Sanicula Aqua
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General
Sanicula.
Sanicula aqua. A Mineral Spring Water of Ottawa, Ill., U.S.A. (Containing, approximately, in grains per gallon—Nat. m. 93, Calc. m. 23 1/2, Mag. m. 23 1/4, Calc. bicarb. 14 1/4, Calc. sul. 9 1/2, K. sul. 5, Nat. bicarb. 1, Nat. bro. 1/3, Fe. bicarb. 1/10, Nat. iod. 1/12, Sil. 1/2, Alumina 1/100, and traces of Lith. bicarb., Nat. ph., Borax.) Dilutions of the spring water. Triturations of the evaporated salt. [This remedy has sometimes been confounded with the plant Sanicula Marylandica, Black Snake-root.]
Clinical
Amenorrhoea. Anterior crural neuralgia. Asthma. Bee-stings.
Boils; blind. Borborygmus. Coccyx, soreness of. Condylomata.
Conjunctivitis. Constipation: of children. Cornea, ulceration of. Coryza.
Cough. Dandriff. Debility. Diabetes.
Digestion slow. Dropsy; during pregnancy. Eczema. Emaciation.
Enuresis. Excoriations. Foot-sweat. Gastritis.
Gum-boil. Headache. Indigestion. Influenza.
Intermittents. (Intestinal sand.) Itch; suppressed. Itching. Leucorrhoea.
Liver, soreness of. Lumbago. Melancholy. Milk, thin.
Mouth, sore. Neuralgia. Neurasthenia. Night terrors.
Nose, crusts in. Ophthalmia; tarsi. Os uteri, dilated. Ossification, too early.
Ozaena. Perspiration, excessive. Pot-bellied children. Pregnancy, sickness of; dropsy of.
Rectum, cramp in. Rheumatism. Rickets. Scurvy.
Sea-sickness. Shoulders, rheumatism of. Throat, sore. Tongue, ringworm of; burning.
Toothache. Uterus, prolapse of; soreness of; (tumour of). Vomiting, of milk; of water.
Wrist, boils on.
Characteristics
The water of Sanicula spring is without odour or colour, and has an agreeable and slightly alkaline taste. It was proved by J. G. Gundlach, who, with his family, drank it for more than a year.
Writing in H. P., September, 1890, Gundlach says: Though some five years since the proving was made, we all (that is, my family) still suffer from the effects, and I fear never will fully get over them, as nearly all the symptoms still recur." Sherbino proved Sanic. in the potencies, and a large number of the symptoms of both provings have been confirmed. We have in Sanic. one of the best-proved remedies of the materia medica, a polychrest and antipsoric of wide range. My Schema is taken from the arrangement of Frank W.
Patch in Med. Adv., xxviii. 16l. Brackets indicate cured symptoms. The cachexia of Sanic. is its most pronounced feature—weakness, emaciation, itching, ill-nourished skin, pimply face, "dirty, greasy, and brownish" appearance of body, scrofulous ophthalmia and scrofulous eruptions, cold, clammy hands and feet, foul-smelling foot-sweat, profuse sweat of back of head and neck, hair dry and lustreless, thick dandriff on scalp and eyebrows, slow digestion, constipation, or else diarrhoea, stools turning green, pot-bellied, rickety children.
On the other hand, when taken by a pregnant woman, Sanic. has caused premature closing of sutures and fontanelles prior to birth. The mental state of the Sanic. cachexia is characterised by lack of energy, with no stability of purpose; jumping from one work to another, never finishing anything. There is also much depression, with sense of impending misfortune. Children are stubborn, wilful, get angry and throw themselves backward.
Digestion is slow. Children vomit milk or thick curds soon after nursing. The menses are irregular, delayed, scanty, and attended with pain. Nervous sensibility is exaggerated, and there is general and local intolerance on least jar.
This has led to its successful use in train-sickness and sea-sickness. The low vitality of Sanic. is evidenced in the cold clamminess of other parts besides hands and feet. Sherbino [J. of Hcs. (Hitchcock's), ii. 147] relates this case: Mr.
F. had neuralgia of coccyx, sacrum, and lumbar region, < by any movement, turning in bed, rising from chair, stooping; > keeping still. Parts sore to touch. Cold sensation in lumbar and sacral regions as if there were a cold cloth there.
Feet cold and clammy. Sanic. 10m cured after other remedies failed. The foot-sweat occurs between the toes, making them sore, as well as on the soles, which are as if one had stepped in cold water On the other hand, there may be "burning of the soles, must uncover or put them in a cool place," and "child kicks off clothing even in coldest weather." The odours of Sanic. are characteristic. The stool has an odour of rotten cheese, and no amount of washing will get rid of it.
The flatus has the same odour. Vaginal discharges and condylomata of penis have an odour of fish brine. This has led to a number of cures. The digestive tract is greatly disordered by Sanic.
Food has a long after-taste; turns sour. Children vomit milk looking like "Schmierkäse." Appetite is increased—hungry before meals—or disordered. Craves salt; craves fat bacon, which <. Eating = desire for stool; must leave the table.
