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Hyoscyamus Niger - T.F. Allen

Henbane, Hyoscy, Hyos, Hyoscyamus, Hyos.
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HPUS indication of Hyoscyamus Niger: Twitching
Common symptoms: Twitching, Falls suddenly, Jerks, Spasms.

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Below are the main rubriks (i.e strongest indications or symptoms) of Hyoscyamus Niger in traditional homeopathic usage (by T.F. Allen), not approved by the FDA.

  GENERAL

General

He became excited, and incoherent in his speech, wandered purposelessly about the house, muttering and touching things, as though suspicious of those about him (three hours).

he became delirious, was policemen coming into the house.

hear them speaking about him in the hall.

his hands were constantly in motion, seemingly trying to rub his face or brush something away.

was very irritable. he did not attempt to answer any questions, but occasionally muttered a few disjointed words (about five hours after first dose),.

Delirious, but easily controlled.

could understand questions when asked, and would answer yes or no, at 2 P.M.

delirious most of the time, would answer and seem to know for a moment, and then would commence his strange actions.

*working and clutching of the hands, would strike his attendants.

his movements were very quick.

it was with difficulty that they could hold him on their laps.

at 4 P.M., greatly excited, talking about everything, cannot fix his attention upon anything, cannot be held.

he is now on the floor watched by those in attendance.

*he wants to fight, he closes his hands and strikes at his attendants, also attempts to bite.

at intervals he would sing, and at times would burst out laughing.

when anything is offered him he clinches hold of it with both hands greedily.

the slightest opposition excites him, at 8 P.M.

it was after 3 A.M., before he became quiet and disposed to rest,.

The people in the room seemed to assume grotesque appearances.

this condition lasted half an hour, and was succeeded by noisy and then by quiet delirium.

several hours later she was sitting in the corner of the room, muttering to herself, and rocking her body to and fro.

now catching at the air, or at some imaginary appearance, then pulling the bed-clothes about, and answering either not at all or incorrectly,.

She began to laugh, dance, run around the room and grasp at things, which usually she never touched.

she stared at the bystanders, heard nothing, and answered no questions.

several men were unable to make her drink or lie down.

with pale face, rapid pulse, free respiration dilated pupils, and great injection of the capillaries of the eye.

this madness lasted till the next day, with complete sleeplessness.

the vertigo, stupefaction, and incoherent ideas lasted for several days,.

They laughed aloud because all persons seemed ridiculous.

this lively mood continued for half an hour, with violent gesticulations, and was followed by quiet delirium.

the old woman talked of the future, swayed the body back and forth, groped in the air as after objects, picked at the bed, and either did not answer at all or in a disconnected manner,.

Great mental vivacity, such as he had not exhibited for years, with perpetual talking during twenty-four hours, night and day. During the whole of the night he engaged the nurse's attention and interest by recounting the adventures of a friend in the Peninsular campaign. Throughout the next day he was intent upon taking a journey, but if any incident in his past life were suggested, he entered minutely into every particular, talking incessantly, with unwonted rapidity and emphasis. He used the simplest and most descriptive language, and he was quite independent of conversation, for it was necessary, in order to avoid any increase of excitement, to treat him with silence. Once a subject was named, no matter whether the attendant circumstances occurred the previous day or fifty years ago, it immediately engaged his attention until some incidental remark or an allusion suggested other ideas. If a subject with which he was not wholly familiar happened to be mentioned, but then became confused, incoherent, and a little irritable and impatient. The connecting links in a particular train of thought were weakened and occasionally broken by illusions and delusions. The sight of a white napkin suggested through milk, his former breakfasts in India.

the milking of the cow at the door of the house.

the appearance of the frothed milk in the Argentum Metallicum silver basin.

the tea freshly imported from China China. His white handkerchief lying crumpled on the dark sofa-cover recalled the ivory nut, and he entered into a minute and faithful description, not only of this plant, its habits and fruit, but the characters of several other tropical vegetables. Then he wandered into the country, and suddenly pulling up a leg, exclaimed, "Take care.

give me your hand. that is a very deep step." The next minute he introduced himself, with a loud voice, in a friend's house at Torquay, and, while engaged in imaginary conversation, suddenly raised the eyelids, and looking across the empty space in the direction of the bare wall said, with much emphasis, "That's a fine dahlia!" A few minutes afterwards he was engaged in Bristol. Several times he directed the carriage to be sent for, and supposing that it was at the door, made attempts to rise from his couch,.

