}Intestinal spasms; child cried day and night and could not be pacified; after each attack pale and collapsed; thirsty, vomits after drinking; stools hard, lumpy, colorless, or thin, yellowish or greenish; passed much urine; great fearfullness, especially at night; eyes wide open; he crouched up and perspired; whenever he cried scrotum and penis wrinkled up, testicles were drawn up within abdominal ring, and penis completely disappeared.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s149}}Squeezing pains as if something were forced through a narrow space; shooting pains into testes and bladder; restless, anxious, changing position; face hot; pulse slow.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s150}}~</span> <span grade2>Nephralgia.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s151}}Severe vomiting, with pains in stomach and obstinate constipation; great confusion of head; tongue coated; metallic taste in mouth; intolerable pains in abdomen, as if stabbed with a knife; umbilicus spasmodically retracted; pulse tense, hard, slow; skin dry.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s152}}~</span> <span grade2>Colic.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s153}}Very severe twitching-tearing or lightning-like pains shooting in all directions through abdomen, even extending down to testicles and at times involving bladder; pains do not remain long in one place, but constantly change locality, and are not agg. from external pressure; no indications of inflammation; stool and urine normal; pulse normal.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s154}}~</span> <span grade2>Colic.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s155}}Flatus accumulates in upper part of bowels, causing distension of abdomen, especially in umbilical region, with antiperistaltic motion, belching and vomiting.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s156}}Constant severe constricting pain in abdomen, day and night, compelling him to bend double; constipation; loss of appetite; great lassitude; lower limbs heavy as lead.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s157}}~</span> <span grade2>Lead colic.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s158}}Delirium, with severe convulsions; complains of no pain; skin very hot; pulse 120; pupils greatly dilated, sensitive to light; at night complains of sudden loss of vision; later, pain and sensation of lameness, in lower limbs, with constriction in abdomen.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s159}}~</span> <span grade2>Lead colic.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s160}}Colic in a printer from handling type; pain so severe as to compel him to lie on floor and make a great outcry; constipation.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s161}}Painter's colic.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s162}}Crampy intestinal motions; rolling up as of a hard body in right hypochondrium.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s163}}~</span> <span grade3>Ileus.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s164}}Strangulation of bowels; violent colicky pains and fecal vomiting.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s165}}Digestive organs inactive; peristaltic motion reversed or paralyzed; bowels seem closed.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s166}}Paralysis of intestines from lead poisoning.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s167}}Laxness of abdominal organs.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s168}}Incarcerated umbilical and inguinal hernia; fecal vomit.</span>

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

<span grade4>{{anchor:s170}}Stool: involuntary, especially after fright; pasty; fluid, frothy, with burning in anus and tenesmus; excessively offensive; watery; black, fetid; unsatisfactory, hard; hard, preceded by griping; hard, dark-brown or grey; hard and crumbly; hard, round, black balls; in small hard knots, accompanied by bearing-down pains, or with sensation as if rectum were closed; hard, dry, in black balls, like sheep dung; in large masses; hard, alternated with liquid, frothy stools; come down and recede; retained spasmodically.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s171}}Diarrhea: occasioned suddenly by fear, a cold, or other slight causes; after sudden joy; persistent, in those treated with large doses of the drug; last stage of infantile, with characteristic stools and convulsions; during typhoid.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s172}}Dysentery: patient drowsy and stupid; urine scanty and retained; no appetite; rapid emaciation; strong resemblance to second stage of typhus.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s173}}Cholera infantum: with stupor, snoring and convulsions; contracted pupils; tonic spasms; face pale or red; fatally advancing stupor; pupils react very sluggishly or not at all; disease seems to begin by involving brain, as yet there is neither vomiting nor diarrhea, child appears as if drugged; lack of vitality; well-selected remedy refuses to act; patient either sluggish or drowsy.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s174}}Cholera Asiatica: from emotional causes, fright at seizure or death of relatives; after failure of Verat. or Arsen.; when too large doses of Camphor have been given, and there is great congestion to head and threatened apoplexy; typhoid symptoms; asphyctic stage; icy coldness and blueness of surface; pulseless; no reaction; disturbances in circulation and respiration in consequence of violent and sudden implication of solar plexus, with cyanosis and threatened suffocation.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s175}}Constipation: from fright or fear; nervous and irritable, passes nothing but hard, black balls from bowels; from arrested secretions; from ileus or paresis from intestines; almost unconquerable; for weeks with loss of appetite; not more than one motion a week; from inactivity of intestines; the most active purgatives have lost their power; decreased peristaltic motion; paralysis of intestines in consequence of a protracted attack of diarrhea in subjects leading a sedentary life and also in robust, healthy men; associated with incarcerated hernia; want of sensibility, hardly any inconvenience is felt from accumulation of feces; of corpulent, goodhumored women and children; from spasmodic retention in small intestines, with feeling of pressing asunder; from lead poisoning; after abuse of cathartics; bowels impacted with feces; resulting from pressure upon rectum in consequence of a gravid uterus or abdominal tumors; of nursing infants, aged persons, and those of a torpid or plethoric habit; absence of expulsive efforts; accompanied by hysterical symptoms; at one time, after stool had remained absent eleven weeks, fecal vomiting occurred.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s176}}Before stool: no desire, or with desire to go to stool there is a sensation as if anus were closed.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s177}}Proctitis during course of peritonitis (metritis); anus greatly retracted.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s178}}Sensation of occlusion of anus; constriction, anus spasmodically closed during colic, with obstinate constipation; very difficult emission of flatus.</span>