Great thirst; drinks little and often; vomits as soon as it reaches the stomach. Incontinence of urine and faeces. Urging from flatus, must cross legs to prevent faeces escaping. Sanic. is as great a remedy in constipation as in diarrhoea.
There is no desire for stool till a long accumulation has occurred. After great straining stool partially expelled recedes. Large evacuation of small, dry, grey balls, which have to be removed mechanically. Stool square, as if carved with a knife.
The diarrhoea is changeable in character and colour: Like scrambled eggs; frothy, grass-green; turns green on standing; like scum of frog-pond. There is excoriation of skin about anus, perinaeum, and genitals. As well as weakness of rectum and bladder, there is uterine weakness and bearing down as if contents of pelvis would escape; must place hand to vulva to prevent it. Walking, misstep, or jar < this, and also soreness of the uterus.
Sherbino (M. A., xxvi. 133) relates the case of Mrs. X., who had been in poor health a number of years. Tall, anaemic.
Has to urinate too often and too profusely, rises several times in night. Urine clear, pale. Has leucorrhoea, profuse, changeable in colour, at times milky, then yellow, < during stool. Weak and prostrated, rumbling in bowels before meals, > after eating and when stomach is full.
Hands cold, clammy; also feet, < in cold weather; stockings always damp. Two doses of Sanic., 10m and then 50m, cured all the trouble. H. C.
Morrow regards Sanic. as the chronic of Cham. (H. R., ix. 253). He records the case of a baby who had been ill through a summer with diarrhoea.
Morrow cured it with Sanic. 50m (F.), a peculiar symptom in the case being that the boy wanted to lie on something hard, thin as he was. Morrow had himself suffered since a boy from effects of suppressed itch. Among his symptoms were—"felt as if he had on cold, damp stockings," and "sweat about the head and neck when asleep, wetting the pillow far around." Calc. gave no relief. Sherbino advised Sanic., and after taking it Morrow was in better health than he had been for twenty years.
Morrow also relates these cases (M. A., xxiv. 47): (1) A lady was constipated a year. Had to strain very hard to expel the stool; at times faeces so large, hard, and dry, she was compelled to pick it out with the fingers. Sanic. relieved.
(2) A fig-wart on glans penis, with a discharge from its surface which smelled like fish brine. Sanic. cured. Gundlach relates (M. A., xxvi. 97) these cases: (1) Mrs.
K. felt an attack of fever impending. Sad and despondent. Had fever the previous night with headache, but no thirst. Mouth dry, tongue coated, bad breath inside lips and cheeks many little aphthous ulcers; no appetite bowels constipated; tired, numb, lame feeling in all limbs; chilly, craves warmth, yet head feels better in open air.
Sanic. 10m, every three hours, cured. (2) Mr. C. complained that the roof of his mouth felt scalded, < taking anything warm in mouth, especially hot drink. Smokers have this kind of sore mouth, but patient was not a smoker.
Gundlach remembered his own similar symptoms of the proving, and gave Sanic. 10m, which promptly removed the condition. (Sanic. causes a burning of the tongue so intense that it must be put out to cool: here again is the "< by warmth" of the mouth). (3) Gundlach's horse was out of health, would not eat, bowels constipated, stools dark and scant. Tired, rubbed his tail at every opportunity till nearly all the hair was rubbed off.
A veterinarian diagnosed "lampers," and said the gums would be found swollen and sore, and would need scarifying. The gums were found sore and swollen, mouth slimy, tongue coated. Sanic. 10m was given thrice daily, and no scarifying was needed. He was well in a few days.
Sherbino (M.. A., xxvi. 135) removed with Sanic. 10m and 50m these symptoms in a man suffering from the after-effects of influenza and much drugging: Soreness through stomach and liver region. Liver enlarged, great tenderness to pressure or jar. Could not laugh without supporting stomach and bowels.
> When stomach full, < when it was empty. G. M. Chase (M.
A., xxiv. 336) relates a case of acute gastric catarrh. Patient had had repeated attacks lasting three to seven days. Two doses of Sanic. cured. The mental symptoms were the chief guides: Irritable, least word or action would "upset" her.
Misconstrues everything. Melancholy, sad, depressed, no energy. Fever but no thirst. Headache, cannot bear light or noise.
Offensive breath, but not from teeth. Rheumatic pains in shoulders, < left, extending to chest. Only > from heat; patient sat with back to the fire. Gundlach (M.
A., xxiii. 381) relates this similar case: Mrs. W., 55, after a violent cold two days before, had great pain in muscles of neck, shoulders, and upper back, pain constant, but made sharp by attempts to put her hands to her head or behind her. Could not look round without turning whole body. < From cold or motion;
> from warmth and rest until she gets tired of holding head and body in one position, when she would have to move it. Sanic. 30 made a rapid cure. C. M.
