Homeopathic Materia Medica

Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica (Kent's New Remedies), James Tyler Kent

Copperhead

Bulletin N° 24 of National Museum gives check list of North American reptilia Ancistrodon Contortrix.

Dr. Albert Günther 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.

Mind

Loss of memory. Feeling of intoxication. Anxiety, with a feeling that she will die suddenly (8 th day, lasting many days). The horrors of the dreams of the previous night seemed to follow her (8 th day). She could not banish the horrors of her dreams (9 th 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. Angry When disturbed. Not able to rest in bed, must walk the floor to case mind.

Wants to be alone (4 th day). Nervous and irritable (14 th day). Catch myself staring into space and forget what people are saying to me, or that there is any one in the room.(4 th day). Inability to concentrate mind (4 th day, 6 th and 10m.).

Absent minded (two provers, 5 th, 6 th and 10m.). Dreamy, absent minded, took wrong car without realising where was going. Misdirected letters (13 th day, 6 th and 10m.). Very gloomy and discouraged (7 th day). So absent minded and stupid that I tremble and shiver, and my teeth chatter for some time before I begin to realise that I feel cold (3rd day). Foreboding, gloomy without cause, frequent sighing (21st day, 6 th and 10m.). Crying and very frequent sighing, as if very sad (many days, 6 th and 10m.). Lack of determination and snap, have to use all my reserve mental force to make myself get up and go out (many days). Painful procrastination, indecision. Time 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, I go very suddenly. Feel hard and uncharitable 5 (8 th day). Selfish, envious, easily slighted. Transient attacks of anger 6 P.m. (9 th day, 6 P. M. and 8:30 P. m. 14 th day, and 6:30 P. m. 17 th). Longing for the woods so intense I wandered out to the park alone (2d day). Great depression and gloomy foreboding followed by great hilarity (9 th day). Alternation of opposite moods and desires, (9 th day).

Sensorium

Sensation of intoxication in evening (2d 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 pavements (2d day). Same symptoms 4 P. m. 3d day. Same symptom 4 P. m. to 7 P. m. 4 th 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 time (6 th day). Vertigo. Angry when disturbed. (6 th day). Compelled to lie all afternoon. So dizzy (9 th day). Vertigo very bad from 4 P. m. to 7 P. M. (2d to 10 and 11 th day). When riding in the car, she rode by the place she intended to get off at. Her mind is all a blank for ten minutes, but people did not observe anything wrong with her appearance. Dreamy feeling (6 th day). Fainting spells.

Inner Head

Sensation of fullness about the head (18 th day). Dull, aching pain in the forehead, which finally extended to the occiput, leaving forehead (1st day), Feeling as if all the blood in the body rushed to the head (8 th day). Violent headache in both temples in forenoon; could not stand any warmth in the room; lips dry and parched (13 th day). Headache in both temples on rising, passing off after breakfast (4 th day). Headache in temples; passes off after eating. Headache, not defined, with disgust for food. Aching in the frontal sinuses, nose, and throat as though she had taken a severe cold, but no discharge of mucus (4 th day). Dull ache in the occiput (4 th day). Dull aching in the frontal eminence (4 th and 8 th days). Dull ache in left frontal eminence (7 th 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 side (16 th day). Hard pain over left eye (9 th day). Dull frontal headache during menstruation (23d day). Dull throbbing in vertex (18 th, 19 th and 20 th days).

Outer Head

Sore feeling in the scalp after the headache passed away (2d day). Itching of scalp, better by scratching (1st and 6 th day-6 th and 10m.). Transient sensation of prickling in the scalp, like a gentle current of electricity (4 th day.) One large, dry, scabby pimple on scalp, long and narrow, oval shaped (12 th day).

Sight and Eyes

Eyes ache, and there is dimness of vision. Lachrymation from left eye; left eyelid red on edges (7 th day). Twitching in left eyelid (17 th day). Dull ache in eyes, with sense of weakness (16 th day). Itching of eyes; begins in left eye and extends to right (17 th day). Margins of eyelids red, especially at night (many days).

