====== AURUM METALLICUM ====== {{anchor:s1}}Aurum Metallicum. {{anchor:s2}}Gold. Au., the element. {{anchor:s3}}Gold, the common metal, proved and introduced by Hahnemann in 1818, in Materia Medica, vol. iv (95 and 138); 2d ed., 1825 (151 and 201); in Chronic Diseases, 2d edition, 1835, 404 symptoms. {{anchor:s4}}The last proving was made by J. C. Burnett, in 1879. {{anchor:s5}}No preparation ought to be used except such as has been made from the precipitate. ====== MIND. [1] ====== {{anchor:s7}}Active memory.\\ {{anchor:s8}}Weak memory. {{anchor:s9}}~ Puerperal mania. {{anchor:s10}}~ Neuralgia of face.\\ {{anchor:s11}}Loss of memory.\\ {{anchor:s12}}Absence of mind, forgetfullness. {{anchor:s13}}~ Ozaena.\\ {{anchor:s14}}Mental dullness; feels stupid. {{anchor:s15}}See 35.\\ {{anchor:s16}}Inability to reflect.\\ {{anchor:s17}}She thinks she feels depression of spirits in chest. {{anchor:s18}}~ Induration of uterus.\\ {{anchor:s19}}Looks on dark side, weeps, prays, thinks she is not fit for this world, longs for death, strong inclination to commit suicide; desperate, desires to jump from a height. {{anchor:s20}}~ Prolapsus or induration of uterus. {{anchor:s21}}~ Pregnancy.\\ {{anchor:s22}}Imagines he is neglectful and deserves reproach in consequence.\\ {{anchor:s23}}Imagines he cannot succeed in anything, and he does everything wrong; he is in disunion with himself.\\ {{anchor:s24}}Imagines to see obstacles in his way everywhere, occasioned partly by contrary fate, partly by himself; makes him feel desponding.\\ {{anchor:s25}}Thinking of death gives him intense joy.\\ {{anchor:s26}}He imagines he has lost the affection of his friends; this makes him sad even to tears.\\ {{anchor:s27}}Inclined to be delirious. {{anchor:s28}}~ Headache.\\ {{anchor:s29}}Violent, gay, loquacious delirium, with exaltation of strength. {{anchor:s30}}~ Typhus.\\ {{anchor:s31}}Insanity more frequent than imbecility.\\ {{anchor:s32}}Suicidal mania or melancholia, tedium vitae, with genital symptoms.\\ {{anchor:s33}}Religious mania; prays all the time.\\ {{anchor:s34}}Desire to be active, to move about.\\ {{anchor:s35}}Longing for death.\\ {{anchor:s36}}Mind constantly turns towards suicide. {{anchor:s37}}~ Prolapsus uteri. {{anchor:s38}}~ Childbed. {{anchor:s39}}~ Amenorrhea.\\ {{anchor:s40}}Disposition to commit suicide. {{anchor:s41}}~ Chronic hepatitis. {{anchor:s42}}~ Headache.\\ {{anchor:s43}}Hysterical mood, laughing one minute and crying next.\\ {{anchor:s44}}Constant complaining. {{anchor:s45}}~ Adiposis.\\ {{anchor:s46}}Inclined to weep.\\ {{anchor:s47}}Weeping and praying. {{anchor:s48}}~ Melancholy.\\ {{anchor:s49}}She howls and screams and imagines herself irretrievably lost.\\ {{anchor:s50}}Sudden screaming from earache. {{anchor:s51}}~ Ozaena.\\ {{anchor:s52}}Uneasy, hurried, desire for mental and bodily activity; cannot do things fast enough.\\ {{anchor:s53}}Taciturnity.\\ {{anchor:s54}}Desire for solitude.\\ {{anchor:s55}}Mood changing, cheerful or despondent; irritable; no unconsciousness.\\ {{anchor:s56}}Remarkable changeability of mind, now impulsive, rash, now very merry, now sad, anxious longing to die, soon after laughing aloud. {{anchor:s57}}~ Hysteria.\\ {{anchor:s58}}Lachrymose mood. {{anchor:s59}}~ Heart disease.\\ {{anchor:s60}}Very sad, could cry all the time. {{anchor:s61}}~ Hemiopia.\\ {{anchor:s62}}Melancholy, disposed to weep; imagines he is unfit for this world, that he never can succeed.\\ {{anchor:s63}}Melancholy, feels hateful and quarrelsome; anxious palpitation and desire to commit suicide.\\ {{anchor:s64}}Great depression of spirits, accompanied by sterility.\\ {{anchor:s65}}Great depression of spirits. {{anchor:s66}}~ Old age.\\ {{anchor:s67}}Melancholic mood, disposed to shun people; if meeting some one it gives him a nervous trembling and has to weep.\\ {{anchor:s68}}All the time a dark, hopeless mood, frequently anxiety and despair; life is a burden to him.\\ {{anchor:s69}}Terrible melancholy after abuse of mercury; patient pining away on account of bodily and mental anxiety.\\ {{anchor:s70}}Is very unhappy; continued thought of suicide. {{anchor:s71}}~ Puerperal mania.\\ {{anchor:s72}}Hopelessness.\\ {{anchor:s73}}Hopeless and despondent. {{anchor:s74}}~ Headache.\\ {{anchor:s75}}Hypochondriasis, with longing for death.\\ {{anchor:s76}}A kind of hypochondriacal drunkenness; the head feels full of compressed air, especially towards nape of neck.\\ {{anchor:s77}}Apprehensiveness, full of fear; a mere noise at door makes him anxious.\\ {{anchor:s78}}Fearfullness, a longing for death. {{anchor:s79}}~ Hyperemia of brain.\\ {{anchor:s80}}Dread of men.\\ {{anchor:s81}}Anxiety and dread. {{anchor:s82}}~ Valvular heart disease.\\ {{anchor:s83}}Anguish of mind and great grief. {{anchor:s84}}~ Headache.\\ {{anchor:s85}}Great anguish increasing unto self-destruction, with spasmodic contraction of abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s86}}Frequent attacks of anguish about heart, with trembling fearfullness.\\ {{anchor:s87}}Excessive anguish with palpitation of heart, weariness in all limbs and sleepiness.\\ {{anchor:s88}}Great anguish coming from precordial region, and driving him from place to place, so that he can remain nowhere.\\ {{anchor:s89}}Despondency.\\ {{anchor:s90}}Despair of self and others.\\ {{anchor:s91}}Weary of life; especially in evening, with longing for death.\\ {{anchor:s92}}Disappointed love, with weeping and inclination to commit suicide.\\ {{anchor:s93}}Has no confidence in herself, thinks others have none; this makes her unhappy.\\ {{anchor:s94}}Extreme disposition to be offended; he was extremely affected and provoked by least circumstances which had the appearance of hurting his feelings.\\ {{anchor:s95}}Choleric and quarrelsome.\\ {{anchor:s96}}Disposed to grumble and quarrel. {{anchor:s97}}~ Headache.\\ {{anchor:s98}}Quarrelsome disposition when displeased. {{anchor:s99}}~ Prolapsus uteri. {{anchor:s100}}~ Amenorrhea.\\ {{anchor:s101}}Alternately peevish and cheerful.\\ {{anchor:s102}}Whining mood. {{anchor:s103}}~ Obesity.\\ {{anchor:s104}}Peevish and vehement, least contradiction excites his wrath; he trembles when he cannot satisfy his anger.\\ {{anchor:s105}}Suffers constant vexation and torment. {{anchor:s106}}~ Jaundice.\\ {{anchor:s107}}Becomes angry at absent persons while thinking of them.\\ {{anchor:s108}}Chagrin, violent anger and vehemence.\\ {{anchor:s109}}Vehement and disposed to fly into a passion. {{anchor:s110}}~ Headache.\\ {{anchor:s111}}Contradiction excites wrath; distrust.\\ {{anchor:s112}}Very sensitive, easily frightened, especially when falling asleep. {{anchor:s113}}~ Hysteria.\\ {{anchor:s114}}Prostration of soul and body.\\ {{anchor:s115}}Worse from mental exertion; better from entertainment.\\ {{anchor:s116}}Mental labor fatigues; headache from least mental exertion.\\ {{anchor:s117}}Feels weary and exhausted from performing mental labor.\\ {{anchor:s118}}Worse after emotion. {{anchor:s119}}~ Palpitation.\\ {{anchor:s120}}Ailments from grief, disappointed love.\\ {{anchor:s121}}Ailments from fright, anger, contradiction, mortification, or vexation with dread, fear, reserved displeasure, or vehemence.