CENCHRIS-CONTORTRIX PROVING [Cench]:
- Kent J. T.
(Copperhead)
Bulletin No. 24 of National Museum gives check list of North American reptilia Ancistrodon Contortrix. Dr. Albert Gunther, who furnished the article for The Encyclopedia Britannica, calls the "Copperhead" Cenchris-Contortrix, and considers it very similar to the Trigonocephalus family, but smaller in size, generally found near the water-courses, closely related to the Cenchris Piscivarus, which is the water-snake or crater-moccasin.
The cenchris family belongs to the temperate parts of North America, and its venom is of a deadly nature.
PROVERS
No. 1. Mrs. K., 6th potency, one dose only.
No. 2. Dr. Mary S., 6th potency, one dose only.
No. 3. Dr. Eliza M., 6th potency, one dose only.
No. 4. J. A. T., 6th potency, one dose only.
No. 5. Dr. Mary S., 2nd proving. 10m.
No. 6. Dr. Eliza M., 2nd proving, 10m, one dose.
No. 7. Geo W. S., 6th and 30th potencies.
MIND-Loss of memory. Feeling of intoxication. Anxiety with a feeling that she will die suddenly1 (8th day, lasting many days). The horrors of the dreams of the previous night seemed to follow her1 (8th day). She could not banish the horrors of her dreams (9th day). Instantly after lying down at night she was seized with a horrible, sickening anxiety, all over the body, but most at the heart and through the chest, exclaiming, "I shall die! I shall die!" This soon passed into profound sleep, which was not interrupted until morning, but full of horrible dreams. Afternoon and evening thinks her family plotting to place her in an insane asylum (this lasted four afternoons and ended fourteenth day of proving). Suspicious of everybody. melancholy (old symptoms worse). No inclination to attend to her usual duties which are pleasant.3 Angry when disturbed.3 Not able to rest in bed, must walk the floor to ease mind.3 Wants to be alone3 (4 th day). Nervous and irritable3 (14th day). Catch myself staring into space and forget what people are saying to me, or that there is any one in the room2 (4th day). Inability to concentrate mind2 (4th day, 6th and 10m.). Absent-minded2 (two provers, 5th, 6th and 10m.). Dreamy, absent-minded, took wrong car without realizing where was going. Misdirected letters2 (13th day, 6th and 10m.). Very gloomy and discouraged3 (7th day). So absent- minded and stupid that I tremble and shiver, and my teeth chatter for some time before I begin to realize that I feel cold5 (3rd day). Foreboding, gloomy without cause, frequent sighing2 (21 St. day, 6th and 10M.). Crying and very frequent sighing, as if very sad2. (Many days, 6th and 10m.). Lack of determination and snap, have to use all my reserve mental force to make myself get up and go out5 (many days).procrastination, indecision.5 Times passes too slowly, seems to drag along. I am longing to go, yet I cannot tear myself out of my chair and move along. When at last I do pick up enough determination to go, l go very suddenly. 5 Feel hard and uncharitable5 (8th day). Selfish, envious, easily slighted. Transient attacks of anger 6 P.M.5 (9th day, 6 P.M. and 8-30 P.M. 14th day, and 6-30 P.M. 17th day). Longing for the woods so intense I wandered out to the park alone5 (2nd day). Great depression and gloomy foreboding followed by great hilarity5 (9th day). Alternation of opposite moods and desires5 (9th day).
SENSORIUM-Sensation of intoxication in evening3 (2nd day). Sensation of intoxication came on at 4 P.M. lasting 3 hours, feeling as if I would fall; unable to walk in a direct line; go from side to side of pavement 3(2nd day). Same symptoms 4 P.M. (3rd day). (Same symptom 4 P.M. to 7 P.M. 4th day, and came every day for 4 weeks). Vertigo, coming and going, with no inclination to attend to her usual duties that are very pleasant; nervous and tired all the time3 (6th day). Vertigo. Angry when disturbed3 (6th day). Compelled to lie all afternoon. So dizzy3 (9th day) Vertigo very bad from 4 P.M. to 7 P.M.3 (2nd to 10th and 11th days).When riding in the car, she rode by the place she intended to get off at .3 Her mind is all a blank for ten minutes, but people did not observe anything wrong with her appearance. Dreamy feeling2 (6th day). Fainting spells.
INNER HEAD-Sensation of fulness about the head1 ( 18th day). Dull, aching pain in the forehead, which finally extended to the occiput, leaving forehead1 (1St. day). Feeling as if all the blood in the body rushed to head1 (8th day). Violent headache in both temples in forenoon; could not stand any warmth in the room; lips dry and parched1 (13th day )Headache in both temples on rising, passing off after breakfast3 (4th day). Headache in temples; passes off after eating.3 Headache. not defined, with disgust for food3 Aching in the frontal sinuses, nose, and throat, as though she had taken a severe cold, but no discharge of mucus2 (4th day). Dull ache in the occiput2 (4th day). Dull aching in the frontal eminence2 (4th and 8th days). Dull ache in left frontal eminence5 (7th day). Hard, aching pain commenced in left frontal eminence and spread down left side to teeth, then spread to right frontal eminence, then to teeth on right sides (16th day). Hard pain over left eyes 5(9th day). Dull frontal headache during menstruation2 (23rd day). Dull throbbing in vertex2 (18th, l9th and 20th days).
OUTER HEAD-Sore feeling in the scalp after the headache passed away1 (2nd day). Itching of scalp, better by scratching2 (1st and 6th days---6th and 10m.) Transient sensation of prickling in the scalp, like a gentle current of electricity5 (4th day). One large, dry, scabby pimple on scalp, long and narrow, oval shaped5 (12th day).
SIGHT AND EYES---Eyes ache, and there is dimness of vision.3 Lachrymation from left eye; left eyelid red on edges2 (7th day). Twitching in left eyelid2 (17th day). Dull ache in eyes, with sense of weakness5 (16th day). Itching of eyes; begins in left eye and extends to right1 (17th day). Margins of eyelids red, especially at night5 (many days).
HEARING AND EARS--Itching of ears at night3 (an old symptom not had for a year; 5th day). Itching of ears during the day3 (7th day). Dull pain in and around the left ear5 (6th day).
SMELL AND NOSE---Sickening odor in the nose (1st day). Copious flow of mucus, thin and watery.2 Copious flow of mucus. Coryza. Cold nose2 (several days). Cold nose2 (6th day, evening 7 P.M. ). Aching in throat and nose, tickling sensation in nose, as though discharge would flow, but very little discharge when blowing it2 (5th and 6th days). Aching in left side of nose as though in the bones, with dull headache2 (7th day). Sneezing occasionally and eyes filled with water2 (6th and 8th days). Sneezing in morning when waking2 (7th day---6th and 10m.; many days). Sneezing violently on awaking in the morning2 (6th and 8th days). Tingling from left nostril to left eye (lachrymal canal). Slight discharge of water from left eye, sensation of weakness in the eye2 (6th day). Nose burning sensation inside as though full of pepper2 (7th day). Nostrils sore, worse left side2 (7th day). Discharge of yellow mucus, sometimes tinged with blood;2 (7th and 9th days). Discharge of mucus from nose, varying from cream to amber colour, specked with blood2 (8th day). Cannot breathe through the nose2 (8th day--6th and 10m.; many days). Impossible to breathe through the nose2 (9th, 10th, 11th days). Scabs in the nose, lasting many days2 (10th day--6th and 10m.). Dry mucus in nose, cannot breathe through it2 (13th day). Slight tingling in left nostrils 5 (4th day).