Hearing and Ears

Itching of ears at night (an old symptom not had for a year; 5 th day). Itching of ears during the day (7 th day). Burning of left ear (1st and 7 th days; many days-6 th and 10m.). Dull pain in and around the left earl (6 th day).

Smell and Nose

Sickening odor in the nose (1st day). Copious flow of mucus, thin and watery. Copious flow of mucus. Coryza. Cold nose (several days). Cold nose (6 th 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 it (5 th and 6 th days). Aching in left side of nose as though in the bones, with dull headache (7 th day). Sneezing occasionally and eyes filled with water (6 th and 8 th days). Sneezing in morning when waking (7 th day-6 th and 10m.; many days). Sneezing violently on awaking in the morning (6 th and 8 th days). Tingling from left nostril to left eye (lachrymal canal). Slight discharge of water from left eye, sensation of weakness in the eye (6 th day. Nose burning sensation inside as though full of pepper (7 th day). Nostrils sore, worse left side (7 th day). Discharge of yellow mucus, sometimes tinged with blood (7 th and 9 th days). Discharge of mucus from nose, varying from cream to amber color, specked with blood (8 th day). Cannot breathe through the nose (8 th day-6 th and 10m.; many days). Impossible to breathe through the nose (9 th, 10 th, 11 th days). Scabs in the nose, lasting many days (10 th day-6 th and 10m.). Dry mucus in nose, cannot breathe through it (13 th day). Slight tingling in left nostril (4 th day).

Face

Flushes of heat about the face and head (1st day). Bloating of face, as if intoxicated (9 th day). Bloating above and below eyes (9 th day). Besotted countenance. Mottled skin; purple, deep, dark red face. Dry parched lips in evening, with fever that began at 3 P. M., (10 th day). Swelling above eyes, below brow (like Kali c.-12 th day). She can see the water bag that fills the upper lid (12 th day). Baggy swelling under eyes (many days). Face pale all through the proving. Flushing and burning of face (1st day). Great burning of the face, worse at night (6 th and 7 th day). 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 erysipelas (9 th day). Woe-begone expression of face (12 th day). Burning face, 2 P. M. (16 th day). Burning begins in left cheek and ear, spreads to right cheek 6:30 P. m.(2d day). Blue circles under eyes (all through the proving). Face sallow. Very small red pimples in little clusters, between the eyes and on the upper lip (15 th day). Same tiny pimples on end of nose (16 th day). Formication on left cheek, like crawling of a fly, also on septum of nose (8 th day).

Lower Face

Lips cracked and hot. Face chapped, dreads washing it (18 th day-6 th and 10m.).

Teeth and Gums

Aching through jaws after lying down at night, lasting until after midnight (12 th day). Teeth ache from hot or cold drinks (12 th day). Teeth feel edgy, can feel that I have teeth (12 th day). Dull ache in right upper teeth when eating (19 th day).

Taste, Speech and Tongue

Dry tongue. Bitter taste in mouth on waking in the morning. Taste of copper in the mouth(14 th day). Dry tongue 4 th day-30th potency).

Mouth

Dry mouth in evening. Increase of saliva (7 th and 8 th days). Profuse saliva (8 th day). Profuse saliva, running out of mouth on pillow in sleep (4 th day 30 th potency).

Palate and Throat

Constantly hawking up thick, tough, stringy mucus, difficult to raise(1st day). Throat full of mucus, thick and yellow, slightly tinged with blood from posterior nares, in the morning on waking (6 th day). During morning, twice discharged glossy, thick mucus from throat, looking like gelatine with bluish tinge, not tough, easily broken up (6 th 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 (11 th day). Throat feels scraped, warm drinks are grateful (4 th, 22d, 26 th days-6 th and 10m.). Right side of throat red and swollen (6 th and 7 th days). Throat full of mucus, yellow, with specks of blood in it (8 th day). Throat feels strained from the exertion of hawking (6 th day). Slight pricking in the throat on empty swallowing, but no pain on swallowing liquid or solid food 6 th day). Rawness of the throat with increase of saliva, which she swallows (7 th day). Throat full of mucus, yellow, with blood vessels plainly outlined on uvula, fauces and pharynx (7 th day). Right side of throat (pharynx), behind the posterior pillars of fauces, swollen and dark red, with sticking pains; (7 th day). Throat feels sore and full, have to swallow often in order to breathe. ( 8 th day). Aching in right side of throat (8 th day). Constantly swallowing (9 th day). The mucus is difficult to raise, loses her breath, and strangles in trying to raise it (9 th day). Eustachian tubes filled with mucus (9 th 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 yellow (9 th day). Throat painful on empty swallowing, but not when swallowing solids or liquids (11 th day).

