====== PROVING OF AMMONIUM CARBONICUM ======

{{anchor:s2}}LEILA A. RENDELL, M. D., NEW HAVEN, CONN.

{{anchor:s3}}I TOOK one dose of //Amm.// //Carb//. 1 M. (Fincke), and on the 27th day took a dose of 10 M. (Fincke). {{anchor:s4}}On the 72d day, being completely exhausted by the severity of the symptoms, I having become very thin and weak, I took a dose of //Lachesis// C.M. (Fincke). {{anchor:s5}}All the symptoms were greatly ameliorated by next day, and most of them soon ceased.

{{anchor:s6}}The proving is arranged, for convenience of reference, in Hahnemannic order. {{anchor:s7}}A few symptoms, which the proving removed in me, are marked °. {{anchor:s8}}The numbers in parenthesis, following the symptoms, signify the days on which they occurred, reckoning from the //first// dose.

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===== MIND AND DISPOSITION. =====


{{anchor:s10}}Think of everything which others have done to displease me; lie awake all night to lay plans to talk to them about it, but forget it in the morning (4 to 9).

{{anchor:s11}}Diminished thinking power (15 to 27).

{{anchor:s12}}Great forgetfulness and inability to collect my senses (15 to 27).

{{anchor:s13}}Use wrong words in writing or talking (15 to 27).

{{anchor:s14}}Very forgetful; make mistakes in writing or speaking (55 to 62).

{{anchor:s15}}Aversion to work, not disposed to do anything (61 to 65).

{{anchor:s16}}Disposition to weep in evening (61 to 64).

{{anchor:s17}}Full of care and gloomy anxiety; thoughts about unpleasant occurrences of former times crowd upon the mind and torment me (15 to 28).

{{anchor:s18}}Sad and desponding as if some accident were impending (15 to 27).

{{anchor:s19}}10. Loathing of life; everything looks so dark, cannot think of anything worth living for (15 to 27).

{{anchor:s20}}Great dislike to go out of doors; neglect important things on that account (15 to 27).

{{anchor:s21}}Gloomy, depressed, with feeling of impending danger and trouble, with sensation of coldness when thinking of it, and the lips look blue (28 to 30).

{{anchor:s22}}Utter dejection of mind, listlessness and lethargy (28 to 30).

{{anchor:s23}}Anxiety, with inclination to weep (28 to 30).

{{anchor:s24}}Hearing others talk, and talking myself, makes me very weary and nervous; cannot bear it; must get away from it and people (28 to 30).

{{anchor:s25}}Anxious concern about my sickness; when my friends try to cheer me up, I say to them: “I know I will never amount to anything, for I can never use my brain again, and will never advance another step in my profession;” the tears will come, I cannot keep them back (28 to 30).

{{anchor:s26}}Sad, despondent, homesick; tears run down my cheeks in evening and at night; have lost all self-respect, for I cannot do anything right; feel I ought not to prescribe for a patient, am sure I do not know enough, despise myself because I do not know more; brain feels so thick, cannot get a thought through it, it will not act; when I see a patient come in the office I feel so badly because I know I cannot do well for them, so that I am all in a tremble and can hardly speak, the perspiration runs down my back; I tremble so, I lose the powder out of the paper when trying to do it up; I try to conceal these symptoms, I am so ashamed of them; cannot see anything good in myself, feel so out with myself, with utter contempt of self, but see good in every one else, even my worst enemy; will stand up for them, and point out some good in them, and make excuses for them; constantly admiring the good qualities I see in others, but think I am all bad, and that others think so: these symptoms lasted till end of proving (53).

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===== HEAD. =====

{{anchor:s28}}Vertigo, with pressure in centre of brain; was obliged to take hold of something to keep from falling (14).

{{anchor:s29}}Head feels dull, muddled and stupid (15 to 27).

{{anchor:s30}}Confusion of head (28 to 30).

{{anchor:s31}}20. Frequent giddiness, as if the surroundings were turning with me in a circle; worse in morning, but lasting the whole day; worse at night on moving the head (32 to 40). {{anchor:s32}}The same; worse in morning after rising, and at night when moving head (48 to 52).

{{anchor:s33}}Sensation of looseness of the brain, as if it fell to the side toward which I leaned (32 and 63).