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

<span grade2>{{anchor:s180}}Diabetes mellitus; dullness, sadness, weak memory; after mental shocks or injuries;</span> <span grade3>renal colic</span><span grade2>; pressing squeezing pains as though something had to force its way through a narrow space; shooting pains from different places into bladder and testicles; vomiting of slime and bile; obstinate constipation; dysuria; greatest anxiety and restlessness; constantly changing position; face hot; pulse slow.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s181}}Hematorrhea.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s182}}Urine retained: from fright; from contraction of sphincter or paralysis of fundus of bladder; bladder full; post-partum; nursing children after passion of nurse; in fever or acute illness; chiefly caused by blunting of lining of membrane of neck of bladder so that fullness is not recognized by patient.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s183}}Urine: suppressed; passes with difficulty, as from atony; seldom and scanty, dark brown, brickdust sediment; red and cloudy; lemon colored, with much sediment; bloody.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s184}}Frequent interruption of stream of urine, which commences to flow after waiting a long time, on account of a cramp in sphincter vesicae.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s185}}Cutting in urethra.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s186}}Strangury and retention of urine from excessive use of tobacco.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s187}}Involuntary urination.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s188}}Nocturnal enuresis; urinates very often.</span>

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s190}}Excitement of sexual organs with violent erections; impotence.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s191}}Voluptuous fancies, with erections during sleep and impotence after waking; nightly emissions with amorous dreams.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s192}}Emissions without erections, followed by debility and great relaxation of parts.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s193}}Spasmodic stricture after drinking poorly-fermented liquor; also in drunkards.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s194}}Painful sensation in testicles.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s195}}Inflammation and sloughing of scrotum following attacks of malarious fever.</span>

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

<span grade2>{{anchor:s197}}Great excitement of sexual organs, with sexual dreams and orgasm.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s198}}Perfect loss of sexual desire from lack of nutrition.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s199}}Softness of uterus, with fetid discharge.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s200}}~</span> <span grade3>After metritis.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s201}}Prolapsus uteri from fright.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s202}}Severe labor-like pains in uterus, with desire to go to stool.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s203}}Menses: irregular, profuse, violent colic forcing her to bend over; urging to stool; suppressed by fright.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s204}}Amenorrhea from fright; irresistible drowsiness; eclampsia.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s205}}Menorrhagia, or metrorrhagia; great sleepiness, yet she cannot sleep; sheets so hot that she has to change to a cooler place every little while; constipation.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s206}}Menses suppressed by great fright; violent epileptiform convulsions followed by very profuse menses.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s207}}Prolapsus of vagina with strangulation; very sleepy; lies in a soporous condition.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s208}}Leucorrhea: fetid.</span>

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s212}}During pregnancy: insomnia; retention of stool; continued hiccough; frequent nausea and vomiting after eating.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s213}}Violent or painful movements of fetus.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s214}}Abortion threatening after great fright, especially if in latter part of pregnancy.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s215}}Labor pains: spasmodic, extremely painful, but ineffectual; great pain in small of back; false or suppressed; from fear or fright; twitching and jerking of muscles; sopor, red face, injected eyes, retention of stool and urine.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s216}}Puerperal convulsions, after cathartics, not ceasing after child was born; pulse 120; pallor; sunken eyes; pupils much dilated; muttering; borborygmus; coma; spasm; throws arms and legs about; stretching arms and legs at right angles with body; trembling; pulse working rapidly; eyes turned inward and upward; head bent back over to left; left hand and foot turned to left side; tongue quivering, coated dirty yellow, unctuous; the spasm would scarcely relax, when it would run into another, more than thirty having occurred, finally stopping very suddenly for ten minutes.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s217}}Puerperal convulsions; spasms commenced with rigidity of muscles and distortion of features, drawing mouth down and to one side; head turned far back and to right side; then there was jactitation of limbs and body, with lividity of face and frothing at mouth; this condition would subside and be followed by stertorous breathing; tongue much swollen and bloody.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s218}}During and after labor, spasm, with loss of consciousness and drowsiness, open mouth; coma between paroxysms.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s219}}Puerperal fever, especially when caused by fright; overexcitement of all the senses; every distant sound annoys her; very fetid discharge from uterus; case approaches a condition of stupor.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s220}}Extremely severe after-pains, particularly in very sensitive women.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s221}}After parturition, retention of urine.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s222}}Suppression of lochia from fright, with sopor.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s223}}Newborn children, pale, breathless, cord pulsates; after Acon., if pulse remains imperceptible, face purple.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s224}}Suckling of a few weeks, had not grown, but was like an old man; limbs lax, skin wrinkled; bones of skull had lapped over during birth, the parietals over each other and over the occiput.</span>

