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Homopathic Therapeutics.
By T. F. Allen.
Presented by Mdi-T.

Secale Cornutum.
A tincture is made of the fresh fungus, ergot of rye.
General Effects :- The chief interest in the action of ergot centres about its
power to produce tonic contractions of involuntary muscle fibre ; the
arterioles are violently and persistently contracted, causing dry coldness of
the surface and even gangrene of the lower extremities ; the peristaltic
muscles of the bowels are affected and the gravid uterus contracts violently.
Convulsions are liable to occur. Ansthesia and paralysis result,
particularly tremblings and paraplegia.
Allies :- Tabac., Ars., Phos., Ustil., Carbo v., Sabin., Verat. a., Plumb.
Generalities :- Emaciation. Consumption. Secretions diminished.
Gangrene of stomach, lungs and liver, preceded by inflammation.
Unsteadiness of whole body. Trembling ; from every effort, even stretching
out of tongue. Painful stretching. Irregular movements, agg. limbs.
Voluntary muscles responded irregularly, with occasional spasms of limbs
and back. Cramps in legs, arms and chest. Tetanic cramps ; with stiffness
of limbs, so that she often fell when walking. Tetanic contractions of face
and limbs, amel. hot baths. Twitchings ; of limbs and face ; under skin ;
here and there, similar to epileptic ones, then contractions of flexors, fingers
strongly bent into palms, pulse small, not frequent, irregular. Twitching
tremulous sensation in single muscular fibres and in whole muscles, in face
and hands.
Convulsions ; from excitement, then weakness and sopor ; at every
excitement, agg. forenoon, then weakness, sometimes stiffness of joints, the
patient amel. rubbing and stretching limbs ; agg. night, gradually amel.
towards noon, with sweat from anxiety ; of all extensors, and puerperal
convulsions ; with cold sweat ; without previous unpleasant symptoms ;
sudden vertigo and blindness, entire or partial unconsciousness, falling to
the ground, contractions of joints, twitching of limbs, trembling, ineffectual
retching, elbows pressed against chest, wrists flexed, fingers doubled into
hands, heels drawn upward, toes bent under soles ; ending in sweat ; then
tetanus ; then distortion of limbs, dilated pupils, unconsciousness, delirium,
weakness of mind or insensibility, in which they kept to themselves, stared
at any one who spoke to them, answered nothing, others felt paralyzed, were
unable to stand or walk ; then insensibility and paralysis of parts affected ;

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then insensibility, fingers and hands numb and lips pale ; then ansthesia,
loss of sight and hearing and coma ; periodic ; tonic ; clonic, with pain,
preceded by crawling, becoming tonic, then tetanic ; often changed from
clonic to tonic, even to tetanus and trismus ; clonic, that in some parts
changed to tonic or alternated with them. Epileptiform spasms ; in
children ; with unconsciousness ; at intervals of about a month, during
which she lost her memory, became foolish and spoke with difficulty.
Epilepsy ; especially in children ; then gradual idiocy. Opisthotonos ; with
tonic contractions of muscles, anxiety and loud cries. Emprosthotonos.
Wandering sticking tearing. Gnawing boring in flesh, agg. night,
preventing sleep. Pain, agg. heat applied to any part (Sabin., Carb. v.),
and if one a cold day any additional covering was laid upon him while
asleep he woke almost instantly and threw it off, in the coldest weather he
lay in bed with only an old cloak over him ; P. over whole body, agg. back
and small of back ; in every nerve, with emptiness in head, then swelling of
palpebr, lips and palpebr livid, power of deglutition nearly lost, voice
feeble, jaws fixed and difficulty in answering ; sudden P., so that he cried
aloud and ran about as if mad ; periodical ; every ten or twenty minutes,
with contractions of limbs.
Drawing and crawling changing sometimes rapidly, sometimes slowly into
pains and spasms, limbs flexed and skin covered with sweat. Soreness all
over body, could not lie with ease and could not be moved without taking
hold of her hands. Tingling all over body in morning on waking,
sometimes painful. Discomfort. Restlessness ; with wailing or screams.
Typhoid symptoms. Indolence ; then stupefaction, coldness and
insensibility of limbs, then gangrene.
Debility ; all day ; after sleep ; after moving or speaking ; on walking
across the room, with vertigo ; with depressed temperature ; with slow,
feeble pulse ; with numbness and occasional insensibility of limbs ; with
inability to move lower limbs and but little control over upper ; then limbs
painful, cold, rigid, almost insensible, with internal pain, agg. heat,
somewhat amel. cool air, the pain gradually extended from toes to legs and
thighs and from fingers to arms and shoulders, till sphacelus supervened,
the affected parts dead, black and dropped off. Faintness.
Loss of voluntary motion and even power of utterance. Inability to move
though not very weak. Rigidity and soreness of muscles, agg. lower limbs ;
R. and loss of sensation and pains, agg. warmth, amel. cold, but in its place
coldness of whole body. Heaviness. Senses benumbed. Paralysis ; so
that he could not stand, with weakness in small of back and trembling of
feet. Paralytic symptoms ; agg. during daytime. Aggravation on
appearance of menses. Amelioration from vomiting ; from vomiting of
mucus or worms ; from sweat ; from extension of the flexed limbs ; of the
paroxysms at night.
Clinical :- General tendency to spasm of extensor muscles, hysterical.
Paralysis of flexor muscles (Plumb.). Paralysis, with internal heat and
external coldness. In general, indicated in diseases of putrescence, with