All objects became brighter and smaller, as though viewed through a lorgnette.

on attempting to read there seemed to be an indistinct yellowish umbra about every black letter, which lasted for one day.

subsequently some words seemed in a remarkable manner unnaturally large, though when viewed with the right eye they were like the other words,.

Sometimes she saw stars and sparks before her eyes, and had peculiar illusions.

all white objects appeared to her surrounded by rings or borders, in which yellow predominated.

if she looked into a cup, the edges appeared yellow, but the interior seemed as if there were small animals moving in it (after several hours).

at intervals muscae volitantes, and objects appeared to be strongly illuminated and to have colored edges (second day),.

Bright scarlet redness of the whole surface, exactly resembling that of scarlatina.

it was not mere flushing of the surface produced by unusual exertion, but well-defined papillary eruption, disappearing on firm pressure, returning immediately when the pressure is removed.

the eruption began to fade away in about twelve hours.

on the fourth day, numerous vesicles appeared on various parts of the body, resembling those of varicella.

after remaining out about two days they dried up, leaving scales, which peeled off along with portions of the surrounding cuticle.

the thick epidermis of the hands and feet, however, showed no signs of desquamation.

the mucous membrane partook to some extent of the same appearance as in scarlatina, though the strawberry tongue was not, of course, so well marked,.

The body all over had a purplish rash, more particularly about the neck and face.

the face was "so swollen that she thought it would burst," scarlet, the color more marked on the left cheek, on which it persistently remained for four days, the rash gradually disappearing from other parts of the body, on the second day (after four hours),.

Felt his lips swell (soon after first dose).

his nose swelled very much (ten minutes after third dose), which swelling extended all over his face and body, growing less severe about his waist.

this was accompanied by a prickly sensation and itching.

the skin of the face was very red, shining, and hard.

the eyes were shut. there was no interval seen until below the middle of the body, where bunches and irregular patches appeared scattered over the surface, and some smaller ones appeared like enlarged papillae of the skin.

he could hardly utter a word.

owing to a "stiffness of the tongue and lips," as he expressed it.

what he did say was in a thick blundering manner, like that of a drunken man.

his mind appeared perfectly clear.

the eruption began to subside in about an hour and a half from the time that the last dose was taken, and had almost or quite disappeared the next morning,.

The throat seems so contracted and dry that a swallow of tea threatens to suffocate him, . This I declare, convinced by a thousandfold experience, universally true of the exhibition of homoeopathic remedies in general, and especially when the diseases in acute, but more particularly true of the use of Belladonna Belladonna, Stramonium Stramonium, and Hyoscyamus in hydrophobia, each according to its kind.

let no one come to me and say, "A certain case has one of these three remedies, even in the strongest doses, and not too seldom, but every two or three hours and nevertheless the patient has died." Just so, I say from full conviction, just on this account has he died and thou hast killed him.

hadst thou administered the smallest portion of a drop of the fifteenth or thirtieth centesimal dilution of the juice of one of these herbs (in certain cases, a second dose after three or four days), then the patient would certainly have been saved. -Hahnemann..

In moderate doses it causes a constant sinking of the pulse from 10 to 20 beats during the first two or three hours.

the smaller the dose the slower the depression, and the larger the dose the more rapid the depression.

very large doses cause a rise in the rate of the pulse.

0.1 gramme of the ethereal extract of the seeds causes a sinking of 20 beats within two hours.

0.2 gramme causes a sinking of 20 beats within one hour, and during the next half hour a rise of 11 beats, and in the following half hour a sinking again of 12 beats.

0.4 gramme causes a fall of 19 beats after twenty minutes, during the next twenty minutes a rise of 29 beats, when it becomes small and irregular, and after an hour with slight fluctuations though constantly above the normal, slowly returning to the normal condition,.

Constant violent distortion and tossing about of all the limbs, so that he could scarcely be kept in the arms.

it seemed as though the child made ill-mannered faces.

the motions bore resemblance to the most violent chorea.

after the spasms remitted the eyes closed, and the child lay in an extremely passive condition, but the spasms, however, kept returning from time to time,.

Heat in the articular extremity of the last phalanx of the left little finger (first and second days).

the condyle is swollen, with pressive pain, aggravated by motion, which is difficult impeded (first and second days).

two days after a renewal of the dose of the tincture, a slight sensation of painfulness and swelling of the last phalanx of the right little finger occurred,.