Boger (M. Couns., xvi. 265) relates the case of a light-haired carpenter, 35, who had hacking cough from trachea after rising in morning, also in evening. Sneezing occasionally during day. Crusty sores in right nostril.
Dull pain in frontal sinuses, < stooping. Aching in muscles of whole back, stitches upward, < from motion. Foot-sweat, making feet sore, stiffens stockings, destroys shoes. Itching eruption over sternum.
Itching pimples on coccyx. Sanic. 10m (F. C.) cured. Gundlach (M.
A., xxiii. 382) relates these two cases of constipation. (1) Mr. A., always accustomed to take pills. No stool, nor desire, for five days.
Dull frontal headache with vertigo; stooping or getting up suddenly = vertigo. When walking gets blind and dizzy, has to stand still till it passes off. Poor appetite; tongue large and flabby, coated yellowish. Bad taste in morning; at times stomach full and oppressed after eating; accumulation of gas.
Stool scanty and requires great effort to expel. "Not done" sensation after stool. Sanic. 10m cured promptly and completely. (2) Miss R., 20, constipated all her life.
Goes a week without desire. Great effort required to expel stool, which would at times slip back. Sanic. 30 helped at once. W.
J. Guernsey (M. A., xxiii. 382) relates several cases of bowel disorder in children. (1) R., aged one month, has sore mouth.
Jumps on waking from sleep. Stool difficult with straining. Sanic. 10m cured in a few days. Three months later same child had swelling about eyes.
Discharge of water from nose. Rubs nose constantly, looking frightened. Sanic. 10m cured in five doses. (2) B., four months, stools loose, green.
Restless at night. Losing flesh. Eyes look very heavy. Has had sore mouth removed by the mother with Borax wash, Sanic. 10m, 50m, and cm, gradually cured.
(3) S., aged seven months, stool loose and copious. Stool becomes pale on standing. Urinates much. Vomits large chunks of milk.
Wakens screaming in fright. Sanic. 10m. All symptoms disappeared, but a large carbuncle appeared on right buttock, which, however, was less painful than its size would indicate, opened in five openings and discharged within a week, rapid recovery following. Guernsey chose Sanic. on the italicised symptom, being the direct opposite of the special Sanic. condition, and as it is noted under no other remedy.
Opposites as well as similars may serve as indications. Gundlach (H. P., xiii. 158) reports these cases: (1) Printer, 40, suffering for some weeks from results of overwork. Dull pain in forehead over eyes feels as if eyes being driven back into head;
< in warm, close room by application of mind; > in open air. Mind wanders when trying to apply it. Cannot keep at any one thing.
No appetite. Bad taste, tongue coated white, < morning. Dry mouth, no thirst. Fears he will lose his reason.
Sanic. 10m cured. (2) Mrs. H., 45, constantly chilly mingled with flushes of heat. Chills < moving, even turning in bed;
> by external warmth. Chills at irregular times; spread from below up. During chill wants to be covered; during heat wants covers off. Pains and aching in limbs, feels sore and bruised, both flesh and bones; can't put hands to head or behind for pain in shoulders.
Head dull, heavy. Warmth > pains, but < head. Bad taste; wants sour things; some thirst with fever; urine dark, scanty. Sanic. 10m cured.
J. V. Allen (H. P., ix. 380) observed that in the eye cases of Sanic. there is marked photophobia without much inflammation.
The cases he cured had these symptoms: Must close eyes continually; with this an awful discharge of thick, yellowish, greenish matter, excoriating any part it touches. In one child there was as well greenish nasal discharge, excoriating nostrils and lips. Peculiar Sensations are: Head as if open and wind went through it. Of cold cloth round brain.
Of scalp all drawn up to vertex. Coldness in throat. Throat as if too large. Back as if in two pieces.
Lumbar vertebrae as if gliding past each other, especially when rocking in a chair. Feeling of distraction. There is great fear of the dark; constant desire to look behind her. Dreams of robbers.
"Stool full of jagged particles" suggests the condition known as "intestinal sand." Square stool is also peculiar. The symptoms are < by touch. Child cannot bear to be approached. In bed one cannot bear to lie near or touch another.
Cannot bear to have one part touch another; sweat where parts (as crossed thighs) touch. Part lain on sweats. Must loosen clothing. Slight pressure < more than hard.
< From strain; from riding in cars. < Descending. < Motion; raising arms; putting arms behind back; working. < Misstep, walking, jar.
Cough = bursting in vertex. > Rest. < Leaning head forward; > leaning it back.
Awakes at night with arms under head. On waking child rubs eyes and nose with fist. Light and noise <. Eating <; urging to stool whilst eating.
Also < before eating (hunger); and > after breakfast; and when stomach full. Swallowing <. > Vomiting. < At noon.
> In open air. < Warm room (head and skin symptoms chiefly). > Warmth; wraps up head in cold weather. < Becoming cool after running (pain in jaw).
< From draught of air, especially cold air. Cannot bear cold wind on back of head or neck. < Change, especially to damp weather, Periodicity, chills every other day. Symptoms of the proving recurred repeatedly during five years.