Appetite, Thirst, Desires and Aversions

Intense thirst for cold water in the evening. Every evening during proving. Intense thirst in evening, with dry mouth. Dislike for everything put before her to eat, and finds fault with everything (5 th day). No appetite for anything at breakfast (7 th day). Craves salt bacon (7 th day). Disgust for food at breakfast (9 th day). No appetite.

Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting

Eructations of tasteless gas a short time after eating (3d and 6 th days). Vomiting of white gruel-like substance, with mucus and undigested food (2d day). Nausea > by ice; water makes sick (2d day).

Stomach

Transient throbbing in the stomach (6 th day). Acute cramping sensation in stomach, > by belching.

Hypochondria

Pain in the attachment of the diaphragm, right side (3d day). Cough felt at the attachments of the diaphragm. Aching all around the waist, at the attachments of the diaphragm. Felt as though a cord were tied around the hip. Pain in the attachment of diaphragm when laughing (9 th day). Hard ache in the attachment of diaphragm, both sides, < by breathing deeply (11 th day). Feeling of a bottle of water in left hypochondrium, shaking up and down with motion of carriage(13 th day). Abdomen Dull pain in two spots directly over pubic arch, 10 a.m., passing off after two hours (2d and 3d days) Feeling as though that part of abdomen below umbilicus was not sufficiently expanded, on waking in the morning (2d day). Bands around the waist unbearable most of the time during the three weeks of proving. Dull pains in lower abdomen(2d day, 12 th day, 6 th and 10 Min.). Dull pain in abdomen when coughing (14 th day). Transient aching in a spot just above the umbilicus (11 th day). Sensation of a hard lump in left side of abdomen. Bloating or abdomen after small amount of food, with diarrhoea. Great deal of rumbling in the bowels, left side (11 th day). During breakfast, sharp, cutting pain in the left hypochondrium, from above downward; pain deep, took breath away, lasting but short time (2d day, 30 potency).

Stool, Anus and Rectum

Itching and soreness of the anus (13 th day). Soreness of anus (20 th day). Hemorrhoids that itch and are sore (13 th day). Urging to stool, which passes away before the closet can be reached (3d day). Unsuccessful urging to stool, strain until rectum feels as though prolapsed, but have no stool (3d day). Waked in morning with itching of anus(13 th day). Diarrhea with tenesmus(35 th 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 two (2d and 40th days). Stool looks like bran porridge and of same consistency (10 th day). Stool gushing and frequent, watery, with a dark sediment at first without pain; after several hours great pain before stool (20 th, 21st and 22d days). Flatus at termination of stool. Painless and involuntary stool when passing flatus. Soiled the bed twice in sleep (10 th day). Had several diarrheic stools at night, copious, gray in color, 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 symptom (14 th day). Several stools, not so frequent; weak to-day, 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 (16 th day).

Urinary Organs

Loses her urine when coughing. Desire to urinate at night, just after getting in bed; must get up and press a long time before a few drops pass (many days). When doing mental work, frequent desire to urinate, pass large quantities of colorless urine (several days).

Male Sexual Organs

Violent sexual desire. No sexual desire (unusual) since began the proving (10 th day).

