Aurum Metallicum (aur) অরাম মেটালিকাম

 

Aurum Metallicum (aur) অরাম মেটালিকাম

Gold (The Element), Metallic Gold

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পরিচয়ঃ  বিশুদ্ধ স্বর্ণ হইতে বিচুর্ণ আকারে প্রস্তুত হয়।

ধাতুগত বৈশিষ্ট্যঃ সাধারণতঃ অধিক বয়স্ক মোটাসোটা চেহারা, পেটমোটা ও চঞ্চল স্বভাবের ব্যক্তিদের রোগে এই ঔষধ অধিক ব্যবহৃত হয়। ইহার রোগী অতি দ্রুত কাজ করে। রোগীর আত্মহত্যার প্রবৃত্তি থাকে।   

 

Antidote food / ঔষধের ক্রিয়ানাশক খাদ্য:  কফি, কর্পূর।

Antidotes / ক্রিয়ানাশকঃ : Bell; Cinch; Cupr; Merc.

সমগুন বিশিষ্ট ঔষধঃ (যাহা একটির পর অন্যটি ভাল কাজ করে): বেলেডোনা, মারকিউয়াস, নাইট্রিক এসিড, আর্সেনিক, এসাফিটিডা, এমোনিয়াম কার্ব, নেট্রামমিউর  

• জীবনে বিতৃষ্ণা ও আত্মহত্যার প্রবল ইচ্ছা।
• আত্মহত্যার প্রবণতা, উঁচুস্থান হতে লাফিয়ে পড়তে চায়।
• রাতে, ঠান্ডায় ও শীতকালে বৃদ্ধি ।
• ভ্রমণশীল বাতের ব্যথা (পালস, টউবারকুলিনাম, কেলিকার্ব, বারবারিস, কানাইনাম)।
• মানসিক ও শারীরিক ব্যস্তবাগীশ ভাব।
• কায়িক পরিশ্রম বা মানসিক পরিশ্রমে রোগী সর্বদাই ব্যস্ত থাকে।
• দুধ খাইবার প্রবল ইচ্ছা।
• মাংশে অনিচ্ছা।

 

 কাতরতাঃ

শীতকাতর (দ্বিতীয় গ্রেড): [Dr. Robert Gibson Miller এবং James Tyler Kent]

গরমকাতর (দ্বিতীয় গ্রেড): [James Tyler Kent]

 

 মায়াজমেটিক অবস্থাঃ (মায়াজমের দোষ নষ্ট করার শক্তি)

• এন্টি-সোরিক (তৃতীয় গ্রেড)
• এন্টি-সাইকোটিক (তৃতীয় গ্রেড)
• এন্টি-সিফিলিটিক (প্রথম গ্রেড)
• এন্টি-টিউবারকুলার (তৃতীয় গ্রেড)

মূল কথাঃ

• আত্মগ্লানি ‍ও অনুশোচনা।
• সর্বদাই অতি মাত্রায় বিষন্ন এবং নৈরাশ্যতায় পূর্ণ।
• সারারাতে, ঠান্ডায় এবং শীতকালে বৃদ্ধি।
• ব্যথা ছুরিকা দ্বারা কর্তন বেদনার ন্যায়।
• লালা, নাসিকার নিঃসরনে ভীষণ দুর্গন্ধ।
• চক্ষুরোগে কেবলমাত্র অর্দ্ধ দ্রব্য দেখিতে পায়।
• খুব বড় আদর্শবান, নীতিবান এবং গোঁড়া; আবার কখনো এর উল্টোটা হতে পারে।
• সঙ্গীতে উপশম।
• স্বাস্থ্য সচেতন।

 

ব্যবহারস্থলঃ  উপদংশ ও পারদদুষ্ট দেহের হাড়ের বহুবিধ পীড়া, বাত, সন্ধিবাত, গ্রন্থিসমূহের বিবিধ পীড়া, হৃৎপিন্ডের পীড়া, যকৃৎ, জরায়ু, ডিম্বকোষ, অন্ডকোষ, গলগ্রন্থি, মূত্রগ্রন্থির বিবিধ উপসর্গ।সুরার অপব্যবহার জনিত পীড়া, নাকে ঘা, জিহ্বায় গুটি গুটি অর্বুদ, ঋতুরোধ, শ্বেতপ্রদর, হৃৎশূল, অস্থিক্ষয়, আত্মহত্যা করিবার প্রবল ইচ্ছা, পক্ষাঘাত, গন্ডমালা, শিশুদের অজীর্ণ রোগ, প্রমেহ, রক্তস্রাব, অর্শ, অর্দ্ধদৃষ্টি প্রভৃতি ক্ষেত্রে উপযোগী। মন, অস্থি, উপাস্থি, অস্থি আবরণী, সন্ধি ও গ্রন্থিসমূহের উপর ইহার প্রধান ক্রিয়া।

 

উপশম/হ্রাসঃ  খোলা বাতাসে উপশম, চলাফেরায়, চলিবার সময়, সঙ্গীতে উপশম, শরীর গরম হইলে, গরম হাওয়ায় উপশম।

বৃদ্ধিঃ  রাত্রে, ঠান্ডা দিনে, ঠান্ডা লাগিয়া, শীতকালে, পারদের অপব্যবহারে, প্রাতে, বিশ্রামকালে, নাক ঝাড়িলে, শয়ন করিলে, উগ্র গন্ধে বৃদ্ধি।

 ৩০ শক্তি হইতে উচ্চতম শক্তি সর্বদাই ব্যবহৃত হইয়া থাকে  ।

ক্রিয়া স্থিতিকালঃ ৫০-৬০ দিন।

 

লক্ষণ সূত্রঃ এম, ভট্রাচার্য্য: পৃষ্ঠা-১৫৫, এন, সি ঘোষ: পৃষ্ঠা-১৪০, উইলিয়াম বোরিক: পৃষ্ঠা-৬৮, নরেন্দ্রনাথ বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়: পৃষ্ঠা-৮৪ ও ১৫০, অতুল কৃষ্ণ দত্ত: পৃষ্ঠা-১৮৯, ই. এ. ফ্যারিংটন: পৃষ্ঠা-৪৬৩, জেমস টেইলর কেন্ট: পৃষ্ঠা-১৩০, নীলমনি ঘটক: পৃষ্ঠা-৯১, ই. বি ন্যাশ: পৃষ্ঠা-৩৭৯, জে এম মিত্র: পৃষ্ঠা-১৪১, এস কে সাহা: পৃষ্ঠা-৯, এইচ. সি এলেন: পৃষ্ঠা-৫২, জন হেনরি ক্লার্ক: পৃষ্ঠা-১৯৬ ।