Smoking < eructations, > nausea. Pains go right to left; front to back; and back to front; shift much.
Relations
W. J. Guernsey considers Sanic. the chronic of Cham. Compare: The constituents of the water, especially Nat. m. and Calc.
Dread of downward motion, Brx. Head sweat, Calc., Sil. Soreness behind ears, viscid discharge, Graph., Pso. Ringworm on tongue, Nat. m., Ran. sc., Tarax.
Drinks little and often, vomits as soon as it reaches stomach, Ars. Symptoms change constantly, Lac c., Puls. Sphincter not under control, Alo. Stool recedes, Sil., Thu.; must be removed mechanically, Sel.; crumbling at anus, Mg. m.
Odour of stool follows despite bathing, Sul. Excoriation about anus, Sul., Lyc., Cham. Places hand on vulva for support, Lil. t., Murex. Offensive foot-sweat, Graph., Pso., Sil.
Burning soles, Lach., Med., Sang., Sul., Calc. Kicks off clothing in coldest weather, Hep., Sul. Skin of neck wrinkled, hangs in folds, Abrot., Iod., Nat. m., Sars. Vomits "Schmierkäse"; falls asleep after vomiting, Aethus.
Fishbrine odour, Calc. (rectum), Graph. (scab of ulcer), Med. (moisture from anus), Tell.
(ear discharge), (Trimeth.). Stool when eating, Fer., Trombid. Cough from laughing or talking, Pho., Arg. n. Sweet expectoration, Sang., Stan, < Lifting arms, Bar. c., Con., Cup., Fer., Led.
Symptoms increase to noon and decrease after, Sang., Spig. Dreams of robbers, Nat. m. Cries before urinating, Lyc. Fears darkness, Grindel., Stram.
Fears touch, Cin., Ant. t., Arn. Seasickness and train-sickness, Arn., Cocc., Tab. Headache from nape to eyes, Sil., Sang. Wraps up head, Mg. m., Sil., Pso.
Mental restlessness when reading, Dros. Depression with feeling of impending misfortune, Calc. Irritability, Cham., Con. Child rubs nose and eyes on waking, Scil.
Hair lustreless, Alm., K. ca. Clinkers, K. bi.
Causation
Strains. Jarring.
Mind
Instability of purpose
Constantly changing his occupation
Want of energy
Forgetful
Depression; mind wanders from one subject to another, even when conversing
Nervous irritability
Misconstrues actions of others
Child headstrong and obstinate, crying and kicking, esp. 9 p.m. to 12
Headstrong crossness quickly alternating with laughter and playfulness in children
Intense depression; feels no one admires her, every one hates her, wants nothing to do with any one, most trifling cares unbearable
Fear of impending misfortune
Restless desire to go from place to place; great aversion to darkness
Constant irresistible desire to look behind her
Feels like cursing (intermittent fever).—(Child wants to be in constant motion night and day.)
Averse to be touched
Restless; no > from moving
Easily upset by slight word or act
Forgets common details of recent occupation
Dreads work on account of weakness and exhaustion.)
Head
Queer, mad, crazy feeling in head
Vertigo: on rising from stooping; while sitting at table or desk; after eating; with nausea, must lean head against something to keep from falling
Giddy while kneading with rush of blood to head and desire for cool air
Faint, smothering, sensation with great desire for open air
Seasick sensation after riding on horseback in the dark
Nervous, drunken sensation.—(Blindness and dizziness when walking
Downward motion of elevator = feeling of everything giving way under her, and as if top of head would fly off.)
Dull, heavy feeling in head; rising from nape and extending to forehead and eyes; on waking
Sensation on waking in morning as having lain on a hard board
Dull frontal headache with sharp, shooting pain from r. side of occiput to r. forehead and eye, ending in a sensation that the eye was clutched and pulled back for a moment
Dull frontal headache, < leaning head forward (reading or writing), or in warm, close room;
> leaning head back and in cool, open air
Headache changes r. to l
Pain in head < from draught of air, esp. if cold
Sensation that the head was open and the wind went through it
Sometimes wraps head up, even in summer, to protect it from wind
Headache < lying down;
> riding in open air
Dull, constant ache in frontal bone, < over l. eye
Pain shifts from forehead to back of head
Cold feeling in brain
Sensation of cold cloth round brain.—(Headache every week, lasts two or three days, with nausea and vomiting
Headache from vertex down to occiput
Pain from upper portion of spine around under jaws to throat, with contracted feeling, < r. side and from swallowing
Neuralgic pains about head and face after exposure to warm or cold winds
Pain from back of head to face, at times from as far down as shoulders, < r. side
Headache < from light or noise
Neuralgic pains over r. eye.)
