Homoeopathic provings : containing the Vienna provings of colocynth and thuja-occidentalis, and the symptoms of aethusa-cynapium, alcohol-sulphuris, amphisbaena-vermicularis, anagallis-arvensis, apis-mellifica, aristolochia-milhomens, arsenicum-metallicum, artemesia-vulgaris, asterias-rubens, cinnabaris, turpethum, coccus-cacti : being the appendix to the North American homoeopathic journal / edited by James W. Metcalf.

  • Metcalf, James W.
Date:
1853
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Credit: Homoeopathic provings : containing the Vienna provings of colocynth and thuja-occidentalis, and the symptoms of aethusa-cynapium, alcohol-sulphuris, amphisbaena-vermicularis, anagallis-arvensis, apis-mellifica, aristolochia-milhomens, arsenicum-metallicum, artemesia-vulgaris, asterias-rubens, cinnabaris, turpethum, coccus-cacti : being the appendix to the North American homoeopathic journal / edited by James W. Metcalf. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    sation as if the rectum were very inactive; a feeling in the vertex as if a nail were driven in there ; very violent cutting in both loins when walking; ringing in the ears, frequently during the day. 10th. Cutting in the urethra from the perinaeum forward; very violent, dull sticking pain in the right testicle ; tearing in the left knee ; ringing in the ears ; evacuation slight, not satisfactory ; sticking pain in the pelvic region on the right side near the linea alba; sticking in the splenic region. 11th. Sticking pains in the left testicle, several times during the day; tearing in the right carpus ; severe cutting pains in the urethra (perinse- al region); dull stitches in the rectum upwards ; a stitch from the fora- men magnum through the brain to the vertex; dull sticking pain near the lower part of the middle portion of the sternum, on the right side; tearing in the right leg; no evacuation; cutting in the epigastrium, from the spine outward; feeling, when laughing moderately, as though the thorax were strongly compressed, with shortness of breath; dull sticking in the popliteal space impeding the extension of the leg. 12tb. Tearing in the right lower leg ; sticking in the left knee, early, in bed; several dull stitches near the scrobiculus on the left side; tear- ing in the metacarpal bones of the right hand ; a sticking pain on the left side from the sacrum to the left testicle; tearing in the left lower leg. 13th. In the open air, tearing pains in the region of the heart, and from there into the left scapula ; sticking in the left knee; tearing in the left lower leg; roaring in the ears. 14th. Tearing in both legs and in the right thigh. 15th. Tearing in the right thigh; ringing in the ears several times during the day. 16th. Tearing in the right foot. (76) /Seventh {and last) Proving. 17th. Ten drops of the first dilution in an ounce of water produced no new symptom. The almost exclusive subjective symptoms which the prover noted from the 17th to the 20th were summarily as follows : sticking in and on almost every part of the body—on the vertex, through the brain, in the eyeball, in the sternum, under the nipples, in the ribs, through the chest, from the scapula through the heart, in the groins, in the maxillary bones, shoulder, elbow, and knee-joints, in the ankle and wrist, in the os ilium, in the thigh, in the calf, in the arm and fore- arm, in the metacarpal and metatarsal bones, in the tendo Achillis, in the final joint of the thumb and great toe, at the root of the nails of the thumb and index finger. Tearing in the concha, the eyeball, the scrobiculus cordis, the shoul- der-blade, the shoulder and hip-joints, the thigh, from the ischia to the knee, in the leg, in the arm and fore-arm ; cutting in the perineal por- tion of the urethra; twitching in the flexor of the left thumb in the right cheek, under the scapula; sensation of dislocation in the knee and hip joints (aggravated by walking in the open air); painful oppression