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threatening collapse ; the pulse, however, is flighty and rapid. Collapse,

with blue rings round the eyes, sometimes with unnatural appetite and
thirst. The characteristic aversion to being covered and to heat seems to
be associated with a sense of burning up internally.

Mind :- Delirium ; in children, with red face and thirst ; with violence ;
then heavy sleep and snoring, she could be aroused to low muttering
wanderings ; he understands nothing and makes no answer ; she abandons
her relatives and does absurd things ; muttering ; muttering, with
restlessness and fear of death ; raving, and patient difficult to restrain, then
vomiting, then deep sleep, then vertigo and exhaustion. Raving ; with
attempts to jump into the water. Sensorium disturbed at night, could not get
rid of the impression that there were two sick persons in the bed, one of
whom recovered and the other did not. The room appeared like the
"foaming of a troubled sea." Illusions of sense. Excitement and
confusion ; E., with wild look and impaired vision.
Jolly. Anxiety ; with fear of death (Acon.) ; with difficult respiration.
Fear. Moaning ; and swaying of arms to and from head ; sighing ;
plaintive, changing to loud screams. Sadness. Rage. Irritability.
Obstinacy. Ill at ease, stupid, sleepy. Strong desire to recover. Loathing
of life, despair. Disinclination to work. Disinclination to answer. Desire
to be left undisturbed. Apathy. Stupor. Thought and speech difficult.
Thought disturbed. Imbecility. Foolish. Memory weak. Consciousness
till the last breath, and just before death it seemed as if he would improve.
Insensibility. Coma ; incomplete.
Clinical :- Occasionally useful in puerperal mania. Delirium, with
restlessness, throwing off the clothes, etc.

Head :- Pendulum-like movements. Sharp pain, amel. diarrha, with

dizziness after the chill, the pain returned next morning after the diarrha
had ceased. Aching ; with delirium ; burning. Dullness. Stupefaction.
Throbbing. Agreeable sensation, then heaviness and confusion, agg.
occiput, and general exhilaration. Heaviness ; and uneasiness ; sometimes
H. and throbbing, sometimes lightness and vertigo. Oppression, with
incapacity for mental exertion. Lightness, agg. occiput. Vacant, with
feeling as if something whirled around it. Emptiness, and the lowest word
reverberated through head and passed through every nerve of body.
Discomfort. Congestion. Apoplexy. Vertigo ; on moving ; agg. eating
bread.
Forehead :- Throbbing pain. Burning pain day and night ; B. pain, so
that he would willingly die, with a sad expression, mouth drawn and filled
with saliva from submaxillary glands, which were swollen. Heaviness of
sinciput. Pain in left side of head ; in occiput ; lightning-like in occiput,
extending down nape. Hair fell out ; and dry and gray. Sensation as if hair
were pulled. Biting on head.
Eyes :- Sunken ; and surrounded by a blue margin. Cataracts (two
cases of hard, twelve of soft, nine mixed), with headache, vertigo and
roaring in ears. Glistening. Yellow. Retina and discs pale, agg. right.