Scalp feels contracted from back and forepart to vertex; skin of forehead contracted, frowning, causing desire to raise eyebrows and lean head back;
< towards noon, > evening;
< motion, leaning head forward, noise, jar, misstep;
> rest, lying down, sleep
Occiput sensitive to pressure
Great accumulation of dandriff on top of head, with itching on getting head warm; cannot endure cold wind about back of head or neck
Child sweats profusely about back of head and neck during sleep, wetting pillow all around
Hair thin, scanty, dry, lustreless
Hair electric, crackling when combed.—(Falling out of hair
Small boils on head that do not mature.)
Eyes
Sight dim, sometimes sees double, or letters run together
Sensation as though a white cloud passed over eyes, with loss of sight and faintness
Eyes feel weak and sore on waking in morning, light painful at first
Eyes burn, exuding a sticky fluid, which in a few hours dries on the margins of the lids, forming white scales
Burning and smarting of canthi
Lids red and inflamed
Small reddish ulcers on r. lower lid, which burn after removal of the yellow scabs
Ulceration of margins of lids, also extending over half r. upper lid, with photophobia, itching, and burning
Awakes with dryness of whole eye and sensation that eyeball is sticking to lid
Catarrhal ophthalmia, with profuse yellow discharge; first l. eye, then r
Lids agglutinated in morning
Eyes sore on motion
Cornea ulcerated
Photophobia
Eyes < at night
Catarrhal conjunctivitis, lids swollen, eyeballs red.—(Chronic sore eyes
Scrofulous ophthalmia
Eye symptoms > morning, < noon, still < as day advances
Lachrymation in the wind, in cool air, or from cool application
Great swelling of lids, great effort required to keep them open.)
Ears
Eustachian catarrh.—Stuffed feeling in l. ear.—(Soreness behind ears with discharge of white, gluey, sticky substance.)
Nose
Nose sore and stuffed with yellow scabs
Discharge: thin, acrid drops; thick, yellowish, green, profuse; thick, honey-like scabs; white, tenacious, stringy; clots of black blood; bloody ichor; copious, yellow;
< indoors and after eating
Sneezing and itching of nose
Soreness, tenderness, or ulceration of alae
Squeaking from before backward after blowing nose.
Face
Small red pimples, mostly on l. cheek
Constant dull pain along superior maxillary bone, extending to l. temple, > from warmth, < from cold
Dull ache in upper r. jaw on becoming cool after running
Constant dull pain on side of face and temple; drawing of muscles
Faceache, r. side, in upper jaw and teeth, extending to temple, < cold or hot drinks, and least wind about head or face
Acne about eye and cheek
Excoriation of upper lip.—(Profuse, scaly dandriff on eyebrows., and beard
Large scabs on upper lip, constantly picking them till they bleed.)
Itching eruptions in beard, esp. under chin;
< when warm
Vesicular eruption on lips and chin.
Teeth
Teeth sensitive to cold air, as if they were very thin
Gums sore and painful;
< from eating
Gumboils.—(Teeth feel too long
Pain in r. dental nerve extending to head and neck; feels that if she could pick the teeth out and cause bleeding they would improve: < at night and from lying down; must get up and walk about; momentary > clenching jaws.)
Mouth
On awaking, dark brown streak down centre of tongue, which is furred and dry like leather
Sides of tongue turn up
Tongue adheres to roof of mouth
Thick yellow coating on back of tongue
Disagreeable pappy taste in mouth in morning
Under surface of tongue a mass of painful ulcers
Bread tastes dry and flat
Tongue large, flabby.—(Burning of tongue, must protrude it to keep it cool
Ringworm on tongue.)
Roof of mouth feels raw;
< from warm or hot drinks, food, &c
Large, painful ulcers on centre of roof of mouth
Mouth and inside of lips a mass of painful ulcers; child can take no food
Great dryness of mouth and throat, without thirst
Swelling of sublingual glands, with occasional discharge of a teaspoonful of salt liquid
Breath offensive.—(White aphthae on lips and in mouth, which can be scraped off with finger
Scurvy with profuse salivation in daytime;
< night
Profuse flow of white, clear, transparent, stringy saliva when cutting teeth;
< when awake and in day;
> when asleep and in night
Burning in mouth; better from cold water or drawing in cool air
Sore mouth of children, with atrophy, white appearance like curdled milk.)
Throat
Ulcers with yellowish base on tonsils
Soreness on both sides of uvula, passing up posterior nares, with pains on swallowing
Throat and posterior wall of pharynx of a purple colour
Grey exudate on posterior wall of pharynx
Coughing out of large clinkers in morning that had clogged posterior nares for forty-eight hours; tough, like boiled cartilage streaked with blood
Fluent catarrh from posterior nares during day, dry at night
Greyish catarrhal secretion, < in morning after eating, must leave table to clear throat
Cold sensation in throat, as though a piece of ice had been held there
Throat feels too large
Hoarseness following sore throat; must clear throat before speaking
Dryness of throat;
> swallowing saliva or water
Dryness and roughness after sleeping in a draught
Constant desire to moisten the parts, but cannot
Can swallow solid better than fluid.—(Sensation in pharynx and uvula as though he had inhaled peppermint
Choking sensation in throat as from a breadcrumb.)