 

 

Super Grade Symptoms of [Aurum Metallicum অরাম মেটালিকাম (aur)] ::: (Total 6)

MIND;c - SUICIDAL disposition - throwing - height; himself from a উঁচু স্থান হতে নিজে নিক্ষিপ্ত হয়ে আত্মহত্যা করার প্রবণতা

MIND - ANXIETY - conscience- anxiety of নীতিবোধ, বিবেক বুদ্ধির জন্য উদ্বেগ

MIND - SUICIDAL disposition (tendency) আত্মহনন / আত্মহত্যা করার প্রবণতাযুক্ত (ARS-4, MED-4 :CR) [main]

MIND – DESPAIR (DESPAIR, feelings) হতাশা বোধ, নিরাশা বোধ [main]

MIND;c - ANGER - violent হিংসাত্বক, অত্যুগ্র, উগ্র, প্রবল, প্রচন্ড ধরনের রাগ, ক্রোধ, রোষ [main]

MIND;cc - ANXIETY - head - congestion to; with মস্তিষ্কে রক্তাধিক্যের সাথে উদ্বেগ, দুশ্চিন্তা

Aurum Metallicum
Gold (The Element), Metallic Gold

H.C. Allen   

Aurum Metallicum
Gold (The Element)

• Sanguine, ruddy people, with black hair and eyes; lively, restless, anxious about the future.
• Old people; weak vision; corpulent; tired of life.
• For constitutions broken down by bad effects of mercury and syphillis.
• Pinning boys; low-spirited, lifeless, weak memories, lacking in "boyish go;" testes undeveloped, mere pendent shreds.
• Constantly dwelling on suicide (Naja - but is afraid to die, Nux).
• Profound melancholy: feels hateful and quarrelsome; desire to commit suicide; life is a constant burden; after abuse of mercury; with nearly all complaints.
• Uneasy, hurried, great desire for mental and physical activity; cannot do things fast enough (Arg. n.).
• Ailments from fright, anger, contradictions, mortification, vexation, dread, or reserved displeasure (Staph.).
• Oversensitive: least contradiction excites wrath (Con.); to pain; to smell, taste, hearing, touch (Anac.).
• Headache of people with dark olive-brown complexion; sad, gloomy, taciturn; disposed to constipation; from least mental exertion.
• Falling of the hair, especially in syphillis and mercurial affections.
• Hemiopia; sees only the lower half (sees only the left half, Lith. c., Lyc.).
• Syphilitic and mercurial affections of the bones.
• Caries: of the nasal palatine and mastoid bones; ozaena, otorrhoea, excessively fetid discharge, pains worse at night; drive to despair; of mercurial or syphilitic origin (Asaf.).
• Prolapsed and indurated uterus; from over-reaching or straining (Pod., Rhus); from hypertrophy (Con.).
• Menstrual and uterine affections, with great melancholy; < at menstrual period.
• Foul breath; in girls at puberty.
• Sensation as if the heart stood still; as though it ceased to beat and then suddenly gave on hard thump (Sep.).
• Violent palpitation; anxiety, with congestion of blood to head and chest after exertion; pulse small, feeble, rapid, irregular; visible, beating of carotid and temporal arteries (Bell., Glon.).
• Fatty degeneration of heart (Phos.).

 

Relations:

Aurum follows, and is followed well by Syphillinum.

 

Similar: to, Asaf., Cal., Plat., Sep., Tar., Ther., in bone, uterine disease.

 

Aggravation:

In cold air; when getting cold; while lying down; mental exertion; many complaints come on only in winter.

Amelioration:

In warm air, when growing warm, in the morning and during summer.

 

William BOERICKE

Aurum Metallicum
Metallic Gold

• Given full play, Aurum develops in the organism, by attacking the blood, glands, and bone, conditions bearing striking resemblance to mercurial and syphilitic infections; and it is just for such deteriorations of the bodily fluids and alterations in the tissues, that Aurum assumes great importance as a remedy.
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• Like the victim of syphilis, mental states of great depression are produced by it.
• Hopeless, despondent, and great desire to commit suicide.
• Every opportunity is sought for self-destruction.
• Exostosis, caries, nightly bone-pains, especially cranial, nasal, and palatine.
• Glands swollen in scrofulous subjects.
• Palpitation and congestions.
• Ascites often in conjunction with heart affections.
• Frequently indicated in secondary syphilis and effects of mercury.
• This use of gold as an anti-venereal and anti-scrofulous remedy is very old, but has been well-nigh forgotten by the old school until rediscovered and placed on its scientific basis by homeopathy, and now it can never be lost again.
• When syphilis is implanted on the scrofulous constitution, we have one of the most intractable morbid conditions, and gold seems to be especially suited to the vile combination.
• Ennui.
• Ozæna; sexual hyperæsthesia.
• Arterio-sclerosis, high blood pressure; nightly paroxysms of pain behind sternum.
• Sclerosis of liver, arterial system, brain.
• Pining boys; low spirited, lifeless, weak memory.

Mind:

• Feeling of self-condemnation and utter worthlessness.
• Profound despondency, with increased blood pressure, with thorough disgust of life, and thoughts of suicide.
• Talks of committing suicide.
• Great fear of death.
• Peevish and vehement at least contradiction.
• Anthropophobia.
• Mental derangements.
• Constant rapid questioning without waiting for reply.
• Cannot do things fast enough.
• Oversensitiveness; (Staph) to noise, excitement, confusion.

 

Head:

• Violent pain in head; worse at night, outward pressure.
• Roaring in head. Vertigo.
• Tearing through brain to forehead.
• Pain in bones extending to face.
• Congestion to head.
• Boils on scalp.