FACE--Flushes of heat about the face and head1 (1st day). Bloating of face, as if intoxicated1 (9th day). Bloating above and below eyes1 (9th day). Besotted countenance. Mottled skin; purple, deep, dark red face. Dry parched lips in evening, with fever that began at 3 P.M. 1 (10th day). Swelling above eyes, below brow1 (like Kali c.---12th day). She can see the water bag that fills the upper lid1 (12th day). Baggy swelling under eyes5 (many days). Face pale all through the proving.3 Flushing and burning of face2 ( 1st day). Great burning of the face, worse at night2 (6th and 7th days). Cheeks began to get red and hot about 2 P.M. keep growing hotter and redder until she goes to sleep at 10 P.M. became dark red like erysipelas2 (9th day). Woe-begone expression of face2 (12th day). Burning face, 2 P.M.2 (16th day). Burning begins in left cheek and ear, spreads to right cheek 6:30 P.M. 5 (2nd day). Blue circles under eyes5 (all through the proving). Face sallow.5 Very small red pimples in little clusters, between the eyes and on the upper lip5 (15th day). Same tiny pimples on end of nose5 (16th day). Formication on left cheek. like crawling of a fly, also on septum of nose7 (8th day). LOWER FACE--Lips cracked and hot. Face chapped, dreads washing it2 (18th day---6th and 10m.).
TEETH AND GUMS--Aching through jaws after lying down at night, lasting until after midnight1 ( 12th day). Teeth ache from hot or cold drinks5 (12th day). Teeth feel edgy, can feel that I have teeth5 (l2th day). Dull ache in right upper teeth when eating5 (19th day).
TASTE, SPEECH AND TONGUE--Dry tongue. Bitter taste in mouth on waking in the morning. Taste of copper in the mouth2 (14th day). Dry tongue7 (4th day---30th potency).
MOUTH--Dry mouth in evening.1 Increase of saliva2 (7th and 8th days). Profuse saliva2 (8th day). Profuse saliva, running out of mouth on pillow in sleep7 (4th day---30th potency).
PALATE AND THROAT--Constantly hawking up thick, tough, stringy mucus, difficult to raise1,5 ( 1st day). Throat full of mucus, thick and yellow, slightly tinged with blood from posterior nares, in the morning on waking2 (6th day). During morning, twice discharged glossy, thick mucus from throat, looking like gelatin with bluish tinge, not tough, easily broken up2 (6th day). Sore throat; painful,empty swallowing, but water swallowed without pain. Sore all over throat, after an hour it located on left side in tonsil, and muscles of left side of neck, was gone next morning 1 ( 11th day). Throat feels scraped, warm drinks are grateful2 ( 4th, 22nd, 26th days---6th and 10m.). Right side of throat red and swollen2 (6th and 7th days). Throat full of mucus, yellow with specks of blood in it2 (8th day). Throat feels strained from the exertion of hawking2 (6th day). Slight pricking in the throat on empty swallowing, but no pain on swallowing liquid or solid food2 (6th day). Rawness of the throat with increase of saliva, which she swallows2 (7th day). Throat full of mucus, yellow, with blood vessels plainly outlined on uvula, fauces and pharynx2 (7th day). Right side of throat (pharynx), behind the posterior pillars of fauces, swollen and dark red, with sticking pains2 (7th day). Throat feels sore and full, have to swallow often in order to breathe2 (8th day). Aching in right side of throat2 (8th day). Constantly swallowing2 (9th day). The mucus is difficult to raise, loses her breath, and strangles in trying to raise it2 (9th day). Eustachian tubes filled with mucus2 (9th day). Had to hawk a half hour before I could get the mucus out of the throat so I could go to sleep; mucus thick, tough and yellow2 (9th day). Throat painful on empty swallowing, but not when swallowing solids or liquids2 (11th day).
APPETITE, THIRST, DESIRES AND AVERSIONS---Intense thirst for cold water in the evening. Every evening during proving.1 Intense thirst in evening, with dry mouth.1 Dislike for everything put before her to eat, and finds fault with everything3 (5th day). No appetite for anything at breakfast3 (7th day). Craves salt bacon (7th day). Disgust for food at breakfast3 (9th day). No appetite.7
HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING---Eructations of tasteless gas a short time after eating2 (3rd and 6th days). Vomiting of white gruel-like substance, with mucus and undigested food5 (2nd day). Nausea (>) by ice; water makes sick6 (2nd day).
STOMACH--Transient throbbing in the stomach5 (6th day). Acute cramping sensation in stomach, (>) by belching.
HYPOCHONDRIA---Pain in the attachment of the diaphragm, right side2 (3rd day). Cough felt at the attachments of the diaphragm.3 Aching all round the waist, at the attachments of the diaphragm.2 Felt as though a cord were tied around the hip.2 Pain in the attachment of diaphragm when laughing5 (9th day). Hard ache in the attachment of diaphragm, both sides, (<) by breathing deeply5 (11th day). Feeling of a bottle of water in left hypochondrium, shaking up and down with motion of carriage7 (l3th day).
ABDOMEN---Dull pain in two spots directly over pubic arch, 10 A.M. passing off after two hours3 (2nd and 3rd days). Feeling as though that part of abdomen below umbilicus was not sufficiently expanded, on waking in the morning (2nd day). Bands around the waist unbearable most of the time during the three weeks of proving.2 Dull pains in lower abdomen2 (2nd day, 12th day--6th and 10m.). Dull pain in abdomen when coughing2 ( I4th day). Transient aching in a spot just above the umbilicus2 ( 11 th day). Sensation of a hard lump in left side of abdomen. Bloating of abdomen after small amount of food, with diarrhoea7 Great deal of rumbling in the bowels, left side7 (11th day). During breakfast, sharp, cutting pain in the left hypochondrium, from above downward; pain deep, took breath away, lasting but short time7 (2nd day---30th potency).
STOOL, ANUS AND RECTUM---Itching and soreness of the anus1 (13th day). Soreness of anus5 (20th day). Haemorrhoids that itch and are sore1 (13th day). Urging to stool, which passes away before the closet can be reached2 (3rd day). Unsuccessful urging to stool strain until rectum feels as though prolapsed, but have no stool5 (3rd day). Waked in morning with itching of anus5 (13th day). Diarrhoea with tenesmus5 (35th day). On waking in the morning, had to hasten to the closet; stool watery, dark with a black sediment like coffee grounds; stool intermits, have to sit a long time, passing small quantities every minute or two6 (2nd and 40th days). Stool looks like bran porridge and of some consistency7 ( 10th day). Stool gushing and frequent, watery, with a dark sediment at first without pain; after several hours great pain before stool6 (20th, 21st and 22nd days). Flatus at termination of stool. Painless and involuntary stool when passing flatus. Soiled the bed twice in sleep7 (10th day). Had several diarrhoeic stools at night, copious, gray in colour, not debilitating. Several copious stools during the day with spluttering flatus, with bloating of abdomen after the smallest amount of food. Desire to be in a warm room with above symptom7 (l4th day). Several stools, not so frequent; weak today, good deal of rumbling in left side of abdomen. Stools profuse, each seems as if it would empty the bowel, but soon full again. Sensation of intestines filled with water (Crot. tig.). Stool frothy, foamy, air bubbles like yeast 7 (16th day).
URINARY ORGANS--Loses her urine when coughing.3 Desire to urinate at night, just after getting in bed; must get up and press a long time before a few drops pass5 (many days). When doing mental work, frequent desire to urinate, pass large quantities of colorless urine6 (several days).