Appetite
Great longing for the spring water
Child wants to nurse all the time, yet loses flesh
Child craves meat, fat bacon, &c., which <
Craving for salt
Loss of desire for bread, unless fresh baked
Splendid appetite; gets very hungry before mealtime
No appetite for breakfast
Child frantic when it sees the glass of water; drinks large quantities greedily.—(Thirst for small quantity very often, which is vomited almost as soon as it reaches stomach
Loss of appetite, no desire for anything but water.)
Feels better after eating.
Stomach
Bloating of stomach on beginning to eat
Feels terribly stuffed after a meal
Shortly after nursing food all comes up with a gush, and child drops into a stupid sleep
Fulness and bloating of stomach soon after eating, esp. supper, or after taking acids; must loosen clothing
Cannot taste food for hours after eating
Food turns sour and rancid, with burning desire for water, which > for short time only, then <
Eructations, sour, rancid, burning, < after smoking, of tasteless gas, which gives some relief
Nausea after eating with sick feeling, > from smoking
Sudden nausea while eating, vomits all the food taken
Vomiting >
Child vomits milk looking like "Schmierkäse"; falls asleep after vomiting
Vomiting of large, tough curds, like the white of a hard-boiled egg
Vomiting of milk soon after nursing
Child vomits after drinking cold water.—(Nausea and vomiting from riding in cars or close carriage, with desire for open air
Seasickness.)
Nausea and cramp in stomach on awaking at night or in morning, or after rising in morning, like "morning sickness";
> after breakfast
Bloating of stomach on beginning to eat
Sensation of a lump in stomach.—(Soreness through stomach, sensitive to pressure and jar, cannot laugh without holding his stomach and bowels, < when stomach is empty.)
Abdomen
Gurgling in l. hypochondrium, passing down descending colon;
< before meals
Sore, sensitive pain beginning at l. of umbilicus, going around to spine in three days;
< from touch; at point where pain ceased, appearance of a vesicular eruption which gradually worked back to umbilicus, with burning and stinging
Soreness through hepatic region
Enlargement of liver, sensitive to pressure and jar
Rumbling in l. side of abdomen at 9 p.m
Gurgling like distant thunder along course of large intestine
Bowels bloated as if they would burst
Sore pains in groins beneath Poupart's ligaments, after walking.—(Rumbling in bowels before meals;
> after eating
Pot-bellied children, abdomen is the largest part of them.)
Stool And Anus
No desire for stool for three or four days
After intense straining the stool, which was nearly evacuated, recedes
Even soft stool requires great effort to expel
Large evacuation of small, dry, grey balls; must be removed by fingers lest it rupture the sphincter
Great pain in perinaeum while at stool as though it would burst; whole perinaeum sore and burning for some hours after stool
Slim, yellow stool at least ten inches long, not requiring much effort
Stool feels full of jagged particles, very painful, lacerating anus and causing soreness and bleeding
Stools small and infrequent, first part hard and dry, latter part soft
Constipation with ineffectual urging
Impossible to evacuate the stool, which is of greyish-white balls, like burnt lime, hard and crumbling, with odour of rotten cheese; it must be removed mechanically
Yellow, soft, wedge-shaped stool, like an almond nut, without power to expel
Stool of large lumps of undigestible caseine, ragged or shaggy, smelling like rotten or limburger cheese
Stool resembling scrambled eggs
Thin portion of stool frothy and of a grass-green colour; whole mass turns green after standing
Stools green, frothy, watery, like the scum of a frog pond.—(Child's stools changeable; watery, yellow, green.)
At 9.30 p.m. copious diarrhoea with urging and haste; stool yellow and fetid as after eating onions
Soft, sticky, mushy stool twice each day
Stools as often as food is taken, must hurry from table after each meal
Cramping pain in colon and rectum
Urging from flatus, must cross legs to prevent stool from escaping.—(Persistent odour somewhat resembling that of decaying cheese about the child, not removed by bathing; diarrhoea
Pain before stool, some > after it
Pain during stool.—"Not done" sensation after stools
Stool becomes pale on standing.)
Stool square, as if carved with a knife.—(Excoriation of skin about anus, extending out on each side of nates, genital organs, and groins; skin very raw, like beef, with watery discharge
No control over sphincter, often soils himself while standing, running, at play, or even at night
Stool escapes when passing flatus.)
Urinary Organs
Frequent desire for urination with profuse discharge, comes suddenly with sensation that urine was at meatus
Great effort necessary to retain urine, at times impossible, yet if the desire is resisted the urging ceases
Cramp-like pain along course of l. ureter, when trying to retain urine, compelling him to stand, although he cannot stand erect on account of the pains
Sensation that a hard body like a lead pencil were being forced upward and backward from bladder to kidney; it gradually passes away some fifteen minutes after urination
Voids large quantities of pale urine of low specific gravity
Urgent calls to urinate as if bladder would burst
Child strains to urinate while at stool
Urine of child scanty, voided at long intervals
Child cries before urinating
Urine stains diaper red.