 

Eyes:

• Extreme photophobia.
• Great soreness all about the eyes and into eyeballs.
• Double vision; upper half of objects invisible.
• Feel tense.
• Sees fiery objects.
• Violent pains in bones around eye (Asaf).
• Interstitial keratitis.
• Vascular cornea.
  
• Pains from without inward.
• Sticking pains inward.
  
• Trachoma with pannus.
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Ears:

• Caries of ossicula and of mastoid.
• Obstinate fetid otorrhœa after scarlatina.
• External meatus bathed in pus.
• Chronic nerve deafness; Labyrinthine disease due to syphilis.

Nose:

• Ulcerated, painful, swollen, obstructed.
• Inflammation of nose; caries; fetid discharge, purulent, bloody.
• Boring pains in nose; worse at night.
• Putrid smell from nose.
• Sensitive smell (Carbol ac).
• Horrible odor from nose and mouth.
• Knobby tip of nose.

 

Mouth:

• Foul breath in girls at puberty.
• Taste putrid or bitter.
• Ulceration of gums.

 

Face:

• Tearing in zygoma.
• Mastoid and other facial bones inflamed.

 

Throat:

• Stitches when swallowing; pain in glands.
• Caries of the palate.

Stomach:

• Appetite and thirst increased, with qualmishness.
• Swelling of epigastrium.
• Burning at stomach and hot eructation’s.

Abdomen:

• Right hypochondrium hot and painful.
• Incarcerated flatus.
• Swelling and suppuration of inguinal glands.

 

Urine:

• Turbid, like buttermilk, with thick sediment.
• Painful retention.

Rectum:

• Constipation, stools hard and knotty.
• Nocturnal diarrhea, with burning in rectum.

Male:

• Pain and swelling of testicles.
• Chronic induration of testicles.
• Violent erections.
• Atrophy of testicles in boys.
  
• Hydrocele.

Female:

• Great sensitiveness of vagina.
• Uterus enlarged and prolapsed.
• Sterility; vaginismus.

Heart:

• Sensation as if the heart stopped beatingfor two or three seconds, immediately followed by a tumultuous rebound, with sinking at the epigastrium.
• Palpitation.
• Pulse rapid, feeble, irregular.
• Hypertrophy.
• High Blood Pressure-Valvular lesions of arterio-sclerotic nature (Aurum 30)

Respiratory:

Dyspnœa at night. Frequent, deep breathing; stitches in sternum.

Bones:

Destruction of bones, like secondary syphilis.

Pain in bones of head, lumps under scalp, exostosis with nightly pains in bones.

Caries of nasal, palatine and mastoid bones.

Soreness of affected bones, better in open air, worse at night.

Extremities:

• All the blood seems to rush from head to lower limbs.
• Dropsy of lower limbs.
• Orgasm, as if blood were boiling in all veins.
• Paralytic, tearing pains in joints. Knees weak.

 

Sleep:

• Sleepless.
• Sobs aloud in sleep.
• Frightful dreams.

Modalities:

Worse, in cold weather when getting cold. Many complaints come on only in winter; from sunset to sunrise.

Relationship:

Compare: Aur ars (chronic aortitis; lupus, phthisis in syphilitic headaches; also in anemia and chlorosis. It causes rapid increase of appetite).

Aur brom(in headaches with neurasthenia, megrim, night terrors, valvular diseases).

Aur mur(Burning, yellow, acrid leucorrhœa; heart symptoms, glandular affections; warts on tongue and genitals; sclerotic and exudative degeneration of the nervous system. Multiple sclerosis. Morvan's disease. Second trituration. Aur mur is a sycotic remedy, causing suppressed discharges to reappear. Valuable in climacteric hæmorrhages from the womb. Diseases of frontal sinus. Stitching pain in left side of forehead. Weariness, aversion to all work. Drawing feeling in stomach. Cancer, tongue as hard as leather; induration after glossitis).

Aur mur kali.--Double chloride of Potassium and gold (In uterine induration and hæmorrhage).

Aur iod(Chronic pericarditis, valvular diseases, arterio-sclerosis ozæna, lupus, osteitis, ovarian cysts, myomata uteri, are pathological lesions, that offer favorable ground for the action of this powerful drug. Senile paresis).

Aur sulph(Paralysis agitans; constant nodding of the head; affections of mammæ; swelling, pain, cracked nipples with lancinating pains).

Also, Asafaet (in caries of bones of ears and nose). Syphilin: Kali iod; Hep; Merc; Mez; Nit ac; Phosph.

Antidotes: Bell; Cinch; Cupr; Merc.

 

Dose:

• Third to thirtieth potency.
• Latter potency especially for increased blood pressure.

 

 

E. B. NASH

Aurum Metallicum

• Wants to commit suicide; thinks he is no good in the world.
• Nodes and bone pains, caries and necrosis with great depression of mind.
• Abuse of Mercury, in syphilis, in massive doses.
• Wants to commit suicide; thinks he is no good in the world.
• Nodes and bone pains, caries and necrosis with great depression of mind.
• Abuse of Mercury, in syphilis, in massive doses.

HOMŒOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA
by William BOERICKE, M.D.
Presented by Médi-T

 

  
AURUM METALLICUM
Metallic Gold

Given full play, Aurum develops in the organism, by attacking the blood, glands, and bone, conditions bearing striking resemblance to mercurial and syphilitic infections; and it is just for such deteriorations of the bodily fluids and alterations in the tissues, that Aurum assumes great importance as a remedy. Like the victim of syphilis, mental states of great depression are produced by it. Hopeless, despondent, and great desire to commit suicide. Every opportunity is sought for self-destruction. Exostosis, caries, nightly bone-pains, especially cranial, nasal, and palatine. Glands swollen in scrofulous subjects. Palpitation and congestions. Ascites often in conjunction with heart affections. Frequently indicated in secondary syphilis and effects of mercury. This use of gold as an anti-venereal and anti-scrofulous remedy is very old, but has been well-nigh forgotten by the old school until rediscovered and placed on its scientific basis by homeopathy, and now it can never be lost again. When syphilis is implanted on the scrofulous constitution, we have one of the most intractable morbid conditions, and gold seems to be especially suited to the vile combination. Ennui. Ozæna; sexual hyperæsthesia. Arterio-sclerosis, high blood pressure; nightly paroxysms of pain behind sternum. Sclerosis of liver, arterial system, brain. Pining boys; low spirited, lifeless, weak memory.