\\ {{anchor:s122}}Pain makes her desperate so that she would like to jump out of window, or dash herself down. {{anchor:s123}}~ Parturition. ====== SENSORIUM. [2] ====== {{anchor:s125}}Vertigo. {{anchor:s126}}~ Syphilis.\\ {{anchor:s127}}Head giddy, full, hot. {{anchor:s128}}~ Melancholy.\\ {{anchor:s129}}Vertigo: when stooping, as if turning in a circle; goes off on rising; as if drunk, when walking in open air; feels as if he would fall to left side; must lie down, even then for some time it returns on slightest motion.\\ {{anchor:s130}}Feels stupid, a dazed feeling in head. {{anchor:s131}}~ Chronic hepatitis. ====== INNER HEAD. [3] ====== {{anchor:s133}}Congestion of blood to head.\\ {{anchor:s134}}Rushes of blood to head with violent palpitation, great anxiety and fainting.\\ {{anchor:s135}}Uncomfortable feeling in forehead.\\ {{anchor:s136}}Violent pain in left forehead and eye. {{anchor:s137}}~ Melancholy.\\ {{anchor:s138}}Pressure in left temple, agg. on being touched.\\ {{anchor:s139}}Severe frontal headache. {{anchor:s140}}~ Coryza.\\ {{anchor:s141}}Heat of head with cold hands and feet.\\ {{anchor:s142}}Rush of blood to head with tumult and waving of head.\\ {{anchor:s143}}Tearing headache deep in brain, in forehead, temples and vertex, abating in open air.\\ {{anchor:s144}}Rush of blood to head; sparks before eyes, and glossy, bloated face; agg. from mental exertion.\\ {{anchor:s145}}Bruised pain, especially early in morning or during mental labor, ideas become confused; roaring in head.\\ {{anchor:s146}}Megrim, stitching burning pains, beating in one side of forehead; nausea, even bilious vomiting.\\ {{anchor:s147}}Fine tearing from right side of occiput through brain to forehead; agg. during motion.\\ {{anchor:s148}}One-sided boring, severe throbbing; begins on awaking mornings.\\ {{anchor:s149}}Tearing in head, teeth and ears; agg. left side. {{anchor:s150}}~ Heart disease.\\ {{anchor:s151}}Headache as from incipient cold.\\ {{anchor:s152}}Sensation as if a current of air was rushing through head, if not kept warm. ====== OUTER HEAD. [4] ====== {{anchor:s154}}Pricking as from pins in forehead externally.\\ {{anchor:s155}}Boring in left side of frontal bone.\\ {{anchor:s156}}Pressive pains in left temple externally.\\ {{anchor:s157}}Pains in bones of head on lying down, affecting vital energy.\\ {{anchor:s158}}Pains in bones of skull, morning in bed.\\ {{anchor:s159}}Syphilitic exostoses on skull.\\ {{anchor:s160}}Skull bones painful, as if broken; agg. lying down.\\ {{anchor:s161}}Severe, constant burning heat on top of head.\\ {{anchor:s162}}Exostoses on skull; boring pains; agg. from touch.\\ {{anchor:s163}}Caries of mastoid process.\\ {{anchor:s164}}Tinea capitis.\\ {{anchor:s165}}Eruption of small white pimples all over hairy scalp, with heat and itching.\\ {{anchor:s166}}Portions of frontal bone had exfoliated. {{anchor:s167}}~ Syphilis with mercurialization.\\ {{anchor:s168}}Falling out of hair, especially in syphilis. ====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ====== {{anchor:s170}}Photophobia, profuse scalding tears on opening eyes; eyes very sensitive to touch.\\ {{anchor:s171}}Photophobia; lids cannot be even forcibly opened.\\ {{anchor:s172}}Weak sight and eyes.\\ {{anchor:s173}}Vision 5/200, after Aurum C2 5/80, and in eight weeks more, 5/60. {{anchor:s174}}~ Tumor in eye.\\ {{anchor:s175}}By gaslight, a number of bright, floating specks and dots are seen.\\ {{anchor:s176}}Eyes amel. by moonlight, and after active muscular exercise.\\ {{anchor:s177}}Objects seem smaller and more distant. {{anchor:s178}}~ Hemiopia.\\ {{anchor:s179}}Sees a little better on looking intensely and steadily on an object, though he sees no trace of upper half of it.\\ {{anchor:s180}}Large letters cannot be distinguished, seem only something black upon a white ground.\\ {{anchor:s181}}Yellow, crescent-shaped bodies floating obliquely upward in field of vision.\\ {{anchor:s182}}Fiery sparks before eyes; optical illusions in bright colors.\\ {{anchor:s183}}Everything looks blue.\\ {{anchor:s184}}Color of optic nerve-entrances of a greenish hue, except round periphery, which was yellowish-white, with a slight trace of pigmentary deposit on lower outer edge of optic disc in left eye.\\ {{anchor:s185}}Fog or smoke before his eyes, to this, at a later period, black spots were added, and for the last few weeks he can only see upper half of objects, their lower half seems to be covered by a black veil. {{anchor:s186}}~ Hemiopia.\\ {{anchor:s187}}Black spots floating before eyes. {{anchor:s188}}~ Hemiopia.\\ {{anchor:s189}}Tension in eyes; sees things double or mixed up.\\ {{anchor:s190}}Objects as if divided horizontally; sees only half of an object, other half as if covered with a dark body.\\ {{anchor:s191}}In upper dark section of field of vision occasional showers of bright, starlike bodies, lower half looks lighter, and he can distinguish color, light or dark.\\ {{anchor:s192}}Hemiopia of left eye.\\ {{anchor:s193}}Could not see upper half of a room or any large object, though lower half was clear, with left eye.\\ {{anchor:s194}}Hemiopia from straining eyes.\\ {{anchor:s195}}Strong pressure from within outward and from above downward in both eyeballs, accompanied by dull, heavy aching deep in both globes.\\ {{anchor:s196}}Pressing in eyes as from acrid dust. {{anchor:s197}}~ Hysteria.\\ {{anchor:s198}}Cutting pain through eyes.\\ {{anchor:s199}}Pains in eyes amel. by blowing nose.\\ {{anchor:s200}}On using eyes, sensation of violent heat in them.\\ {{anchor:s201}}Central portion of retinal vessels strongly pulsating.\\ {{anchor:s202}}Chorio-retinitis chronica, with an accumulation of fluid beneath retina, which settled to lower portion of left eye, causing a large detachment of retina. {{anchor:s203}}~ Hemiopia.\\ {{anchor:s204}}Large black subchoroidal tumor behind lens in fundus, growing from inner side.\\ {{anchor:s205}}Iris blackish-brown mixed with blood red, in place of pupil and encroaching upon iris a nodular new growth of a mixed black and red color, filling whole anterior chamber, without, however, displacing cornea, on which formed a vesicle discharging fluid; sclerotica sprinkled with blackish spots; conjunctiva pale red and swollen; slight lachrymation; pressing and slight burning in and about eye; later drawing in surrounding bones. {{anchor:s206}}~ Melanotic tumor.\\ {{anchor:s207}}Vitreous hazy from infiltration. {{anchor:s208}}~ Hemiopia.\\ {{anchor:s209}}Anterior chamber contracted.\\ {{anchor:s210}}Protruding eyes. {{anchor:s211}}~ Headache.\\ {{anchor:s212}}Staring, dreary look. {{anchor:s213}}~ Melancholy.\\ {{anchor:s214}}On pressure eyeball more tense and firm than usual.\\ {{anchor:s215}}Interstitial keratitis and kerato-iritis, even in atonic cases, with infiltrated cornea and fine interstitial vascularity.\\ {{anchor:s216}}Cornea opaque; leukoma; gray or yellow spots, always marked by a surrounding network of enlarged bloodvessels; after keratitis, syphilitic or scrofulous cases.\\ {{anchor:s217}}Iritis marked by much pain around eye, which seems to be deep in bone, extends from without inward, and is aggravated by touch. {{anchor:s218}}~ Mercurio-syphilis.\\ {{anchor:s219}}Pupils generally contracted.\\ {{anchor:s220}}Amaurosis.\\ {{anchor:s221}}Pupils irregularly dilated; cornea dull, with loss of usual lustre.