Aurum Metallicum

Melancholy, with inquietude and desire to die

Irresistible impulse to weep

Longing to see one's relations, resembling nostalgia

Imagines he has lost the affection of his friends; this makes him weep

Sees obstacles everywhere

Hopeless

Suicidal; desperate; inclined to jump off heights; to dash himself into a chair

Sad, feels that all is against her and life is not desirable, and the thought of death alone gives pleasure

Great anguish, which even induces a disposition to suicide, with cramp-like contractions in the abdomen

Excessive scruples of conscience

Despair of oneself, and of others

Ill-humour and aversion to conversation

Grumbling, quarrelsome humour

The least contradiction excites his wrath

Alternate peevishness and cheerfulness

Anger and passion

Alternation of gaiety, or of irritability with melancholy

Hypochondriacal humour

Weakness of the intellectual faculties

Weakness of the memory.

Vertigo: when stooping, as if turning in a circle;

> on rising; as if drunk when walking in open air; feels as if he would fall to l.; must lie down, even then for some time it returns on slightest motion

Fatigue from intellectual labour

Sudden stupefaction, with loss of sense

Pain, like that of a bruise in the brain, esp. in the morning, or during intellectual labour, and sometimes inducing confusion of ideas

Pain in the head, as if the air passed over the brain, when it is not kept very warm

Acute drawing pains in the head

Beating and hammering pain on one side of the head

Congestion of blood to the head

Congestions to and heat in the head, with sparks before the eyes, and glossy bloatedness of the face, aggravated from every mental exertion

Buzzing in the head

Pain in the bones of the cranium, esp. on lying down

Exostosis on the head; on the r. vertex, with boring pain

Falling off of the hair.

Pain in the eyes aggravated by touch, as if the ball of the eye were pressed inwards

Tension in the eyes, with diminution of sight

Burning pain and redness in the eyes

Obscuration of the sight

Black spots before the eyes

Eyes very prominent

Flames and sparks before the eyes

Vertical half-sight

Hemiopia; objects are seen cut in horizontal lines

Eyes better by moonlight and after violent muscular exercise

Objects seem smaller and more distant.

Hearing too sensitive

Pain in the ears, like internal tension

Caries of the mastoid process

Flow of fetid pus from the ears

Oversensitive to noises, but music >-Annoying dryness in ears and nose with difficult hearing

Hardness of hearing from hypertrophy of the amygdalae, with embarrassed speech

Humming in the ears

Roaring in the ears.

Pain in the nasal bones on being touched

Gnawing prickings

Inflammatory swelling and redness of the nose, followed by desquamation

Caries of the bones of the nose

Nasal cavities ulcerated and covered with thick crusts

Running from the nose of a fetid greenish-yellow matter

Stoppage of the nose

Fluent coryza

Nose red, swollen; tip knobby, red

Cancer

Furfuraceous desquamation of the epidermis of the nose

Increased sensibility, or absence of smell

Sweetish putrid smell, or smell of brandy before the nose

Fetid odour from the nose.

Face puffed, and shining as if from sweat

Inflammation of the bones of the face

Parotids swollen, painful to touch as if pressed or bruised

Swelling of the cheeks

Swelling of the bones of the forehead, of the upper jaw, and of the nose

Red eruption, which peels off, on the forehead and on the nose

Traction in the jaws, with swelling of the cheeks

Tensive pain in the upper jaw

Painful swelling of the submaxillary glands.

Odontalgia, with heat and congestion in the head

Looseness of the teeth

Ulcers in the gums, with swelling of the cheeks

Toothache < at night, < drawing cold air into mouth.

Fetid smell of the mouth, like rotten cheese

Piercing pain in the velum palati

Tongue swollen; with scirrhus-like hardness; after biting tongue in sleep

Tongue coated; dry; ulcerated.

Caries in the palate, with ulcers of a bluish colour, esp. after the abuse of mercury

Tonsils swollen and ulcerated

Drinks find a passage through the nostrils

Stinging soreness in throat only when swallowing

Dull, pressive pain, either with or without swallowing, in a gland below angle of jaw.

Milky or sweetish taste

Loathing of food, and esp. of meat

Great desire for coffee

Excessive hunger and thirst

No appetite for plain food in pining boys.

Pain in the stomach, as if proceeding from hunger

Immoderate appetite and thirst, with qualmishness in the stomach

Sensation of indescribable uneasiness in the epigastrium

Swelling of the epigastrium and of the hypochondria, with shooting pains on being touched

Burning at stomach and hot eructations

Burning, drawing, and cutting pain; pressure

Pressure to l. of scrobiculum, below cartilages of upper false ribs;

< during expiration.

