Part 62

Ears.--Roaring sound in the ears,^3.

Nose.--Very dry; scabs form in the nose,^3. Frequent violent sneezing, with fluent coryza in the evening,^1. Nose feels as if sunburnt; red and shining, especially on alae,^1. Feeling of pressure over the bridge of the nose,^1. Fluent coryza, somewhat bloody,^1.

Mouth.--Very dry, especially in the morning,^3. Metallic taste in the mouth, strongly marked,^1. Gumboil on left lower maxillary; profuse saliva,^1. Pain in left lower maxillary,^1. Tenderness of all the molars,^1.

Throat.--Slight inflammation of the pharynx, a "husky" feeling,^1. Dry and sore,^3.

Eating and Drinking.--Appetite gradually increasing,^1.

Appetite good; symptoms, < after eating, > after an hour,^2. Loss of appetite,^6 (unusual).

Nausea and Vomiting.--Eructations, as after taking soda-water (after each powder), with colicky pains,^5, and looseness of the bowels (constipated before taking the remedy),^5. Eructations, empty, frequent,^1. Slight nausea, all day at intervals,^2 (first day). A very tired, languid feeling all forenoon, accompanied by nausea on lying down, passing away on getting up, and returning on lying down again (not at night).

Stomach.--Tenderness in the epigastric region,^1. A kind of pressing soreness,^3. Cold during the chill,^2.

Abdomen.--Sharp, lancinating pains all through the abdomen, early in the evening,^5 (observed but once). Sharp pain, running from right to left across the bowels, for several minutes, followed by a very strong desire to go to stool; entire relief after stool; slight griping pain in the region of the umbilicus, working down at 8 P.M., followed at 10 P.M. by discharge of flatus; full feeling in abdomen, causing short breathing after lying down in bed,^1.

Stool.--Symptoms marked and constant. Faeces of the consistency of mush, which slips through the sphincters in little lumps, very similar to lumps of jelly,^3. Stools dark brown, or like jelly,^3. Urgent desire for stool, sometimes removed by passing wind; quantity normal,^3. Sore feeling in the rectum,^3. Crawling sensation in rectum as if little worms were there,^3. Stool inclined to be hard; unsatisfied feeling, as though not done,^1. Stool solid at first, then diarrhoea,^1. Movement of the bowels at an unusual time,^2 (6:30 P.M., had moved the morning of same day). Sharp pain from right to left across the bowels, followed by very strong desire for stool,^2. Stool, first hard, then loose,^2. Entire relief from pain after stool,^2.

Urine.--Symptoms very marked,^3. Characterized from the first by a very profuse flow of clear, or almost colorless urine, nearly the color of water,^3. Three to four times the normal quantity,^3,^1,^4,^2. When thinking of urinating I had to go at once,^3. No sediment whatever,^3,^1. Pain in the kidneys, hardest in right, with some tenderness,^1. At the expiration of every two or three hours after stopping the remedy, there was an enormous flow of pale, straw-colored urine, and with this would gradually disappear the metallic taste which was so marked,^4. Free urination, dark in color, no distress,^2. Urine scanty, and looked like that of a child troubled with worms, light red-colored stain on bottom of vessel,^2 (second day). Awoke with a heavy pain in the kidneys,^2 (third day). Urine clear on passing, but becomes as above described on standing,^2 (third day). During day urine scanty, with considerable irritation, as if the muscles of the bladder were contracting, > moving about,^2.

Male Sexual Organs.--From being naturally of a passionate nature, the desire and ability diminished to impotence,^3. No sexual desire or ability,^3. Bruised feeling in the testicles, beginning in the right and extending to the left--came on after going to bed,^1. Occasional pain, of short duration, in glans penis,^1. Pain in testicles, worse with extension along spermatic cord and down thighs,^1 (third day).

Sexual Organs, Female.--At 1.30 P.M., felt a pain in left ovary, like something grasping or holding tightly for about an hour, then disappeared,^2.

Larynx.--Slight accumulation of mucus in the larynx, hard to cough it up,^2.

Breathing.--Short and quick breathing from the full feeling in the abdomen,^1. Hard breathing, as though lungs and bronchi were closing as the chill passes off.

Cough.--A dry cough, from any little exercise,^3 (eleventh day). A short, hacking cough, with tightness across the chest,^2 (third day).

Lungs.--Oppression at 9 P.M.,^1 (first day).

Heart and Pulse.--Palpitation after lying down at night, for 15 to 20 minutes,^1 (seventh day). On going to bed, pain, like a wave, over the heart,^2 (second day), < lying down. Pulse 84, intermittent,^2 (2 P.M. of third day).

Outer Chest.--A warm, tingling sensation over left chest, just under the skin,^2 (lasted five minutes).

Neck and Back.--Neck pains. Pain and stiffness of the muscles of the back of the neck.

Upper Extremities.--Stitching pain in right wrist for half an hour, leaving a tired feeling in joint,^2. At 12:30, a sharp, cutting pain running from point of shoulder down front of chest to point of hip bone, going suddenly,^2. Flesh feels as though she had taken a heavy cold,^2. Sharp pain, with coldness, from left shoulder-joint extending down the arm < in shoulder-joint, > sleep; goes away gradually,^4. Prickling sensation in left arm and hand,^4.

Lower Extremities.--Stitching pain in right leg and knee-joint for half an hour, leaving a tired feeling in the joint,^2. Hard pain in the left big toe-joint,^2. Pain inside of left leg from the groin to the knee,^2.

Extremities in General.--Flesh on under side of limbs sore,^2. Sore feeling of all the muscles of the right side of the body,^2. All the pains come and go quickly, but the muscles remain sore and stiff,^2. Frequent fine pains all over the body until 3 P.M., when all disappeared and felt as well as usual,^2.

Position.--All pains better when moving about and when in the cool air,^2. Nausea, heart symptoms and breathing, < lying down,^1,^2.

Nerves.--At 10 A.M. a very sick, exhausted feeling appeared,^2.

Sleep.--Not very sound,^3. Dreams of a pleasant or lascivious character,^3. Wakes often,^2. On rising feels sad, weary, despondent,^3. Twitching of the muscles on falling asleep roused him,^3 (once three or four nights). Dreamed of spiders, bugs,^2 (first night), of swimming in water,^2 (second night--am not in the habit of dreaming).

Chill.--Chill at 11:40 A.M., beginning in back between shoulders, down over body to feet; stomach feels cold; pains all over body during chill; a peculiar sensation of crawling or contraction of the abdominal muscles, hardest about the navel, lasted about half an hour,^2. As the chill passes off a smarting in the throat and a feeling as though the lungs and bronchi would close up, making breathing very difficult; chill lasted until 1 P.M., followed by perspiration of palms of the hands and soles of the feet; the changeable pains remained until 3 P.M., when all disappeared,^2. No thirst in either stage,^2. Felt badly for three days at same hour as chill,^2. For four weeks on every seventh day had a chill with all the above symptoms; the coldness of the spine was continuous for eight weeks, and was then removed by Gelsemium,^2.

(Dr. W. D. Gentry, while at Las Vegas, New Mexico, made the following summary of the action of the remedy. Homoeopathic Recorder, 1895):