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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    had gone to bed, a digging-tearing pain was experienced in the muscles of the right side of the nape of the neck, extending momentarily as far as the right scapula, and being relieved by contact, accompanied by roaring in the left ear and creaking when swallowing saliva. On the following morning, after waking, pressure and tension in the left and afterwards also in the right orbit. 21st. Took fifteen drops. In the afternoon, the well-known pressure as with a convex button in a region of the left parietal bone. At 7 o'clock in the evening, H. suddenly experienced a momentary pressure as of a nail which had been driven in, in the left frontal eminence (while walking in the street), and after returning home and entering the room, a luminous disk of the size of a pea hovered before his eyes- it shone like a fire-fly (lampyris noctiluca). 22d. No medicine was taken. In the evening he experienced a transitory pain in the left frontal eminence as of a nail which had been driven in. 23d. H. concluded his provings with seventeen drops of the 60th dilution. At 10 o'clock in the forenoon, drawing-sticking pain in the left temporal muscle, increased by mastication and diminished by con- tact. This pain continued for two hours, and in the open air as well as in the room. At the same time H. experienced a beating tearing with sensation of heat in the right frontal eminence, and a pinching pressure in the dorsum of the left foot, occurring frequently during the day. 24th. On waking, drawing pain in the left frontal eminence (this pain had made its appearance already in the evening after lying down), and profuse sweat about the genital organs. In the forenoon, while walking in the open air, headache in the forehead over the left eye- brow, extending as far as the right side of the forehead. In the even- ing, a continuous drawing and tension below the mastoid 2>rocess of the right side, accompanied with occasional drawing in the left frontal eminence towards the temple, and with roaring in the left ear. 25th and 26th. No symptoms observed; but on the 27th, a few moments after waking, H. had a complete hemicrania* in the left side of the forehead. It was a violent, drawing pain, commencing directly over the left upper eyelid, extending perpendicularly upward through the middle of the left eyebrow, and dividing in the left frontal eminence into a number of threads and rays which penetrated deep into the brain. This symptom lasted a few minutes, and disappeared as rapidly as it came. Feb. 13th. On this date, clear Thuja symptoms having been con- stantly present in the intermediate period, H. discovered a painless nodule near the borders of the hairs on the left side of the nape of the neck, disappearing again on the following day, except a small rouo-h place. 16th. A tubercle was observed on the inner side of the right thio-h. * H. had never tad any hemicrania before.—Mayrhofer.