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s227}}Aphonia, occasioned by fright.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s228}}Hoarseness, dry mouth and throat, white tongue.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s229}}Feeble voice, it requires a strong effort to speak loud.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s230}}Laryngismus stridulus.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s231}}Tickling in larynx, with violent, dry, racking cough; dryness and cough amel. by drinking water.</span>

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s233}}Breathing: frequent, involuntary, deep; laborious and drawn at long intervals; short inspiration, long, slow expiration, epigastrium drawn in; fine rales, constant cough, sopor, face bluish; great anguish and dread of suffocation; looks as if dying; slightly amel. from cold air and bending forward; agg. from smoking or wine; difficult, intermittent, as from paralysis of lungs; difficult, oppressed, especially at night; loud, difficult, rattling; long and sighing; snoring; deep, stertorous; puffing; snoring, with wide open mouth; irregular; moaning, slow; four respirations to the minute.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s234}}Asphyxia neonatorum; pale and breathless; cord still pulsates.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s235}}Nightly asthma, with whizzing and rattling during expiration, which is long and attended with retraction of epigastric region; inhalation short without noise.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s236}}Attacks of difficult breathing, with noisy, stertorous respiration; on taking an inspiration respiration would appear to be suspended and child would struggle to get its breath.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s237}}~</span> <span grade3>Asthma Millari.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s238}}Asthmatic form of hay fever; paroxysms of suffocation come on during sleep and are apt to be followed by violent fits of dry, racking cough amel. for a time by drinking water.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s239}}Loss of breath on going to sleep.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s240}}Suffocative attacks during sleep, like nightmare.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s241}}Tightness of breath and oppression, with great anguish, tightness and spasmodic constriction of chest.</span>

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s243}}Cough: spasmodic, dry, tickling, paroxysmal, agg. at night; with gaping, drowsiness, yet cannot sleep; with spasm of lungs and blue face; when drinking; with difficult sputa, followed by gaping; suffocative, with bluish-redness of face; with profuse sweat; severe, with difficult expectoration, followed by yawning; agg. on swallowing (haemoptysis).</span>\\ {{anchor:s244}}Sputa frothy, containing blood and mucus.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s245}}Gaping after coughing.</span>

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s247}}Tension and constriction of chest.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s248}}Heat in chest.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s249}}Bronchitis after catching cold or getting wet, with high fever, dyspnea, bloodstreaked expectoration and pressure on chest; constant cough; at night must sit up on account of shortness of breath and dread of suffocation.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s250}}At times feels as if he were not in his house, which he expresses by saying, "I wish I could be in the house with my family;" although in a desperate condition he is not much alarmed and wants to sit up a great part of time, because bed feels too hot; whole body, except lower extremities, perspires profusely; sweat is very hot; perspiring parts covered by a heavy crop of sudamina; gropes with his hands about bed as though hunting something; whole left and considerable part of right lung hepatized.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s251}}~</span> <span grade2>Double pneumonia.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s252}}Infantile pneumonia, where the pulmonary inflammation is disguised by symptoms of cerebral congestion and oppression; cyanotic color of upper part of body, with slow, stertorous breathing; pneumonia senilis et potatorum, with similar symptoms; difficult intermitting breathing, as from paralysis of lungs.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s253}}Suppuration of lungs occurring in those greatly addicted to use of intoxicating liquors; breathing labored, with rattling and snoring; cough very difficult and attended with smothering spells; face becomes blue during cough.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s254}}Congestion of blood to chest, or pulmonary spasms, with deep, stertorous, rattling breathing.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s255}}Haemoptysis: absence of all pain; blood thick, frothy, mixed with mucus; great oppression; burning about heart, tremor, feeble voice; anxious sleep, with starts; legs cold, chest hot; especially for drunkards.</span>