MALE SEXUAL ORGANS--Violent sexual desire 4. l No sexual desire (unusual) since began the proving7 (10th day).
FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS--Yellow leucorrhoea; never had any leucorrhoea before1 (11 th day). White leucorrhoea, only while at stool, during the whole proving.6 Sexual desire strong, in a widow who had long been free from such sensations. Pain in right ovary3. Herpetic eruption on labia majora.3 Dull aching in the small of the back and sacral region, at night during menses2 (23rd day). Soreness in coccyx and gluteal muscles, and aching in abdomen at night, during menses2 (23rd day). Menstrual flow very profuse, bright red, with dark clots (23rd day). Menses two weeks late5 (old symptom, 13th day). During menses, aching in small of back, when sitting up,must lie down. Easily moved to tears. Throbbing about umbilicus5 (13th day). Sharp shooting. pain in left ovary, upon motion5 (3rd day). Pain in left ovary during menses5 (10th and 38th days). Cramping pains in uterus at each menstrual period, for four months.6 Labor-like pains in uterus during menses.
VOICE AND LARYNX---Slight hoarseness, worse at night2 (26th to 30th days---6th and 10m.). Hoarseness2 (8th day).
RESPIRATION--Suffocating feeling after lying down in the evening1 (7th day). Dyspnoea as if dying from anxiety1 (7th day). Stops breathing on going to sleep1 (8th day). She was prevented from sleeping by thinking of dreams of the previous night1 (8th day). After lying down, a suffocating feeling came over her, with anxiety2 in the chest as if she would die, worse on first lying down, She must lie with head drawn back, as she chokes so1 (9th day).Dyspnoea on lying down and the thought of sleep brings on great anxiety1 ( 12th day). She says: "There is no use lying down, that suffocation will come1" ( 12th day). -Frequent sighing2 (8th day). Impossible to breathe through the nose and very hard to breathe through the mouth, because of mucus in the throat2 (9th day). Can hardly find breath enough to talk, have to stop and gasp in the midst of a word or short sentence2 (9th day). Great difficulty of breathing at night, she had to gasp and struggle for breathe2 (9th day).
COUGH AND EXPECTORATION---Dry, hacking cough, coming on at 3 P.M. continuing through the evening.3 Irritation to cough, felt in pit of stomach3. Soreness in abdomen when coughing.3 Cough comes on when walking fast or walking upstairs.3 Coughs only when in the house.3 Cough at night after retiring2 (7th day). Cough caused a feeling of helplessness2 (7th day). Concussive cough, causing watering on left eye2 (7th day). Only cough twice, but felt quite concerned about it; a hopeless feeling comes over her at each cough2 (7th day). Dark, bloody expectoration; also bright, red blood seems to come from throat2 (l2th day). Cough seems to come from the diaphragm, causing violent contraction there. At other times it causes contraction of the umbilicus2. Expectoration frothy white, all shades of yellow in morning2 (14th day). Loose cough in morning, with frothy sputa.2 Concussive cough at night2 (18th and 19th days). Dry, short cough at 4 P.M. with constant irritation to cough, lasting until 10 P.M. Cough very hard, dry, frequent2 ( 14th day). Concussive, forcible, dry cough, shaking chest walls, cannot be repressed, lasting many days2 (16th day). Expectoration of white mucus of a metallic taste2 (18th day). Cough only in evening2 (20 th day). Hoarse, paroxysmal cough, with whitish expectoration2 (21 st day).
LUNGS---Transient hard ache in lower lobes of lungs; and afraid to draw a long breath on account of the pain5 (9th day).
HEART AND CHEST--Anxiety about the heart in evening after lying down1 (7th day). Anxiety about the heart with palpitations (8th day). Anxiety in the chest as if she would die, worse on lying down; must lie with head drawn back, as she chokes so1 (9th day). Feeling as though the whole chest was distended and the heart very sore1 (9th day). Feeling as if the heart was distended, or swelled to fill the chest1 (many days). Anxiety in the region of the heart all night1 (9th day). Extreme realization of the heart1 (strongest 12th day, lasting many days). Pulse120 in the morning1. Pulse 105 in the evening1. At 3 P.M. sensation of fluttering of heart followed by feeling that heart fell down into abdomen; then pulse became feeble, with heat lasting until after midnight1 (10th day). At 11 P.M. sudden, sharp stitching pain in the heart, followed by dull pain, which gradually subsided2 (1st day). Throbbing or fluttering under left scapula2 (2nd day). Sudden, sharp stitches in apex of heart, worse evening2 (3rd day). Pain through the attachments of the diaphragm, just below apex of heart. Pain in same region on right side of chest; hard aching, worse from deep inspiration2 (3rd day). Sharp stitches in the heart2 (4th day, lasting through the proving---four weeks). Dull pain in region of heart at 10 P.M. (7th day). Drawing pain in right side of chest, below mammary gland, on lying down at night (three nights); makes him put the hand on the pain; (>) by lying on that side and (<) lying on left side.4 Sharp stitches in right side of chest2 (7th day). Dull pain in apex of heart. transient5 (2nd, 4th, 9th and 17th days). Hard ache in heart at 10:30 P.M. 5 (10 th day). Sharp, darting pain under right breast5 (13th and 16th days).
OUTER CHEST--Hard dull aching, across the chest, extending to axilla on both sides, (<) on pressure; moving the hand to opposite shoulder causes pain in muscles of chest2 (6th day). Transient sense of pressure over the lower sternum5 (12th day).
NECK AND BACK--During the day, constriction about the neck, clothing disturbed her, choking feeling1 (8th day). Sore aching feeling below the left scapula, rubbing(>) (lasting many days.) Transient lame stitch in back of neck2 (4th day). Transient aching feeling in sacrum2 (5th day). Throbbing under the scapula, dull aching in small of back2 (13th day). Transient dull aching in back of neck2 (18th day). Dull aching in small of back2 (21 st day). Throbbing in buttocks2 (21st day). Soreness in coccyx and gluteal muscles when sitting2 (21st day). Awoke with throbbing in vulva and in anus, followed by a dull aching in sacral region, relieved by walking about (12th day). Throbbing carotids when lying down5 (12th day). Awoke at night with pain in region of left kidney, worse lying on left side, better by turning on right side and drawing up limbs7 (3rd day).
UPPER LIMBS--Transient aching in middle of right forearm, on the radius2 (3rd day). Heat in palms in evening2 (3rd day). Hands get chapped easily.2 Hands vary, one minute hot and dry, then cold, then sweating in palms5 (3rd day). Dull ache in metacarpal bone of thumb 5 (4th day). Dull ache in cushion of right and left thumbs5 (12th day). Dull ache in left palm5 (21st day). Itching of left palm5 (17th day). Cold air makes the hands look red and as though the little red points of blood would ooze out. In the house hands merely look rough5 (20th day).
LOWER LIMBS ---Feet painful in morning3 (7th day). Sharp itching in 3rd toe 3 (old symptom, 5th day). Awoke with dull aching in four lesser toes of right foot, acute pain when stepping or moving foot, gradually subsided after bathing in hot water2 (19th day). Want to put feet up; unconsciously cross the limbs5 (throughout proving). Profuse foot-sweat, can almost wring the stockings, not acrid nor offensive5 (12th day). Corn bums and twinges, cannot bear her usual shoes: (<) in wet weather5 (21st and several days following).