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Staring ; and blind ; and wild, with dilatation of pupils ; and wind, with
redness of face, inarticulate moans and movements of head to and fro, arms
rigid and immovable, hands drawn over to chest. Squinting. Rolling.
Spasmodic distortion. Pain. Conjunctiva yellow ; C. and sclerotic yellow
and injected. Pupils dilated ; and sluggish. Pupils contracted ;
spasmodically. Pressure in balls. Photophobia. Vision dim ; agg. rising
or moving in bed ; and blurred ; and confused, then double, then blindness.
Vision troubled. V. double ; and triple. V. flickering. V. of sparks.
Blindness. Everything looks black on rising in bed ; on moving head.
Ears :- Stopped sensation. Roaring ; with difficult hearing. Surring.
Deafness.
Nose :- Dryness. Bleeding (Carbo v.). Smell acute.
Face :- Drawn. Sunken ; and often discolored. Pale ; in morning,
and collapsed ; and sunken, hippocratic ; and haggard. Anxious. Risus
sardonicus. Ashy. Livid. Yellow. Red ; and warm ; dark. F. and head
suddenly became purplish after stimulants and warmth were applied.
Swollen. Distorted. Suffering expression. Stupid expression. Trismus.
Lips bluish. Lips distorted ; retracted, so as to expose teeth.
Mouth :-
Teeth :- Loose and fell out. Sordes ; bloody. Gnashing.
Tongue :- Clean. White ; and tremulous, heavy, difficult to protrude
between the immovable teeth, so that speech was almost unintelligible ;
coated white at noon, dry and brown at tip, next day coated brown and
pointed at tip, third day coated brown, dry at tip, edges stiff and swollen,
fourth day brown and dry, fifth day dry, brown at tip and lead-colored at
root, sixth day brownish lead-colored coat in centre, red at tip and edges,
seventh day clean, dry and red at tip, eighth day dry, glazed and stiff, ninth
day clear, red, pointed, tenth day red and dry, eleventh day red, dry, cracked
and bleeding. Coated whitish-yellow in morning, and dry. Covered with
mucus. Creamy. Brown at last black. Scarlet at edges, crimson and
black in middle, and dry. Swelling ; and twitching, with suffocated voice
and salivation. Bitten ; during the convulsions. Prickling. Crawling, with
pain ; painful C., with spasmodic movements of tip. Speech difficult ; S.
slow and weak, with feeling on every motion as if there were resistance to be
overcome. Inability to speak distinctly. Stammering ; and hesitation in
answering questions.
Mouth spasmodically closed or drawn. Flow of frothy, bloody mucus.
Froth bloody, yellow or green. Sore and bleeding ; sore as if salivated.
Scalding and in throat and stomach. Dryness ; not amel. drinking.
Constant inclination to spit. Expectoration of bloody saliva. Salivation ;
sour-tasting. Frequent running of water from mouth. Breath fetid. Taste
bitter in morning ; bitter, spoiled ; nauseous, bitter ; nauseous ; fetid ; flat,
disagreeable ; as if he had smoked tobacco long or taken ethereal oil ;
blunted ; inability to taste or bear food.

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Throat :- Hawking up of tenacious mucus all the forenoon, with pain in

right tonsil. Soreness and tightness ; S. at 10 A.M., with difficulty in
swallowing, sophagitis, and at 8 P.M. inability to swallow when lying.
Dryness ; with irritation and injection, and on left side of soft palate a dark
patch looking like an effusion of blood beneath mucous membrane.
Crawling. Burning ; in fauces, extending down sophagus to stomach.
Tearing in sophagus and bronchi.
Stomach :- Appetite unnatural, even when dying from exhausting
stools. Appetite ravenous ; especially for bread ; especially for acids. A.
lost. Aversion to food ; and drink ; with occasional coldness in stomach,
that thence pervaded the whole frame ; to everything except sour drinks.
Thirst ; with dryness of mouth and throat, with burning and tingling of
tongue ; for sour drinks ; for undiluted wine at dinner ; but inability to drink
much because it distressed the stomach ; unquenchable.
Eructations ; offensive ; sour. Singultus. Nausea ; all day ; after eating ;
with debility and scanty vomiting of coffee-grounds fluid ; with sinking at
stomach ; alternating with heavy confusion in head. Sensation similar to
seasickness. Retching, with pressure in pit of stomach ; ineffectual R.
Vomiting ; at 8 P.M. ; soon after bread, agg. a hearty meal, without
diminished appetite ; with spasmodic constriction of stomach ; easy ;
violent ; in sudden attacks at night, with pain over whole body ; of food ; of
all food, drink and medicine ; of blood ; brownish water streaked with
blood ; of coffee or chocolate-colored matter ; hardened black bile ; dark,
bilious matter ; raw, offensive, bilious substances ; shreds of mucous
membrane ; sour, dark green matter ; sour, dark green mucus, containing
shreds of disorganized membrane ; sour matter or tenacious mucus ; dark
brown mucus and everything taken into stomach ; tenacious mucus in
morning fasting ; slimy substance and frequently round or thread-worms.
Cramp. Pain ; in pit ; in epigastric region ; in morning, with pyrosis ; with
soreness ; with waterbrash ; obstructing respiration, with great appetite.
Epigastrium tender. Oppression ; in epigastrium ; in pit ; and distress.
Cardialgia ; in pit, without loss of appetite. Constriction in epigastrium.
Uneasiness. Prickling, almost agreeable, amel. open air, recurring in a
warm room. Heartburn. Burning, with pain in abdomen ; B. in
epigastrium region, also with excitement.
Clinical :- Hiccough. Vomiting of blood, sudden, violent, with cold
sweat. Extreme pressure and contraction in the stomach, followed by
vomiting. Terrible distress in the stomach and abdomen, with burning,
accompanied by vomiting.