Mind.--Feeling of self-condemnation and utter worthlessness. Profound despondency, with increased blood pressure, with thorough disgust of life, and thoughts of suicide. Talks of committing suicide. Great fear of death. Peevish and vehement at least contradiction. Anthropophobia. Mental derangements. Constant rapid questioning without waiting for reply. Cannot do things fast enough. Oversensitiveness; (Staph) to noise, excitement, confusion.

Head.--Violent pain in head; worse at night, outward pressure. Roaring in head. Vertigo. Tearing through brain to forehead. Pain in bones extending to face. Congestion to head. Boils on scalp.

Eyes.--Extreme photophobia. Great soreness all about the eyes and into eyeballs. Double vision; upper half of objects invisible. Feel tense. Sees fiery objects. Violent pains in bones around eye (Asaf). Interstitial keratitis. Vascular cornea. Pains from without inward. Sticking pains inward. Trachoma with pannus.

Ears.--Caries of ossicula and of mastoid. Obstinate fetid otorrhœa after scarlatina. External meatus bathed in pus. Chronic nerve deafness; Labyrinthine disease due to syphilis.

Nose.--Ulcerated, painful, swollen, obstructed. Inflammation of nose; caries; fetid discharge, purulent, bloody. Boring pains in nose; worse at night. Putrid smell from nose. Sensitive smell (Carbol ac). Horrible odor from nose and mouth. Knobby tip of nose.

Mouth.--Foul breath in girls at puberty. Taste putrid or bitter. Ulceration of gums.

Face.--Tearing in zygoma. Mastoid and other facial bones inflamed.

Throat.--Stitches when swallowing; pain in glands. Caries of the palate.

Stomach.--Appetite and thirst increased, with qualmishness. Swelling of epigastrium. Burning at stomach and hot eructations.

Abdomen.--Right hypochondrium hot and painful. Incarcerated flatus. Swelling and suppuration of inguinal glands.

Urine.--Turbid, like buttermilk, with thick sediment. Painful retention.

Rectum.--Constipation, stools hard and knotty. Nocturnal diarrhœa, with burning in rectum.

Male.--Pain and swelling of testicles. Chronic induration of testicles. Violent erections. Atrophy of testicles in boys. Hydrocele.

Female.--Great sensitiveness of vagina. Uterus enlarged and prolapsed. Sterility; vaginismus.

Heart.--Sensation as if the heart stopped beating for two or three seconds, immediately followed by a tumultuous rebound, with sinking at the epigastrium. Palpitation. Pulse rapid, feeble, irregular. Hypertrophy. High Blood Pressure-Valvular lesions of arterio-sclerotic nature (Aurum 30)

Respiratory.--Dyspnœa at night. Frequent, deep breathing; stitches in sternum.

Bones.--Destruction of bones, like secondary syphilis. Pain in bones of head, lumps under scalp, exostosis with nightly pains in bones. Caries of nasal, palatine and mastoid bones. Soreness of affected bones, better in open air, worse at night.

Extremities.--All the blood seems to rush from head to lower limbs. Dropsy of lower limbs. Orgasm, as if blood were boiling in all veins. Paralytic, tearing pains in joints. Knees weak.

Sleep.--Sleepless. Sobs aloud in sleep. Frightful dreams.

Modalities.--Worse, in cold weather when getting cold. Many complaints come on only in winter; from sunset to sunrise.

Relationship.--Compare: Aur ars (chronic aortitis; lupus, phthisis in syphilitic headaches; also in anæmia and chlorosis. It causes rapid increase of appetite).

Aur brom (in headaches with neurasthenia, megrim, night terrors, valvular diseases).

Aur mur (Burning, yellow, acrid leucorrhœa; heart symptoms, glandular affections; warts on tongue and genitals; sclerotic and exudative degeneration of the nervous system. Multiple sclerosis. Morvan's disease. Second trituration. Aur mur is a sycotic remedy, causing suppressed discharges to reappear. Valuable in climacteric hæmorrhages from the womb. Diseases of frontal sinus. Stitching pain in left side of forehead. Weariness, aversion to all work. Drawing feeling in stomach. Cancer, tongue as hard as leather; induration after glossitis).

Aur mur kali.--Double chloride of Potassium and gold (In uterine induration and hæmorrhage).

Aur iod (Chronic pericarditis, valvular diseases, arterio-sclerosis ozæna, lupus, osteitis, ovarian cysts, myomata uteri, are pathological lesions, that offer favorable ground for the action of this powerful drug. Senile paresis).

Aur sulph (Paralysis agitans; constant nodding of the head; affections of mammæ; swelling, pain, cracked nipples with lancinating pains).

Also, Asafaet (in caries of bones of ears and nose). Syphilin: Kali iod; Hep; Merc; Mez; Nit ac; Phosph.

Antidotes: Bell; Cinch; Cupr; Merc.

Dose.--Third to thirtieth potency. Latter potency especially for increased blood pressure.

 

LECTURES ON HOMŒOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA
by JAMES TYLER KENT, A.M., M.D.
Late Professor of Materia Medica in Hering College, Chicago.
Presented by Dr Robert Séror

Aurum Metallicum

Mind: The general features of the remedy are such as relate to the mind and such as relate to the tissues of the body in general. If you run through the mental symptoms, taking them all in as one great whole, you will see that all the affections, natural to healthy man, are perverted.

So great in extent is this that one of the fundamental loves, which is the love of living, of self-protection, is perverted and he loathes life, is weary of life, longs to die and seeks methods to commit suicide.

No love of life. The affections pre-eminently are deranged, the intellectual sphere is only secondarily changed.

Of course insanity runs through the remedy, but it is an insanity that begins in the will and proceeds to the intellect; it is first observed as a perversion of the affections.

It is astonishing that one could get into such a state of mind, such horrible depression of spirits that there is an absolute loss of enjoyment in everything.

You take away a man's hope, and he has nothing to live for, he then wants to die. Such, it seems, is the state in this medicine.

Self-condemnation, continual self-reproach, self-criticism, a constant looking into self; she does nothing right, everything is wrong, nothing will succeed, hopelessness.