LIMBS IN GENERAL---Hands and feet get numb early during proving.2. Small varicose veins.5
NERVES---Extremely restless during night, compelled to move constantly1 (Rhus---11 th day). Not able to rest in bed, must walk the floor to ease mind and yet has no mental trouble3 (6th day). Restless after stools7 (11th day). Hysterical fainting at 7:30 1P.M. 3 (an old symptom---11th day). Fainting from nervousness6 (30th day).
SLEEP AND DREAMS---Unusually sound sleep during entire night1 (7th day). The night was full of horrible dreams of drunken people, dead people, naked people, robbers, indecent conduct of men and women1 (7th day). While sleeping in afternoon the breathing ceased and she awoke suffocating1 (8th day). Sleepless until 3 A.M. (9th day). Wakeful with horrible anxiety and feeling that she must die1 (many nights). Wakeful until 3 A.M. with anxiety. Sleepless until 1 A.M. (10th day). Sleepless before midnight1 (11th day). Restless all night, could not lie in one place long enough to go to sleep1 (12th day). Dreams of wandering in the field with cattle, with fear of being hurt3 (3rd day). Dreams of male animals following her in the field to injure her3 (6th day). Wakeful until midnight.3 Dreams of seeing animals copulating (two provers). Dreams of rape (confirmed). Late falling to sleep; voluptuous dreams3 (8th day). Wakeful night with dreams of animals; voluptuous dreams3 (9th day). Dreams of male and female terrapin. Wakeful, after these dreams of animals3 (13th day). Dreams of wandering; of naked people; of wild animals pursuing her3 (14th day). Vivid dreams first night.2 Vivid, horrible dreams; of dissecting living and dead people; of going up and down ditches; being in peril of engines; woke feeling as though that part of abdomen, the umbilicus, was not sufficiently expanded (constriction) 2 (2nd day). Dreams confused3 (3rd day). Sleepy at dark2 (4th day). Dreams, horrible; of the dead; seeing dead infants2 (5th day). Very sleepy at 9 A.M., can hardly hold eyes open while people are talking to her2 (6th and 7th days). Dreams vivid and pleasant2 (13th day). Dreams vivid and fantastic2 (6th day). Dreams vivid5 (6th, 7th, 8th days). Dreams had all the upper incisors pulled out7 (8th day). Dreamed all night of snakes, they were coiled ready to strike, was bitten on left hand by one and hand swelled and pulse went up to 160 per minute7 (9th day). Cold when in bed; not when had my clothes on7 (10th day). Coldness of body, especially nates, early in bed 8- 307 (l0th day). Sleepy at 11 A.M. took nap. Biting sensation in left temple on waking7 (3rd day---30th potency). Sleep all night on left side without moving. Dreams of plotting to fire the town or any building7 (4th day-- 30th potency). Tongue dry; saliva running upon the pillow during sleep (unusual). Body always cold in bed since began the proving7 (5th day- 30th potency).
TIME--Suffocating feeling after lying down in the evening1 (7th day). At 3 P.M. most symptoms; chill, fever, thirst, dry mouth, constriction of neck. Most symptoms better in the morning. Tired at 10 A.M., wants to lie down. During breakfast, cutting pain in left hypochondrium. At 1 l A.M. sleepy, took a nap.
CHILL, FEVER AND PERSPIRATION---Chill at 3 2 P.M., icy Cold hands and feet.1 Flushes of heat to face and head (1st day). Fever at 3 P.M., lasting until midnight.1 Fever, afternoon and evening. At 3 P.M., dry mouth and lips, mouth feels parched, intense thirst, pulse 105, choking and sensation as if chest was filling up, causing constriction and difficult breathing1 (10th day). Considerable chilliness3 (10th day). Chilly all morning3 (l2th day). Very chilly, shiverings pass over body every few minutes, absent 9 to 10 P.M. 2(5th day). The body feels flushed, but the contact of cold things is disagreeable, causing chills2 (7th day). Chilly at night2 (8th day). Feels flushed all over the body2 (9th day). Face and hands feverish in afternoon2 (12th day). At 10 P.M. cold chills in the back and chest, face and hands still burning2 (12th day). Felt very cold for about a half hour, could not get warm even when wrapped up warmly2 (12th day). Went to bed at 11 P.M. still feeling feverish2 (12th day). Awoke at 5 A.M. still feeling flushed with fever2 (13th day). At 10 P.M.2 hands hot and dry, nose cold2 (l4th day). Inclined to be chilly all day and more so at night, must keep wrapped warmly, even when feeling feverish2 (14th day). Chill at 11 A.M. 2 (16th day) Chilly, shaking, trembling with cold at Night in bed (16th day. Shivering in bed, during evening and night, though ( 10 P.M.) loaded with blankets2 (17th day). Sensitive to draft of air.2 Heat and chilly sensations alternate from 6 to 10 P.M.6 (8th and 9th days). Chilly, yet face is burning5 (10th day). Chilly, yet heat gives her a dull headache and makes her feel smothered5 (12th day). Fever, beginning left side of face and spreading over body about 4 P.M.6 (2nd, 3rd, 4th, 16th, 17th days). Chill from 9 to 11 A.M.,worse from least motion, even moving finger6 (2nd, 3rd, 4th, 16th, 17th days).
SENSATIONS---Sensation of warmth over region of liver5 (many days). Sense of fluttering and beating, or throbbing in a small spot on the outer side of right thigh, near its middle, commenced at 5 P.M. At 6 and 7 P.M., same sensation under right breast, alternates with that sensation in the thigh. This beating sensation is next felt in left hypochondrium, then in stomach pit, then in right ankle5 (l8th day). Throbbing in left calf5 (9th day). Throbbing under right breast5 (21st day). Heat over region of liver extends to heart region5 (19th day). Cramping sensation (1st day---30th potency). Sensation as though back were going to have a crick, while sitting on feet, (<) on left side, had to hold back with hands, soon passed off7 (3rd day--30th potency). Biting sensation, as of a fly7 (3rd day---30th potency).
TISSUES---Abscesses. Hard pain in left iliac bone5 (1st day).
TOUGH, MOTION AND MODALITIES---Immediately after lying down: suffocation; anxiety; palpitation; sinking; sensation of dying. Horrible anxiety comes over her on lying down at night, also on lying down in afternoon. Must lie with head drawn back, she chokes so. Compelled to move constantly, which seems to quiet for a moment; compelled to change position from restlessness. Sensitive to clothing about the body and neck. Symptoms (>) from heat, (<) evening and night. Restless. Stomach symptoms (>)by belching. Catching sensation in back, (<) by holding with hands.
SKIN---Spot on the right calf became red, then copper-colored, it seemed deep in the skin.3 Some old scars from a burn, which became blue and deep red during the proving, have again become white.2 Itching all over the body; flying over the body2 (10th,13th days).
GENERALITIES--Feeling of general anxiety throughout the body1. Feeling as if the entire body was enlarged to bursting1. All symptoms come on when lying down at night1. Tired at 10 A.M. wants to lie down. Weak, sick feeling all day3 (11th day). He lost much flesh, emaciation spreading from above downward, about the neck and face, then mammae, then thighs and legs. Most of symptoms come after 3 P.M. 1 Weary2 (4th day). A dog was bitten and an abscess forms upon his neck, which has reopened three times; when it is about to open, he scratches it violently until it opens and discharges a yellow watery fluid. Tight clothing unbearable2 (throughout the proving). Throbbing in entire body2 (21st day). So tired, the weight of her clothing is burdensome5 (4th, 5th,6th days). Bloated feeling, lasting all day7 (13th day). Lost from 10 to 20 lbs. during proving7.
RELATIONSHIP--Chamomilla antidoted its uterine haemorrhage Cenchris antidotes Pulsatilla. Am. c. general symptoms.