Abdomen :- Distention. Tympanitic. Tense ; and hard, painful to

touch. Very soft. Rumbling. Sticking when coughing, suddenly
extending into right testicle. Pain as if a hundred knives were drawn
through parts down to womb, ovaries, urethra and vulva. Griping, with
stools. Pain ; in morning, with urging to stool, amel. normal stool ; with
inability to stand erect ; every fifteen minutes ; extending into testicles,

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amel. stroking, with drawing ; flatulent ; convulsive. Spasmodic tension.

Soreness. Coldness, and in back. Heat, agg. epigastric region. Paralysis
of intestines.
Liver torpid. Pain in liver. Tenderness in right hypochondrium. Painful
contractions in upper abdomen. Pain in hypogastrium ; occasionally ;
burning ; sudden circumscribed, after delivery ; extending into scrotum
evenings, with dragging as from flatus ; from left groin to calf, then legs and
feet swollen, covered with phlycten and gangrene on lower third of legs,
descending towards feet and ascending to upper part of legs.
Rectum and Anus :- Anus wide open (Phos.). Hmorrhage from
bowels (Phos.) ; the blood does not clot, is thin and almost black. Cutting
in rectum ; stinging, with irritability of sphincter, with spasms.
Excruciating pains in hmorrhoidal veins. Pain in R., with spasm.
Ineffectual desire ; frequent. Paralysis of R.
Stool :- Diarrha ; amel. hot baths ; exhausting ; pernicious ; offensive ;
frequent, brown, slimy, next day fetid and dark ; dark gray, looking as if
meal had been stirred through it, and of sickly odor. Thin, olive-green, for
the second time in forenoon, then burning extending high up in rectum and
itching in anus ; thin, involuntary. Watery. Constipation. At first
mucous, then mucous or sanguinolent. Contained disorganized mucous
membrane, as in dysentery. Evacuation of worms ; in children.
Clinical :- Watery diarrha, sudden, with unquenchable thirst,
drinking and vomiting, suppression of urine, shrivelled skin, icy coldness
and an aversion to heat, would not be covered. Dysentery, particularly
valuable in the collapsed stage, stools involuntary, grumous ; with these
conditions it has saved many apparently hopeless cases. Asiatic cholera,
particularly with the icy coldness and intolerance of being covered (of
first importance).

Urinary Organs :- Bladder and ovarian region sensitive. Paralysis of

bladder. Frequent urging, not without effort ; ineffectual U. Inability to
urinate. Micturition frequent and copious ; involuntary M. ; rare, dribbling
and without relief ; difficult, with constant desire. Urine retained. Did not
urinate at night, contrary to habit, and no desire in morning, but much clear
urine passed vigorously during stool. Spasm of meatus urinarius. Cutting
in urethra on attempting to urinate, with smarting. Burning in urethra
during micturition.
Urine :- Copious. Scanty, watery, clear ; S. and dark, next day
"prune-juice" colored, third day suppressed, on introducing catheter a gill of
prune-colored urine, full of gritty sediment and of disagreeable odor,
afterwards urine contained mucus and albumen, later involuntary
micturition with blood and albumen. Pale. Clear like water ; but at times
turbid. White sediment like cheese. Thick red sediment.
Clinical :- Suppression of the urine. Hmorrhage from kidneys or
bladder. Albuminous urine, after scarlet fever, with dropsy.