Female Sexual Organs

Yellow leucorrhea; never had any leucorrhea before (11 th day). White leucorrhea, only while at stool, during the whole proving. Sexual desire strong, in a widow who had long been free from such sensations. Pain in right ovary. Herpetic eruption on labia majora. Dull aching in the small of the back and sacral region, at night during menses (23d day). Soreness in coccyx and gluteal muscles, and aching in abdomen at night, during menses(23d day). Menstrual flow very profuse, bright red, with dark clots (23d day). Menses two weeks late (old symptom, 13 th day). During menses, aching in small of back, when sitting up, must lie down. Easily moved to tears. Throbbing about umbilicus (13 th day). Sharp shooting pain in left ovary, upon motion (3d day). Pain in left ovary during menses (10 th and 38 th days). Cramping pains in uterus at each menstrual period, for four months. Labor like pains in uterus during menses.

Voice and Larynx

Slight hoarseness, worse at night (26 th to 30th days - 6 th and 10m). Hoarseness(8 th day).

Respiration

Suffocating feeling after lying down in the evening (7 th day). Dyspnoea as if dying from anxiety (7 th day). Stops breathing on going to sleep (8 th day). She was prevented from sleeping by thinking of dreams of the previous night (8 th day). After lying down, a suffocating feeling came over her, with anxiety in the chest as if she would die, worse on first lying down. She must lie with head drawn back, as she chokes so (9 th day). Dyspnoea on lying down and the thought of sleep brings on great anxiety (12 th day). She says: "There is no use lying down, that suffocation will come" (12 th day). Frequent sighing (8 th day). Impossible to breathe through the nose and very hard to breathe through the mouth, because of mucus in the throat (9 th day). Can hardly find breath enough to talk, have to stop and gasp in the midst of a word or short sentence (9 th day). Great difficulty of breathing at night, she had to gasp and struggle for breath (9 th day).

Cough and Expectoration

Dry, hacking cough, coming on at 3 P. m., continuing through the evening. Irritation to cough, felt in pit of stomach. Soreness in abdomen when coughing. Cough comes on when walking fast or walking up stairs. Coughs only when in the house. Cough at night after retiring (7 th day). Cough caused a feeling of helplessness(7 th day). Concussive cough, causing watering of left eye (7 th day). Only cough twice, but felt quite concerned about it; a hopeless feeling comes over her at each cough (7 th day). Dark, bloody expectoration; also bright red blood seems to come from throat (12 th day). Cough seems to come from the diaphragm, causing violent contraction there. At other times it causes contraction of the umbilicus. Expectoration frothy white, all shades of yellow in morning (14 th day). Loose cough in morning, with frothy sputa. Concussive cough at night (18 th and 19 th days). Dry, short cough at 4 P. M., with constant irritation to cough, lasting until 10 P. m. Cough very hard, dry, frequent (14 th day). Concussive, forcible, dry cough, shaking chest walls, cannot be repressed, lasting many days (16 th day). Expectoration of white mucus of a metallic taste (18 th day). Cough only in evening (20 th day). Hoarse, paroxysmal cough, with whitish expectoration (21st day).

Lungs

Transient hard ache in lower lobes of lungs; am afraid to draw a long breath on account of the pain (9 th day).

Heart and Chest

Anxiety about the heart in evening after lying down (7 th day). Anxiety about the heart with palpitation (8 th day). Anxiety in the chest, as if she would die, worse on lying down; must lie with head drawn back, as she chokes so (9 th day). Feeling as though the whole chest was distended and the heart very sore (9 th day). Feeling as if the heart was distended, or swelled to fill the chest (many days). Anxiety in the region of the heart all night (9 th day). Extreme realization of the heart (strongest 12 th day, lasting many days). Pulse 120 in the evening. Pulse 105 in the evening. 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 midnight (10 th day). At 11 P. m. sudden, sharp stitching pain in the heart, followed by dull pain, which gradually subsided (1st day). Throbbing or fluttering under left scapula (2d). Sudden, sharp stitches in apex of heart, worse evening (3d 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 inspiration (3d day). Sharp stitches in the heart (4 th day, lasting through the proving-four weeks). Dull pain in region of heart at 10 P. m. (7 th 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. Sharp stitches in right side of chest (7 th day). Dull pain in apex of heart, transient 2d, 4 th, 9 th and 17 th days). Hard ache in heart at 10:30 P. M. (10 th day). Sharp, darting pain under right breast (13 th and 16 th 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 chest (6 th day). Transient sense of pressure over the lower sternum (12 th day).