GENERAL SYMPTOMS.

Objective.

Distended veins over the whole body,

Obstinate dropsy,

Apoplectic and cramped condition (after one hour),

He gropes about without knowing whither,

Tremors, startings, and convulsions,

Tremors extended to the muscles, and they shook violently; horripilation and perfect rigors (after two hours),

Nervous trembling and jerking of the muscles,

Twitchings of all kinds,

Muscular twitching,

Frequent jerkings,

Subsultus tendinum,

Frequent subsultus tendinum, and a furious delirium, so that he became uncontrollable; during the periods of remission he was engaged in catching at flocks in the air, or pulling at the bed-clothes,

The spasms flex the limbs, and the bent body is tossed upward,

Convulsive movements,

Convulsions, , etc.

Convulsions lasting five days,

Convulsions, with frothing from the mouth,

The whole body was convulsed,

The body is frightfully tossed about by the convulsions,

After every drink, sometimes he fell into convulsions, sometimes he did not recognize the bystanders,

Hands, feet, and muscles of the face were every now and then twitched, with convulsions; and so strongly did they struggle that is was no easy task to restrain them, or take away anything they took hold of (after eight hours),

On attempting to make the child walk, it was remarkable that she walked with the body bent backward, as if the head and trunk were acted upon by an invisible force.

at the same time, if she spontaneously attempted to walk, she did so with the feet wide apart, with involuntary motions of the hands, with which she felt about her, sometimes closing them as quick as lightning, and again opening them,.

Fell down unconsciousness, with the whole body cold and stiff like a piece of wood, face pale, eyes closed, pupils greatly dilated, conjunctiva injected, anterior cervical muscles so much contracted that it was impossible to lay his head back upon the pillow.

pulse small, thready, rapid.

respiration stertorous and extremely difficult, with apparent spasms of the pectoral muscles,.

In bed, at one time he drew the knees up, at another stretched them out, at another turned over, turned the head back and forth, at another raised the head and beat the bed with it, at another picked the straws from his mattress, groped about himself and did not speak.

he was neither peevish nor out of humor (after three hours and a half),.

During unconscious sleep (at 9 P.M.), he began to weep, raised his sound arm, and then suddenly let it fall.

immediately afterwards he jerked the shoulder violently upward, then tossed the head back and forth.

then he raised the diseased foot, then there was a sudden jerking in the sound foot.

frequently the sound hand was affected, when the fingers suddenly stretched out and again closed tightly.

with these symptoms he occasionally uttered moans,.

There was flushed and excited countenance, the restless and violent tossing, amounting almost to convulsions, the momentary listening to imaginary sounds, and the eager clutching at visionary phantoms.

the brilliant eye, widely dilated pupil, hurried pulse, and labored respiration. There was a bright scarlet redness of the whole surface, exactly resembling that of scarlatina. It was not a mere flushing of the surface, but a well-defined papillary eruption, disappearing on firm pressure, but returning immediately when the pressure was removed. The mucous membrane partook to some extent of the same appearance as in scarlatina,.

GENERAL SYMPTOMS.