Burning heat and cutting pain in r. hypochondrium

Colic with sensation of great uneasiness and inclination to evacuate

Tensive aching and fulness in the abdomen

Abdomen inflated

Exostosis in the pelvis

Tendency of hernia to protrude, sometimes with cramp-like pains and incarcerated flatus

Swelling and suppuration of the inguinal glands from syphilis or the use of mercury

Windy colic by night, with pinching, grumbling, and borborygmi

Frequent emission of very fetid wind.

Copious evacuation

Nocturnal diarrhoea

Nightly diarrhoea, with burning in the rectum

Constipation; stool very large in size, or very hard and knotty.

Painful retention of urine, with urgent inclination to make water, and pressure on the bladder

Frequent emission of watery urine

Urine turbid, like butter-milk, with thick mucus-like sediment.

Sexual desire greatly increased

The whole genital system is strongly affected

Nocturnal erections and pollutions

Flow of prostatic fluid, with flaccidity of the penis

Swelling of the (lower part) of the testicle (r)

Swelling of the testes, with aching pain on touching and rubbing

Induration of the testes

Testes mere pendant shreds (in pining boys)

Hydrocele

Bubo

Chancre.

Pains in the abdomen, as if the catamenia were coming

Prolapsus and induration of the matrix

Uterine affections with depression and tendency to suicide

Menses too late; and scanty or absent

Drawing pain in pubes; r. inguinal region sore to touch

Before menses: swelling of axillary glands

During menses: colic; prolapse of rectum

Leucorrhoea: profuse and corroding, yellow; thick white, not offensive, < by walking

During pregnancy: suicidal melancholia; jaundice.

Accumulation of mucus in the trachea and in the chest, which is expectorated with difficulty in the morning

Voice nasal

Cough from want of breath at night

Cough with tough yellow sputum on awaking in morning.

Great difficulty of respiration at night, and on walking in the open air, requiring deep inspirations

Paroxysms of suffocation, with constrictive oppression of the chest, falling, loss of sense, and bluish colour of the face

Pain, as if there were a plug placed under the ribs

Continuous aching in l. side of the chest

Incisive pain, and obtuse shootings, near the sternum

Great weight on chest; esp. heavy weight on sternum

Much congestion in the chest.

Anxious palpitation of the heart, from congestion to the chest

Beatings of the heart, irregular, or by fits, sometimes with anguish and oppression of the chest

Pain in heart region extending down l. arm to fingers

Floundering heart

When walking, the heart seems to shake as if it were loose

Sensation as if the heart stood still

Palpitation compels him to stop.

Swollen cervical glands

Tension in neck as if muscles too short, even at rest;

< stooping

Stinging pains in small of back

Gressus gallinaceous (in spine disease)

Pain at lower part of spine

Pains, generally passive, or drawing and acute, in the back, chiefly in the morning, and sometimes so violent as to prevent any motion of the limbs.

Limbs go to sleep; numb, insensible on waking; more when lying than moving

Has to seize hold of l. arm during attack of palpitation

Limbs swollen, painful, almost anchylosed.

Boring in l. shoulder

Aching pains in the arms and in the forearms

Cramp-like and acute drawing pains in the bones of the carpus and of the metacarpus

Acute drawing pains and paralytic weakness in the bones and joints of the fingers

Palms itch; herpes; nails turn blue.

Coxalgia

Sharp pains in the thighs, esp. morning and evening

Paralytic and painful weakness of the knees, as if a bandage were tightly compressed above them; they are feeble and give way

Drawing pains and acute pullings, with paralytic weakness, in the bones and the joints of the toes

Nodes; caries.

Weary, but cannot rest or sleep

Drowsiness after meals

Nocturnal sleep till four o'clock in the morning only

Awakened by bone pains; in despair

Fatigue and weakness in the morning on waking

Restless sleep, with anxious dreams; of thieves

Nocturnal mumbling in the form of questions.

Pulse small, but accelerated

Febrile shiverings over the whole body, while in bed in the evening, followed neither by heat nor thirst

Cold of the entire body, with bluish colour of the nails, nauseous taste, with inclination to vomit, sometimes followed by an increase of heat

Heat of the face, with cold in the hands and feet

Copious general perspiration early in the morning; mostly about genitals.