{{anchor:s34}}Congestive headache (34 to 39).

{{anchor:s35}}When stooping, sensation as if the blood accumulated in the brain (34 to 40).

{{anchor:s36}}Bursting headache when moving about (66).

{{anchor:s37}}Intense heat in head and face (47).

{{anchor:s38}}Pain in top of head, extending down to both ears (49).

{{anchor:s39}}Heaviness and beating in forehead after dinner (50 to 54).

{{anchor:s40}}Sense of oppressive fullness, pulsating as if forehead would burst (55 to 59).

{{anchor:s41}}Sensation as if the right temple were drawn so tight that it would snap; very painful (50).

{{anchor:s42}}30. Pimples on forehead, tip of nose, chin and temples (15 to 27).

{{anchor:s43}}Severe itching on scalp, worst on occiput (28 to 30).

{{anchor:s44}}Scalp and hair painful to touch (29 to 30).

{{anchor:s45}}Drawing pain in periosteum of forehead, in morning (30).

{{anchor:s46}}Pimples on scalp, burning, stinging, smarting and itching (35 to 59).

{{anchor:s47}}Severe itching on scalp, especially on occiput; eruption resembles that produced by using croton oil; very tender (38 to 50).

{{anchor:s48}}Pustular eruption on forehead, cheeks and chin (50 to 55).

{{anchor:s49}}Pimples on scalp, commencing on crown, and extending all over scalp and down back of neck and upper parts of shoulders; these somewhat resemble small-pox, having the shot-like feeling under the skin, the lymph-indentation and the maturating; the itching was intense, and the hair fell out very badly; my head and neck became one mass of oozing matter, having a very unpleasant odor, something like india-rubber, and sweetish, and very sticky. {{anchor:s50}}On 64th day I felt a crawling as if there were lice on it, but thought it only a sensation; in the afternoon it was so troublesome and real that I used a fine comb, and discovered over 50 very small lice; the smell and the idea of lice made me gag and vomit I washed my head twice a day, and had been doing so during the eruption, to subdue the heat and itching, so that it did not arise from want of cleanliness. {{anchor:s51}}I continued the washing and combing twice a day, but it was impossible to get rid of them as long as there were any new pimples breaking out; the last were on my neck and shoulders, and the lice seemed to crawl from them the same as from my head, I could pick them off (57 to end of proving).

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===== EYES. =====

{{anchor:s53}}Dimness of sight; and when making an effort to see, objects seem double (15 to 27).

{{anchor:s54}}Short sight (15 to 27).

{{anchor:s55}}40. Aversion to light (28 to 30).

{{anchor:s56}}Agglutination of lids in morning; copious lachrymation during day (10).

{{anchor:s57}}Pressure about lids on waking up; pressure in eyes, and intolerance of light on waking, and in evening when lying down (15 to 27).

{{anchor:s58}}Smarting in eyeballs, and itching of margins of lids; worse at night and very early in morning (32 to 40).

{{anchor:s59}}Eyelids adhere in morning, have to pick them open; when open, sensation of a deep, perpendicular gash in outer side of left eye, entering eye at junction of the cornea and sclerotic, with smarting and burning (41 to 44).

{{anchor:s60}}Feel as if the upper lids were too short transversely, can only open them half-way; heat and dull sore aching pain in upper back part of left eyeball; they feel very tired because I have to make such an effort to keep them open; my eyes are only half open all the time, and look and feel as if they had been strained, worse from movement (41 to end of proving);

{{anchor:s61}}Smarting of eyes, and stinging in margins of lids (55 to 57);

{{anchor:s62}}Smarting in eyes (57 to 58).

{{anchor:s63}}Have to sit down after dinner and sleep a few moments, otherwise eyes very painful and sore during remainder of day (15 to 27).

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===== EARS. =====

{{anchor:s65}}Indistinct hearing (50 to 53).

{{anchor:s66}}50. Intolerance of noise, particularly hearing people talk (15 to 27).

{{anchor:s67}}Right ear, which was deaf seven years ago, is painfully sensitive to noise; a strong sound was so painful to it, it made me tremble all over (15 to 27).

{{anchor:s68}}Sensation as if a bird were fluttering its wings close to left ear; later in the day, felt as if there were a large insect in the ear fluttering its wings (50).