Nos. 1 to 49, from Hahnemann, R. A. M. L., 4. 1, Hahnemann; 1a, Fr. H-n; 1b, Flaeming; 2, Franz; 3, Langhammer; 4, Stapf; 5, Wislicenus; 6, Barrère, Obs. d'Anatomie, 1753 (not accessible, -Hughes); 7, Barton (symptoms thus noted belong to Smith); 8, Bernigau, in Hufel. Journ., V, p. 905 (from a clyster of Hyosc. in a man); 9, Blom, in Kon. Vetensk. Acad. Handl., 1774, p. 52 (from root eaten by a man); 10, Borellus, cent. IV., Obs. 45 (from root in adults); 11, Cagnion, from Desault, Journ. de Chir., I, p. 370 (from root in children); 12, Camerarius, in Acta Natrum Carbonicum Nat. Cur., vol. i, Obs., 12 (p. 250, as last); 13, Clauder, in Misc. Natrum Carbonicum Nat. Cur. Dec., V. Ann. 6, Obs. 178 (from preparing a fomentation of Hyosc.); 14, Costa, in Journ. de Méd., vol. xxx, Feb., p. 134 (from seeds in a man); 15, Van Ems, in Praelect. Boerhaavii de morb. nerv., vol. i, p. 236 (not found); 16, Faber, in Schenk, Lib. VII, Obs., 152 (p. 853, from gr. xxv of seeds in adult); 17, Gardane, Gaz. de Santé, 1773, 1774, p. 294 (in several persons, from effluvia); 18, Gesner, Samml. von Beob., I, p. 165 (after case of colic, by Hyos); 19, Gmelin, Reise durch Sibirien, Goett., 1752, vol. iii, pp. 84-85 (general statement from authors); 20, Greding, in Ludw. Advers. Med. Pr., I, pp. 86, 89 (p. 71, from extract administered in disease, cases 1 to 10 melancholico-maniacs, cases 11 to 21, maniacs, cases 22 to 35 epileptics, cases 36 to 40 epileptico-maniacs); 21, Gruenewald, in Miscell. Natrum Carbonicum Nat. Cur. Dec., III, ann. 9, 10, App. p. 179 (21a, from effluvia of seeds; 21b, from a clyster of Hyosc.; 21c, in girls who had applied fomentations of Hyosc.); 22, Haller, in Vicat. Mat. Med., I, p. 184 (from seeds in adult); 23, Hamberger, Diss. de Opio, § 18 (from root in boy of three years); 24, Hamilton (Edinb. Med. Essays, II, 243; from gr. xxv of white henbane-seeds in a young man); 25, Heilbronn, in Neues. Journ. der Auslaend. Med. Chir. Lit., V, Hufel and Harles, I, 1804, p. 199 (not accessible); 26, Van Helmont, Jus d., § 22 (from 2 scruples of seeds in adult); 27, Huenerwolf, in Miscel. Natrum Carbonicum Nat. Cur. Dec., III, Ann 2. Obs. 92 (from cooked roots, in several persons); 28, Jaskewitz, Diss. Pharm. reg. veg., Vindob., 1775, p. 53 (observations); 29, Joerdens, in Hufel. Journ., IV, p. 539 (from clyster of Hyosc. in a woman); 30, Kiernander, Utkast Tilia Europoea til Med., Lagfar, 1776, p. 267 (not accessible); 31, Matthiolus, Comment. in Diosc., Lib. VI, p. 1064 (observations); 32, Navier, in Rec. period. d'Obs. de Méd., Tom. IV (p. 113, from Hyosc. eaten as a salad by an adult); 33, Planchon, in Journ. de Méd., Tom. XIX, p. 42 (from repeated doses in adult); 34, Pyl, Neues Mag., II B., III St., p. 100 (from seeds, in a boy); 35, De Rueff, in Nov. Act. Natrum Carbonicum Nat. Cur., T. IV, Obs. 59 (from inhaling vapor for toothache); 36, Sauvages, Nosol., II, p. 242 (from root, in several persons); 37, Schulze, in Misc. Natrum Carbonicum Nat. Cur. Dec., I, ann. 4, 5, Obs. 124 (cooked root, in several persons); 38, Seliger, in Misc. Natrum Carbonicum Nat. Cur. Dec., II, ann. I, Obs. 138 (not found); 39, La Serre, in Misc. Natrum Carbonicum Nat. Cur. Dec., II, ann. 6, Obs. 78 (from Clyster of Hyos. given for dysentery); 40, Sloane, in Philos. Trans., No. 457 (xxxviii, 99 from seeds in children); 41, Smith (Duncan's Med. Comm., p. 402, from grains iv of resinous part of extract, in a healthy man); 42, Stedman, in Phil. Trans. (vol. xlvii, from leaves boiled in broth, in several adults); 43, Stoerck, lib. de Stramonium Stram., Hyosc., Aconite Acon., Vien., 1762, pp. 36, 39, 47, 55 (observations on patients); 44, Tozzetti, relaz. di alcuni viaggi., vol. vi, p. 279 (from root in adult); 45, Vicat, Mat. Med., I, p. 185 (general statement); 46, Wedel, in Misc. Natrum Carbonicum Nat. Cur. Dec., I, ann. 3, Obs. 21 (from seeds, in child of three); 47, Wendt, in Hufel. Journ., V, p. 390 (from Clyster of Hyosc. in adult); 48, Wepfer, Hist. Cicuta Virosa Cicut. Aquat., Bas., 1716, p. 230 (from cooked roots, in some youths); 49, Desault, Journ. de Chir., Tom. I; 50, Hartlaub and Trinks, M. M. (Kahler's Hufel. Journ., 1829), poisoning of child aged 4 years by the seeds; 51, Lembke, too Gruner's tinct., repeated doses of 2 to 25 drops, N. Z. f. H. Kl., 1, p. 8; 52, Dr. Keil took 10, 20, and 