\\ {{anchor:s222}}Macula corneae.\\ {{anchor:s223}}Red sclerotica; burning, stitching, drawing and itching at inner canthus.\\ {{anchor:s224}}Scrofulous ophthalmia, with great photophobia.\\ {{anchor:s225}}Twitching in upper lid. {{anchor:s226}}~ Hemiopia.\\ {{anchor:s227}}Pains of a burning or dull character, compelling one to close lids; agg. in morning and amel. by application of cold water. {{anchor:s228}}~ Trachoma.\\ {{anchor:s229}}Eyelids red, suppurating; stinging, pricking, itching; agglutination in morning; cilia fall out. {{anchor:s230}}~ Mercurio-syphilis.\\ {{anchor:s231}}Pannus, with ulceration of cornea; pains from without in; agg. from pressure.\\ {{anchor:s232}}Large bony tumor on left eye, with boring, aching pains, agg. at night.\\ {{anchor:s233}}Little blisters turning into crusts on edges of lids, with some trichiasis.\\ {{anchor:s234}}Bones around eye feel bruised.\\ {{anchor:s235}}Styes on eyelids. ====== HEARING AND EARS. [6] ====== {{anchor:s237}}Humming, buzzing and rushing in ears. {{anchor:s238}}~ Hysteria.\\ {{anchor:s239}}Roaring in ears. {{anchor:s240}}~ Cerebral hyperemia.\\ {{anchor:s241}}Oversensitive to noises; but music relieves.\\ {{anchor:s242}}Annoying dryness in ears and nose, with difficult hearing.\\ {{anchor:s243}}Caries of mastoid process; obstinate otorrhea; burning, pricking, itching; boring pain behind left ear.\\ {{anchor:s244}}Congestion to ears.\\ {{anchor:s245}}Fetid otorrhea; especially with caries of ossicula. {{anchor:s246}}~ After scarlatina.\\ {{anchor:s247}}Parotids swollen, painful to touch, as if pressed or contused. ====== SMELL AND NOSE. [7] ====== {{anchor:s249}}Nosebleed.\\ {{anchor:s250}}Excessively fetid discharge from nose. {{anchor:s251}}~ Ozaena.\\ {{anchor:s252}}Scrofulous and syphilitic affections of bones of nose and face.\\ {{anchor:s253}}Caries of bones of nose and palate.\\ {{anchor:s254}}Complaints caused by strong odors.\\ {{anchor:s255}}Sensitive smell; everything smells too strong.\\ {{anchor:s256}}Putrid smell when blowing the nose.\\ {{anchor:s257}}Want of smell.\\ {{anchor:s258}}Pain in nasal bones.\\ {{anchor:s259}}Boring pain in nasal bones. {{anchor:s260}}~ Ozaena.\\ {{anchor:s261}}Nasal catarrh, with melancholy, or even suicidal mood.\\ {{anchor:s262}}Ulcerated, agglutinated, painful nostrils, cannot breathe through nose.\\ {{anchor:s263}}Crusts in nose. {{anchor:s264}}~ Ozaena.\\ {{anchor:s265}}Nose feels obstructed, as in dry coryza, yet air passes through freely.\\ {{anchor:s266}}Ozaena, excessively fetid discharge; severe frontal headache. {{anchor:s267}}~ Scrofula. {{anchor:s268}}~ Mercurio-syphilis.\\ {{anchor:s269}}Coryza, thick discharge, like white of egg; frequent sneezing.\\ {{anchor:s270}}Caries of nasal bones; right nasal bone and adjoining parts of upper jaw painful to touch.\\ {{anchor:s271}}Nose sunken in. {{anchor:s272}}~ Caries of nose.\\ {{anchor:s273}}Boring in left side of nasal bone, towards maxilla.\\ {{anchor:s274}}Burning, itching, stitching, smarting; feeling of soreness in nose, especially when touched.\\ {{anchor:s275}}Mucous discharge from posterior nares in morning.\\ {{anchor:s276}}Brown red spots on nose; nostrils chapped.\\ {{anchor:s277}}Yellow, thick discharge from nose, or dry, firm pieces are blown out, always of an offensive odor.\\ {{anchor:s278}}Tip of nose "knobby," red.\\ {{anchor:s279}}Nose red, swollen. {{anchor:s280}}~ Scrofula. {{anchor:s281}}~ Abuse of mercury.\\ {{anchor:s282}}Swelling of nose, like erysipelas.\\ {{anchor:s283}}Swelling of nose in room, after walking in open air.\\ {{anchor:s284}}Eruptions on nose.\\ {{anchor:s285}}Cancer of nose. ====== UPPER FACE. [8] ====== {{anchor:s287}}Puffy under eyes. {{anchor:s288}}~ Endocarditis.\\ {{anchor:s289}}In groove between nose and cheek a cutaneous lump of size of a split pea, which irritates, gets picked, scabs over, and persists.\\ {{anchor:s290}}Anxious expression of face. {{anchor:s291}}~ Endocarditis.\\ {{anchor:s292}}Feels ill, and looks pale.\\ {{anchor:s293}}Heat only in face.\\ {{anchor:s294}}Face pale. {{anchor:s295}}~ Valvular disease of heart.\\ {{anchor:s296}}Blue about nose and lips. {{anchor:s297}}~ Typhus.\\ {{anchor:s298}}Face cyanotic. {{anchor:s299}}~ Asthma.\\ {{anchor:s300}}Face glowing red. {{anchor:s301}}~ Headache.\\ {{anchor:s302}}Face bloated, glossy; worse from mental exertion.\\ {{anchor:s303}}Swelling of one cheek, with drawing and tearing in upper and lower jaws; teeth feel too long; swelling of both cheeks.\\ {{anchor:s304}}Erysipelas of face.\\ {{anchor:s305}}Acute cutting, stinging and tearing, now in nerves of left side of head, now of teeth, coming and going, preventing sleep.\\ {{anchor:s306}}Inflammation of bones of face; caries, with tearing, boring and burning stitches.\\ {{anchor:s307}}Violent boring in right zygomatic process when walking.\\ {{anchor:s308}}Fine pimples on face. {{anchor:s309}}~ Prolapsus uteri.\\ {{anchor:s310}}Lichens on face.\\ {{anchor:s311}}Red eruption on forehead and nose, often peeling.\\ {{anchor:s312}}Fine pimples on face, their tips are filled with pus.\\ {{anchor:s313}}Corona veneris. {{anchor:s314}}~ Syphilis with mercurialization. ====== LOWER FACE. [9] ====== {{anchor:s316}}Tensive pain in lower jaw.\\ {{anchor:s317}}Dull, pressive pain, either with or without swallowing, in a gland below angle of lower jaw.\\ {{anchor:s318}}Painful swelling of submaxillary glands.\\ {{anchor:s319}}Trismus. {{anchor:s320}}~ Typhus.\\ {{anchor:s321}}Lips bluish. {{anchor:s322}}~ Endocarditis. ====== TEETH AND GUMS. [10] ====== {{anchor:s324}}Toothache caused by drawing air into mouth; when chewing, suddenly a painful dullness in one of upper molar teeth.\\ {{anchor:s325}}Toothache from congestion to head.\\ {{anchor:s326}}Carious teeth. {{anchor:s327}}~ Faceache.\\ {{anchor:s328}}Toothache at night. {{anchor:s329}}~ Heart disease.\\ {{anchor:s330}}Violent tearing toothache, affects the heart.\\ {{anchor:s331}}Gums swollen, darker red, sore when touched or when eating; gums bleed easily. ====== TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] ====== {{anchor:s333}}Metallic taste in mouth; tongue slightly coated with brownish fur.\\ {{anchor:s334}}Milky taste.\\ {{anchor:s335}}Loss of taste. {{anchor:s336}}~ Melancholy.\\ {{anchor:s337}}Flabby taste with clear tongue. {{anchor:s338}}~ Hysteria.\\ {{anchor:s339}}Bitter taste in mouth, with sensation of dryness.\\ {{anchor:s340}}Foul taste of even water.\\ {{anchor:s341}}Putrid taste in mouth, as of spoiled game, between meals.\\ {{anchor:s342}}Loss of taste; tongue hard as leather and immovable.\\ {{anchor:s343}}Tongue swollen with scirrhus-like hardness; after biting tongue in sleep.\\ {{anchor:s344}}Tongue trembling and dry. {{anchor:s345}}~ Typhus.\\ {{anchor:s346}}Tongue dry and coated. {{anchor:s347}}~ Endocarditis.\\ {{anchor:s348}}Tongue coated at back. {{anchor:s349}}~ Pining boys.\\ {{anchor:s350}}Ulcers on tongue. ====== INNER MOUTH. [12] ====== {{anchor:s352}}Foul breath. {{anchor:s353}}~ Girls at puberty.\\ {{anchor:s354}}Fetor of breath like old cheese.\\ {{anchor:s355}}In morning offensive breath, reddish tongue and copious salivation. {{anchor:s356}}~ Melancholy.\\ {{anchor:s357}}Saliva copious, sweetish.