{{anchor:s69}}Drawing feeling through the whole of both internal ears (50).

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===== NOSE. =====

{{anchor:s71}}Sneezing (28 30).

{{anchor:s72}}Frequent sneezing early in morning (11 to 15).

{{anchor:s73}}Half an hour after taking the second dose, profuse watery discharge from nose, and at noon, each day afterward, for about an hour (27 to 41).

{{anchor:s74}}Burning water runs out of nose, worse when stooping (37 to 41).

{{anchor:s75}}Stoppage at nose at night (37 to 41).

{{anchor:s76}}Scabs in nose in morning (37 to 41).

{{anchor:s77}}60. Pustules on nose (46 to 47).

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===== FACE. =====

{{anchor:s79}}Contraction of skin of face and forehead; sense of stretching in face, causing me constantly to rub eyes and face (15 to 27).

{{anchor:s80}}Tension of face, nose and lips, which are swollen early in morning (15 to 27).

{{anchor:s81}}Red cheeks; head, face and eyes feel so hot that it starts the tears (54).

{{anchor:s82}}Face very much swollen in morning; looks very pale; eyes dull, with dark circles round them; also little bags under eyes (65 to 71).

{{anchor:s83}}During day looked pale, but towards evening my face was very much flushed, with fever, lips blue, eyes dull and aching; aching of the whole body more intense than ever; my friends say I am going to have a fever (28 to 30).

{{anchor:s84}}Heat in face with red cheeks (34 to 40).

{{anchor:s85}}At 3 P. M., a tired feeling in face, particularly round eyes; “crows’ feet” around eyes; loss of control of facial muscles; they feel weak and contracted, as if they could not act; face lacks expression; deep lines in face: these symptoms last all the evening (35 to 40).

{{anchor:s86}}Sore on left side of lower lip, itching, stinging and burning, very painful; not a fever-sore, but is convex, hard and looks bluish (34 to 40).

{{anchor:s87}}Lips very much swollen, smart and sting, feel as if they would crack open when moved; upper lip so swollen that it is rolled up and nearly touches the nose (37 to 41).

{{anchor:s88}}70. Upper lip full of fine cracks, with deep cracks in corners of mouth (54 to 56).

{{anchor:s89}}Pain and swelling of sub-maxillary glands; they feel tense upon the mouth being opened or moved (15 to 27).

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===== TEETH. =====

{{anchor:s91}}The lower front teeth feel too long, and as if they were not my own, but of china; constant uneasy feeling in the teeth; am all the time inserting toothpicks between them, and pressing them apart; they feel lame and sore (13 to 19).

{{anchor:s92}}A sac, the size of a pea, formed above left upper first bicuspid, hung down on a peduncle, looking like flesh; on opening it, it bled freely and relieved toothache, which had been very bad all day (35).

{{anchor:s93}}Teeth feel too long and dull (37 to 40, and 55 to 60).

{{anchor:s94}}Stitching pain in molars when biting, must use incisors only (38 to 39).

{{anchor:s95}}When masticating, decayed second left lower bicuspid pains more (38, and 59 to 60).

{{anchor:s96}}Severe toothache (66).

{{anchor:s97}}Pinching pain, especially in molars, worse when masticating or touching the decayed teeth with the tongue (55 to 60).

{{anchor:s98}}Gums feel sore and tender, easily bleed (54 to 63).

{{anchor:s99}}Gums feel swollen, easily bleed (56 to 64).

{{anchor:s100}}Throbbing pain in gums and roof of mouth, worse from stooping (59).

{{anchor:s101}}Pressing the teeth together sends a shock through head, ears and nose (45 to 69).

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===== MOUTH. =====

{{anchor:s103}}Bad smell from mouth perceived by myself (15 to 27).

{{anchor:s104}}Acid taste in mouth, worse from drinking milk; milk becomes so offensive, I do not even want to see it (15 to 27).

{{anchor:s105}}Great dryness of mouth and throat, but no thirst (28 to 29).

{{anchor:s106}}Redness and inflammation of inner mouth and gullet; pain as if raw (33 to 35).

{{anchor:s107}}Sensation as if mouth were swollen, with great dryness and thirst (54).

{{anchor:s108}}Fever blisters on front part of roof of mouth; after breaking, leave a purple scar (55 to 60).