Male Sexual Organs
Increased sexual desire at first, then much decreased
Discharge of semen too early with little sensation
A few hours after intercourse an odour of fish brine about the glans, sometimes lasting a day or two
Child's parts smell of fish brine even after bathing
Scrotum relaxed, clammy sweat about parts.—(Fig-wart on glans penis, sycosis, with discharge from its surface smelling like fish brine
Copper-coloured, syphilitic sores.)
Female Sexual Organs
A few hours after intercourse appearance of a slight watery discharge from vagina with odour of fish brine, lasting about twenty-four hours; not removed by bathing
Leucorrhoea with strong odour of fish brine
Menses irregular
Menses always late, come on with grinding or dilating pain in lower abdomen, with soreness of womb; pain in back > when flow established; tumour size of hen's egg, l. side of womb just above cervix, come on since the passing
Menstrual blood first pale red thin and watery, then dark and clotted
Cramp-like pains like "after-pains" in uterine region before menses, ceasing after flow
Pain just above sacrum < before the flow and from motion;
> from rest
Weakness in lower part of abdomen with bearing down as if contents would escape;
< from walking, motion, misstep, or jar;
> from rest and lying down
Womb sensitive to jar
Desire to support the relaxed parts by placing the hand against vulva.—(Shoots: from l. side of pelvis across pelvic region, also to under l. breast.)
Soreness of womb
Menses suppressed with morning sickness
Vagina feels large
Cannot stop menstruation.—(Leucorrhoea profuse changeable in colour; milky, yellow, &c., < during stool.)
During pregnancy: swelling of lower limbs at third month, < evening; swelling and stiffness of hands and feet, particularly of l. side during pregnancy; feet pit on pressure; sad, tearful disposition; after standing, sensation that the os uteri is opening or dilating, with drawing at inside of thighs
Os uteri dilated to size of half dollar three weeks before labour
Child's head hard and compact when born, with no sign of suture or posterior fontanelle
Milk thin, watery, acid reaction.
Respiratory Organs
Larynx sensitive to pressure, esp. l. side, with dry, tickling cough
Stuffed feeling on awaking in morning; unable to speak for a time
Hoarseness.—(Complete aphonia, must speak in a whisper
Raw feeling in trachea, < after expectoration of large clumps of mucus
Sensation in trachea on swallowing as though a hard substance were present, like a stone.)
Cough: deep, hollow cough, with loud rattling, caused by tickling under sternum
Tickling on lying down at night and on awaking
Irritation to cough felt worst at r. of middle chest
Rattling cough, child gags and vomits a mouthful of tough, stringy matter
Cough from laughing or talking;
< in warm room; in morning;
> in open air
Cough = bursting feeling in vertex
Expectoration: yellow; sweet; of large cheesy masses that sink in water; profuse in morning and after meals; of shaggy lumps; loose and lasting all day.
Chest
Asthmatic breathing, < after supper
Wheezing, rattling under sternum, < during or after eating
Tickling under sternum
Great soreness of upper chest, when coughing must hold it with hands.—(Burning from throat to lungs.)
Sudden attack of a terrible sensation of a burden on chest; for a few moments it seems as if she would burst, gradually followed by an intense depression of spirits
Eruption on chest over the ensiform appendix, size of a shilling, with intense itching.
Neck And Back
Small, painful boil on l. side of back of neck, not inclined to suppurate
Neck so weak and emaciated that child cannot hold its head up
Muscles of back of neck seem too short; weakness and all-gone sensation in small of back
Skin about neck wrinkles and hangs in folds
Dull, aching pains between scapulae on awaking in morning, as if he had lain in a cramped position all night
Deep-seated pain in muscles of spine, esp. toward l. side
Soreness and stiffness in back, which is not affected by breathing;
> from motion
Rheumatic pains in shoulders, esp. l., the only > is from heat, patient sits with back to fire
Pain < from moving shoulders or lifting arms up; cannot place arms on head or behind body
Sharp pain from least turning; must hold himself stiff and turn whole body in order to look around
Inclines head forward to case pain in muscles at back of neck
Sharp pain at inner angle of l. scapula on putting head back
L. scapular region very sore
Weak, tired, broken sensation in lumbar region, coming on just after rising in morning, and gradually increasing till noon, then decreasing till its disappearance, about 6 or 7 p.m
Sensation in lower lumbar region that the vertebrae were gliding past each other, felt esp. when rocking in a chair
A dislocated sensation in last lumbar vertebra
Backache, with burning sensation across lumbar and sacral regions;
> from gentle exercise or lying flat on back;
< when sitting
Region of coccyx sore, as if excoriated
Coldness along spine;
< on going into cool air or when sitting still;
> from external warmth and motion
Back very painful at noon
Sensation that the back is in two pieces
Back becomes tired and weak from walking over snow
After a strain, lameness and stiffness of back in morning;
> after moving about
Catch in back on reaching or straining
Gooseflesh on back
Small boils on back that do not mature.
Limbs
Restlessness with pains in joints
Stiffness and pain in limbs when rising in morning;
< on first beginning to move.—(Numb feeling in limbs)
Cold, clammy sweat on limbs.
Upper Limbs
Constant pain in r. shoulder-joint;
< from motion
Constant dull pain in r. arm and shoulder, with a sense of coldness from elbow up
Sore, bruised feeling on outer side of l. forearm and hand;
< by slight pressure more than by hard
Drawing pain on outside of upper arm to elbow on lifting arm;
< on rising in morning and from a change to damp weather
Cannot raise arm or put it behind him on account of sharp pains
Large oval spot on ulnar side of l. arm, of dusky colour, attended with itching; it turns red after scratching
Gooseflesh on arms
Boils on wrist that do not mature, hard and painful, but not very red; pain extends to axilla
Profuse sweat in axilla
Excoriation in axilla
Hands swollen and stiff on awaking in morning
Cracks on hands exuding blood and watery fluid and forming crusts
Eruption on hands of small vesicles exuding a watery, sticky fluid
Itching eruption on hands
Eczematous eruption appearing on outside of first joint of thumb on l. hand, spreading by new pustules over ball of thumb, back of hand and wrist, also to back of r. hand
Burning, smarting soreness, with deep, angry, ragged cracks of hands;
< cold weather
Hands as cold as though handling ice
Burning of palms
On putting hands together they sweat until it drops from them
Knuckles of fingers crack and leak.—(Hang-nails.)
Lower Limbs
Rheumatic pains in l. hip-joint;
< from motion and cold, yet not > by rest
Reddish pimples on inside of thighs with itching, particularly the l.;
< on undressing at night
Sore, bruised sensation in front of r. thigh.
< from light pressure
Tingling sensation in one or the other lower limb, like an electric current, ending with a twitch, < on first going to bed
Sore pain whole length of lower limbs; esp. in upper portion
Tired, dull, heavy feeling in lower limbs, with inclination to change position, no position is comfortable
Child's legs emaciated
Child cannot walk or stand alone at sixteen months of age
After walking pain begins under Poupart's ligament on r. side, extends along course of anterior crural nerve to the inside of joint, then to front, causing limping;
> from rest
Bruised pain in l. ischium
Rheumatic pains in knee-joints
Sharp pains in l. knee-joint come on suddenly, causing him to cry out
Tiredness of knees
Sore, bruised feeling on inside of both knees;
< from light pressure
Severe pain in hollow of r. foot; foot swollen, causing restless wakefulness
Sore, sprained feeling in l. foot;
< from bending
Burning of feet, esp. soles, wants to put them in cool place, in water, or uncover them
Cold, clammy feet
Cramp in feet in bed at night, they are so cold
Sweat on soles as though he had stepped in cold water
Stockings feel sticky
Sweat between toes, making them sore, with foul odour.
Generalities
Dread of usual work on account of weakness and exhaustion, with irresistible desire to lie down.—Restlessness; hard to remain long in one position; > from motion.—No rest day or night; always < from 9 p.m. till after midnight.—Child kicks off clothing even in coldest weather.—Wants to lie on something hard.—Great soreness.—Stiffness and lameness of parts.—(Child looks old, dirty, greasy, and brownish.).—Progressive emaciation.
Skin
Skin dry and flabby
Itching < by scratching
Pimples on face
Boils on wrist
Eczema exuding sticky fluid: behind ears; on wrists; fingers, toes
Cracks on fingers
Skin covered with fine rash all over
Body attended with severe itching at night.—(Copper-coloured syphilitic sores).
Sleep
Awakes at night with arms under head
Frequent waking at night
Restless, uneasy sleep; awakens at 3.30 a.m
Awakes soon after going to sleep with a start and twitch
Child is restless during sleep and awakes cross and crying
She awakens her companion to search for a tramp in her room, gets up and looks under the bed for him
On waking child rubs eyes and nose with its fist
Cannot bear any one to lie close to or touch him
Lascivious dreams
Dreams of robbers and cannot sleep till the whole house is searched
Dreams of murder and remorse.
Fever
Chilliness all day;
< in warm room
The cold air chills him
Sensation that chills are coming on
Chill every day at same time
Chill begins in lower extremities
Chill every night lasting an hour, beginning between shoulders, thence extending to arms, fingers, and whole body;
(intermittent, three weeks after labour.)
Thirst during chill, none during heat or sweat.—(Chill at 8.30 a.m
Chill at 5 p.m
Chill postponing two hours
Chill every other day; fever lasting all night
Drinks before chill.)
Whole body feels too hot at night
Sweat most where limbs cross each other or touch the bed
Begins to sweat as soon as covered
Sweats on first falling asleep, mostly about neck, wetting clothing through
Cold, clammy sweat on occiput and neck, those parts feel like a wet stone
Sweat from above downward over whole body
High fever every night with sleeplessness
Whole body feels too hot at night.—(Wants to move to a cool part of bed.)
Sweats on side lain on
Hungry during sweat; water tastes bitter.