Sexual Organs :- Numerous erections, even after coition. Dragging in

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spermatic cord, so that testicles seemed drawn up to groins.

Female :- Gangrene of vaginal mucous membrane, with a dark slate
color. Discharges almost black, fluid and fetid ; D. of the color of
prune-juice. Vagina hot. Pain in vulva ; with soreness and throbbing.
Vulva tender. Sensation of boiling water running from vulva up to mouth.
Uterus :- Hmorrhage (Ustil., Carbo v.) ; and apparent death of a
new-born child. Irregular stormy contractions. U. and right ovary
congested and sensitive to touch, sphincter vagin and vagina relaxed. Os
wide open (before delivery), thick and soft. Os tinca open, sensitive to
touch, hot and engorged, with profuse flowing. Descended so that it almost
protruded from labia, was hot and painful, os was open, with urging to
urinate and labor-pains, amel. wet bandages or by pressure upon abdomen,
the woman went to the eighth month, when she miscarried. Expulsive
pains. Labor-pains. Pain, and in ovaries. Cessation of lochia, with
fever, inflammation of uterus, later an abscess that opened through
vagina. Retention of placenta due to hour-glass contraction of uterus and
subsequent sterility. Puerperal state. Abortion ; at two months, mass
perfectly black ; at six months, after discharge of placenta, vomiting,
jactitation, prcordial pain, pallor cold skin, uterine contraction at irregular
intervals, then unconsciousness, strabismus and death ; between seventh and
eighth months ; then tearing in limbs. Death of ftus.
Metrorrhagia. Menses suppressed ; too profuse, congestion of blood to
uterus, metrorrhagia, contractions of uterus so that it seemed ready to burst,
all symptoms worse previous to menses.
Clinical :- It has cured various tumors of the uterus and appendages,
with profuse menstruation or hmorrhage thin and black, often fetid, with
expulsive pains. Uterine displacements. Subinvolution of the uterus.
During labor or uterine hmorrhages it should be used with great
discretion ; it is extremely dangerous when there is albuminuria, for it is
liable to bring on convulsions ; if used too freely during labor it is
extremely apt to cause puerperal metritis. Menstrual colic, with coldness,
intolerance of heat, forcing pains. Lochia offensive, greenish and
purulent. In puerperal fever it has made some brilliant cures when there
was danger of putrefaction, with putrid discharges, tympanitis, chills,
coldness, intolerance of covering, suppressed urine, tendency to collapse.

Respiratory Organs :- Voice weak, unintelligible, stammering. Cough,

with easy expectoration of much tenacious mucus. Expectoration of
blood during violent efforts to breathe. Asthma after suppression of itch,
amel. reappearance of the eruption. Respiration difficult ; as from a weight
on chest, so that he must take deep and forced inspirations (Phos.) ; from
contractions of diaphragm. Sighs. Anxious respiration (Phos.).
Respiration slow ; and small. Costal respiration.
Clinical :- Cough, apparently from spinal anmia, pain all through the
chest caused by pressure on the spine.

Chest :- Mild suppressed. Pleurospasmus, with suffocative, catarrhal loss

of speech and twitching of muscles. Pain ; in sternum and left upper part ;

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sharp, in sternum. Oppression.

Clinical :- Hmorrhage of the lungs, dark venous. Gangrene of the
lungs (Phos., Caps.).