{{anchor:s109}}Evening and night, profuse saliva troubles me very much; when talking, it runs out of corners of mouth (54 to 56).

{{anchor:s110}}90. Have to spit often (52 to 59).

{{anchor:s111}}Vesicles on tongue at tip and edges, hindering eating and talking (38 to 46.)

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===== THROAT. =====

{{anchor:s113}}Great dryness of throat (37 to 41).

{{anchor:s114}}Sensation as if there were feathers in throat; lasting to end of proving (42).

{{anchor:s115}}Dryness and burning of throat, with strings of phlegm, which cause constant swallowing, but cannot break them up; they string down so long without breaking that they choke me; a very unpleasant taste to it (47 to 51).

{{anchor:s116}}Pain in throat as if right tonsil were swollen, painful to swallow (55 to 60).

{{anchor:s117}}Great dryness of throat and hoarseness; catarrh; dry cough, worse at night; sensation of a feather down in throat (59 to 61).

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===== STOMACH. =====

{{anchor:s119}}Unconquerable appetite for sugar (31 to 34, 36 to 40, 54 to 56).

{{anchor:s120}}Frequent sour eructations (15 to 27).

{{anchor:s121}}Nausea, vomiting a cup of cocoa I had forced down (28 to 30).

{{anchor:s122}}100. Complete loss of appetite, cannot get the food down; feel very weak, cannot sit up, obliged to leave the table and lie down (28 to 30).

{{anchor:s123}}No appetite, except for cold food (42 to 46).

{{anchor:s124}}°Before taking //amm.// //carb//., I could not eat white bread, or if I did, I would not digest it, but would vomit it; during the proving I could eat it, and can do so now, after the proving, without any bad effect.

{{anchor:s125}}Stomach feels full and trembling (15 to 27).

{{anchor:s126}}Uneasiness in stomach, with pressure in stomach and forehead, worse after eating (15 to 27).

{{anchor:s127}}Painfulness of stomach when pressed upon; the clothes press upon it (15 to 27).

{{anchor:s128}}Oppressive weight at stomach-pit (15 to 27).

{{anchor:s129}}Pinching and rumbling in stomach-pit (15 to 27).

{{anchor:s130}}Heat of stomach which extends to bowels, as from drinking strong wine (15 to 27).

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===== ABDOMEN. =====

{{anchor:s132}}Weight in abdomen (15 to 27).

{{anchor:s133}}110. Weight of abdomen; distension of abdomen; rumbling and shifting of flatulence in abdomen; griping with a great deal of flatulence in abdomen; emission of a great deal of flatulence in afternoon, evening and night, causing a tender pain (9 to 16).

{{anchor:s134}}Painful concussion in lower part of abdomen when stepping; felt as if all the internal organs were loose and very sore (11 to 15).

{{anchor:s135}}Pressure upon a spot as large as a quarter dollar, an inch above and to left of umbilicus, as if there were a hard substance there, and as if the tissues around it were bound down by it; every movement causes a pulling sensation from that spot; very tender pain (14 to 22).

{{anchor:s136}}Sudden painful contraction of bowels as far as region of stomach (15 to 27).

{{anchor:s137}}Contracting, pinching pain in abdomen, very severe; first the upper then the lower part (15 to 27).

{{anchor:s138}}Violent pinching, contraction and rumbling in abdomen (15 to 27).

{{anchor:s139}}Crampy feeling and sense of obstruction in abdomen (15 to 27).

{{anchor:s140}}Tender smarting pain an inch above and to left of navel, worse from pressure and movement (39 to 50).

{{anchor:s141}}Drawing together in left lower bowels (45 to 53).

{{anchor:s142}}Stitches in right hypochondrium (45 to 47): ditto, worse from movement (14 to 16).

{{anchor:s143}}120. Eruption on abdomen, very thick and red (31 to 52).

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===== STOOL AND RECTUM. =====

{{anchor:s145}}Constipation; hard balls, hard to press out (6 to 9; 36 to 40).

{{anchor:s146}}Four loose passages every day (41 to 45).

{{anchor:s147}}Diarrhoea, with colic low down in abdomen, early in morning and tenesmus. {{anchor:s148}}During the day, diarrhoea with cutting in abdomen; evacuations with constant tenesmus during stool, and remaining half an hour after stool; the tenesmus is felt only in upper back part of rectum (14 to 20).