\\ {{anchor:s358}}Aphthae on tongue and in mouth. ====== PALATE AND THROAT. [13] ====== {{anchor:s360}}Caries of palate. {{anchor:s361}}~ After abuse of mercury. {{anchor:s362}}~ Syphilis.\\ {{anchor:s363}}Red, swollen and ulcerated tonsils; difficult deglutition.\\ {{anchor:s364}}Boring in hard palate; caries of roof, palate and nose. {{anchor:s365}}~ Abuse of mercury. {{anchor:s366}}~ Syphilis.\\ {{anchor:s367}}Stinging soreness in throat only during deglutition.\\ {{anchor:s368}}Difficult rising of phlegm.\\ {{anchor:s369}}Dull, pressive pain, with or without swallowing, in a gland below angle of jaw.\\ {{anchor:s370}}Syphilitic ulcers in palate and throat. ====== APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] ====== {{anchor:s373}}Violent hunger and thirst.\\ {{anchor:s374}}Hunger, immoderate; relishes his meal, but hunger not appeased.\\ {{anchor:s375}}Immoderate appetite and thirst, with qualmishness in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s376}}Desire for milk and coffee.\\ {{anchor:s377}}Desire for alcoholic drinks, which are easily borne. {{anchor:s378}}~ Typhus.\\ {{anchor:s379}}Loss of appetite.\\ {{anchor:s380}}Want of appetite. {{anchor:s381}}~ Jaundice.\\ {{anchor:s382}}Aversion to food, especially meat.\\ {{anchor:s383}}Appetite poor. {{anchor:s384}}~ Hemiopia.\\ {{anchor:s385}}No appetite for plain food. {{anchor:s386}}~ Pining boys. ====== EATING AND DRINKING. [15] ====== {{anchor:s388}}After dinner: discomfort in abdomen; sleep.\\ {{anchor:s389}}After eating: colic; inclined to vomit; pressure in hypochondria; sense of suffocation.\\ {{anchor:s390}}Worse after drinking; after wine.\\ {{anchor:s391}}Worse when hungry; pain at stomach, etc.\\ {{anchor:s392}}Colic even after simplest food.\\ {{anchor:s393}}Drowsy after dinner. ====== HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] ====== {{anchor:s395}}Sour belching.\\ {{anchor:s396}}Eructations of gas relieve attacks of palpitation.\\ {{anchor:s397}}Nausea from mental labor. ====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ====== {{anchor:s399}}Burning sensation at stomach, with hot risings.\\ {{anchor:s400}}Pressure in region of stomach at noon.\\ {{anchor:s401}}Pressure to left of scrobiculum, below cartilages of upper false ribs; agg. during expiration.\\ {{anchor:s402}}Swelling of pit of stomach and hypochondrium, with stinging pain when touching parts. ====== HYPOCHONDRIA. [18] ====== {{anchor:s404}}Swelling of liver consecutive to cardiac hypertrophy.\\ {{anchor:s405}}Burning heat and cutting in right hypochondrium.\\ {{anchor:s406}}Jaundice, with pain in liver and pit of stomach; greenish-brown urine; bad breath and putrid taste.\\ {{anchor:s407}}Chronic hepatitis, with aversion to life; suicidal mood; averse to exercise, feels stupid.\\ {{anchor:s408}}Painful accumulation of gas below left ribs, causing stitching pains.\\ {{anchor:s409}}Pressure in hypochondria, as from flatulence; agg. after food or drink, and motion. ====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ====== {{anchor:s411}}Distended abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s412}}Nightly flatulent colic.\\ {{anchor:s413}}Ascites: from disturbances of abdominal organs; with albuminuria; with melancholy.\\ {{anchor:s414}}Abdomen puffed up. {{anchor:s415}}~ Hysteria.\\ {{anchor:s416}}Colic, frequent discharge of wind.\\ {{anchor:s417}}Tabes mesenterica.\\ {{anchor:s418}}Spasmodic contraction of abdomen, with great anguish; inclined to suicide. {{anchor:s419}}See 29.\\ {{anchor:s420}}Inguinal hernia; also with children.\\ {{anchor:s421}}Heaviness in abdomen, with icy cold hands and feet.\\ {{anchor:s422}}Intolerable itching in right groin in its inner third, could not resist scratching; later inspection showed a wheal, tender from violent rubbing; even after wheal is gone, part remains tender. ====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ====== {{anchor:s424}}Proctostasis.\\ {{anchor:s425}}Copious stool.\\ {{anchor:s426}}Passes fetid flatus.\\ {{anchor:s427}}Stools: offensive, painful; greyish, ashy; offensive in pregnancy.\\ {{anchor:s428}}Nightly diarrhea, with burning in rectum.\\ {{anchor:s429}}Hard, knotty or large stools; constipation, agg. during menses, with prolapsus uteri.\\ {{anchor:s430}}Piles with rectal catarrh; costive; external piles bleed during stool.\\ {{anchor:s431}}Constipation; stool very large in size and very hard or knotty.\\ {{anchor:s432}}Obstinate constipation. {{anchor:s433}}~ Jaundice.\\ {{anchor:s434}}Looseness and costiveness in alternation. {{anchor:s435}}~ Melancholy. ====== URINARY ORGANS. [21] ====== {{anchor:s437}}For many days great morbid activity of uropoetic system.\\ {{anchor:s438}}Urination frequent with painful retention. {{anchor:s439}}~ Prolapsus uteri.\\ {{anchor:s440}}Albuminuria consecutive to heart disease.\\ {{anchor:s441}}Kidneys hyperemic, with pressure around waist and increase of urine; consecutive to cardiac hypertrophy.\\ {{anchor:s442}}Passes more urine than corresponds to quantity of water drunk.\\ {{anchor:s443}}Constant urging to urinate.\\ {{anchor:s444}}Urine scanty, greenish-brown. {{anchor:s445}}~ Jaundice.\\ {{anchor:s446}}Urine clear, gold-colored. {{anchor:s447}}~ Dropsy.\\ {{anchor:s448}}Turbid, like buttermilk; much mucous sediment.\\ {{anchor:s449}}Urine ammoniacal, decomposes rapidly, smells like the otorrhea.\\ {{anchor:s450}}Ischuria and constipation, worse during menses. {{anchor:s451}}~ Prolapsus uteri.\\ {{anchor:s452}}Suppression of urine.\\ {{anchor:s453}}Painful retention of urine with pressure in bladder.\\ {{anchor:s454}}Frequent painful retention of urine\\ {{anchor:s455}}Urethritis.\\ {{anchor:s456}}Renal secretion much less in quantity.\\ {{anchor:s457}}Haematuria. ====== MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] ====== {{anchor:s459}}Testes mere pendent shreds. {{anchor:s460}}~ Pining boys.\\ {{anchor:s461}}Chronic induration of testicles.\\ {{anchor:s462}}Testes indurated; also after abuse of mercury.\\ {{anchor:s463}}Testes a little swelled and hard.\\ {{anchor:s464}}Frequent nightly emissions. {{anchor:s465}}~ Melancholy. {{anchor:s466}}~ Neuralgia of face.\\ {{anchor:s467}}Onanism. {{anchor:s468}}~ Faceache. {{anchor:s469}}~ Melancholy.\\ {{anchor:s470}}Nightly erections without emission; or nightly erections and pollutions, without subsequent weakness.\\ {{anchor:s471}}Discharge of prostatic fluid from a relaxed penis; settled melancholy, with suicidal mania.\\ {{anchor:s472}}Sensation as if a knife was drawn through swollen testicle.\\ {{anchor:s473}}Right testicle swollen; pressive pains when touched or rubbed; pressure and tension as from a bruise.\\ {{anchor:s474}}Itching of scrotum.\\ {{anchor:s475}}Ulcers on scrotum, after gonorrhea.\\ {{anchor:s476}}Cutting and stinging in perineum.\\ {{anchor:s477}}Inguinal glands suppurate. {{anchor:s478}}~ Mercurio-syphilis.\\ {{anchor:s479}}Hydrocele. {{anchor:s480}}~ Child, aet. 6 months.\\ {{anchor:s481}}Chancres.\\ {{anchor:s482}}Hunterian chancres.\\ {{anchor:s483}}Secondary syphilis; also infantile; especially after abuse of mercury (and probably of potash).\\ {{anchor:s484}}Affections of prepuce.\\ {{anchor:s485}}Balanitis.\\ {{anchor:s486}}Condylomata around anus; around corona glandis.\\ {{anchor:s487}}Sarcocele; epididymitis; orchitis.