50 drops of tinct., Hartlaub's provings, V. J. Sch. f. Hom., 9, p. 241; 53, Gerstel took 15th dil., ibid.; 54, same, took 15 to 20 drops of tinct., ibid.; 55, Lindermann, provings with 15th dil., ibid.; 55a, same, proving with 3d dil., ibid.; 56, same, proving with 3 to 50 drops of tinct., ibid.; 57, Harley, effects of 3 fluid ounces of Succus Hyosc., in a man aged 40, Old Veg. Neurotics; 58, same, effects in a paralytic, aged 75, of 8 grains of extract substituted for the customary dose of morphine; 59, Proving of the "Comite der K. K. Gesellsch. der AErtze in Wien," from Zeit. d. K. K. Gesell. d. AEzt. zu Wien, 1847, six provers took the Prussian extract, beginning with 1/4 grain, increasing the dose by 1/4 grain till 5 1/4 grains were taken at a dose; 59a, subsequent proving, six (in part same) provers took the Austrian extract, beginning with 1/4 grain and increasing to 12 3/4 grains, one prover to 18 3/4 grains, from ibid.; 60, Schroff, Lehrbuch, effects on three persons of fresh juice, alcoholic and ethereal extracts; 61, Liedbeck, effects of 2 drops of the juice of the herb when put into the eye, repeated after fifteen minutes, Hygea, 9, 444; 62, Journ. de Toul (Z. f. Ver. Hom. AEzt. OEst., 1, 376) effects of a clyster of herb Hyosc., in a woman; 63, Gaz. d. Hôp., 1854 (Z. f. V. H. A. OEst., 1, 376), effect in a woman of eating the roots cooked; 64, same, in another woman; 65, same, in a man; 66, Dr. Kahrer; a girl 8 years old, effects of eating seeds; 67, Dr. Wurtemberg, Prag. Monats., 2, 122, effects of eating leaves, in a child; 68, Springer, Archiv. f. Hom. Heilk., 19, 3, 182, poisoning of four children, from 4 to 6 years old; 69, Sir H. Sloane, Med. Museum, 3, p. 231 (1764), (from Philos. Trans.), effects of eating H., in four children (possibly same as last); 70, Donaldson, Bost. Med. Intell., 5 June, 1827, a woman and daughter took a tea containing nearly an entire young plant; 71, Hufeland's Journ., 1829, effects of seeds in a child of 4 years; 72, Med.-Chir. Rev., 20, 205, effects of eating seeds, in two girls, each about 5 years; 73, Solon and Soubeiran, Am. J. Med. Sc., 20, p. 214 (Bull. Gén. de Thérap., 1836), effects of increasing doses of extract in one suffering from headache; 74, Menger, A. H. Z., 9, 13 (Berl. Med. Zeit., 1836), effects of eating roots, in several persons; 75, All. Hom. Zeit., 19, 63 (Reinh. and Casp. Woch., 1840), effects of daily doses of 8 grains of extract in a man; 76, Br. J. of Hom., 1, 412 (OEst. Med. Woch., 1843), a man fumigated his mouth with smoke of the burning seeds for toothache, which it instantly cured, but caused the following symptoms; 77, A. H. Z., 28, 154, a family of nine were all, except one, poisoned by a soup made from the roots; 78, Bernigau, a man took in a clyster an infusion consisting of half an ounce of the herb; 79, Frank, Casp. Woch., two girls ate the seeds; 80, Stein, A. H. Z., 15, 287, effects of eating seeds, in a girl aged four; 81, Sigmünd, a man took an overdose "for a disturbed stomach," Am. J. Med. Sc., 22, 189; 82, same, general effects; 83, Caudray, Lond. Med. Gaz., 47, p. 641, four monks ate the herb by mistake for another vegetable; 84, Lond. Med. Gaz., 45, p. 131 (Casp. Woch., 1849), effects of seeds on a girl of 6; 85, Cabot, Am. J. Med. Sc., 48, p. 369 (1851), effects of a teaspoonful of tincture, taken every hour, to promote action of Castor Equi castor oil which he had taken for pain in abdomen; 86, Sandahl, Br. and F. Med.-Chir. Rev., 1857, p. 399, effects of eating soup made of herb; 87, Keating, Am. J. Med. Sc., 1858 p. 96 (omitted); 88, Ruschenberger, Am. J. Med. Sc., 1858, p. 97, effects of 4 grains of extract in a man; 89, St. Ange, Syden. Soc. Yr. Book, 1861, p. 423, effects of two cups of infusion in a man; 90, White, Lancet, 1873, p. 8, a woman took 1 drachm in morning (had taken a blue pill the night before); 91, Covert, Trans. Hom. Med. Soc., State of N. Y., 1873, p. 157, effects of seeds in a boy aged 4; 92, Campbell, Lancet, 1874, p. 797, effects of aggregate doses of 7 1/2 drachms of tincture, in a man aged 60; 93, Schillizzi, Gaz. Méd. de Montpellier (Br. J. of Hom., 14, p. 622), effects of eating root; 94, (same as 86); 95, Hempel's Mat. Med., effects in two soldiers, of eating a salad made of young shoots; 96, same, effects of 3 ounces of seeds, taken for pain in rectum.