"Imagines he cannot succeed in anything, and he does everything wrong; he is in disunion with himself."

Imagines he sees obstacles in his way everywhere.

He is all the time imaging that he has neglected something, that he has neglected his friends.

He imagines that he deserves reproach in consequence of having neglected duty; he has neglected something, he is wrong, is wholly evil, has sinned away his day of grace, is not worthy of salvation; this is the train of thought that constantly runs through his mind.

The thought really becomes uncontrollable; he is absorbed in himself and sits and broods over it, and by brooding over it he only intensifies his present state and hatches new grievances, continues to worry over himself, thinks he is wholly unfit for this world, and then he longs to die.

He looks on the dark side of everything, constantly expecting bad news, looking for everything to go wrong. The future looks dark to him, and he wants to die; he never will succeed, for everything goes wrong that he turns his hand to.

His business is dark, his family troubles him, his friends annoy him; he becomes extremely irritable, easily angered, is worried over trifles, and easily excited.

Every little thing rouses him into anger and turmoil, he is always in a vexation. The Aurum state of mind is an insanity dreadful to look upon because of its turbulence and melancholy.

It is suitable in the most profound states of melancholy and depression where the patient sits silent and says nothing. When disturbed he is aroused to great vehemence, anger and violence.

"Melancholy, feels hateful and quarrelsome."

"Terrible melancholy after abuse of Mercury."

The causes of this state of insanity are prolonged anxiety, unusual responsibility, syphilis and loss of property.

Persons who have been repeatedly drugged with Mercury, have established upon themselves a mercurial disease, with enlargement of the liver, and this is almost always attended more or less by melancholy and sadness and such hopelessness as we find in Aurum.

Aurum produces such affections of the liver as are associated with cardiac affections, endocarditis, dropsy of the heart and rheumatic affections that have gone to the heart.

You will notice that wherever the affections are pre-eminently disturbed in mental, disease that there is either cardiac weakness, endocarditis, enlargement of the heart, or some organic or functional disease of the heart.

You will very often find a history of taking Mercury that has superinduced a rheumatic state that has been rubbed away with liniments until the heart is affected, and with this comes hopelessness, insanity of the will, disturbance of the affections.

Then it appears to spread in this remedy from the will to the understanding, and the intellectual portion of man becomes involved. Think what a state it is for a man who has been in good condition of health, respected in his business circles, to have a desire to commit suicide.

You will see other kinds of insanity and a breaking down or a state of feebleness of the intellect, he cannot think nor reason; his affections are practically intact, but he finally goes into a state of imbecility, or he becomes wild and commits suicide from impulse.

That is an instance where the intellect has been affected first and spread to the will. Sometimes this state comes on, and no disturbance in the man's intellectual nature has been observed; it is intact, it is sound.

He has been sound in his business affairs, he has been a good father, he has been observed by those around him to be intelligent, but he has silently brooded over his state and his hatred of the world; he has told nobody of it, and then, he has been found hung in his room.

The man's intellectual nature keeps the man in contact with the world; but his affections are largely kept to himself. A man can have affection for all sorts of things and perversion of the affections, but his intellect will guide him not to show his likes and dislikes to the world.

The affections cannot be seen, but man's intellect is subject to inspection. He cannot conceal his intellect. We shall see that the affections are interior, they are covered with a cloak, they are his innermost and are hidden from inspection; but the understanding is the outermost garment, it surrounds and hides his affections, just as does the garment he wears over the body hide the body. The affections that Aurum resembles are those like unto the very innermost nature of man.

"Ailments from grief, disappointed love, fright, anger, contradiction, mortification."

"Pain makes her desperate so that she would like to jump out of the window."

He meditates upon death, upon suicide; he wants to get out of the world, wants to destroy himself, has no love for his life which he thinks is worthless.

Bones and articulations: The remedy is full of rheumatic affections, not unlike such as are found in old mercurial cases; rheumatic affections with swelling of the joints; affections of the cartilages and bone, inflammation of the periosteum; thickening and induration of the periosteum. Indurations of glands; induration of the cartilages about the joints.

These are all of syphilitic and mercurial character. It is useful in old syphilitics when the bones are breaking down in any part of the body; the shin bones, nose bones, ear bones, any of the small bones.

Pains: Like syphilis and mercury, the complaints are aggravated at night, coming on in the evening and keep up all night. The pains are violent, they tear, the bones ache as if they would break, not in acute fevers but in old syphilitic bone troubles.

Knife-like pains in the periosteum. Pains in the joints rendering them immovable. Inflammation of the bone itself with caries.

It is not strange that the vascular coating of the bones, the periosteum, should be greatly affected because there is a strange vascularity, all over the economy, in this medicine.

Veins: The veins are enlarged, in a state of congestion and inflammation, and friable. The veins become thickened and tumefied. The blood vessels pulsate all over the body.

"Erethism or vascular fullness characterizes nearly all complaints."

Fullness of the veins of the extremities; this goes on until swelling appears with weakness so that dropsy is prevalent throughout the remedy. Oedema of the extremities, with pitting upon pressure, which occurs in heart and liver affections.

A false state of plethora seems to exist in the body and finally turmoil and excitement occur. Violent orgasms in the body, sometimes demonstrated as violent heat, coming in flushes with excitement. Fidgetiness, feeling as if something dreadful were going to happen throughout the economy.

Then it settles into a state of quiescence for awhile and then this repeats itself. These violent orgasms come preparatory to the localization or establishment of some breakdown in the economy.

At times it is a cardiac affection, with marked oppression behind the sternum with dyspnoea on walking fast for going upstairs.

Endocarditis will have this turmoil in the body; by and by, look for albumin in the urine, look for enlargement of the liver, look for signs of cancer of the uterus, and deep-seated affections.

"Boring in bones."

"Pains drive to despair."

The pains drive the patient out of bed at night and make him walk. This is seen in old syphilitic bone pains, and old mercurialized patients.

The patient has been taking Mercury all his life and his liver is enlarged, and his joints are enlarged. He goes to every doctor, with an endeavour to get relief from his distressing sufferings .