{{anchor:s149}}Deep cracks in perineum, very painful when urinating, defecating, or when wet (55 to 60).

{{anchor:s150}}Itching of anus (14 to 18)

{{anchor:s151}}Tenderness of upper back part of rectum (41 to 60).

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===== URINE. =====

{{anchor:s153}}Violent pressure of urine upon bladder, with cutting and constant urging even at night, with diminished emission of urine, accompanied with burning (15 to 27).

{{anchor:s154}}Obliged to rise four times every night to urinate; frequent micturition during day, light colored and profuse, foams very much, the foam remaining on it when the vessel is emptied; on testing, find it loaded with albumen; some days a whitish sediment in urine; pressure on bladder with cutting pains (43 to end of proving).

{{anchor:s155}}Roused from sleep with urgent desire to urinate (15 to 27).

{{anchor:s156}}130. Urine very light yellow, frequent, increased in quantity, leaving a pinkish sediment, which adheres to the vessel (15 to 27).

{{anchor:s157}}Urine very scanty and dark, causing burning when passing it (31 to 34).

{{anchor:s158}}Urine scanty, thick and dark (62 to 64).

{{anchor:s159}}Urine dark, thick, scanty and frequent (4 to 7).

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===== SEXUAL ORGANS. =====

{{anchor:s161}}°Swelling and pain in breasts before menses, were removed by the proving.

{{anchor:s162}}°Used to suffer very much during menses; this has ceased since the proving, but I have congestive headache, instead.

{{anchor:s163}}Congestive and menstrual headache, with pinching pain in centre of abdomen (55).

{{anchor:s164}}Quick darting and cutting pain in uterus, from below upwards, lasting all day, worse from movement (33).

{{anchor:s165}}Severe cutting pain in left ovary, darting down to groin (47).

{{anchor:s166}}Aching tensive pain in left ovary, extending to left groin and left thigh; worse from movement (66, 67).

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===== CHEST. =====

{{anchor:s168}}140. Sound of cracking in chest (48 to 53).

{{anchor:s169}}Contraction in middle of chest, either when taking a long breath or from natural breathing; the place aches when pressing upon it, as after a blow (15 to 27).

{{anchor:s170}}Tickling in throat and bronchial tubes, as if filled with dust, worse from taking a long breath (37 to 41).

{{anchor:s171}}Stitches in right side of chest, when stooping, walking or rising in bed (48 to 52).

{{anchor:s172}}On taking a long breath, the whole chest and lungs feel weak and bruised, very painful; makes me give a dry, hacking cough, which causes a pain through to back between shoulders, and a smarting, raw sensation in bronchial tubes; lungs feel so weak all the time, it tires me to talk; get out of breath when talking, breathing short all the time (65 to 70).

{{anchor:s173}}Talking difficult at times, like as from weakness of the parts (48 to 52).

{{anchor:s174}}Shortness of breath and palpitation from the slightest movement; even rousing up in bed produces it (28).

{{anchor:s175}}Difficult breathing, causing short, dry cough (30 to 36).

{{anchor:s176}}Cough, short, asthmatic, from irritation in larynx, with painful sensation of spasmodic contraction of chest (51, 52).

{{anchor:s177}}Cough, with asthma; evening in bed (59).

{{anchor:s178}}150. Two or three little coughs early in morning, and coughed up a large piece of firm, yellow phlegm, tasting sweet, and remaining in form after spitting it out (35 to 65).