(Copperhead)
Bulletin No. 24 of National Museum gives check list of North American reptilia Ancistrodon Contortrix. Dr. Albert Gunther, who furnished the article for The Encyclopedia Britannica, calls the "Copperhead" Cenchris-Contortrix, and considers it very similar to the Trigonocephalus family, but smaller in size, generally found near the water-courses, closely related to the Cenchris Piscivarus, which is the water-snake or crater-moccasin.
The cenchris family belongs to the temperate parts of North America, and its venom is of a deadly nature.
PROVERS
No. 1. Mrs. K., 6th potency, one dose only.
No. 2. Dr. Mary S., 6th potency, one dose only.
No. 3. Dr. Eliza M., 6th potency, one dose only.
No. 4. J. A. T., 6th potency, one dose only.
No. 5. Dr. Mary S., 2nd proving. 10m.
No. 6. Dr. Eliza M., 2nd proving, 10m, one dose.
No. 7. Geo W. S., 6th and 30th potencies.
MIND-Loss of memory. Feeling of intoxication. Anxiety with a feeling that she will die suddenly1 (8th day, lasting many days). The horrors of the dreams of the previous night seemed to follow her1 (8th day). She could not banish the horrors of her dreams (9th day). Instantly after lying down at night she was seized with a horrible, sickening anxiety, all over the body, but most at the heart and through the chest, exclaiming, "I shall die! I shall die!" This soon passed into profound sleep, which was not interrupted until morning, but full of horrible dreams. Afternoon and evening thinks her family plotting to place her in an insane asylum (this lasted four afternoons and ended fourteenth day of proving). Suspicious of everybody. melancholy (old symptoms worse). No inclination to attend to her usual duties which are pleasant.3 Angry when disturbed.3 Not able to rest in bed, must walk the floor to ease mind.3 Wants to be alone3 (4 th day). Nervous and irritable3 (14th day). Catch myself staring into space and forget what people are saying to me, or that there is any one in the room2 (4th day). Inability to concentrate mind2 (4th day, 6th and 10m.). Absent-minded2 (two provers, 5th, 6th and 10m.). Dreamy, absent-minded, took wrong car without realizing where was going. Misdirected letters2 (13th day, 6th and 10m.). Very gloomy and discouraged3 (7th day). So absent- minded and stupid that I tremble and shiver, and my teeth chatter for some time before I begin to realize that I feel cold5 (3rd day). Foreboding, gloomy without cause, frequent sighing2 (21 St. day, 6th and 10M.). Crying and very frequent sighing, as if very sad2. (Many days, 6th and 10m.). Lack of determination and snap, have to use all my reserve mental force to make myself get up and go out5 (many days).procrastination, indecision.5 Times passes too slowly, seems to drag along. I am longing to go, yet I cannot tear myself out of my chair and move along. When at last I do pick up enough determination to go, l go very suddenly. 5 Feel hard and uncharitable5 (8th day). Selfish, envious, easily slighted. Transient attacks of anger 6 P.M.5 (9th day, 6 P.M. and 8-30 P.M. 14th day, and 6-30 P.M. 17th day). Longing for the woods so intense I wandered out to the park alone5 (2nd day). Great depression and gloomy foreboding followed by great hilarity5 (9th day). Alternation of opposite moods and desires5 (9th day).
SENSORIUM-Sensation of intoxication in evening3 (2nd day). Sensation of intoxication came on at 4 P.M. lasting 3 hours, feeling as if I would fall; unable to walk in a direct line; go from side to side of pavement 3(2nd day). Same symptoms 4 P.M. (3rd day). (Same symptom 4 P.M. to 7 P.M. 4th day, and came every day for 4 weeks). Vertigo, coming and going, with no inclination to attend to her usual duties that are very pleasant; nervous and tired all the time3 (6th day). Vertigo. Angry when disturbed3 (6th day). Compelled to lie all afternoon. So dizzy3 (9th day) Vertigo very bad from 4 P.M. to 7 P.M.3 (2nd to 10th and 11th days).When riding in the car, she rode by the place she intended to get off at .3 Her mind is all a blank for ten minutes, but people did not observe anything wrong with her appearance. Dreamy feeling2 (6th day). Fainting spells.
INNER HEAD-Sensation of fulness about the head1 ( 18th day). Dull, aching pain in the forehead, which finally extended to the occiput, leaving forehead1 (1St. day). Feeling as if all the blood in the body rushed to head1 (8th day). Violent headache in both temples in forenoon; could not stand any warmth in the room; lips dry and parched1 (13th day )Headache in both temples on rising, passing off after breakfast3 (4th day). Headache in temples; passes off after eating.3 Headache. not defined, with disgust for food3 Aching in the frontal sinuses, nose, and throat, as though she had taken a severe cold, but no discharge of mucus2 (4th day). Dull ache in the occiput2 (4th day). Dull aching in the frontal eminence2 (4th and 8th days). Dull ache in left frontal eminence5 (7th day). Hard, aching pain commenced in left frontal eminence and spread down left side to teeth, then spread to right frontal eminence, then to teeth on right sides (16th day). Hard pain over left eyes 5(9th day). Dull frontal headache during menstruation2 (23rd day). Dull throbbing in vertex2 (18th, l9th and 20th days).
OUTER HEAD-Sore feeling in the scalp after the headache passed away1 (2nd day). Itching of scalp, better by scratching2 (1st and 6th days---6th and 10m.) Transient sensation of prickling in the scalp, like a gentle current of electricity5 (4th day). One large, dry, scabby pimple on scalp, long and narrow, oval shaped5 (12th day).
SIGHT AND EYES---Eyes ache, and there is dimness of vision.3 Lachrymation from left eye; left eyelid red on edges2 (7th day). Twitching in left eyelid2 (17th day). Dull ache in eyes, with sense of weakness5 (16th day). Itching of eyes; begins in left eye and extends to right1 (17th day). Margins of eyelids red, especially at night5 (many days).
HEARING AND EARS--Itching of ears at night3 (an old symptom not had for a year; 5th day). Itching of ears during the day3 (7th day). Dull pain in and around the left ear5 (6th day).
SMELL AND NOSE---Sickening odor in the nose (1st day). Copious flow of mucus, thin and watery.2 Copious flow of mucus. Coryza. Cold nose2 (several days). Cold nose2 (6th day, evening 7 P.M. ). Aching in throat and nose, tickling sensation in nose, as though discharge would flow, but very little discharge when blowing it2 (5th and 6th days). Aching in left side of nose as though in the bones, with dull headache2 (7th day). Sneezing occasionally and eyes filled with water2 (6th and 8th days). Sneezing in morning when waking2 (7th day---6th and 10m.; many days). Sneezing violently on awaking in the morning2 (6th and 8th days). Tingling from left nostril to left eye (lachrymal canal). Slight discharge of water from left eye, sensation of weakness in the eye2 (6th day). Nose burning sensation inside as though full of pepper2 (7th day). Nostrils sore, worse left side2 (7th day). Discharge of yellow mucus, sometimes tinged with blood;2 (7th and 9th days). Discharge of mucus from nose, varying from cream to amber colour, specked with blood2 (8th day). Cannot breathe through the nose2 (8th day--6th and 10m.; many days). Impossible to breathe through the nose2 (9th, 10th, 11th days). Scabs in the nose, lasting many days2 (10th day--6th and 10m.). Dry mucus in nose, cannot breathe through it2 (13th day). Slight tingling in left nostrils 5 (4th day).
