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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    drium, as of something alive. Next day he took a third dose of the same dilution, but observed no further symptoms. Sept. 15th. At 6 o'clock in the morning, H. took one drachm of the fifth dilution. One hour after dinner he experienced a fine, tran- sitory stitch in the posterior surface of the left ulna near the elbow; soon after a sudden starting-bounding sensation in the right iliac re- gion, as though from something alive ; a quarter of an hour afterwards, he experienced a painful drawing in the outer surface of the left up- per arm near the olecranon, recurring several times at short intervals. At 8 o'clock in the evening, H. experienced a sensation on the glans near the frenulum prseputii, as if the spot had been excoriated, al- though no change was visible. 16th. Took a similar dose, after which: the same feeling of soreness on the glans, only when touching it; at 4 o'clock, after dinner, he ex- perienced a few fine stitches in the fossa navicularis of the urethra; an hour afterwards, during the siesta, he experienced a second time a sudden bounding up in the abdomen, accompanied with starting of the whole upper part of the body, as if from fright. l*7th. After a similar dose a drawing intermittent pain in the left side of the forehead, and at the same time symptoms of colic, accom- panied by emission of flatulence. 18th. A drachm of the fourth dilution morning and evening; this caused a profuse secretion of insipid saliva in the night, and a painful tension in the right side of the nape and in the small of the back. 19th. The dose was repeated, causing a slight tension in the left side of the nape, and a pretty severe sticking crosswise where the radius and the carpus unite, from without inwards (in rest). 20th. In the morning, H. repeated the dose. After the lapse of an hour he felt as if his stomach were deranged, with pressure over the scrobiculus, which impeded respiration. At 9 o'clock he experienced a pain in the left side of the forehead when writing, which continued the whole forenoon; upon being waked from the siesta H. became quite giddy, and had great trouble in collecting his thoughts.* 21st, 22d, and 23d. H. took one drachm of the third dilution at 7 o'clock in the morning. On the first day, towards 9 o'clock in the morning, he experienced an aching in the epigastrium, towards the right hypochondrium, for half an hour (more in rest than when walk- ing). On the morning of the second day, dulness of the head, and at 10 o'clock, painful drawing in the left thumb, lasting only a short while, but returning frequently. On the third clay a sudden sensation of gid- diness was experienced at 11 o'clock in the forenoon while writing. He felt as if a current of air was ascending from the occiput and pene- trating towards the forepart of the head, causing vertigo and a loss of thought. 24th, 25th, and 26th. H. took one drachm of the second dilution in the morning. Result: after the first dose he experienced a momentary * Was this the effect of sleep or of Thuja?—Mayrhofer.