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  MODALITIES ETC

Aggravation

(Morning), Confusion, etc., of the head; mucus on teeth, etc., toothache; on rising, offensive breath; dryness of mouth, etc., bitterness in mouth; after rising from bed, colic; immediately after waking, pain in abdomen.

(Afternoon), Pain in ankle; fever.

(Evening), The symptoms; nausea; fulness in epigastric region, etc.; after lying down, colic in upper abdomen; pain in left side; after movement of bowels, trembling of arms; when walking, pain in tibia; chill, etc.; heat over body.

(Night), Hiccough, etc.; diarrhoea, etc.; cough; coldness.

(Midnight), Hiccough.

(Open air), Confusion of head, etc.; lachrymation, etc.; when walking, stiffness, etc., in knee-joints.

(Coffee), Vomiting.

(Cold air), Pain in temples; tearing in gums.

(After dinner), Soon, anxiety; hiccough.

(Drinking water), Pressure in stomach.

(After eating), Headache; pressure upon sternum; weariness in legs.

(In hot room), All symptoms.

(In house), Chilliness in back.

(Lying down), Cough.

(After a meal), Immediately, feels intoxicated.

(Movement), Throbbing, etc., in frontal eminences; tearing in joints; drawing on margin of fingers; pains in calf.

(Reading aloud), Yawning.

(Rest), Drawing in thighs; tearing in soles of feet.

(In room), Headache.

(Sitting), Pains in abdominal muscles.

(Stooping), Waving in brain, etc.; heaviness in forehead; throbbing, etc., in frontal eminence.

(Walking), Vertigo; headache; pain beneath umbilicus; pain in small of back; drawing in legs; pain in tarsal joints.

(Walking in street), Sensitiveness of metatarsus.

Amelioration

(Coffee), Head symptoms.

(Motion), Pain wrists, etc.

(Pressure), Pain in occiput.

(In room), Head symptoms.

(Smoking), The symptoms.

(Stooping), Nausea.

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  MIND

Mind

Emotional.

Madness, as if possessed by a devil,

Ravings,

Delirium,

Delirium and restlessness; would not stay in bed,

Most lively delirium,

Carphologia,

He makes ridiculous gestures like a dancing clown,

Foolish actions,

Comical alienation of mind; they perform ludicrous actions like monkeys,

, (Case 15).

Joined the women in laughter,

Foolish laughter,

He talks more than usual, and more animatedly and hurriedly,

He lies naked in bed and prattles, (Case 7).

Chattering incessantly, and without any meaning in their words; they began to leap and dance as in chorea, and all the time they seemed not to know any of their family (after eight hours),

Anxiety,

Dread of water,

Part of a leaf of henbane will urge a man on to violence and to passion,

He is violent, and beats people,

They bit, scratched, and nipped every one who interfered with them (after eight hours),

Intellectual.

Was unable to collect his thoughts while reading,

Confusion, dulness of sense,

He remembers persons and occurrences which he does not try to recollect (after half an hour),

The child did not recognize his parents or sister; did not see or hear,

Complete loss of consciousness,

Stupefaction,

Coma vigil,

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  VERTIGO, DIZZINESS

Vertigo

Confusion and Vertigo.

Vertigo, amounting even to faintness,

The mother was seized with giddiness, vertigo, etc. (soon),

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  HEAD

Confusion of the head, slight pressure in the frontal region, with difficult thought on going into the open air, at 4 P.M. (third and fourth days),

General Head.