\\ {{anchor:s488}}Syphilis. ====== FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [23] ====== {{anchor:s490}}Sterility after depression of spirits.\\ {{anchor:s491}}Ovarian affections connected with syphilis.\\ {{anchor:s492}}Induration of uterus. {{anchor:s493}}~ Prolapsus uteri.\\ {{anchor:s494}}Menses delayed, especially the first. {{anchor:s495}}~ Prolapsus uteri.\\ {{anchor:s496}}Menses too late and scanty. {{anchor:s497}}~ Prolapsus uteri.\\ {{anchor:s498}}Amenorrhea with great melancholy; her mind constantly inclines to suicide. {{anchor:s499}}~ Prolapsus uteri.\\ {{anchor:s500}}Bruised, shooting or drawing pain in uterus. {{anchor:s501}}~ Prolapsus.\\ {{anchor:s502}}Drawing pain at pubes. {{anchor:s503}}~ Prolapsus uteri.\\ {{anchor:s504}}Right inguinal region sore to touch; uterus affected.\\ {{anchor:s505}}Os uteri swollen, hardened.\\ {{anchor:s506}}Prolapsus and induration of uterus.\\ {{anchor:s507}}Uterus prolapsed and indurated; bruised pain, with shooting or drawing; heaviness in abdomen; after lifting a heavy load; worse at menstrual period.\\ {{anchor:s508}}Menses regular, but with headache and burning on vertex; uterus indurated.\\ {{anchor:s509}}Menses too late, scanty; preceded by swelling of axillary glands; accompanied by colic, prolapse of rectum.\\ {{anchor:s510}}Constant oozing from vulva.\\ {{anchor:s511}}Thick white leucorrhea; burning smarting of vulva; labia majora red, swollen.\\ {{anchor:s512}}Leucorrhea profuse and corroding, yellow. {{anchor:s513}}~ Prolapsus uteri.\\ {{anchor:s514}}Leucorrhea thick white. {{anchor:s515}}~ Prolapsus uteri.\\ {{anchor:s516}}Prolapsus: with backache, agg. during menses; with heat of vagina; from reaching high; from straining; with induration of uterus and bruised, shooting or drawing pains. ====== PREGNANCY. PARTURITION. LACTATION. [24] ====== {{anchor:s520}}During pregnancy: suicidal melancholia; jaundice.\\ {{anchor:s521}}Suppressed milk.\\ {{anchor:s522}}Palpitation following metrorrhagia after a mole or in childbed, after overexertion.\\ {{anchor:s523}}Labor pains make her desperate, she would like to jump from the window or dash herself down; often with congestion to head and chest and palpitation. ====== VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA. [25] ====== {{anchor:s526}}Voice: nasal; husky, as if he had a cold.\\ {{anchor:s527}}Phlegm deep in larynx, not easily hawked up. ====== RESPIRATION. [26] ====== {{anchor:s529}}Morning asthma; face cyanotic; light-haired persons; agg. after mercury, in wet weather and in warm air.\\ {{anchor:s530}}Marked dyspnea, anxiety at heart; stenocardia.\\ {{anchor:s531}}Excessive dyspnea, with difficult breathing at night.\\ {{anchor:s532}}Cardiac difficulty of breathing. {{anchor:s533}}~ Old age\\ {{anchor:s534}}Dyspnea: with dull stitches in chest when inspiring; cannot be relieved in any position; takes deep breaths from 'besoin de respirer'. {{anchor:s535}}~ Heart disease.\\ {{anchor:s536}}Asthma from congestion to chest; great oppression at night and when walking in open air; suffocative fits, with spasmodic constriction of chest; face bluish-red; palpitation; falls down unconscious.\\ {{anchor:s537}}Want of breath. {{anchor:s538}}~ Valvular disease of heart.\\ {{anchor:s539}}Difficult breathing. {{anchor:s540}}~ Jaundice.\\ {{anchor:s541}}Loses her breath, amel. from belching or walking. {{anchor:s542}}~ Hysteria.\\ {{anchor:s543}}Suffocative fits and constriction of chest.\\ {{anchor:s544}}When laughing difficulty in breathing.\\ {{anchor:s545}}Propped up in bed and breathing very hurriedly. {{anchor:s546}}~ Endocarditis. ====== COUGH. [27] ====== {{anchor:s548}}Cough for want of breath at night.\\ {{anchor:s549}}Cough with tough yellow sputum on awaking in morning.\\ {{anchor:s550}}Dry, spasmodic, nervous cough, peculiar to females; periodically, every night from sunset to sunrise.\\ {{anchor:s551}}Expectoration infrequent, morning and evening.\\ {{anchor:s552}}Moist rales all over chest with cough. {{anchor:s553}}~ Endocarditis. ====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ====== {{anchor:s555}}Great tightness of chest.\\ {{anchor:s556}}Violent rush of blood to chest.\\ {{anchor:s557}}Hyperemia of lungs.\\ {{anchor:s558}}Shooting through back when breathing. {{anchor:s559}}~ Facial neuralgia.\\ {{anchor:s560}}Shooting pains in chest after attacks of palpitation.\\ {{anchor:s561}}Dull stitches in both sides of chest, with heat in chest and dyspnea; increased by inspiration.\\ {{anchor:s562}}Persistent dry catarrh on chest, early in morning, on waking; with great difficulty he raises a little phlegm, and this only after rising from bed.\\ {{anchor:s563}}Oppression of chest with faceache.\\ {{anchor:s564}}Extreme tightness of chest with difficult breathing.\\ {{anchor:s565}}Great weight on chest, especially a heavy weight on sternum. {{anchor:s566}}~ Angina pectoris. ====== HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION. [29] ====== {{anchor:s568}}Frequent attacks of anguish about heart, with tremulous fearfullness; great anguish increasing to self-destruction, with spasmodic contraction of abdomen; uneasiness and hurried desire for bodily and mental activity; he cannot do anything fast enough, and does not succeed in satisfying himself; is constantly impelled to be in motion, and is sorry for his inactivity; he imagines he is neglecting something and deserves reproaches in consequence.\\ {{anchor:s569}}Violent heart-stroke not synchronous with pulse.\\ {{anchor:s570}}Sensation as if heart was turning around.\\ {{anchor:s571}}Constriction of chest with a painful spasmodic sensation of heart; pulse remits.\\ {{anchor:s572}}Pains wander from joint to joint, and finally become fixed in heart; must sit upright; feels as though heart ceased and then suddenly gave one hard thump.\\ {{anchor:s573}}Pain in region of heart, extending down left arm to fingers.\\ {{anchor:s574}}Pain in heart and palpitation; jumping feeling of heart and violent palpitation by motion.\\ {{anchor:s575}}Angina pectoris.\\ {{anchor:s576}}Action of heart floundering. {{anchor:s577}}~ Endocarditis.\\ {{anchor:s578}}Violent palpitation, anxiety and congestion of blood to head and chest. {{anchor:s579}}~ After uterine hemorrhage.\\ {{anchor:s580}}Palpitation, with great agony.\\ {{anchor:s581}}When riding or walking, palpitation compels him to stop.\\ {{anchor:s582}}Violent beating of heart after exertion.\\ {{anchor:s583}}Between attacks of palpitation, feeling as of a bladder hanging in left chest; must often take a deep breath.\\ {{anchor:s584}}Attacks of oppression at heart at night, with palpitation and great debility. {{anchor:s585}}~ Old age.\\ {{anchor:s586}}Loud endocardial bruits. {{anchor:s587}}~ Endocarditis.\\ {{anchor:s588}}Fatty degeneration of heart.\\ {{anchor:s589}}Violent orgasm of blood as if it was boiling.\\ {{anchor:s590}}Congestions to head and chest, with anxious palpitation.\\ {{anchor:s591}}Visible beating of carotids and of temporal arteries. {{anchor:s592}}~ Heart affections in old age.\\ {{anchor:s593}}Palpitation, with irregular, intermittent pulse; short breathing.\\ {{anchor:s594}}Pulse small, but accelerated; small, feeble, rapid; irregular.\\ {{anchor:s595}}Pulse quick, full, corresponding to beat of heart, and omitting before single strong beat. {{anchor:s596}}~ Heart disease.