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

<span grade2>{{anchor:s257}}Burning about heart.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s258}}Pulsating arteries and swollen veins on neck.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s259}}Beat of heart could not be felt.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s260}}Palpitation of heart after alarming events, fright, grief, sorrow, etc.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s261}}Pain in cardiac region, with great anxiety, violent beating of heart, trembling, difficult respiration, sleeplessness at night, delirium; great excitement of mind, with constant talking and motion of head and hands, rest of body lying in an elevated position; talks of impending death, cries, bids all farewell, then lies quiet as if communing with herself; face expresses great fear, will not answer, or answers irrelevantly; hands at one time icy-cold and covered with cold sweat, at another dry and hot; pulse small, thready, quick, irregular, at one time strong, at another weak, intermittent; grasps cardiac region with hands and presses them hard against left side of chest; frequent deep respirations, during which she presses chest forward and arches back, as if endeavoring to remove some obstruction in chest accompanied by a peculiar motion of head and mouth and gasping for air; notices most trifling actions of those about her; gives answers to conversation carried on in low tones in adjoining room; at times breaks into a monotonous song; on recovering consciousness complained of great palpitation; urine hot, dark, scanty; constipation.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s262}}~</span> <span grade2>Heart disease.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s263}}Pulse: varies; full and slow, with snoring; quick, hard, with anxious breathing; irregular and unequal; imperceptible; face purple in cyanosis neonatorum.</span>

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

{{anchor:s265}}Pulsating arteries and swollen veins on neck.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s266}}Drawing lacerating in back.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s267}}Back bent backward spasmodically, curved like an arch, violent trembling motion.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s268}}Myelitis.</span>

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s270}}Twitching and spasmodic movement of arms and hands, as in drunkards.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s271}}Paralysis of arms.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s272}}Numbness and sensation of swelling in hands and forearms.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s273}}Trembling of hands.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s274}}Veins of hands distended.</span>

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s276}}Twitching and spasmodic movements.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s277}}Weakness, numbness and paralysis of legs.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s278}}Feels as if her lower limbs were severed from her body and belonged to some one else.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s279}}Distressing spasmodic jerking in muscles of calves.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s280}}Heaviness, numbness and swelling of feet.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s281}}Shuffling and trembling gait.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s282}}~</span> <span grade2>Myelitis acuta.</span>

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s284}}Tremulous motion of all limbs.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s285}}Trembling of limbs after fright.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s286}}Spasmodic jerkings and numbness of limbs; convulsive movements.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s287}}Coldness of extremities.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s288}}Chilblains on fingers and toes.</span>

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

{{anchor:s292}}Lying down: animation returned.\\ {{anchor:s293}}Lying in an elevated position: during heart disease.\\ {{anchor:s294}}Must lie on floor: colic.\\ {{anchor:s295}}Rising: from bed, vertigo.\\ {{anchor:s296}}Head falling back constantly: cerebro-spinal meningitis; apoplexy.\\ {{anchor:s297}}Stretching arms: at right angles to body, during spasm.\\ {{anchor:s298}}Moving: inclination to vomit; painful swelling of abdomen amel.\\ {{anchor:s299}}Bending forward: amel. breathing.\\ {{anchor:s300}}Presses chest forward and arches back: heart disease.\\ {{anchor:s301}}Must sit up: from dread of suffocation.\\ {{anchor:s302}}Changing position: nephralgia.\\ {{anchor:s303}}Constant tossing and tumbling about: at night.

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s305}}Starts at least noise.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s306}}Buzzing through whole body.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s307}}Trembling of whole body; caused by fright; of left arm in paroxysms; with external coldness, with jerking and twitching in limbs; convulsions.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s308}}Twitching, trembling head, arms and hands; now and then jerks of flexors; body cold; stupor; motion of body and uncovering head relieves.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s309}}Involuntary contraction of muscles.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s310}}Convulsive movements of one or other arm to and fro.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s311}}Spasms: from emotion, fright, anger, etc.; from approach of strangers (children); from crying; throws limbs or stretches arms at right angles to body, or, tetanic rigidity, opisthotonos, with rolling laterally; spasm begins with loud screams, then foam at mouth, trembling of limbs, suffocation; eyes half open and upturned, pupils large and insensible to light; after attack, deep sleep, face remains deep red and hot; stupor between spasms; on entering fit, loud screams, as from fright; from nursing soon after sudden fright of mother; with sudden loud cries.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s312}}Suddenly seized with an epileptic fit without any appreciable cause, six weeks later second fit, third came four weeks after second, and then they followed every three weeks; after attack soporous sleep, lasting from twenty-four to thirty hours; face dark red during sleep; after sleep pain in front of head; constipation.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s313}}Fits only after going to sleep; would not sleep ten minutes during day or night before she would, with a sudden spring, become violently convulsed; foaming at mouth and bleeding from her bitten tongue; face puffed, almost purple; eyes dull and turned upward; lids half closed; head hot; severe opisthotonos; convulsions last ten to thirty minutes, sinks into a deep, heavy sleep, with loud snoring and rattling in chest; in half an hour, sometimes not five minutes, suddenly goes into another convulsion, thus she passes entire night; wakes in morning lame and tired, but wholly unconscious of not having had a quiet nights sleep; during day listless and drowsy; itching of skin without eruption; indifferent to what transpires; prefers to be left alone; constipation.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s314}}~</span> <span grade2>Epilepsy.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s315}}Every evening about 11 o'clock, after having slept fifteen minutes, begins to toss head from side to side, raises head, flexes it upon chest and finally tosses it back quickly upon pillow; after having repeated this for third time stretches out and clenches right hand, thumb, however, not being drawn in, and gives herself several forcible blows upon chest; thereafter violent stretching, followed by twitching, until cessation of attack.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s316}}~</span> <span grade2>Epilepsy.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s317}}Emotional chorea.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s318}}Faints every fifteen minutes; eyes shut; head hangs; unconscious; jerks; sighing; agg. on rising.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s319}}Muscular exhaustion; great depression of nervous centres, with stupor and coma.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s320}}Want of susceptibility to drugs; want of vital reaction.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s321}}Shock from injury, severe cases; rapid breathing, every breath being a loud moan; livid or pale face; livid lips; great distress, oppression and anguish; cool, clammy skin; throat emits sound of letter "k" in respiration; eyes fixed unequally; unconsciousness.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s322}}Numbness and insensibility.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s323}}Paralysis, insensibility after apoplexy; in drunkards or old people; stool and urine retained.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s324}}Painlessness with all ailments; complains of nothing and asks for nothing.</span>