{{anchor:s179}}At 11.30 A. M., when out walking, felt as if blood passed into heart but did not pass out; the heart felt so full as if it would burst; severe tensive pain in heart, felt as if the muscles of heart tried to act, but were so rigid that they could not; very numb all over; lips looked blue, with white margins for about an inch around them; face pale; eyes looked dull; head feels anaemic; in about fifteen minutes a severe pain in back of throat; inclination to swallow, but when trying, the muscles seem rigid and refuse to act; the pain gradually extends down the oesophagus to stomach; breathing all the time very short and difficult; all the muscles of respiration seem rigid, causing a tensive pain when using them ; the pain extends to stomach and liver, and after about ten minutes, subsides in throat and stomach, but not in heart, which grew worse. {{anchor:s180}}I could not walk or stand, I staggered so; anaemia in head worse; numb all over and cold; looked and felt very ill; in about half an hour the pains extended from liver to between scapulae, making breathing even more difficult; from scapulae to teeth, all aching at the same time; then passed to right ear. {{anchor:s181}}Desire to take a long breath, but cannot; panting breathing; cannot lie down. {{anchor:s182}}These pains lasted till 2.{{anchor:s183}}30 P. M., then became less, and I commenced yawning and stretching; look pale, and face and eyes have not the slightest expression; eyelids heavy and droop; feel weak and lifeless; yawning, stretching, numbness and drawing in muscles continue till late in evening. {{anchor:s184}}When the heart commences to contract better, there is a sensation as if blood were swashing in brain in top part of head; during these symptoms, I look and feel very sick. {{anchor:s185}}Had these symptoms every day till end of proving, growing more severe (40).

{{anchor:s186}}Palpitation of heart (66).

{{anchor:s187}}A severe, throbbing, cutting pain in apex of heart (40).

{{anchor:s188}}Palpitation of heart, very violent (60 to 65).

{{anchor:s189}}Awake in night with a dull, heavy pain in heart, passing from apex to base; must sit up; feel as if heart had stopped beating (61 to 64).

{{anchor:s190}}Small pimple on sternum, which, when touched, feels as if there were a splinter in it (37 to 40).

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===== BACK. =====

{{anchor:s192}}Pain in small of back, increased by motion and walking; also, when stooping; sensation as if the muscles were not strong enough to support the body, which constantly threatens to fall forward (15 to 27).

{{anchor:s193}}Bruised feeling in small of back (15 to 27).

{{anchor:s194}}Drawing pain in small of back, extending into legs and loins, when at rest (15 to 27).

{{anchor:s195}}160. Gnawing pain in small of back (15 to 27; 62 to 72).

{{anchor:s196}}Violent pain in small of back, with great coldness (37).

{{anchor:s197}}Aching pain in kidneys; makes me feel weak and sick all over; eyes look dull, sight is indistinct, eyeballs smart and itch (64 to 66).

{{anchor:s198}}Pain between scapulae (38 to 46).

{{anchor:s199}}Pain in back and loins, worse from rest, relieved by lying on abdomen (30 to 49).

{{anchor:s200}}Pressure in back (15 to 27).

{{anchor:s201}}Drawing all along back, beginning at nape, causing stiffness when turning head and severe drawing in nape (15 to 27).

{{anchor:s202}}Enlarged gland back of neck, just at edge of hair, very painful indeed (64 to 72).

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===== UPPER EXTREMITIES. =====

{{anchor:s204}}Burning, stinging and redness of a wart on back of left hand near wrist; constantly picking at it until I picked it off; it did not bleed and has not returned (2 to 5).

{{anchor:s205}}Hands look blue, and veins distended after washing in cold water (50 to 56).

{{anchor:s206}}170. Fingers go to sleep (57 to 60).

{{anchor:s207}}Drawing pain and cramp in right upper arm and shoulder, drawing arms backward, cannot bring it forward; numbness extends down arm to hand; lose all power in it; cannot hold anything, drop everything I may have in my hand; restless, want to move arm constantly; worse from hanging arms down; better from holding arm up, with elbow bent; usually comes on from noon to 3 P. M.; always while walking (3 to 21; also, much more severely 34 to 40).

{{anchor:s208}}Tearing in shoulders (15 to 27).

{{anchor:s209}}Tearing in left shoulder, extending to chest, very marked (15 to 27).

{{anchor:s210}}Pain, as if bruised, in left shoulder, when at rest (15 to 27).

{{anchor:s211}}Lameness and drawing in left arm from axilla to wrist (15 to 27).

{{anchor:s212}}Right arm feels as if it weighed a hundred-weight, and is without strength (15 to 27).

{{anchor:s213}}Weight and lameness in right arm; have no power in it; must let it hang (37).

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===== LOWER EXTREMITIES. =====

{{anchor:s215}}Ball of left great toe feels hot and bruised; worse in morning (32 to 40).

{{anchor:s216}}Sensation as if left great toe and two adjoining toes unjointed when rising from a chair and trying to walk; sometimes so painful as to start the tears; sometimes lasting about an hour, at others only a few minutes (18 to 20).