\\ {{anchor:s597}}Pulse rapid, compressible and intermittent. {{anchor:s598}}~ Endocarditis.\\ {{anchor:s599}}Weak pulse. {{anchor:s600}}~ Old age.\\ {{anchor:s601}}Weak heart.\\ {{anchor:s602}}Sensation as if heart stood still. ====== OUTER CHEST. [30] ====== {{anchor:s604}}A wart, size of a split horse-bean since proving Cundurango, several years since, is beginning to lap over and to catch things and seems flatter; in sixth week flatter and much smaller; on 80th day, nearly gone; in twelfth week increases again. ====== NECK AND BACK. [31] ====== {{anchor:s606}}Enormous goitre disappeared long after.\\ {{anchor:s607}}Swollen cervical glands. {{anchor:s608}}~ Scrofulous ophthalmia.\\ {{anchor:s609}}Tension in neck, as if muscles were too short, even at rest; mostly when stooping.\\ {{anchor:s610}}Spine disease, with gressus gallinaceus.\\ {{anchor:s611}}Pain in small of back as from fatigue.\\ {{anchor:s612}}Tendons of muscles so painfully stiff that thigh cannot be raised; thigh feels paralyzed.\\ {{anchor:s613}}Stinging pains in small of back. {{anchor:s614}}~ Jaundice.\\ {{anchor:s615}}Pain at lower part of spine. ====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ====== {{anchor:s617}}Arms start. {{anchor:s618}}~ Hysteria.\\ {{anchor:s619}}Boring in left shoulder.\\ {{anchor:s620}}Inflammatory swelling of axillary glands.\\ {{anchor:s621}}Difficult movement of arms; they feel fatigued; forearms feel heavy.\\ {{anchor:s622}}Severe bone pains in right elbow.\\ {{anchor:s623}}Boring in right forearm.\\ {{anchor:s624}}Cramplike tearing in bones of both arms.\\ {{anchor:s625}}Palms itch.\\ {{anchor:s626}}Herpes of palms.\\ {{anchor:s627}}Boring in finger joints.\\ {{anchor:s628}}Bones of hands swelled; almost immovable, and tender. {{anchor:s629}}~ Endocarditis.\\ {{anchor:s630}}Large bursa-like swelling on wrist for a long time. {{anchor:s631}}~ Hemiopia.\\ {{anchor:s632}}Flesh of hands puffy. {{anchor:s633}}~ Endocarditis.\\ {{anchor:s634}}Finger nails turning blue. ====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ====== {{anchor:s636}}Coxalgia.\\ {{anchor:s637}}Retraction of lower limbs. {{anchor:s638}}~ Typhus.\\ {{anchor:s639}}All the blood appeared to rush from her head into her lower limbs; they feel paralyzed; she has to sit down.\\ {{anchor:s640}}Tottering of knees; stiffness, paralytic feeling; they pain as if firmly bandaged, when sitting.\\ {{anchor:s641}}Right knee becomes weak from walking; drawing when walking or setting foot on floor.\\ {{anchor:s642}}Weakness in limbs, most in hollow of knees. {{anchor:s643}}~ Neuralgia.\\ {{anchor:s644}}Small blotches on leg and below knee, when slightly rubbed they are changed to thick nodosities under skin.\\ {{anchor:s645}}Nodes on legs. {{anchor:s646}}~ Syphilis with mercurialization.\\ {{anchor:s647}}Caries in bones of lower extremities.\\ {{anchor:s648}}Boring in tibiae, ankles and dorsa of feet.\\ {{anchor:s649}}Swelling of legs and feet, when getting up in morning; amel. after walking.\\ {{anchor:s650}}Toes red.\\ {{anchor:s651}}Itching on soles.\\ {{anchor:s652}}Slight dropsy of feet. {{anchor:s653}}~ Endocarditis.\\ {{anchor:s654}}Swollen feet. {{anchor:s655}}~ Valvular disease of heart.\\ {{anchor:s656}}Weary pains in right tarsal bones, shooting up towards knee, early morning in bed. ====== LIMBS IN GENERAL. [34] ====== {{anchor:s658}}Limbs go to sleep; numb, insensible on awaking; more while lying than when moving.\\ {{anchor:s659}}Paralytic drawing in limbs in morning, when awaking;\\ {{anchor:s660}}Has to seize hold of left arm during attacks of palpitation.\\ {{anchor:s661}}Swelling of periosteum of forearm and thigh bones.\\ {{anchor:s662}}Pain as from bruises in head and limbs, early in bed; mostly at rest; passes off after rising.\\ {{anchor:s663}}Sensations in joints and muscles like after unwonted exercise.\\ {{anchor:s664}}Limbs swelled and painful, joints almost as firmly locked as if anchylosed, cannot move hand nor foot for pain, from this swelled and inflamed state of joints. {{anchor:s665}}~ Endocarditis. ====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ====== {{anchor:s669}}Inclined to be active.\\ {{anchor:s670}}Lying down: bones of skull painful; limbs feel numb.\\ {{anchor:s671}}Must lie down: vertigo.\\ {{anchor:s672}}In dyspnea no position relieves.\\ {{anchor:s673}}Sitting: knees pain as if firmly bandaged.\\ {{anchor:s674}}Must sit down: paralytic symptoms. {{anchor:s675}}See 33.\\ {{anchor:s676}}Must sit erect: heart disease.\\ {{anchor:s677}}Rising: vertigo goes off; raises only a little phlegm; pain in head and limbs goes off.\\ {{anchor:s678}}Stooping: vertigo, as if turning in a circle; tension in neck.\\ {{anchor:s679}}Walking: vertigo, as if drunk; headache agg.; boring in zygoma; asthma agg.; breathing in hysteria amel.; palpitation so bad must stop; right knee weak; relieves swelling of feet.\\ {{anchor:s680}}Motion: vertigo; headache agg.; pressure in hypochondrium agg.; compelled to move; relieves numbness in limbs.\\ {{anchor:s681}}Exertion: beating of heart.\\ {{anchor:s682}}From overexertion during confinement. {{anchor:s683}}~ Palpitation.\\ {{anchor:s684}}Wants to jump out of window: during labor.\\ {{anchor:s685}}(In sick:) Exercise, even fatigue, aids the action. ====== NERVES. [36] ====== {{anchor:s687}}Increased bodily and mental activity, followed by prostration and melancholy.\\ {{anchor:s688}}Hysterical symptoms, cold hands and feet. {{anchor:s689}}~ Prolapsus uteri.\\ {{anchor:s690}}Increased bodily irritability.\\ {{anchor:s691}}Hypochondriasis and hysteria.\\ {{anchor:s692}}In morning completely exhausted, as if he had not slept.\\ {{anchor:s693}}Tremulous agitation, as in joyous hope.\\ {{anchor:s694}}Hysterical spasms; alternate laughter and crying.\\ {{anchor:s695}}When thinking of a motion, he makes small motions without knowing it; when speaking he smiles involuntarily.\\ {{anchor:s696}}Sensation of internal emptiness and weakness of whole body.\\ {{anchor:s697}}Great nervous weakness.\\ {{anchor:s698}}Great debility. {{anchor:s699}}~ Heart affection in old age.\\ {{anchor:s700}}Convulsive movements of face and limbs. {{anchor:s701}}~ Typhus.\\ {{anchor:s702}}Alternate convulsions and stupor. {{anchor:s703}}~ Typhus.\\ {{anchor:s704}}Wavering, uncertain walk. {{anchor:s705}}~ Melancholy. ====== SLEEP. [37] ====== {{anchor:s707}}Feels fagged in evening, yet not able to sleep.\\ {{anchor:s708}}Looks and feels ill, and although weary, no inclination for either rest or sleep.\\ {{anchor:s709}}Very wakeful, well up to work; great mental activity.\\ {{anchor:s710}}Continuing sleeplessness; if he falls asleep erotic dreams, erection and emission. {{anchor:s711}}~ Melancholy.\\ {{anchor:s712}}Frightful dreams.\\ {{anchor:s713}}Narcosis with uraemia.\\ {{anchor:s714}}Sobs aloud during sleep; frightful dreams about thieves, with loud screams.\\ {{anchor:s715}}Awake all night, no pain; no lassitude or sleepiness in morning.\\ {{anchor:s716}}Sleep disturbed by sexual excitement. {{anchor:s717}}~ Hysteria.\\ {{anchor:s718}}Sleeplessness. {{anchor:s719}}~ Headache.\\ {{anchor:s720}}Sleepless after midnight.\\ {{anchor:s721}}Awakened by bone pains, suffering so great he despairs, does not want to live.