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

<span grade4>{{anchor:s326}}Drowsiness: with headache; amounting almost to sopor.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s327}}Stupid, comatose sleep, with rattling, snoring breathing; slumber with half open eyes, contracted or sluggish pupils, carphologia and touching surrounding objects.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s328}}Drowsiness or sopor; red face; stertorous breathing; hot sweat.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s329}}Very restless at night, constant tossing and tumbling.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s330}}Sleepy, but cannot sleep; excessive wakefullness.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s331}}Sleeplessness, full of unwelcome fancies and imaginations that were entirely distinct from surrounding objects, as in delirium.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s332}}Sleeplessness, with acuteness of hearing; clocks striking and cocks crowing at a distance keep her awake.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s333}}Coma vigil, with frightful visions, before midnight.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s334}}During sleep: picking of bedclothes; sobbing; groaning; voluptuous dreams.</span>

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

{{anchor:s336}}Morning: distressing feeling of emptiness in stomach agg.; hot, profuse sweat.\\ {{anchor:s337}}At 11 A. M.: shaking chill.\\ {{anchor:s338}}Day: listless and drowsy.\\ {{anchor:s339}}Night: great fearfullness; sudden loss of vision; breathing difficult and oppressed; cough agg.; must sit up from dread of suffocation; sleeplessness; convulsions; chill.\\ {{anchor:s340}}Before midnight: coma vigil with frightful visions.\\ {{anchor:s341}}Remission during day and evening; aggravation night and morning.

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

{{anchor:s343}}Uncovering head relieves.\\ {{anchor:s344}}Cold air: labored breathing amel.\\ {{anchor:s345}}Drinking water: dryness and cough amel.\\ {{anchor:s346}}Getting wet: bronchitis.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s347}}Bed feels so hot she can hardly lie on it; amel. from cold; agg. from heat.</span>\\ {{anchor:s348}}Very susceptible to cold air.\\ {{anchor:s349}}Reappearance and aggravation from becoming heated.

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

{{anchor:s351}}Coldness: of body, especially of extremities; and rigidity.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s352}}Stiff and cold; chill and diminished heat, stupor; weak, scarcely perceptible pulse.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s353}}Chill: latter part of night, with thirst, pains in limbs, hot head, stupor; afterwards heat with sleep, headache, pale face, bilious vomit; then sweat mostly on legs, with burning hot feeling.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s354}}Flushed face, cold legs, sleepy, but cannot sleep.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s355}}Heat: of head, with profuse sweat; in chest and other parts of trunk; with burning of cheeks; in face, with perspiration in large drops; with soporous, snoring sleep, and open mouth; twitches through limbs and perspiration on hot body; body burning even when bathed in sweat; limbs twitch; wants to uncover.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s356}}Bed feels so hot she cannot lie on it; moves often in search of a cool place.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s357}}Sweat: cold, on forehead or over whole body; over whole body, which is burning hot; sleep and snoring; hot, profuse morning sweat, wants to be uncovered; on upper part of body; lower part hot and dry.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s358}}Acute fevers characterized by a sopor bordering upon stupor, and by absence of any complaint, snoring with mouth open, half jerking of limbs and burning heat of perspiring body.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s359}}After catching severe cold; febrile symptoms, sore throat, throbbing headache, delirious, troubled sleep; hot surface, with chill creeping over body, especially from hips to below knees; lameness of eyeballs; uncontrollable desire to weep.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s360}}Shaking chill at 11 A. M.; body cold, or coldness only of limbs, abdomen, back, hands and feet.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s361}}Sleep during chill, heat and sweat; during sweat still feels burning hot; children and old people.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s362}}~</span> <span grade2>Ague.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s363}}Congestive chill paroxysms regular in time, irregular in stages.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s364}}Intermittents of old people and children.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s365}}Somnolency attended with slight delirium; lies quietly with a pleased expression of countenance; replies correctly when aroused; makes no complaint, on contrary is often satisfied with his condition because his dreams are agreeable; continues awake but a short time, then falls into somnolent state again.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s366}}~</span> <span grade3>Typhoid.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s367}}Typhoid type of fever, stupor, can scarcely be aroused; speechless; eyes half open; mild delirium or loud talking, fury, singing, desire to escape.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s368}}Typhoid fever: with profound cerebral congestion resulting in paralysis of brain; dark or brownish-red hue of face; dropping of lower jaw and stertorous breathing; body bathed in hot sweat, sweat not critical; feels as if her lower limbs were severed from her body and belonged to some one else; during lucid intervals complains that bed is to hot.</span>

