Part 11

Fourteenth day.—Eyes weary, sight weak. 280. Short, dull, painful lancinations in the pectoral muscles, rather internal, without impeding the breathing.

Fifteenth day.—Weariness of the eyes, pressure at the superior portion of the orbits. Headache. At nine o’clock in the evening, lancinating pain in the biceps and triceps muscles of the arm, similar pain between the shoulder-blade and the spinal column, in the trapezoid muscle. The throat feels dry and irritated, compelling one to cough. 285. Dryness of the glottis; causing a cough as from a cold.

Sixteenth day.—Itching at the margin of the eyelids.

Seventeenth day.—Sense of stoppage in the ears; afterwards as if air-bubbles were passing through the left ear (for two or three seconds). Small smarting pimples on the lower part of the right leg.

Twenty-third day.—Diarrhœa.

Twenty-seventh day.—290. Nocturnal emission. Weight at the frontal muscle. Heat about the head. Painful stitch in the ileo-cœcal region, recurring several times when walking or moving about. Slight nausea.

Thirtieth day.—295. Pain as from weariness in the outer portion of the left crural muscle when pressing upon it.

Thirty-first day.—This pain is very marked and continues all day.

Thirty-second day.—Violent headache in the left side of the head.

Thirty-third day.—Headache in the side of the head.

Thirty-fourth day.—In the evening, slight pain in the lumbar muscles as from weariness.

Thirty-fifth day.—300. The weariness in the loins continues in the morning. At 9 o’clock in the evening, slight pain as from weariness, with an acute lancination in the lumbar region, for one second.

Thirty-sixth day.—At noon, long-lasting lancinating pain under the left big toe. A good appetite for some days past.

Thirty-seventh day.—305. Hard, scanty and difficult stool. Absence of mind. Not disposed to work. Peevish. Red eyelids. 310. Lazy, weary. Constant yawning.

Thirty-eighth day.—Hungry, two hours after a copious meal. Tightness at the stomach, in the evening.

Thirty-ninth day.—At five o’clock in the morning, violent sensation of hunger, with tensive and pressive pain at the stomach; when lying, the pain extends to the umbilical region. 315. The pain during a walk continues; pressure after eating; painful sensation of hunger. Acute pain at the stomach, with constant hunger. Frequent desire to urinate. The urine deposits a white sediment. At noon, pressive pain at the stomach, before and after eating. 320. Acute pain, like a stitch, at the anterior surface of the right lung, which hinders breathing. Absence of mind, he makes many mistakes, mistakes one month for another, for several days. He mistakes the street twice. During the last days of the proving, frequent urination with whitish deposit.

Third prover: Mme. Al. j., 26 years old, sanguine temperament, good constitution.

First day.—Took one dose of the 5th attenuation, at 10 o’clock in the evening.

In the morning on waking, doughy taste in the mouth, and great drowsiness. 325. She dreams about death, burial. Small painful pimples on the left side of the tongue. Burning at the stomach. Stiffness at the nape of the neck. Weakness of the legs and arms. 330. Nausea at two o’clock. Fever: face of a scarlet-red, hands burning-hot. Depression of spirits, has no desire to do any thing, nothing pleases him. White spots on the tongue. Frequent desire to urinate. 335. Feeling of weariness all over. Sense of pain with heat at the sacrum.

Second day.—Lancinating pain, zig-zag, in the uterus, at half past six in the morning. Slight leucorrhœa. Dry cough. 340. Pain in the groin, compressive sensation as during parturition. Lancination from the lumbar region to the coccyx.

Third day.—Restless night, frequent waking. On waking, sense of weariness, as if strained. Acute pain in the palm of the left hand, proceeding from the index, and describing a circle extending to the carpal articulation of the thumb. 345. Very weary, especially the left leg. At half past 12, third night, writhing colic. Violent diarrhœa at one o’clock, with pains similar to those which she had experienced on her return from a voyage to Brazil. Fetid stool, with white little worms. 350. The diarrhœa continues and is succeeded by a great weakness of the chest. Violet-colored cheeks. Heat in the cheeks and temples. Red forehead. Small miliary vesicles on the right cheek, on the middle of the forehead and on the left cheek. 355. Listless, she attends to things as if she took no sort of interest in them.

Fifth day.—Dreams about a church-yard; she placed torches on the graves. On waking, her face is bloated and scarlet-red. Blotches on the right cheek, similar to those which she had after her return from a voyage to Brazil (at this time an enormous crusty tetter commenced in this way). Intolerable heat at the chest, at two o’clock, violent pain and burning sensation at the sternum.

Sixth day.—360. Restless sleep. Nervousness, impatience, at half past 12. Dry heat in the hands.

Seventh day.—Small vesicular pimple at the right wrist-joint. Marked feeling of heaviness from the parietal bone to the lower attachment of the sterno-mastoideus muscle, at the upper side of the sternum. 365. At two o’clock: the weight, at times, descends to the forehead, with heat. Small pimple on the right wrist, red at its base, containing a fluid.

Eighth day.—No sleep. Twisting pain in the left side, or lancinations around the pelvis; the pain passes off soon and extorts cries from her, at 9 o’clock in the morning. Burning all over.

Ninth day.—370. Twisting pain at the scapulo-humeral articulation. Acute pain under the breast. Half past twelve: the pain at the scapulo-humeral articulation recurs from time to time with great violence. Five o’clock in the evening: the pain is constant but less, always of the same kind. Half past nine: miliary eruption in the face. 375. Small red pimples on the right cheek, smarting on the right cheek, the eruption first showed itself at 7 o’clock in the morning. Miliary eruption on the shoulders, with itching, in the evening. Red vesicular pimples, they break when pressed upon, and discharge a smart stream of water.

Tenth day.—Dulness of the head, in the morning, on rising. Red face, the little pimples are less apparent. 380. Pain at the stomach, as from hunger, though she is not hungry. She swallows her saliva. She has to eat to quiet her pain.

Eleventh day.—Headache, slight beating at the forehead, during a considerable portion of the night. The headache continues with a heaviness in the forehead, in the morning.