Heart :- Pain in prcordial region. Prcordial anxiety. P. anguish and

dyspna. P. tenderness. P. discomfort. Spasmodic throbbing. Beating
rapidly at times during the day, in the earlier part of which she lay
motionless. Palpitation ; with contracted, frequently intermittent pulse.
Action slow.
Pulse :- Rapid ; and slow ; and small, contracted, often intermittent ;
and small, hard ; and small, feeble ; and fluttering, depressed ; on least
exertion, and feeble ; and weak ; and weak, intermittent, variable. Slow ;
and full, tense ; and at times full, at times small and tense ; and small,
suppressed ; and small, weak ; and small, thin ; and small, soft ; during the
spasms, and small, at times intermittent and scarcely perceptible ; and weak.
Weak, depressed. Small ; and contracted.
Neck and Back :- Stiffness of nape ; of muscles of right side of neck in
morning, with pain on turning head. Pain in back ; amel. stooping, with
dragging and pressure in hypogastrium ; in lumbar region.
Extremities :- Pale, cold and wrinkled, as if they had been long in hot
water. Swelling, sometimes with rash, vesicles, furuncles, ulcers and
exanthema. Nails purple. Falling off of nails from thumbs and fingers and
from one of left toes, the denuded parts covered with flabby granulations
secreting a fetid discharge. Trembling ; agg. exertion ; and pain.
Cramps, with excruciating pains and formication ; C. of hands and feet,
which are painfully contracted. Arms and legs semi-flexed and
semi-pronated and rigid, pain on attempting to straighten limbs.
Alternately flexed and extended, with irresistible desire to stop the spasm by
the will, which he was imperfectly able to do. Convulsive movements ;
several times during the day, in the intervals fingers numb and often
contracted. Spasms and twitchings ; tonic S. Contractions of hands, feet,
fingers and toes ; sudden periodic C., with tensive pain ; C. till they became
cold and immovable, with pains in various muscles, in some cases becoming
tetanic, with trismus and opisthotonos or epilepsy, then weakness of
memory, the attacks often occurred suddenly in the night ; of flexor tendons,
as if we would hop about. Distortion, even fingers bent backward ; D. of
hands and feet ; of hands and feet, agg. in children, with slow
pandiculations. Jerking so that he could not move or bend fingers.
Tearing. Pain ; and bruised sensation ; with cramps in flexors ;
spasmodic ; spasmodic, and in gum ; spasmodic, in hands and feet, changing
from place to place, with constant crying ; periodic drawing, extending
downward in knees and elbows, with insensibility, coldness of skin and
difficult movement. Drawing, agg. arms ; in hands and feet, with
crawling ; and tearing ; in hands and feet, with tearing ; D. or tearing in
limbs or joints, sometimes with crawling, agg. limbs. Tingling ; of fingers

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and feet.
Weakness ; agg. upper. Heaviness ; with pain in calves. Insensibility ;
of fingers and toes ; of tips of fingers and toes ; and coldness. Fuzzy
feeling (Phos.). Sensation as if asleep, with formication. Stiffness ; after
the spasms. Paralysis.
Clinical :- Cramps in the legs, with coldness, cold sweat. Paralysis of
the extremities, with cramps, numbness and formication.

Upper Extremities :- Tonic spasms. Tearing in right shoulder and upper

arm as from a string around it, then pain in muscles. Pain in left shoulder.
Falling asleep of arms. Paralysis of arm. Paralytic symptoms of arm
(with drawing and tearing), with rigid flexion of fingers and acute pains.
Spasms of forearms, hands drawn inward and approximated to chest, pain
amel. attempting to extend the flexed part. Hands contracted. Hands
weak. Soft, painful, watery swelling of wrists.
Fingers :- Contractions. Flexed tightly into hands. Bent backward,
difficulty in carrying hands to mouth and distortion of eyes. Cramps,
especially in children. Pain in tips ; then lymphatic swelling extending up
arms, then loss of ends of fingers. Prickling in tips, with sensitiveness to
cold, then suppuration, then falling of nails leaving an unhealthy granulating
surface. Drawing. Rigid, cold, shrivelled, painful to pressure, dry, hands
covered with red erysipelatous spots, scales and cracks. Numbness ; of tips
(Phos., Tab.) ; crawling.
Lower Extremities :- Reeling. Flexed, they could not stand upright and
reeled. Twitching. Spasmodic contractions so that they could walk only
on tips of toes. Convulsions and pain. Pain and weakness. Weakness,
with painful rigidity ; W. so that gait was stumbling. Walking difficult ;
impossible. Paralysis. Creeping insensibility anteriorly in thigh and calf
during the day. Cramp in legs and feet ; in calves. Pain in calves and feet.
Weakness in legs, then pain, agg. night. Weight in calves and ankles ; in
legs and feet, with want of tone. Swelling of feet ; dropsical. Inversion of
feet. Cramp in feet, with weakness. Feet asleep and stiff. Ansthesia of
soles. Cramp in toes.
Skin :- Swelling and pain without inflammation, then coldness, blue
color, cold gangrene and death of the limb ; S. of hands and feet, with
gangrene, black and suppurating eruption ; emphysematous S.
Discolored ; on fingers and toes, then gangrene, then dropping off of limbs.
Purple color of hands, feet, ears and nose, and much of skin mottled ; ends
of toes purple, suppurated and fell off. Ecchymoses. Red. Yellow ;
muddy, and dry. Jaundice of a child when born. Yellowish-brown, hot
and dry. Lead-colored, wrinkled, disappearance of vessels and
insensibility, so that she could be cut and pricked without pain and without
bleeding. Soft, flabby. Dry ; and rough ; and withered. Capillary action
slow. Capillaries seemed empty. Spots like flea-bites on feet. Livid
spots over body. Exhalations of a vinous odor ; fetid E.