Mercury and disease are so mixed up that a great turmoil will result from your first prescription. He will go through these stages of violence and periodical attacks. You will have to know such medicines as Aurum, Chelidonium and Staphysagria to get this patient over these awful attacks which he is obliged to go through.

Glands: This medicine wonderfully affects the glands, the parotid glands, the glands about the groin, the lymphatics in the abdomen; in fact, the glands everywhere.

The mammary glands, the testes and ovaries, are involved, and undergo states of hardness, infiltration, etc.

Aurum, cures chronic enlargement of the testes, and lumps in the mammary glands. Tumors in these glands, of cystic character, have been cured by Aurum.

Hahnemann potentized Aurum and gave some of it to a patient, and it did not work, but he thoroughly triturated it until he got it to the fifteenth potency and then it worked and restored that patient to the bosom of his family.

Hahnemann says that in the earlier triturations the dose was yet too large to cure; so he went higher until it was sufficiently small to cure, sufficiently attenuated to go into the interior of the economy through the various envelopes of man.

There is one grand feature running through the Aurum state; it is the manner in which he is affected by temperature, and by the weather. Here are some symptoms that relate to the whole man, which must be examined in this connection.

"Desire for open air."

This patient ranks along with Pulsatilla as to temperature; but Aurum is not mild, gentle and yielding, he is obstinate, irascible, the very opposite of the Pulsatilla patient.

"Generally > growing warm." This is in connection with the headaches.

"Cold water ameliorates pain in eyes."

"Averse to uncover," but he desires open air like Pulsatilla.

"Warm air, asthma <."

Many symptoms disappear after washing, especially cold washing; but whenever the patient is suffering from great excitement, turmoil and vascularity, constitutional orgasm, pulsations, he wants the doors and windows open, wants to get out in the cool air; wants the clothing thrown off.

This state of excitement and pulsation is ameliorated by the open air. It has those flushes of heat so, common to women at the critical period, and these are followed by sweat, sometimes by chilliness.

Most that we have said of the remedy is about its general aspect, for everything about the mind is general.

Head: In Aurum the pain in the head is very intense, maddening, often accompanied by a sensation as if air were blowing upon him; he looks around to see where the draft comes from when there is none; extremely sensitive.

Often has to have the head wrapped up, although it feels hot, with a good deal of congestion and rush of blood to the head. The head is sore and feels bruised. Stitching, burning, tearing pains in the head; much throbbing in the head. The face is bloated, flushed and shiny with the congestive headaches.

These headaches are often found in syphilitic subjects; often associated with cardiac disease. Pain in the back of the head associated with cardiac disease, with sluggish circulation, purple face, duskiness of the skin. Exostoses as in syphilis.

The skull bones are sensitive to touch; the periosteum is tender to touch. In old mercurialized cases with bone affections and necrosis of the skull, as in syphilis and mercury, the hair falls out copiously; the head becomes bald.

Baldness due to syphilis; the scalp is left shiny and the hair will not grow in again. In acute diseases there is falling out of the hair, but it grows in again. But young syphilitics often lose the hair and remain bald all the rest of their life.

Eyes: There are disturbances of the eye, of a catarrhal character, even to the extent of ulceration and infiltration of the various coatings of the eye.

Iritis: great disturbance of the whole visual apparatus; some of the striking features I will read from the book, but remember the constitution that we must always have in view; remember the mental state, the mercurial and syphilitic states, the gouty tendency, and the complaints that belong to joints, remember the cardiac disturbances.

As we review the eye symptoms we thus see the constitution with which they are likely to be associated.

"Photophobia." Weak sight and eyes.

"By gaslight a number of bright, floating specks and dots are seen."

"Eyes ameliorated by moonlight."

"Large letters cannot be distinguished."

"Yellow, cresent-shaped bodies floating obliquely upward in field of vision."

"In upper dark section of field of vision occasional showers of bright, star-like bodies."

In Calcarea there is a queer symptom; he sees a sudden flash arise from the lower portion of the field of vision; it shoots up and divides, and then he sees stars in every direction. It is the appearance you will see sometimes in the shooting off of one of those rockets that explode and come down in a shower.

That has been observed in Calcarea.

"Hemiopia of the left eye."

And so it goes on with many of these peculiar things that can hardly be described except in the language of the text.

"Protruding eyes."

Protrusion of the eyes, such as occurs in exophthalmic goitre, with enlargement of the heart, has been cured by Aurum.

Enlargement of the thyroid gland with rapid and full pulse. Exophthalmic goitre has been cured by Aurum, Natr. mur.

"Starting, dreary look."

"Iritis marked by much pain around eye, which seems to be deep in bone."

Such a state would be likely to be produced by syphilis that had been treated with Mercury and Aurum would come in as an antidote to both the syphilis and the Mercury.

"Pupils irregularly dilated."

It has catarrhal states of the eye. It has inflammation of the conjunctiva, choroid, iris and retina.

Well, syphilis does this, taking hold of the eye in just this way and causing great infiltration.

Pains round about the eye; the thin plate bones, and the skull bones are all sensitive to pressure; the bones seem tender; periostitis; opacity of the cornea.

Ears: Syphilis often takes hold of the ear, affecting the bones of that organ.

"Caries of mastoid process, obstinate otorrhoea."

"Caries of the bones of the ear. "

"Parotids swollen, painful to touch, very sensitiveness to noises but music relieves".

Humming, buzzing and rushing in ears. Rushing like the rushing of wind and falling water.

"Annoying dryness in ears and nose."

This is all like the complaints to of syphilis, which are cured by Aurum, but Aurum also corresponds to and has cured many times otorrhoea following scarlet fever where there is even entire loss of the drum of the ear and loss of the bones.

Of course it does not restore hearing. Patients will come to you for car troubles, and you may find that the whole ear apparatus is destroyed; the mucous membrane and bones of the ear are all in a state of ulceration and necrosis and the discharge is foetid.

The patient consults you in order to have the hearing restored and it may not be possible; stops that ear discharge and restore the hearing are the only two things he thinks about.

If you go to-day to our ear specialists and speak about curing the patient, they would not know what you were talking about; the only thing that would be thought of would be the stopping of that ear discharge as quickly as possible.

They would examine the car to see whether it is intact or not; and if it is not, the hearing is of course gone and the stopping of the discharge is then all that is taken into consideration.