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

{{anchor:s370}}Paroxysms: chill, regular.\\ {{anchor:s371}}Alternate: hard and liquid stools.\\ {{anchor:s372}}Every fifteen minutes: faints.\\ {{anchor:s373}}Ten to thirty minutes: convulsions last.\\ {{anchor:s374}}Daily: attacks of distension and strangulation.\\ {{anchor:s375}}Every evening about 11 o'clock: fits commence.\\ {{anchor:s376}}Nightly: emissions; asthma.\\ {{anchor:s377}}During week: one motion of bowels.\\ {{anchor:s378}}Every three weeks: epileptic fits, sleep lasting twentyfour to thirty hours.

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

{{anchor:s380}}Right: paralysis of side; angle of mouth higher than left; pulse full at radial; eye turned upward; impaired sensibility of retina; face drawn to side; tongue protruded to side; pains on side; stitches in nostril; as of a hard body in hypochondrium; head turned to side; clenches hand, thumb not drawn in.\\ {{anchor:s381}}Left: eye turned to ear; partial paralysis of accommodation of eye; head bent back over to side; hand and foot turned to side; presses hands against side of chest; trembling of arm.

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

{{anchor:s383}}As if from smoke in brain; as if he were flying or hovering in air; as if drunk; as if eyes were too large for orbits; as of sand or dust in eyes; lids as if paralyzed; as of a band encircling chest in line of pleura; as if intestines would be cut to pieces; as of a stone or weight in abdomen; as if something was forced through a narrow space in abdomen; abdomen as if stabbed with a knife; rolling as of a hard body in right hypochondrium; as if rectum were closed; child as if drugged; as though anus were closed; looks as if dying; as if her lower limbs were severed from body.\\ {{anchor:s384}}Pain: in chest; in back; in lower limbs; in testicles; in cardiac region; in limbs.\\ {{anchor:s385}}Intolerable pain: in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s386}}Extremely severe after-pains.\\ {{anchor:s387}}Violent colicky pains: in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s388}}Great pain: in small of back.\\ {{anchor:s389}}Shooting pain: in testes and bladder.\\ {{anchor:s390}}Darting pains: from occiput to forehead.\\ {{anchor:s391}}Lightning-like pain: in all directions in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s392}}Spasmodic pains: in uterus.\\ {{anchor:s393}}Stitches: in right nostril.\\ {{anchor:s394}}Twitching-tearing pains: in all directions through abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s395}}Cutting: in abdomen; in urethra.\\ {{anchor:s396}}Drawing lacerating: in back.\\ {{anchor:s397}}Griping: in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s398}}Squeezing pain: in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s399}}Constrictive pain: in stomach; in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s400}}Pressive pain: in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s401}}Pressing pain: in temples.\\ {{anchor:s402}}Severe labor-like pains: in uterus.\\ {{anchor:s403}}Bearing-down pains: in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s404}}Burning: in eyes; in anus; about heart; of cheeks; of body; in veins.\\ {{anchor:s405}}Heat: of face; in chest; of hands.\\ {{anchor:s406}}Throbbing: of arteries.\\ {{anchor:s407}}Constriction: of anus; of chest.\\ {{anchor:s408}}Pressure: in stomach; upon rectum and bladder; on chest.\\ {{anchor:s409}}Tension: in hypogastric region; of chest.\\ {{anchor:s410}}Fullness: in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s411}}Oppression: in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s412}}Anxious sensation: in epigastrium.\\ {{anchor:s413}}Heaviness: of head; of occiput; of stomach; of limbs; of feet.\\ {{anchor:s414}}Sensation of swelling: in hands and forearms.\\ {{anchor:s415}}Emptiness: of stomach.\\ {{anchor:s416}}Tickling: in larynx.\\ {{anchor:s417}}Dryness: of eyes; of mouth; of throat; of skin; of hands.\\ {{anchor:s418}}Lameness: of lower limbs; of eyeballs.\\ {{anchor:s419}}Numbness: of arms; of legs; of feet.\\ {{anchor:s420}}Buzzing: through whole body.\\ {{anchor:s421}}Trembling: of whole body.\\ {{anchor:s422}}Coldness: of extremities; of body; abdomen, back, hands and feet; in veins.\\ {{anchor:s423}}Itching: of skin.