Rush of blood to the head,

Heat deep in the head,

Headache

Headache comes on in the room, while there had been no trace of it in the open air (after two hours),

Dull frontal headache (after 3 1/4 and 4 grains),

Scalp

Gnawing pressure in the scalp, aggravated by moving it or pressing upon it (after fifteen hours),

Forehead

Heaviness in the forehead, especially on stooping,

Occiput

External Head.

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  EYES

Eyes

Objective.

Fiery-like, glistening eyes,

Subjective.

Eyes feel dry on reading,

Vision

Vision uncertain,

Obscuration of vision; objects seem indistinct; he is nearsighted, and is obliged to hold the book nearer than usual when reading (after one hour),

Transient amaurosis,

Illusions of vision

everything seems like Aurum Metallicum gold,

small objects seem very large,

Brow and orbit

Gnawing pressure in the upper margin of the orbit, which disappears on touching the spot (after half an hour),

Lids.

(Constant itching in the left inner canthus), (first day),

Lachrymal Apparatus.

Conjunctiva.

Ball.

Eyes so insensible that the eyelids did not wink when the cornea was touched,

Pupil.

Pupils dilated, etc.; (one case, after 18 3/4 grains),

Both eyes dilated and immovable, with photophobia,

Pupils so dilated that the Irisappeared as a mere threadlike rim (after four hours),

The pupils become smaller as the headache becomes worse (second day),

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  EARS

Ear

Sharp stitches extend into the ears, pressure in the temples, confusion of the head (after one hour),

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  FACE

Face

Objective.

Face and neck flushed, swollen, and dry (about five hours after first dose),

Pale, sunken face,

Subjective.

Heat of the face, especially of the lobules of the ears, with somewhat increased redness of the face and greatly dilated pupils,

Cheeks.

Lips.

Chin.

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  NOSE

Nose

Objective.

Subjective.

Smell.

Diminished smell,

Loss of smell and taste,

Discharge

Sneezed frequently, with a sensation of approaching coryza (which now developed itself), (during two last doses),

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  MOUTH

Teeth

General Mouth.

Frequent ecptysis, (Case 21).

Speech.

They lost their speech,

Gums and teeth

Toothache, (Cases 20, 39).

Saliva

Great dryness of the mouth,

Saliva.

Tongue

Tongue.

Thick coating on the back of the tongue,

A feeling of numbness in the middle of the tongue, as if it had been burnt with hot food, very much aggravated on talking or drawing in the breath,

Taste

Taste.

Nauseous bitter taste,

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  THROAT

Throat

Objective.

Subjective.

Great dryness of the throat, and thirst,

The throat feels constricted, impairing swallowing,

Scraping in the throat, with hoarseness,

Fauces.

Swallowing.

Swallowing difficult,

Inability to swallow, , (after six hours).

He desired to drink, but was unable to swallow,

External Throat.

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  CHEST

Chest

Voice.

Cough and Expectoration.

Cough at night,

, (Case 40).

Frequent cough at night, which always wakes him, after which he again falls asleep (after thirty hours),

Almost incessant cough, while lying down, which disappears on sitting up,

Dry cough at night,

Respiration

Pressure on the right side of the chest, near the ensiform cartilage and last two ribs, with great anxiety and oppression of breathing (after six hours and a half),

Front.

Sides.

Larynx, Trachea, and Bronchi.

Inclination to cough,

Difficult respiration, alternating with rattling of mucus,

Heart and pulse

Praecordium.

Feeling of soreness in the region of the heart, beneath and somewhat to the left of the left nipple, in a spot as large as a penny, alternating with slight stitches,

Heart's Action.

Pulse.

Pulse not hard, but frequent (144), partly in consequence of the violent movements (after several hours),

Slow pulse (in one case),

Pulse irregular,

Pulse hard,

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  SKIN

Skin

Objective.

Eruptions, Dry.

Eruptions, Pustular.

Pocklike pustules on the right side of the chin,

Subjective.

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  BACK AND NECK

Neck

Neck.

Back

Dorsal.

Lumbar.

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  MODALITIES ETC

Appetite

Unusually great appetite (at noon), ; (after one hour and three-quarters),

Appetite lessened (after 2 to 3 1/4 grains),

Appetite and strength diminished from day to day,

Appetite much diminished (after 11 1/4 grains),

Loss of appetite,

Loss of appetite, with natural taste,

Will not eat or drink,

Thirst.