\\ {{anchor:s722}}Bruised feeling; mornings in bed.\\ {{anchor:s723}}Sleep does not refresh.\\ {{anchor:s724}}Two successive nights dreamed a great deal of death.\\ {{anchor:s725}}Early in morning in bed weary pains in right tarsal bones.\\ {{anchor:s726}}Bad nights, dreaming of dead and of corpses.\\ {{anchor:s727}}Dreams towards morning.\\ {{anchor:s728}}Sleep restless and full of anxious dreams. {{anchor:s729}}~ Hemiopia. ====== TIME. [38] ====== {{anchor:s731}}Night: boring, aching in left eye agg.; toothache; diarrhea; difficult breathing; cough from want of breath; feeling of lump in throat; constantly awake; cold hands and feet; bone pains; colic and passing wind.\\ {{anchor:s732}}Nocturnal bone pains.\\ {{anchor:s733}}After 3 A. M.: delirious talk.\\ {{anchor:s734}}Morning: headache; confusion of head early, on rising; eyes agg.; mucous discharge in posterior nares agg.; cheeks swell; eyelids adhere; asthma; cough on awaking; expectoration; catarrh on chest; swelling of legs and feet; paralytic drawing in limbs; exhausted, as if he had not slept; no lassitude, though he did not sleep through night; bruised feeling in bed; sweat.\\ {{anchor:s735}}Noon: pressure in epigastrium.\\ {{anchor:s736}}Remission during day and evening, until 12 P. M.\\ {{anchor:s737}}Evening: expectoration; satiety of life at 6 P. M.; testicle swells; chill.\\ {{anchor:s738}}Evening till midnight: violent itching.\\ {{anchor:s739}}Evening and morning: expectoration.\\ {{anchor:s740}}Always agg. as day progresses, and amel. in morning. {{anchor:s741}}~ Hemiopia.\\ {{anchor:s742}}Sunset to sunrise: cough agg. ====== TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] ====== {{anchor:s744}}In room: swelling of nose; stinging, burning pains amel.\\ {{anchor:s745}}In bed: shivering; legs cold.\\ {{anchor:s746}}Warm air: asthma agg.\\ {{anchor:s747}}Air: aggravates toothache.\\ {{anchor:s748}}Desire for open air. {{anchor:s749}}~ Adiposis.\\ {{anchor:s750}}Open air: vertigo, as if drunk; swelling of nose; aggravates asthma, and stinging and burning pains; amel. headache.\\ {{anchor:s751}}Averse to uncover.\\ {{anchor:s752}}Getting cold: paralytic drawing in limbs.\\ {{anchor:s753}}Cold water: ameliorates pain in eyes.\\ {{anchor:s754}}Wet weather: aggravates asthma.\\ {{anchor:s755}}Very sensitive to cold: over whole body.\\ {{anchor:s756}}Generally amel. growing warm. {{anchor:s757}}~ Headache.\\ {{anchor:s758}}Many symptoms disappear after washing. ====== FEVER. [40] ====== {{anchor:s760}}Chill predominating.\\ {{anchor:s761}}Chill and coldness of hands and feet, also in bed, often lasting all night.\\ {{anchor:s762}}General shivering, evenings in bed.\\ {{anchor:s763}}Coldness of whole body with blue nails and nausea.\\ {{anchor:s764}}Cold hands and feet; sometimes lasting all night; want of thirst.\\ {{anchor:s765}}Chill lessened after getting out of bed; shivering in bed, legs cold as far as knees.\\ {{anchor:s766}}The severer the pains, the colder she becomes.\\ {{anchor:s767}}Heat only in face; aversion to uncovering; cold hands and feet.\\ {{anchor:s768}}Heat most in face, alternating with chill.\\ {{anchor:s769}}Sweat early in morning; mostly on and around genitals. {{anchor:s770}}~ Melancholy.\\ {{anchor:s771}}Profuse perspiration. {{anchor:s772}}~ Endocarditis. ====== ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] ====== {{anchor:s774}}Every day several paroxysms. {{anchor:s775}}~ Palpitation of heart.\\ {{anchor:s776}}Paroxysm of palpitation every 2, 3 weeks, coming on when sleeping, walking or riding, lasting half hour.\\ {{anchor:s777}}Pains come and go: neuralgia of head.\\ {{anchor:s778}}Every night from sunset to sunrise: dry, nervous cough. ====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ====== {{anchor:s780}}Right: pain in side of occiput; caries of nasal bones; upper jaw painful; boring in zygoma; cutting and heat in hypochondrium; testicle swollen; inguinal region sore; boring in forearm: bone pains in elbow.\\ {{anchor:s781}}Left: tearing in head, teeth and ears; boring in tumor on eye; hemiopia; boring behind ear; boring in nasal bone; neuralgia of head; pressure in scrobiculum; gas accumulates under ribs; sensation of a bladder hanging in chest; boring in shoulder; seizes arm during palpitation.\\ {{anchor:s782}}Without inward: pains in eyes.\\ {{anchor:s783}}Pains wander from joint to joint.\\ {{anchor:s784}}Rending pain upward.\\ {{anchor:s785}}Pain pressing inward.\\ {{anchor:s786}}Pain from within outward, in eye diseases.\\ {{anchor:s787}}Left side worse, with nasal catarrh. ====== SENSATIONS. [43] ====== {{anchor:s789}}Sensations\\ {{anchor:s790}}Oversensitive to all pain.\\ {{anchor:s791}}Pains drive to despair, does not want to live.\\ {{anchor:s792}}Susceptible to all sorts of pains; on thinking of them, he imagines he already feels them.\\ {{anchor:s793}}As if a current of air was rushing through head; skull bones as if broken; as if a knife was drawn across testicle; as if blood was boiling; as if heart stood still; teeth feel too long; as if heart was turning round; as of a bladder hanging in left chest; knees as if firmly bandaged.\\ {{anchor:s794}}Violent pain in left forehead and eye.\\ {{anchor:s795}}Boring: hemicrania; behind left ear; in nasal bones; in bones of face; in hard palate; in left shoulder; in right forearm; in finger joints; in tibiae; ankles and dorsa of feet.\\ {{anchor:s796}}Cutting: through eyes neuralgia in face and head; in right hypochonder; through swollen testicle; in perineum.\\ {{anchor:s797}}Stitching: megrim; in nose; below left ribs.\\ {{anchor:s798}}Stitches: in chest; inner canthus.\\ {{anchor:s799}}Shooting: in uterus; through chest; towards knee from tarsal bones; through back.\\ {{anchor:s800}}Pricking: in forehead; in eyelids; in mastoid process.\\ {{anchor:s801}}Stinging: in eyelids; neuralgia in face and head; in throat; in swelling of epigastrium; in perineum; in small of back.\\ {{anchor:s802}}Smarting: in nose; of vulva.\\ {{anchor:s803}}Soreness: in nose; in throat.\\ {{anchor:s804}}Burning: megrim; in eyelids; in mastoid process; in nose; at stomach; in right hypochonder; in rectum; on vertex; of vulva.\\ {{anchor:s805}}Drawing: around the eyes; inner canthus; in jaws; in uterus; at pubes; in right knee; in limbs.\\ {{anchor:s806}}Tearing: from side of head through brain; deep in brain; in forehead, temples and vertex; in teeth and ears; in jaws; neuralgia in face and head; toothache.\\ {{anchor:s807}}Cramplike tearing: in bones of wrists.\\ {{anchor:s808}}Pressure: in left temple; in eyeballs; in submaxillary glands; in region of stomach; to left of scrobiculum; in the hypochondria; in bladder; in right testicle.\\ {{anchor:s809}}Aching: dull, heavy, in eyeball.\\ {{anchor:s810}}Bruised pain: in head; in right testicle; in uterus; in limbs.\\ {{anchor:s811}}Weary pains: in right tarsal bones.\\ {{anchor:s812}}Undefined pain: in bones of head; in nasal bones; in liver and pit of stomach; in heart.\\ {{anchor:s813}}Undefined: at lower part of spine; in right elbow; in lower part of back.\\ {{anchor:s814}}Beating: in forehead.\\ {{anchor:s815}}Uncomfortable feeling: in forehead.\\ {{anchor:s816}}Tension: in eyes; in lower jaw; in right testicle; in neck.