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

{{anchor:s425}}Increased excitability and action in voluntary muscles, with diminution of it in involuntary muscles.\\ {{anchor:s426}}Jerks; only the flexors active.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s427}}Emaciation and debility.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s428}}Marasmus; child wrinkled and looks like a little driedup old man; stupor.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s429}}Suspension of secretion from mucous surface of digestive canal.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s430}}Plethora.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s431}}Venous congestion, with dark red surface.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s432}}Burning or sensation of coldness in veins.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s433}}Morbus coeruleus.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s434}}Suppurations and ulcers painless.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s435}}Lead poisoning.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s436}}Dropsical swelling of whole body.</span>

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s440}}Bed feels so hard she cannot lie upon it.</span>\\ {{anchor:s441}}Touch: abdomen sensitive; hypogastric region painful.\\ {{anchor:s442}}Scratching: red blotches after itching.\\ {{anchor:s443}}From injury: to head, vertigo; shocks.\\ {{anchor:s444}}Burns; especially in children with disposition to convulsions and other spasmodic affections the result of fright from accident.

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s446}}Skin hot and damp, or sweating even in morning, and a desire to uncover.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s447}}Dryness of skin, without fever.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s448}}Very troublesome itching all over, fine pricking, rarely sensitive to touch.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s449}}Smarting-itching after sweating.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s450}}Whole body looks red.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s451}}Redness and itching of skin, red blotches after scratching.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s452}}Paleness of skin.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s453}}Skin of a pale blue, especially on genitals.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s454}}Blue spots on skin.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s455}}Scarlatina: burning heat, soporous stupor, agonized tossing about, vomiting, diarrhea, convulsions, constipation.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s456}}Sudden retrocession of acute eruptions; paralysis of brain sets in, or convulsions.</span>