FACE--Flushes of heat about the face and head1 (1st day). Bloating of face, as if intoxicated1 (9th day). Bloating above and below eyes1 (9th day). Besotted countenance. Mottled skin; purple, deep, dark red face. Dry parched lips in evening, with fever that began at 3 P.M. 1 (10th day). Swelling above eyes, below brow1 (like Kali c.---12th day). She can see the water bag that fills the upper lid1 (12th day). Baggy swelling under eyes5 (many days). Face pale all through the proving.3 Flushing and burning of face2 ( 1st day). Great burning of the face, worse at night2 (6th and 7th days). Cheeks began to get red and hot about 2 P.M. keep growing hotter and redder until she goes to sleep at 10 P.M. became dark red like erysipelas2 (9th day). Woe-begone expression of face2 (12th day). Burning face, 2 P.M.2 (16th day). Burning begins in left cheek and ear, spreads to right cheek 6:30 P.M. 5 (2nd day). Blue circles under eyes5 (all through the proving). Face sallow.5 Very small red pimples in little clusters, between the eyes and on the upper lip5 (15th day). Same tiny pimples on end of nose5 (16th day). Formication on left cheek. like crawling of a fly, also on septum of nose7 (8th day). LOWER FACE--Lips cracked and hot. Face chapped, dreads washing it2 (18th day---6th and 10m.).
TEETH AND GUMS--Aching through jaws after lying down at night, lasting until after midnight1 ( 12th day). Teeth ache from hot or cold drinks5 (12th day). Teeth feel edgy, can feel that I have teeth5 (l2th day). Dull ache in right upper teeth when eating5 (19th day).
TASTE, SPEECH AND TONGUE--Dry tongue. Bitter taste in mouth on waking in the morning. Taste of copper in the mouth2 (14th day). Dry tongue7 (4th day---30th potency).
MOUTH--Dry mouth in evening.1 Increase of saliva2 (7th and 8th days). Profuse saliva2 (8th day). Profuse saliva, running out of mouth on pillow in sleep7 (4th day---30th potency).
PALATE AND THROAT--Constantly hawking up thick, tough, stringy mucus, difficult to raise1,5 ( 1st day). Throat full of mucus, thick and yellow, slightly tinged with blood from posterior nares, in the morning on waking2 (6th day). During morning, twice discharged glossy, thick mucus from throat, looking like gelatin with bluish tinge, not tough, easily broken up2 (6th day). Sore throat; painful,empty swallowing, but water swallowed without pain. Sore all over throat, after an hour it located on left side in tonsil, and muscles of left side of neck, was gone next morning 1 ( 11th day). Throat feels scraped, warm drinks are grateful2 ( 4th, 22nd, 26th days---6th and 10m.). Right side of throat red and swollen2 (6th and 7th days). Throat full of mucus, yellow with specks of blood in it2 (8th day). Throat feels strained from the exertion of hawking2 (6th day). Slight pricking in the throat on empty swallowing, but no pain on swallowing liquid or solid food2 (6th day). Rawness of the throat with increase of saliva, which she swallows2 (7th day). Throat full of mucus, yellow, with blood vessels plainly outlined on uvula, fauces and pharynx2 (7th day). Right side of throat (pharynx), behind the posterior pillars of fauces, swollen and dark red, with sticking pains2 (7th day). Throat feels sore and full, have to swallow often in order to breathe2 (8th day). Aching in right side of throat2 (8th day). Constantly swallowing2 (9th day). The mucus is difficult to raise, loses her breath, and strangles in trying to raise it2 (9th day). Eustachian tubes filled with mucus2 (9th day). Had to hawk a half hour before I could get the mucus out of the throat so I could go to sleep; mucus thick, tough and yellow2 (9th day). Throat painful on empty swallowing, but not when swallowing solids or liquids2 (11th day).
APPETITE, THIRST, DESIRES AND AVERSIONS---Intense thirst for cold water in the evening. Every evening during proving.1 Intense thirst in evening, with dry mouth.1 Dislike for everything put before her to eat, and finds fault with everything3 (5th day). No appetite for anything at breakfast3 (7th day). Craves salt bacon (7th day). Disgust for food at breakfast3 (9th day). No appetite.7
HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING---Eructations of tasteless gas a short time after eating2 (3rd and 6th days). Vomiting of white gruel-like substance, with mucus and undigested food5 (2nd day). Nausea (>) by ice; water makes sick6 (2nd day).
STOMACH--Transient throbbing in the stomach5 (6th day). Acute cramping sensation in stomach, (>) by belching.
HYPOCHONDRIA---Pain in the attachment of the diaphragm, right side2 (3rd day). Cough felt at the attachments of the diaphragm.3 Aching all round the waist, at the attachments of the diaphragm.2 Felt as though a cord were tied around the hip.2 Pain in the attachment of diaphragm when laughing5 (9th day). Hard ache in the attachment of diaphragm, both sides, (<) by breathing deeply5 (11th day). Feeling of a bottle of water in left hypochondrium, shaking up and down with motion of carriage7 (l3th day).
ABDOMEN---Dull pain in two spots directly over pubic arch, 10 A.M. passing off after two hours3 (2nd and 3rd days). Feeling as though that part of abdomen below umbilicus was not sufficiently expanded, on waking in the morning (2nd day). Bands around the waist unbearable most of the time during the three weeks of proving.2 Dull pains in lower abdomen2 (2nd day, 12th day--6th and 10m.). Dull pain in abdomen when coughing2 ( I4th day). Transient aching in a spot just above the umbilicus2 ( 11 th day). Sensation of a hard lump in left side of abdomen. Bloating of abdomen after small amount of food, with diarrhoea7 Great deal of rumbling in the bowels, left side7 (11th day). During breakfast, sharp, cutting pain in the left hypochondrium, from above downward; pain deep, took breath away, lasting but short time7 (2nd day---30th potency).
STOOL, ANUS AND RECTUM---Itching and soreness of the anus1 (13th day). Soreness of anus5 (20th day). Haemorrhoids that itch and are sore1 (13th day). Urging to stool, which passes away before the closet can be reached2 (3rd day). Unsuccessful urging to stool strain until rectum feels as though prolapsed, but have no stool5 (3rd day). Waked in morning with itching of anus5 (13th day). Diarrhoea with tenesmus5 (35th day). On waking in the morning, had to hasten to the closet; stool watery, dark with a black sediment like coffee grounds; stool intermits, have to sit a long time, passing small quantities every minute or two6 (2nd and 40th days). Stool looks like bran porridge and of some consistency7 ( 10th day). Stool gushing and frequent, watery, with a dark sediment at first without pain; after several hours great pain before stool6 (20th, 21st and 22nd days). Flatus at termination of stool. Painless and involuntary stool when passing flatus. Soiled the bed twice in sleep7 (10th day). Had several diarrhoeic stools at night, copious, gray in colour, not debilitating. Several copious stools during the day with spluttering flatus, with bloating of abdomen after the smallest amount of food. Desire to be in a warm room with above symptom7 (l4th day). Several stools, not so frequent; weak today, good deal of rumbling in left side of abdomen. Stools profuse, each seems as if it would empty the bowel, but soon full again. Sensation of intestines filled with water (Crot. tig.). Stool frothy, foamy, air bubbles like yeast 7 (16th day).
URINARY ORGANS--Loses her urine when coughing.3 Desire to urinate at night, just after getting in bed; must get up and press a long time before a few drops pass5 (many days). When doing mental work, frequent desire to urinate, pass large quantities of colorless urine6 (several days).