\\ {{anchor:s817}}Constriction: of chest.\\ {{anchor:s818}}Spasmodic sensation: about heart.\\ {{anchor:s819}}Twitching: in upper lid.\\ {{anchor:s820}}Jumping feeling: of the heart.\\ {{anchor:s821}}Paralytic feeling: in lower limbs; in knees.\\ {{anchor:s822}}Heaviness: in abdomen; in forearm.\\ {{anchor:s823}}Numbness: of limbs.\\ {{anchor:s824}}Dryness: in ears and nose; in mouth.\\ {{anchor:s825}}Heat: in eyes; in chest; of head.\\ {{anchor:s826}}Itching: in eyelids; in mastoid process; of inner canthus; in nose; in right groin; of the scrotum; of palms; of soles. ====== TISSUES. [44] ====== {{anchor:s828}}Rheumatism appears on back, sacrum, hands and feet, after the heat is relieved.\\ {{anchor:s829}}Boring pains, mostly in the bones.\\ {{anchor:s830}}Crampy tearing pain in phalangeal bones and joints.\\ {{anchor:s831}}Arthritic deposits.\\ {{anchor:s832}}Bone pains at night.\\ {{anchor:s833}}Osteitis; caries.\\ {{anchor:s834}}Ulcers after abuse of mercury, which attack bones.\\ {{anchor:s835}}Erethism or vascular fullness characterizes nearly all complaints; thus ruddy with scrofula, vascular leukoma, congestive asthma, ebullitions, erections, congested kidneys and liver-all from hypertrophied heart.\\ {{anchor:s836}}Violent orgasm; plethora.\\ {{anchor:s837}}Cancerous ulcers.\\ {{anchor:s838}}External parts become black.\\ {{anchor:s839}}Dropsy; ascites; albuminuria and heart affections (urine is clear and gold-colored).\\ {{anchor:s840}}Exostoses of skull and other bones.\\ {{anchor:s841}}Boring in bones; caries especially after mercury; pains drive to despair.\\ {{anchor:s842}}Corpulency; fat about heart; especially if nervous irritability is present.\\ {{anchor:s843}}Glands painfully swollen; scrofula, ruddy complexion.\\ {{anchor:s844}}Adenitis.\\ {{anchor:s845}}Emaciation; secondary syphilis; also in melancholia.\\ {{anchor:s846}}Rheumatism, erratic; attacking the heart.\\ {{anchor:s847}}Indurations.\\ {{anchor:s848}}Scrofula.\\ {{anchor:s849}}Arthrocace scrofulosis. ====== TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] ====== {{anchor:s853}}Has to seize and grasp left arm tightly during attack of palpitation.\\ {{anchor:s854}}Touch: aggravates boring pains in skull, pains in eyes, pains in swollen parotids, soreness of nasal bones and upper jaw, soreness of gums, pains in testicles, soreness in inguinal region.\\ {{anchor:s855}}Rubbing: causes blotches on leg to feel like thick nodosities.\\ {{anchor:s856}}Pressure: aggravates eye symptoms.\\ {{anchor:s857}}Riding: produces palpitation.\\ {{anchor:s858}}Lifting: causes prolapse of uterus.\\ {{anchor:s859}}After a fall: swelling in groin. ====== SKIN. [46] ====== {{anchor:s861}}Jaundice with greenish-brown urine and costiveness for twelve days.\\ {{anchor:s862}}Skin dark yellow. {{anchor:s863}}~ Jaundice.\\ {{anchor:s864}}Patches of a brown hue and some like albugo. {{anchor:s865}}~ Old age.\\ {{anchor:s866}}(In sick:) Violent itching, first in soles of feet and then over whole body, from evening till midnight.\\ {{anchor:s867}}Fine papular eruption on face.\\ {{anchor:s868}}Deep ulcers, affecting bones; after abuse of mercury.\\ {{anchor:s869}}Small and large blotches, stinging burning, feeling like hard knots, of a dirty yellow color; less in-doors than in open air.\\ {{anchor:s870}}Indurations under skin on leg, over heel and behind knee, itching violently.\\ {{anchor:s871}}Warts, scrofulous, syphilitic, mercurial. ====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ====== {{anchor:s873}}Sanguine people, with black hair and dark eyes, lively, restless, anxious disposition; disposed to feel anxious about the future.\\ {{anchor:s874}}Headache of people with black hair, dark, olive brown complexion; disposed to constipation; sad, gloomy, taciturn.\\ {{anchor:s875}}Constitutions broken down by combined influence of syphilis and mercury.\\ {{anchor:s876}}Had syphilis ten years ago. {{anchor:s877}}~ Hemiopia.\\ {{anchor:s878}}Low-spirited, lifeless pining boys, their memories bad, lacking altogether in boyish go. {{anchor:s879}}See 22.\\ {{anchor:s880}}Carbo-nitrogenoid constitution.\\ {{anchor:s881}}Females: nervous cough; hysteria.\\ {{anchor:s882}}Girls at puberty.\\ {{anchor:s883}}Often indicated with old people; weak vision; corpulency, etc.\\ {{anchor:s884}}Scrofula; light-haired; sanguine temperament; ruddy complexion.\\ {{anchor:s885}}Syphilitic and mercurial patients.\\ {{anchor:s886}}Man, aet. 34, troubled with headache and hemorrhoidal complaints, now tired of life.\\ {{anchor:s887}}Man, aet. 35, sanguine, nervous, strong; after gonorrhea. {{anchor:s888}}~ Melancholy.\\ {{anchor:s889}}Woman, aet. 55, after third week of rheumatic fever. {{anchor:s890}}~ Endocarditis.\\ {{anchor:s891}}Woman, aet. 70, oppression of heart.\\ {{anchor:s892}}Man, aet. 85, oppression of heart.\\ {{anchor:s893}}Man, aet. 63, florid complexion, sanguine temperament. {{anchor:s894}}~ Melanosis of eye.\\ {{anchor:s895}}Man, aet. 52, whisky drinker. {{anchor:s896}}~ Decrease of vision.\\ {{anchor:s897}}In spite of daily use of whisky, and not abstaining from its use, got well. {{anchor:s898}}~ Hemiopia. ====== RELATIONS. [48] ====== {{anchor:s900}}Similar to: Amm. carb. (chest, heart); Arg. met., Arg. nitr., Arsen., Asaf. (pains about eyes; but Asaf. has relief from pressure; caries from mercury); Bellad., Capsic. (caries of mastoid; corpulency); Calc. ostr. (leucophlegmatic, corpulent; gold has more oversensitiveness and erethism); Calc. phosph., Coccul. (empty feeling); Cinchon., Coffea (hyper-excitation); Cuprum (asthma); Digit. (heart; inclined to activity); Ferrum (hyperemia); Glonoine (hyperemia of lung from heart); Hepar, Iodum, Kali bichr. (deep ulcers, scrofulous ophthalmia, ozaena, secondary syphilis); Kali carb., Kali hydr. (secondary syphilis; mercurial affections of bones and periosteum); Kali brom. (anguish at heart and desire to move about); Laches., Lycop., Mercur., Nitr. ac., Nux vom. (hernia, prolapsed uterus); Pallad. (uterine symptoms); Platina (uterine symptoms); Pulsat., Spigel., Sol. nigr., Silic., Sepia, Sulphur, Tarantul. (heart as if turned around; hysteria); Thuya (condylomata); Ver. vir. (heart).\\ {{anchor:s901}}After Kali bichr. had been given in vain, Aur. fol. cured ozaena, and caries of nasal bones.\\ {{anchor:s902}}Antidotes to Aurum: Bellad., Cinchon., Coccul., Coffea, Cuprum, Mercur., Pulsat., Spigel., Sol. nigr.\\ {{anchor:s903}}Aurum antidotes: Mercur., Spigel.\\ {{anchor:s904}}Aur. met., 2d trituration, from July 16th to 21st, twice a day, subsequently, once in four days for sixteen days, cured melanosis of eye, after Thuya, Carb. an., Conium, Bellad. and Arsen. had failed.\\ {{anchor:s905}}Antidote to ill effects of mercury.\\ {{anchor:s906}}After having taken large quantities of iodide of potash. {{anchor:s907}}~ Hemiopia. ---- ====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ====== ^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 02, 1880 | ^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r47|Aurum metallicum]] | ^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r47|Aurum metallicum]] | ^ Author: | Hering, C. | ^ Year: | 1880 | ^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting | ^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}