Homoeopathy teaches that the patient should be treated and the patient only, after which the organs and tissues become normal. The whole duty of the physician is to restore health to the patient. We have the nose specialists with their local applications.

These things will only bring on bone disease, and tubercular troubles; they stop the discharge from the nose, and of nature must have a vent somewhere and so she establishes a discharge in the chest; the trouble progresses from the mucous membranes into the lung, into the parenchyma of the lungs, and is often of a tubercular character, and then these men tell you the bacilli have come.

This is spurious science. Clean, healthy tissues are the only safeguard.

Nose: Aurum is full of nasal troubles, with foetid discharge. The bones of the nose necrose; syphilitic necrosis, the nose flattens down; the bones are discharged. You see these people walking about with flattened-down nose and if you get near enough to them the stench will be observed. They are nearly all syphilitics.

A few remedies have the power of curing this syphilitic nose condition; Aurum, Mercury and Hepar are three of them.

I have cured this state a number of times with Hepar. I once cured a man after the bones were completely softened, so that when the nose was handled it would bend right over; only a sort of cartilaginous structure held the nose in place. I gave that patient Hepar. It cured him of syphilis after he had been filled in vain with Mercury.

"Coryza, thick discharge, like white of egg."

"Mucous discharge from posterior nares in morning."

Tip of nose knobby, red, like Lach.; strawberry nose. Little knobs on the nose composed of varicose veins in heart cases, with disturbance of the right side of the heart; sometimes found in old drinkers and in heart affections generally.

Face: Face red and swollen. Aurum has cured epithelioma of the wing of the nose and lip. Remember the horribly offensive odor from the nose, loss of smell following pains in the nasal bones; nasal catarrh.

"Ulcerated, agglutinated, painful nostrils."

"Crusts in nose."

"Nose feels obstructed as in dry coryza."

With nearly all of these nose affections, the patient is bowed down with sorrow, full of grief; black clouds hang over him and he wants to die. Loathing of life and wants to find some way to commit suicide.

"Puffy under eyes."

"Blue about nose and lips."

"Face glowing red. "

"Violent boring in right zygomatic process when walking."

"Carious teeth."

"Toothache at night."

"Foul breath."

"Syphilitic ulcers in palate and throat."

"Boring in hard palate."

Liver: This medicine has cured craving for alcohol, the craving of drunkards.

Another marked feature of this medicine is its ability to harden, enlarge and inflame the liver; induration with cardiac affections; enlargement of the heart and liver.

When you take into consideration the venous system, the portal system and its close association with the heart in establishing the circulation of blood in the abdomen, and the work that it does in the abdomen as a great receiving apparatus, you will not be surprised to find that heart and liver affections are associated with hopelessness and despair.

Notice, on the other hand, something that will set you to thinking perhaps, in cases of phthisis, none of them is hopeless they think they are going to get well; the lungs are almost gone with tubercles, but he knows if he could only get up that little something out of the throat he would get well.

Notice then that peculiar relation between the lungs and the understanding, and between the heart and the will. With every little trouble located in the heart there comes hopelessness, but when the manifestation of disease is in the lungs there is hopefulness

Dropsical conditions of the abdomen.

"Inguinal hernia."

"Tabes mesenterica."

All of the glands of the body are involved more or less. All sorts of disturbances of the sexual organs.

"Testes indurated."

"Frequent nightly emissions."

Complaints as the result of vices.

"Hydrocele."

"Ulcers on scrotum after gonorrhoea."

"Burning and stinging in perineum."

"Condylomata around anus."

"Induration of uterus."

"Menses too late and scanty."

"Uterus prolapsed and indurated."

"Leucorrhoea thick white."

Complaints in the uterus and region of the pelvis from straining and reaching up the arms; abortion from reaching up at the windows and fixing a curtain, etc.

Aurum is a medicine that is suitable for induration of the uterus and ulceration of the uterus as a result of repeated abortions.

When you study the loss of affections that is involve in such a state and the affections or lack of affections that are found in Aurum you can see a deep well grounded similitude in the symptoms, and that is the way to hunt a remedy.

It is in the sphere of the physician to examine into this state of mankind in which he can destroy his offspring and to examine into the nature of remedies producing such a state.

We see in Aurum this entire perversion of all the loves of mankind, and finally their entire destruction.

The symptoms of asthma and of difficult breathing you would naturally expect to be associated with the cardiac affections.

Notice this also, that the difficult breathing is of two kinds, such breathing as involves the lung, and such breathing as involves the heart. So it we have an asthmatic condition of dyspnoea that is cardiac in character, and dyspnoea that is purely respiratory.

These are entirely distinct in character; one belongs to such remedies as have a predominance of action on the affections, and another belonging to those having a predominance of action on the intelligence; one will involve the lung and finally bring on emphysema; the other one is entirely different in its character, with irregular heart action, and only secondarily associated with emphysema.

Study your pathology with these things in mind and you will be able to perceive the nature of sickness and its results. These things are not mere observation, whims and theories, but are the outcome of studying things from internal to external.

in this remedy the pains wander from joint to joint and finally locate in the heart. Angina pectoris is often the ending of an old rheumatism that has wandered from joint to joint.

"Difficult breathing."

If the case goes on a little while, there will be blood spots, and if he lie on the right side the lower part will be dull on percussion and the upper part will be resonant. Palpitation with great agony. Extreme oppression in the region of the heart on walking fast and going upstairs with oedema of the lower limbs.

 

A DICTIONARY OF PRACTICAL
MATERIA MEDICA
By John Henry CLARKE, M.D.
Presented by Médi-T ®

Aurum Metallicum.

Aurum foliatum (metallic gold). Au (A. W. 196.8). Trituration.

Clinical.─Alcohol, effects of. Amenorrhœa. Angina pectoris. Asthma. Bone affections. Breath, offensive. Corpulency. Depression. Ears, affections of. Erethism. Erysipelas. Eye, affections of. Fevers. Gonorrhœa. Hæmorrhages. Hæmorrhoids. Hemiopia. Hydrocele. Jaundice. Leucorrhœa. Locomotor ataxy. Melancholy. Melanosis. Mercurial poisoning. Naso-pharyngeal catarrh. Night terrors. Ozœna. Paralysis. Phthisis. Pining boys. Scrofula. Smell, disordered. Syphilis. Testicles, affections of; undeveloped. Tongue, nodules on. Tumours. Uterus, induration of. Vertigo. Vision, disordered.