MALE SEXUAL ORGANS--Violent sexual desire 4. l No sexual desire (unusual) since began the proving7 (10th day).
FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS--Yellow leucorrhoea; never had any leucorrhoea before1 (11 th day). White leucorrhoea, only while at stool, during the whole proving.6 Sexual desire strong, in a widow who had long been free from such sensations. Pain in right ovary3. Herpetic eruption on labia majora.3 Dull aching in the small of the back and sacral region, at night during menses2 (23rd day). Soreness in coccyx and gluteal muscles, and aching in abdomen at night, during menses2 (23rd day). Menstrual flow very profuse, bright red, with dark clots (23rd day). Menses two weeks late5 (old symptom, 13th day). During menses, aching in small of back, when sitting up,must lie down. Easily moved to tears. Throbbing about umbilicus5 (13th day). Sharp shooting. pain in left ovary, upon motion5 (3rd day). Pain in left ovary during menses5 (10th and 38th days). Cramping pains in uterus at each menstrual period, for four months.6 Labor-like pains in uterus during menses.
VOICE AND LARYNX---Slight hoarseness, worse at night2 (26th to 30th days---6th and 10m.). Hoarseness2 (8th day).
RESPIRATION--Suffocating feeling after lying down in the evening1 (7th day). Dyspnoea as if dying from anxiety1 (7th day). Stops breathing on going to sleep1 (8th day). She was prevented from sleeping by thinking of dreams of the previous night1 (8th day). After lying down, a suffocating feeling came over her, with anxiety2 in the chest as if she would die, worse on first lying down, She must lie with head drawn back, as she chokes so1 (9th day).Dyspnoea on lying down and the thought of sleep brings on great anxiety1 ( 12th day). She says: "There is no use lying down, that suffocation will come1" ( 12th day). -Frequent sighing2 (8th day). Impossible to breathe through the nose and very hard to breathe through the mouth, because of mucus in the throat2 (9th day). Can hardly find breath enough to talk, have to stop and gasp in the midst of a word or short sentence2 (9th day). Great difficulty of breathing at night, she had to gasp and struggle for breathe2 (9th day).
COUGH AND EXPECTORATION---Dry, hacking cough, coming on at 3 P.M. continuing through the evening.3 Irritation to cough, felt in pit of stomach3. Soreness in abdomen when coughing.3 Cough comes on when walking fast or walking upstairs.3 Coughs only when in the house.3 Cough at night after retiring2 (7th day). Cough caused a feeling of helplessness2 (7th day). Concussive cough, causing watering on left eye2 (7th day). Only cough twice, but felt quite concerned about it; a hopeless feeling comes over her at each cough2 (7th day). Dark, bloody expectoration; also bright, red blood seems to come from throat2 (l2th day). Cough seems to come from the diaphragm, causing violent contraction there. At other times it causes contraction of the umbilicus2. Expectoration frothy white, all shades of yellow in morning2 (14th day). Loose cough in morning, with frothy sputa.2 Concussive cough at night2 (18th and 19th days). Dry, short cough at 4 P.M. with constant irritation to cough, lasting until 10 P.M. Cough very hard, dry, frequent2 ( 14th day). Concussive, forcible, dry cough, shaking chest walls, cannot be repressed, lasting many days2 (16th day). Expectoration of white mucus of a metallic taste2 (18th day). Cough only in evening2 (20 th day). Hoarse, paroxysmal cough, with whitish expectoration2 (21 st day).
LUNGS---Transient hard ache in lower lobes of lungs; and afraid to draw a long breath on account of the pain5 (9th day).
HEART AND CHEST--Anxiety about the heart in evening after lying down1 (7th day). Anxiety about the heart with palpitations (8th day). Anxiety in the chest as if she would die, worse on lying down; must lie with head drawn back, as she chokes so1 (9th day). Feeling as though the whole chest was distended and the heart very sore1 (9th day). Feeling as if the heart was distended, or swelled to fill the chest1 (many days). Anxiety in the region of the heart all night1 (9th day). Extreme realization of the heart1 (strongest 12th day, lasting many days). Pulse120 in the morning1. Pulse 105 in the evening1. At 3 P.M. sensation of fluttering of heart followed by feeling that heart fell down into abdomen; then pulse became feeble, with heat lasting until after midnight1 (10th day). At 11 P.M. sudden, sharp stitching pain in the heart, followed by dull pain, which gradually subsided2 (1st day). Throbbing or fluttering under left scapula2 (2nd day). Sudden, sharp stitches in apex of heart, worse evening2 (3rd day). Pain through the attachments of the diaphragm, just below apex of heart. Pain in same region on right side of chest; hard aching, worse from deep inspiration2 (3rd day). Sharp stitches in the heart2 (4th day, lasting through the proving---four weeks). Dull pain in region of heart at 10 P.M. (7th day). Drawing pain in right side of chest, below mammary gland, on lying down at night (three nights); makes him put the hand on the pain; (>) by lying on that side and (<) lying on left side.4 Sharp stitches in right side of chest2 (7th day). Dull pain in apex of heart. transient5 (2nd, 4th, 9th and 17th days). Hard ache in heart at 10:30 P.M. 5 (10 th day). Sharp, darting pain under right breast5 (13th and 16th days).
OUTER CHEST--Hard dull aching, across the chest, extending to axilla on both sides, (<) on pressure; moving the hand to opposite shoulder causes pain in muscles of chest2 (6th day). Transient sense of pressure over the lower sternum5 (12th day).
NECK AND BACK--During the day, constriction about the neck, clothing disturbed her, choking feeling1 (8th day). Sore aching feeling below the left scapula, rubbing(>) (lasting many days.) Transient lame stitch in back of neck2 (4th day). Transient aching feeling in sacrum2 (5th day). Throbbing under the scapula, dull aching in small of back2 (13th day). Transient dull aching in back of neck2 (18th day). Dull aching in small of back2 (21 st day). Throbbing in buttocks2 (21st day). Soreness in coccyx and gluteal muscles when sitting2 (21st day). Awoke with throbbing in vulva and in anus, followed by a dull aching in sacral region, relieved by walking about (12th day). Throbbing carotids when lying down5 (12th day). Awoke at night with pain in region of left kidney, worse lying on left side, better by turning on right side and drawing up limbs7 (3rd day).
UPPER LIMBS--Transient aching in middle of right forearm, on the radius2 (3rd day). Heat in palms in evening2 (3rd day). Hands get chapped easily.2 Hands vary, one minute hot and dry, then cold, then sweating in palms5 (3rd day). Dull ache in metacarpal bone of thumb 5 (4th day). Dull ache in cushion of right and left thumbs5 (12th day). Dull ache in left palm5 (21st day). Itching of left palm5 (17th day). Cold air makes the hands look red and as though the little red points of blood would ooze out. In the house hands merely look rough5 (20th day).
LOWER LIMBS ---Feet painful in morning3 (7th day). Sharp itching in 3rd toe 3 (old symptom, 5th day). Awoke with dull aching in four lesser toes of right foot, acute pain when stepping or moving foot, gradually subsided after bathing in hot water2 (19th day). Want to put feet up; unconsciously cross the limbs5 (throughout proving). Profuse foot-sweat, can almost wring the stockings, not acrid nor offensive5 (12th day). Corn bums and twinges, cannot bear her usual shoes: (<) in wet weather5 (21st and several days following).
LIMBS IN GENERAL---Hands and feet get numb early during proving.2. Small varicose veins.5
NERVES---Extremely restless during night, compelled to move constantly1 (Rhus---11 th day). Not able to rest in bed, must walk the floor to ease mind and yet has no mental trouble3 (6th day). Restless after stools7 (11th day). Hysterical fainting at 7:30 1P.M. 3 (an old symptom---11th day). Fainting from nervousness6 (30th day).