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Gangrene of fingers and toes ; of feet and legs ; of limbs, they suddenly
become cold, lead-colored and insensible ; of limbs without pain when
pricked or cut, though often motion is not entirely lost ; with separation of
the part from the body ; the dead part separated at the joint ; in toes and
legs, and dropping of joints, ending in death or fatuity ; of fingers and toes ;
with separation of soft parts, general weakness, paralysis, desquamation of
affected parts, stools, thin, involuntary, then apoplexy and death ; of limbs,
with coldness, legs came off without loss of bleed, all dead parts were dry,
hard and black. Cold gangrene of limbs ; of nose, fingers, hands, arms,
feet, tibi and thighs ; C. and dry ; C. and painless, so that fingers and toes
drop off. Hot gangrene that eats the flesh and bones. Lost both feet and
most of his fingers.
Eruptions ; changing to gangrene, on fingers and toes, spreading rapidly
over limbs. Anthrax changing into gangrene of limbs. Petechi.
Desquamation. Boils ; on neck ; on neck, discharging yellow matter, with
burning pain ; on lower limbs, with petechial exanthema, outer parts of
limbs, agg. fingers, dark blue, gangrenous and dead and fell off ; on back,
nates and abdomen, with cutting, surrounded by erysipelatous redness and
becoming gangrenous, the gangrene extended over trunk and thighs, with
separation of epidermis and cadaverous odor, then bloating of abdomen,
hiccough, coma and death. Blood ulcers. Blisters covering the swollen
hands and feet ; gangrenous B. ; painless, on left index, discharging ichor,
the base of the sore blackish, all fingers insensible.
Sticking here and there, amel. scratching, but returning, with heat in the
scratched places. Burning, torpid, prickling sensation over whole surface,
with difficulty in moving limbs, with sensation as in a limb on pressure upon
trunk of a nerve, when we say that the limb is asleep. Pain. Disagreeable
sensation. Formication ; under skin ; on face, gum and other parts ; face,
arms and legs ; limbs ; hands and arms ; tips of fingers, hands, neck and
other parts ; hands and feet ; limbs, with tearing stinging ; tips of fingers,
with partial loss of sensibility ; agg. upper lip and at times all about mouth,
with pricking ; extending into forearms, with insensibility ; jerking, under
skin. Itching all over body ; on lower limbs like formication.
Clinical :- Senile gangrene.
Sleep :- Sleepiness. Stupefied slumber for days. Sleep profound ; and
long-continued. Sleeplessness ; nearly all night, with exhilaration ; with
restlessness, fever and agitation. Restless sleep ; with heavy dreams ;
interrupted by anxious dreams. Sudden waking with a wild, staring look ;
S. waking, with wild, frightened look, then palpitation. Anxious dreams.
Fever :- Coldness ; with gooseflesh ; sensitive to cold ; then diarrha ;
then nausea, amel. diarrha ; then nausea, sharp pain in head, vertigo and
partial blindness ; then heat and unquenchable thirst ; then heat, agg. internal
parts, with anxiety so that many lose their reason, with thirst ; shaking.
Shivering ; sudden ; in limbs. Coldness in different parts as from cold
water or snow. Cold skin (Ars.) ; agg. face ; agg. limbs ; and dryness.
Coldness of face, with pallor ; C. over back and abdomen ; in back,

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abdomen and limbs, with horripilation ; creeping over limbs, later chill over
whole body ; C. and ansthesia beginning in tips of fingers and toes and
extending over whole body.
Heat ; with dullness of head ; with thirst ; in internal organs (Ars.) ;
internal, during pains in stomach, abdomen and limbs, with anxiety and
thirst ; as if sparks fell on different parts ; in hands and feet ; hands and feet,
agg. fingers and toes, which were bent and stiff. Hot skin ; and dry.
Sweat ; over whole body except face ; on forehead ; from heat to pit of
stomach ; cold ; cold, clammy (Acon., Ars., Verat. a.) ; cold on limbs ;
clammy, then epileptiform spasms and death.

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