Characteristics.─Gold affects profoundly the entire organism, exercising a solvent action on the tissues, producing ulcerations and the disappearances of new growths. Hence it is one of the best antidotes to Mercurial over-dosing, and especially in cases of syphilis. Scrofula and caries of bone also find in Aurum a remedy. It also produces rushes of blood and hæmorrhages. Boring pains and burning stitches predominate. No drug produces more acute mental depression than Aurum, and in any case where this profound melancholy is found, Aurum must be well studied. There is a condition of melancholy, hoplessness, profound depression, tendency to suicide and longing for death. Anthrophobia. Aggravation from emotion. Complaints after grief, fright, anger, disappointed love, contradiction, reserved displeasure. Hysteria, laughs and cries alternately. The head is giddy, full, hot. Rush of blood to the head. Vertigo as if turning in a circle when stooping, goes off on rising. As if drunk when walking in the open air. Sensation as if a current of air were rushing through the head, if not kept warm. Bones of skull painful, especially lying down. Vertical half-sight. Fiery sparks. Caries of mastoid process of bones of nose. Ozæna. In the abdominal region, as with Merc., there is swelling of liver, jaundice. Hernia, inguinal or umbilical; and in children. Onanism. The sexual organs are markedly affected. Induration of testes. Undeveloped testicles in puny boys. Swelling or neuralgia of testicle (r). Uterus prolapsed and indurated; the weight of it causes prolapse. (The chloride of gold and sodium acts more powerfully in these conditions.) Shelton has recorded as effects on girls working with gold leaf the occurrence of a "thick leucorrhœal discharge, not offensive, white or yellowish, occasionally profuse, invariably < by walking." Suffocative attacks, with suffocative oppression of chest. Anxious palpitation from congestion to the chest. Palpitation, with anguish and tremulous fearfulness. Pain in heart region extending down left arm to fingers. There are boring pains in bones, < at night. Over-sensitiveness to all pain. Hysterical spasms, with laughing and crying alternately. Great ebullitions with congestion to the head and chest, and palpitation of the heart. Frightful dreams; he sobs aloud when asleep. Chilliness predominates; shivering in open air; coldness of hands and feet, sometimes lasting all night. Heat, only in the face. Perspiration in the morning hours; mostly on and around the genitals. Ulcers which attack the bones. Warts, scrofulous, syphilitic, mercurial. "< From Sunset to sunrise" is a leading Condition of Aurum. Paralytic drawing in the limbs in the morning when awaking; and on getting cold. < At night; in morning; on getting cold; by rest. Shivering on getting into bed. > Moving; walking; getting warm. Suited to sanguine people with black hair and dark eyes, olive-brown complexion. Also light-haired scrofulous persons. Pining boys, girls at puberty, and old age. Syphilitic and mercurial patients.

Relations.─Compare: Luet. (syphilis); Am. c., Arg. met., Arg. n., Ars.; Asaf. (pains about eyes; but Asaf. has > from pressure; mercurial caries); Bell.; Caps. (caries of mastoid, corpulency); Calc. c. (night terrors; leucophlegmatic; Aur. has more over-sensitiveness and erethism); Calc. ph.; Coccul. (empty feeling); Chi. and Coff. (hyper-excitation) Cup. (asthma); Dig., Fer.; Glon. (Hyperæmia of lung from heart) Hep., Iod.; Kali bich. (deep ulcers, scrofulous ophthalmia, ozæna, syphilis); K. ca.; K. iod. (syphilis); K. bro. (anguish at heart and desire to move about); Lach., Lyc., Merc., Nit ac.; Nux v., (hernia; prolapsed uterus); Pallad., Platin., Puls., Spigel., Sol. nig., Sil., Sep., Sul.; Tarent. (heart as if turned round); Thuj., Ver. v. Antidoted by: Bell., Chi., Coccul., Coff., Cup., Merc., Puls., Spi., Sol. nig. Antidote to: Merc., Spigel., Chronic effects of alcohol, Kali iod.

Causation.─Mercury. Alcohol. Iodide of Potassium. Effects of grief; fright; anger; disappointed love; contradiction; reserved displeasure.

SYMPTOMS.

1. Mind.─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.

2. Head.─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.

3. Eyes.─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.

4. Ears.─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 amygdalæ, with embarrassed speech.─Humming in the ears.─Roaring in the ears.

5. Nose.─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.

6. Face.─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.

7. Teeth.─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.

8. 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.

9. Throat.─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.

10. Appetite.─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.

11. Stomach.─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.

12. Abdomen.─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.

13. Stool.─Copious evacuation.─Nocturnal diarrhœa.─Nightly diarrhœa, with burning in the rectum.─Constipation; stool very large in size, or very hard and knotty.

14. Urinary Organs.─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.

15. Male Sexual Organs.─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.

16. Female Sexual Organs.─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.─Leucorrhœa: profuse and corroding, yellow; thick white, not offensive, < by walking.─During pregnancy: suicidal melancholia; jaundice.

17. Respiratory Organs.─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.

18. Chest.─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.

19. Heart.─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.

20. Neck and Back.─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.

21. 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.

22. Upper Limbs.─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.

23. Lower Limbs.─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.

24. Generalities.─Pain, like that of a bruise, with acute pullings, and paralytic weakness in the limbs in general, and chiefly in the joints, esp. on uncovering the part affected, in the morning, on waking and during repose, disappearing on getting up.─Darting pains in the limbs, with great dejection.─Inflammation of the bones, with nocturnal pains.─Exostosis on the head, on the arms and on the legs.─Great acuteness and delicacy of sensation, with excessive sensibility to the least pain.─Over-sensitiveness to all pain, and to the cold air.─Hysterical spasms, sometimes with alternate tears and laughter.─Great sensibility to cold, or strong desire to go into the open air, even in bad weather, because it is found to be a relief.─Great ebullitions, with congestions to the head and chest, and palpitation of the heart.

26. Sleep.─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.

27. Fever.─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.