SLEEP AND DREAMS---Unusually sound sleep during entire night1 (7th day). The night was full of horrible dreams of drunken people, dead people, naked people, robbers, indecent conduct of men and women1 (7th day). While sleeping in afternoon the breathing ceased and she awoke suffocating1 (8th day). Sleepless until 3 A.M. (9th day). Wakeful with horrible anxiety and feeling that she must die1 (many nights). Wakeful until 3 A.M. with anxiety. Sleepless until 1 A.M. (10th day). Sleepless before midnight1 (11th day). Restless all night, could not lie in one place long enough to go to sleep1 (12th day). Dreams of wandering in the field with cattle, with fear of being hurt3 (3rd day). Dreams of male animals following her in the field to injure her3 (6th day). Wakeful until midnight.3 Dreams of seeing animals copulating (two provers). Dreams of rape (confirmed). Late falling to sleep; voluptuous dreams3 (8th day). Wakeful night with dreams of animals; voluptuous dreams3 (9th day). Dreams of male and female terrapin. Wakeful, after these dreams of animals3 (13th day). Dreams of wandering; of naked people; of wild animals pursuing her3 (14th day). Vivid dreams first night.2 Vivid, horrible dreams; of dissecting living and dead people; of going up and down ditches; being in peril of engines; woke feeling as though that part of abdomen, the umbilicus, was not sufficiently expanded (constriction) 2 (2nd day). Dreams confused3 (3rd day). Sleepy at dark2 (4th day). Dreams, horrible; of the dead; seeing dead infants2 (5th day). Very sleepy at 9 A.M., can hardly hold eyes open while people are talking to her2 (6th and 7th days). Dreams vivid and pleasant2 (13th day). Dreams vivid and fantastic2 (6th day). Dreams vivid5 (6th, 7th, 8th days). Dreams had all the upper incisors pulled out7 (8th day). Dreamed all night of snakes, they were coiled ready to strike, was bitten on left hand by one and hand swelled and pulse went up to 160 per minute7 (9th day). Cold when in bed; not when had my clothes on7 (10th day). Coldness of body, especially nates, early in bed 8- 307 (l0th day). Sleepy at 11 A.M. took nap. Biting sensation in left temple on waking7 (3rd day---30th potency). Sleep all night on left side without moving. Dreams of plotting to fire the town or any building7 (4th day-- 30th potency). Tongue dry; saliva running upon the pillow during sleep (unusual). Body always cold in bed since began the proving7 (5th day- 30th potency).
TIME--Suffocating feeling after lying down in the evening1 (7th day). At 3 P.M. most symptoms; chill, fever, thirst, dry mouth, constriction of neck. Most symptoms better in the morning. Tired at 10 A.M., wants to lie down. During breakfast, cutting pain in left hypochondrium. At 1 l A.M. sleepy, took a nap.
CHILL, FEVER AND PERSPIRATION---Chill at 3 2 P.M., icy Cold hands and feet.1 Flushes of heat to face and head (1st day). Fever at 3 P.M., lasting until midnight.1 Fever, afternoon and evening. At 3 P.M., dry mouth and lips, mouth feels parched, intense thirst, pulse 105, choking and sensation as if chest was filling up, causing constriction and difficult breathing1 (10th day). Considerable chilliness3 (10th day). Chilly all morning3 (l2th day). Very chilly, shiverings pass over body every few minutes, absent 9 to 10 P.M. 2(5th day). The body feels flushed, but the contact of cold things is disagreeable, causing chills2 (7th day). Chilly at night2 (8th day). Feels flushed all over the body2 (9th day). Face and hands feverish in afternoon2 (12th day). At 10 P.M. cold chills in the back and chest, face and hands still burning2 (12th day). Felt very cold for about a half hour, could not get warm even when wrapped up warmly2 (12th day). Went to bed at 11 P.M. still feeling feverish2 (12th day). Awoke at 5 A.M. still feeling flushed with fever2 (13th day). At 10 P.M.2 hands hot and dry, nose cold2 (l4th day). Inclined to be chilly all day and more so at night, must keep wrapped warmly, even when feeling feverish2 (14th day). Chill at 11 A.M. 2 (16th day) Chilly, shaking, trembling with cold at Night in bed (16th day. Shivering in bed, during evening and night, though ( 10 P.M.) loaded with blankets2 (17th day). Sensitive to draft of air.2 Heat and chilly sensations alternate from 6 to 10 P.M.6 (8th and 9th days). Chilly, yet face is burning5 (10th day). Chilly, yet heat gives her a dull headache and makes her feel smothered5 (12th day). Fever, beginning left side of face and spreading over body about 4 P.M.6 (2nd, 3rd, 4th, 16th, 17th days). Chill from 9 to 11 A.M.,worse from least motion, even moving finger6 (2nd, 3rd, 4th, 16th, 17th days).
SENSATIONS---Sensation of warmth over region of liver5 (many days). Sense of fluttering and beating, or throbbing in a small spot on the outer side of right thigh, near its middle, commenced at 5 P.M. At 6 and 7 P.M., same sensation under right breast, alternates with that sensation in the thigh. This beating sensation is next felt in left hypochondrium, then in stomach pit, then in right ankle5 (l8th day). Throbbing in left calf5 (9th day). Throbbing under right breast5 (21st day). Heat over region of liver extends to heart region5 (19th day). Cramping sensation (1st day---30th potency). Sensation as though back were going to have a crick, while sitting on feet, (<) on left side, had to hold back with hands, soon passed off7 (3rd day--30th potency). Biting sensation, as of a fly7 (3rd day---30th potency).
TISSUES---Abscesses. Hard pain in left iliac bone5 (1st day).
TOUGH, MOTION AND MODALITIES---Immediately after lying down: suffocation; anxiety; palpitation; sinking; sensation of dying. Horrible anxiety comes over her on lying down at night, also on lying down in afternoon. Must lie with head drawn back, she chokes so. Compelled to move constantly, which seems to quiet for a moment; compelled to change position from restlessness. Sensitive to clothing about the body and neck. Symptoms (>) from heat, (<) evening and night. Restless. Stomach symptoms (>)by belching. Catching sensation in back, (<) by holding with hands.
SKIN---Spot on the right calf became red, then copper-colored, it seemed deep in the skin.3 Some old scars from a burn, which became blue and deep red during the proving, have again become white.2 Itching all over the body; flying over the body2 (10th,13th days).
GENERALITIES--Feeling of general anxiety throughout the body1. Feeling as if the entire body was enlarged to bursting1. All symptoms come on when lying down at night1. Tired at 10 A.M. wants to lie down. Weak, sick feeling all day3 (11th day). He lost much flesh, emaciation spreading from above downward, about the neck and face, then mammae, then thighs and legs. Most of symptoms come after 3 P.M. 1 Weary2 (4th day). A dog was bitten and an abscess forms upon his neck, which has reopened three times; when it is about to open, he scratches it violently until it opens and discharges a yellow watery fluid. Tight clothing unbearable2 (throughout the proving). Throbbing in entire body2 (21st day). So tired, the weight of her clothing is burdensome5 (4th, 5th,6th days). Bloated feeling, lasting all day7 (13th day). Lost from 10 to 20 lbs. during proving7.
RELATIONSHIP--Chamomilla antidoted its uterine haemorrhage Cenchris antidotes Pulsatilla. Am. c. general symptoms.
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