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s458}}Light hair, lax muscles and want of bodily irritability; the well-chosen remedy makes no impression.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s459}}Especially suitable for children and old persons; diseases of first and second childhood.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s460}}Frequently suited to persons addicted to spirituous drinks.</span>\\ {{anchor:s461}}Girl, few days after birth; affection of heart.\\ {{anchor:s462}}Nursing child; colic.\\ {{anchor:s463}}Baby, aet. 18 months, suffering since five months old; spasms.\\ {{anchor:s464}}Girl, aet. 3, short, stout, dark hair and eyes; stupor.\\ {{anchor:s465}}Girl, aet. 3, after sleeping in sun during afternoon; sunstroke.\\ {{anchor:s466}}Boy, aet. 4, suffering twelve months; asthma.\\ {{anchor:s467}}Boy, aet. 5, healthy; ague.\\ {{anchor:s468}}Boy, aet. 6, suffering six weeks; ague.\\ {{anchor:s469}}Girl, aet. 6 1/2, formerly suffering from urticaria, which was aggravated whenever she ate a strawberry; constipation.\\ {{anchor:s470}}Girl, aet. 7, had mesenteric disease in infancy and convulsions subsequently; dyspnea.\\ {{anchor:s471}}Boy, aet. 9, suffering 6 weeks; ague.\\ {{anchor:s472}}Girl, aet. 12, suffering several years; constipation.\\ {{anchor:s473}}Boy, aet. 12, but one chill this year, although subject to frequent attacks last season, always suppressed with quinine; ague.\\ {{anchor:s474}}Girl, aet. 14, menses suppressed by fright, had convulsions; menorrhagia.\\ {{anchor:s475}}Miss aet. 15, suffering three years; epilepsy.\\ {{anchor:s476}}Girl, aet. 17, fragile and delicate, first menstruated when seventeen years old, and discharge suppressed after two days by fright; epilepsy.\\ {{anchor:s477}}Man, aet. 18, after having nearly recovered from pneumonia; delirium.\\ {{anchor:s478}}Woman, aet. 18, very stout, primipara, after cathartics; puerperal convulsions.\\ {{anchor:s479}}Girl, aet. 19, formerly suffering with pain in chest and feet; epilepsy.\\ {{anchor:s480}}Man, aet. 21, had an attack a year ago; colic.\\ {{anchor:s481}}Girl, aet. 23, formerly robust, but for last three years constantly complaining; constipation.\\ {{anchor:s482}}Girl, aet. 23; epilepsy.\\ {{anchor:s483}}Two men, aet. 20 to 25; delirium tremens.\\ {{anchor:s484}}Man, aet. 27, suffering three days; colic.\\ {{anchor:s485}}Man, aet. 27, single, robust, one month ago similarly affected; lead colic.\\ {{anchor:s486}}Woman, aet. 27, single, gentle, quiet disposition, thin, slender brunette, suffers from epilepsy, particularly during menstrual period, mother phthisical, father dissolute; disease of heart.\\ {{anchor:s487}}Woman, aet. 28, dark complexion, pregnant for third time, suffered in previous pregnancies with vomiting for about four months; disorders of pregnancy.\\ {{anchor:s488}}Woman, aet. 30, during epidemic of influenza; cough.\\ {{anchor:s489}}Mrs. M., aet. 32, Irish, cheerful, fresh-looking in health; intestinal obstruction and fecal tumor.\\ {{anchor:s490}}Woman, aet. 35, after losing two children in quick succession; cerebro-spinal meningitis.\\ {{anchor:s491}}Woman, aet. 36, has tumor on right side of chest, extending from axilla and enlarging breast; affection of stomach.\\ {{anchor:s492}}Man, aet. 38, figure small, slight, practiced masturbation since twelve years old; idiocy.\\ {{anchor:s493}}Man, aet. 40, short, fat, phlegmatic; delirium tremens.\\ {{anchor:s494}}Man, aet. 40, drunkard; delirium tremens.\\ {{anchor:s495}}Man, aet. 40, after feet had become very cold; colic.\\ {{anchor:s496}}Man, aet. 40, gardener; catarrh of chest.\\ {{anchor:s497}}Man, aet. 40, phlegmatic temperament, Bryon., Phosphor., etc., given without benefit, on eleventh day of disease; Opium followed by sudden change and satisfactory recovery; double pneumonia.\\ {{anchor:s498}}Woman, aet. 43, after having been beaten violently with fist about head, neck and shoulders; spasms.\\ {{anchor:s499}}Dr. R. M., aet. 44, nervo-bilious, addicted to strong drink; apoplexy.\\ {{anchor:s500}}Woman, aet. 48, well nourished, in good health; intestinal obstruction.\\ {{anchor:s501}}Man, aet. 50, addicted to drink, oppressed by care and sorrow; apoplexy.\\ {{anchor:s502}}Man, aet. 50, heavy drinker; bronchitis and asthma.\\ {{anchor:s503}}Man, aet. 51, suffering ten years; constipation.\\ {{anchor:s504}}Mrs., aet. 56, suffering twenty years; constipation.\\ {{anchor:s505}}Woman, aet. 56; constipation.\\ {{anchor:s506}}Man, aet. 60; constipation.\\ {{anchor:s507}}Man, aet. 75, tendency to apoplexy, prodromes of which were several times dissipated by Bellad.; apoplexy.\\ {{anchor:s508}}Man, aet. 84, suffering from hemorrhoids; mental disturbance.\\ {{anchor:s509}}Miss C., rosy, buxom; epilepsy.\\ {{anchor:s510}}Young woman, primipara, after a difficult labor, administration of ether and use of instruments having been necessary to accomplish delivery; puerperal convulsions.\\ {{anchor:s511}}Young man, strong constitution, after violent fit of passion; headache, fever, etc.\\ {{anchor:s512}}Lady, suffering several years; headache.\\ {{anchor:s513}}Potter, has worked a long time at glazing; colic.\\ {{anchor:s514}}Painter, well built, has had frequent attacks; lead colic.\\ {{anchor:s515}}Man, drinker, after excessive drinking, to which he resorted in consequence of vexation and grief; delirium tremens.\\ {{anchor:s516}}Woman, suffering many years; headache.\\ {{anchor:s517}}Elderly woman, robust, with rosy cheeks; vomiting.

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

{{anchor:s519}}Antidoted by: strong coffee, <span grade2>Bellad., Ipec., Nux vom., Vinum, Vanil. arom., Zincum.</span>\\ {{anchor:s520}}It antidotes: charcoal vapor, <span grade2>Bellad., Digit., Laches., Mercur., Nux vom., Strychnia, Plumbum, Stramon., Tart. emet.</span>\\ {{anchor:s521}}Compatible: <span grade2>Acon., Bellad., Bryon., Hyosc., Nux mosch., Nux vom., Tart. emet.</span>\\ {{anchor:s522}}Compare: <span grade2>Apis</span> (apoplexy, coma); <span grade2>Ipecac.</span> and <span grade2>Moschus</span> (spasm of lungs).

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====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ======
^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 08, 1889 |
^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r59|Opium]] |
^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r59|Opium]] |
^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. |
^ Year: | 1889 |
^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting |
^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}