Thirst and dryness in the throat,

Thirst caused by a sticking dryness in the throat (after two hours and a half),

Great thirst,

Intolerable thirst, ; unquenchable,

Insurmountable aversion to every kind of beverage,

Eructation and Hiccough.

Ineffectual efforts to eructate,

Ineffectual efforts to eructate; half suppressed incomplete eructations, lasting ten hours,

Eructations,

Empty eructations, etc.

Frequent empty eructations (after one hour and a half),

Frequent tasteless eructations,

Hiccough, with cramps and rumbling in the abdomen, (Case 28).

Frequent hiccough (after one hour and a quarter, and later),

Violent hiccough, two midnights in succession, with involuntary micturition and frothing from the mouth,

Most violent hiccough, with constipation,

Most excessive hiccough, at night, with diarrhoea,

A kind of heartburn, soon, and also returning in the afternoon,

Considerable disgust after taking the dose (after 3 1/4 and 4 grains),

Qualmishness,

Ineffectual retching,

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  ABDOMEN

Flatus

Passage of large quantities of flatus (first day),

Vomiting

Nausea and Vomiting.

Nausea, and in one case vomiting,

Frequent vomiting,

Hypochondria

Umbilical.

A sticking in the umbilical region, during inspiration (after five hours),

General Abdomen.

Griping in the abdomen,

Coliclike pain,

Hypogastrium.

Cutting low down in the abdomen,

Transient attacks of cutting in a spot low down in the abdomen, beneath the pubes (after six hours),

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  RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

Rectum

Feeling of heaviness in the rectum, as if it should be evacuated,

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  ABDOMEN

Stomach

Burning in the stomach,

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  RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

Stool

Diarrhoea.

Diarrhoea, day and night,

The stool passed involuntarily in bed (after two hours),

Constipation.

Constipation and impeded micturition, with urging to urinate,

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  GENITALS ETC

Urine

Urine yellow, turbid even while passing, afterwards depositing a whitish gray sediment,

Bladder.

Micturition.

(Frequent urging to urinate, with scanty urine (first two days); (profuse urine), (third and following days),

Genitals

Male.

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  EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

Extremities, limbs

Objective.

Twitchings of the limbs, with flexions and tensions of the fingers,

Subjective.

Inclination to stretch the limbs,

Cutting tearing in almost all the joints, especially on motion (after three hours),

Upper extremities

Objective.

Subjective.

Shoulder.

Elbow.

Forearm.

Wrist.

Hand.

The hands were in constant motion, even while sitting quietly; she carried first one and then the other to the mouth, as though she had something in them which she would bite and chew,

Fingers.

Lower extremities

Gait unsteady,

Hip.

Thigh.

Knee.

Weariness in the knees and a paralyzed feeling in the lower limbs (second day),

Leg.

Ankle.

Foot.

Swelling of the feet, (Case 16).

Toes.

Some weariness,

Prostration, stupor, and overpowering sleepiness,

He suddenly falls to the earth,

Completely insensible (after five hours),

They were unable to remain in one position,

Subjective.

Hysterical pain previous to the appearance of the menses, (Case 39).

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  FEVER AND CHILL

Fever

Chilliness.

Sudden chilliness, while in the house,

Transient chilliness in the back, on walking around the room (after one hour), followed while visiting patients by a sensation of heat in the back, especially in the small of the back and loins,

Heat

Burning heat over the whole body externally, without redness,

Feeling of heat in the lumbar region in the room, while sitting,

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  GENERALITIES

Sleep and dreams

Sleepiness.

Yawning and stretching (after one hour),

Almost overpowering sleepiness, with yawning, at 5 P.M.,

Long-continued deep sleep,

Sleeplessness.

Sleeplessness,

Long-continued sleeplessness,

Sleepless, on account of quiet mental activity,

He was unable to sleep the whole night; he tried lying upon one side and the other, yet he was unable to get quiet; only shortly before daybreak did he sleep somewhat from time to time; always during the short naps perspiration all over, especially about the neck (after five hours),

Sleep restless, with frequent waking and tossing about,

Starts up in sleep from affright,

Dreams.

Very labored dreams at night,

Perspiration

General perspiration, especially on the thighs and legs; for two days (after twenty-four hours),

Sweat on the back and pit of the stomach,

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