{{anchor:s217}}180. Ball of left great toe painful and hot, felt when walking on it as if I were stepping on a sharp knife (19, 20).

{{anchor:s218}}Tearing in ankles and bones of feet, ceasing when warm in bed (37 to 59).

{{anchor:s219}}Pain in outer side of left lower leg, restless, but worse from movement; feel as if the muscular part had grown together, without any movement of the fibres on each other; when trying to move leg, can feel the pulling on periosteum as if it would be torn from the bone; if I continue to try to move it, the muscles will not yield, and there is a burning, smarting, gnawing pain in periosteum (9 to 14).

{{anchor:s220}}Severe cutting drawing pain in inner side of right knee, in periosteum; makes me cry out; cannot move it; lasting about 20 minutes (11).

{{anchor:s221}}Boring and drawing pain in knees (46 to 51).

{{anchor:s222}}Great lassitude of thighs and legs (15 to 27).

{{anchor:s223}}Sense of scraping upon bones of thighs and legs at intervals (15 to 27).

{{anchor:s224}}Sudden and great weakness in lower limbs (15 to 27).

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===== GENERALITIES. =====

{{anchor:s226}}Constant stretching of arms, legs and feet (15 to 27).

{{anchor:s227}}All my limbs pain me at night, with gnawing pain in small of back; have to turn myself slowly in bed, because motion gives me pain (15 to 27).

{{anchor:s228}}190. Cracking in joints when walking (15 to 27).

{{anchor:s229}}Hands and feet go to sleep when sitting (15 to 27).

{{anchor:s230}}Great exhaustion and aching soreness over whole body (28).

{{anchor:s231}}Heaviness of all internal organs (29, 30).

{{anchor:s232}}Feel as if I were going to have a severe illness; cannot sit up, and look very ill (29, 30).

{{anchor:s233}}Feel as if I were rigid all over; a set feeling in eyes; heavy, dull ache in head; seem as if I would lose myself in a stupor; stop talking and sit with closed hands in a tight grip; do not answer patients; with a great effort, got up and walked across the room; felt somewhat relieved, but the feeling remained all the afternoon (54).

{{anchor:s234}}Ebullition of blood at night—seems as if the heart and veins would burst (55 to 60).

{{anchor:s235}}Very sensitive to cold air out of doors (62 to 66).

{{anchor:s236}}°Since an illness six years ago, the muscles and tissues have seemed to be so bound together, not moving freely on each other as they used to; could not lie on back, there seemed to be such a tightness of the flesh from chest to abdomen; can now lie on back with ease, and the muscles of body seem to act freely and naturally; can walk with much greater ease since taking the //Amm. Carb.//

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===== SLEEP. =====

{{anchor:s238}}Light sleep at night; every little noise wakes me (15 to 27).

{{anchor:s239}}200. Could not sleep at all during night nor next day (28 to 30).

{{anchor:s240}}Restless, unrefreshing sleep, tossing about (39 to 53).

{{anchor:s241}}Dreams vivid; dream of having nose-bleed (37 to 54; 57 to 59).

{{anchor:s242}}Dreams vivid, lewd and full of danger (41).

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===== FEVER. =====

{{anchor:s244}}High fever, great internal heat; feel as if I were burning and drying up internally, in body, legs and arms (28 to 31). {{anchor:s245}}Continuous night-sweat (68).

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===== SKIN. =====

{{anchor:s247}}In afternoon, body bright-red like scarlatina; the redness remained for nine days (29).

{{anchor:s248}}Violent itching; after scratching, burning blisters appear (52 to 58).

{{anchor:s249}}Thick dead cuticle peels off from back of ears, groin and between toes (52 to 62).

{{anchor:s250}}Itching and stinging of skin keeps me awake (64 to 72).

{{anchor:s251}}Much general itching of whole body during entire proving.

{{anchor:s252}}Red rash on chest, very thick and burning, (32 to 39.)

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^ Source: | The Homoeopathic Physician Vol. 01 No. 07, 1881, pages 292-305 |
^ Description: | Proving of Ammonium carbonicum |
^ Remedies: | Ammonium carbonicum |
^ Author: | Rendell, L. |
^ Year: | 1881 |
^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting |
^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |