Boericke's Materia Medica
- Trembling
- Sensation of emptiness
- Walks backwards
- Congestion of spine
- Paralysis
- Pains come and go quickly
- Sphincters relaxed
- Staggering gait
- Reflexes lost
- Desires to be alone
- Disinclined to work or talk
- Worse, thinking of symptoms
- Mental depression
- Vertigo
- Full, warm feeling about head
- Feeling of intoxication
- Loss of vision
- Pain in maxillary bones
- Pain in masseter muscles
- Mouth dry
- Nose dry
- Sight obscured
- Pupils contracted
- Pupils do not respond to light
- Paralysis of nerves and muscles of eyes
- Eructations with colicky pains
- Epigastrium tender
- Stools slip from anus, like lumps of jelly, mushy
- Urging to urinate when thinking of it
- Profuse flow of urine
- Pain in kidneys
- No desire or ability (male)
- Pain in testicles
- Pain along spermatic cord
- Pain down thighs
- Pain along ulnar nerve
- Numb feeling about spine
- Loss of co-ordination
- Patellar tendon reflex lost
- Muscles remain sore and stiff
- Restless sleep
- Dreams of quarrel
- Worse, every other day
- Better, after sleep
Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica
- Amblyopia
- Bladder, irritability of
- Cough
- Fever
- Impotence
- Locomotor ataxy
- Ovary, pain in
- Paralysis
- Rheumatism
- Spermatic cord, pain in
- Sphincters, relaxation of
- Testicles, pain in
- Vertigo
- Great mental depression
- Stimulation of mind
- Pleasant, intoxicated feeling
- Satisfied indifference to all influences and interests
- Cannot think or concentrate his thoughts
- Very forgetful of familiar words and names
- Disinclination to talk or study
- Wants to be alone
- A feeling as if I would lose consciousness
- All symptoms < when thinking of them
- A feeling as if I would lose consciousness, or as if I would fall when standing
- Sense of fulness of head, and of instability, when standing or sitting
- Head has a feeling of great pressure, esp. on moving eyeballs
- Head, hot
- Was unable to move around on account of this strange, uncertain feeling of numbness, with prickling sensation in l. arm and hand
- Full, uncomfortable feeling in head
- Slight headache in vertex and occiput in forenoon, over eyeballs about noon
- Pain in helix of ear for two or three minutes, then pain commenced between the eyes and went in a straight line up over head and down to base of brain
- Pain across base of brain
- Pain in occipital region
- Heavy ache, as if a weight were attached to lower edge, pulling it back, but pain does not extend down back
- Head very sensitive, < on side on which he lies
- Pressure on head > after sleep
- Dull, heavy feeling in head, with uncertain gait and walk
- Full, warm feeling about head
- Eyes feel dull and heavy, blurred, pupils dilated
- When reading, it seems as if a light were reflected from a bright copper plate seen at l. side, as if the light were at the end of the room
- Pain in eyeball
- Pain over r. eye
- Strange feeling of fulness about eyes with sight obscured, so that it appears that one is looking through clear water which produces the seven prismatic colours
- Amblyopia from paralysis of nerves and muscles of eyes
- Pupils contracted, do not respond to light
- Sight lost, with feeling as if from long exposure to strong electric arc-lights
- Roaring sound in ears
- Nose very dry
- Scabs form in it
- Frequent violent sneezing, with fluent coryza in evening
- Nose feels as if sunburnt
- Red and shining, esp. on alae
- Feeling of pressure over bridge of nose
- Fluent coryza, somewhat bloody
- Mouth very dry, esp. in morning
- Metallic taste in mouth strongly marked
- Gumboil on l. lower jaw
- Profuse saliva
- Pain in l. lower jaw
- Slight inflammation of pharynx
- A husky feeling
- Throat dry and sore
- Appetite gradually increasing
- Appetite good; symptoms < after eating, > after an hour
- Loss of appetite
- Eructations, as after taking soda-water
- Colicky pains
- Looseness of bowels
- Tenderness in epigastric region
- Cold during the chill
- Sharp, lancinating pains all through abdomen, early in evening
- Sharp pain, running from r. to l. across bowels, for several minutes, followed by a very strong desire to go to stool
- Entire relief after stool
- Slight griping pain in region of umbilicus, working down
- Followed by discharge of flatus
- Full feeling in abdomen, causing short breathing after lying down in bed
- Feces of consistency of mush, which slips through sphincters in little lumps, very similar to lumps of jelly
- Stools dark brown, or like jelly
- Urgent desire for stool, sometimes removed by passing wind
- Sore feeling in rectum
- Crawling sensation in rectum as if little worms were there
- Stool inclined to be hard
- Unsatisfied feeling, as though not done
- Stool solid at first, then diarrhea
- Movement of bowels at an unusual time
- Sharp pain from r. to l. across bowels, followed by very strong desire for stool
- Stool, first hard, then loose
- Entire > from pain after stool
- Characterized from first by a very profuse flow of clear, or almost colourless urine, nearly colour of water
- Three or four times normal quantity
- When thinking of urinating I had to go at once
- No sediment whatever
- Pain in kidneys, hardest in r., with some tenderness
- At expiration of every two or three hours after stopping the remedy there was an enormous flow of pale, straw-coloured urine, and with this would gradually disappear the metallic taste which was so well marked
- Free urination, dark in colour, no distress
- Urine scanty, and looked that of a child troubled with worms, light red-coloured stain on bottom of vessel
- Awoke with a heavy pain in kidneys
- Urine clear on passing, but becomes turbid on standing
- During day urine scanty, with considerable irritation as if muscles of bladder were contracting
- From being naturally of a passionate nature, the desire and ability diminished to impotence
- No sexual desire or ability
- Bruised feeling in testicles, beginning in r. and extending to l.
- Occasional pain of short duration, in glans
- The pain in testicles becomes worse, with extension along spermatic cord and down thighs
- At l.30 p.m. pain in l. ovary, like something grasping or holding tightly for about an hour, then disappeared
- Slight accumulation of mucus in larynx, hard to cough it up
- Short and quick breathing from the full feeling in abdomen
- Hard breathing, as though lungs and bronchi were closing as the chill passes off
- A dry cough, from any little exercise
- A short cough, with tightness across chest
- Oppression in lungs at 9 p.m.
- A warm tingling sensation over l. chest, just under skin
- Palpitation after lying down at night, for 15 to 20 minutes
- On going to bed, pain, like a wave over heart, < lying down
- Pulse 84, intermittent
- Pain and stiffness of muscles of back of neck
- Numb, pithy or woody feeling about and in the spine
- Flesh on under side of limbs sore
- Sore feeling of all the muscles of r. side of body
- All the pains come and go quickly, but the muscles remain sore and stiff
- Frequent fine pains all over body until 3 p.m., when all disappeared and felt as well as usual
- Loss of power to control movements of body or limbs
- Stitching pain in r. wrist for half an hour, leaving a tired feeling in joint
- At 12.30, a sharp, cutting pain running from point of shoulder down front of chest to point of hip-bone, going suddenly
- Flesh feels as though she had taken a heavy cold
- Sharp pain, with coldness, from l. shoulder-joint extending down arm < in shoulder-joint, > sleep; goes away gradually
- Prickling sensation in l. arm and hand
- Swaying, staggering gait
- Patellar-reflex lost
- Stitching pain in r. leg and knee-joint for half an hour, leaving a tired feeling in the joint
- Hard pain in l. big toe-joint
- Pain inside of l. leg from groin to knee
- At 10 a.m. a very sick, exhausted feeling
- Weakness and insecurity of all power of locomotion
- Feeling of intoxication with almost entire loss of vision
- Sense of touch greatly impaired
- Animals eating it become slaves to it and can never be kept from it; they droop, lose flesh, stand with head hanging down, eyes half closed; suddenly will commence to kick violently at imaginary enemies; they are devoid of malice, but cannot be worked as they don't know when to stop or when to start, or which way to turn, or how to change gait or meet changes in level of road
- Dreams of a pleasant or lascivious character
- Wakes often
- On rising feels sad, weary, despondent
- Twitching of muscles on falling asleep roused him
- Dreamed of spiders, bugs
- Dreamed of swimming in water
- Chill at 1l.40 a.m., beginning in back and between shoulders, down over body to feet
- Stomach feels cold
- Pains all over body during chill
- A peculiar sensation of crawling or contraction of abdominal muscles, hardest about navel, lasted about half an hour
- As chill passes off a smarting in throat and a feeling as though lungs and bronchi would close up, making breathing very difficult
- Chill lasted until 2 p.m., when all disappeared
- No thirst in either stage
- For four weeks on every seventh day had a chill with all the above symptoms
- Coldness of spine was continuous for eight weeks
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