Neck and Back

During the day, constriction about the neck, clothing disturbed her, choking feeling (8 th day). Sore aching feeling below the left scapula, rubbing (lasting many days). Transient lame stitch in back of neck (4 th day). Transient aching feeling in sacrum (5 th day). Throbbing under the scapulae, dull aching in small of back (13 th day). Transient dull aching in back of neck (18 th day). Dull aching in small of back (21st day). Throbbing in buttocks (21st day). Soreness in coccyx and gluteal muscles when sitting (21st day). Awoke with throbbing in vulva and in anus, followed by a dull aching in sacral region, relieved by walking about (12 th day). Throbbing carotids when lying down (12 th 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 limbs (3d day).

Upper Limbs

Transient aching in middle of right forearm, on the radius (3d day). Heat in palms in evening (3d day). Hands got chapped easily. Hands vary, one minute hot and dry, then cold, then sweating in palms (3d day). Dull ache in metacarpal bone of thumb (4 th day). Dull ache in cushion of right and left thumbs (12 th day). Dull ache in left palm (21st day). Itching of left palm (17 th day). Cold air makes the bands look red and as though the little red points of blood would ooze out In the house hands merely look rough (20 th day).

Lower Limbs

Feet painful in morning (7 th day). Sharp itching in 3d toe (old symptom, 5 th 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 water (19 th day). Want to put feet up; unconsciously cross the limbs (throughout proving). Profuse foot-sweat, can almost wring the stockings, not acrid nor offensive (12 th day). Corn burns and twinges, cannot bear my usual shoo; < in wet weather (21st and several days following).

Limbs in General

Hands and feet get numb early during proving. Small varicose veins.

Nerves

Extremely restless during night, compelled to move constantly (Rhus -11 th day). Not able to rest in bed, must walk the floor to ease mind and yet has no mental trouble (6 th day). Restless after stools (11 th (lay). Hysterical fainting at 7:30 P. M. (an old symptom ----11 th day). Fainting from nervousness (30th day).

Sleep and Dream

Unusually sound sleep during entire night (7 th day). The night was full of horrible dreams of drunken people, dead people, naked people, robbers, indecent conduct of men and women (7 th day). While sleeping in afternoon the breathing ceased and she awoke suffocating (8 th day). Sleepless until 3 A. M. (9 th day). Wakeful with horrible anxiety and feeling that she must die (many nights). Wakeful Until 3 A. M. with anxiety. Sleepless Until 1 A. M. (10 th day). Sleepless before midnight (11 th day). Restless all night, could not lie in one place long enough to go to sleep (12 th day). Dreams of wandering in the field with cattle, with fear of being hurt (3d day). Dreams of male animals following) her in the field to injure her (6 th (lay). Wakeful until midnight. Dreams of seeing animals copulating (two provers). Dreams of rape (confirmed). Late falling to sleep; voluptuous dreams. (8 th day). Wakeful night with dreams of animals; voluptuous dreams (9 th day). Dreams of male and female terrapin. Wakeful, after these dreams of animals (13 th day). Dreams of wandering; of naked people; of wild animals pursuing her (14 th day). Vivid dreams first -night. Vivid, horrible dreams; of dissecting living and dead people; of going up arid down ditches; being in. peril of engines; woke feeling as though that part of abdomen, the umbilicus, was not sufficiently expanded (constriction) (2d day). Dreams confused (3d day). Sleepy at dark (4 th day). Dreams, horrible; of the dead; seeing dead infants (5 th day). Very sleepy at 9 A. m., can hardly hold eyes open while people are talking to me (6 th and 7 th days). Dreams vivid and pleasant (13 th day). Dreams vivid and fantastic (6 th day). Dreams vivid (6 th, 7 th, 8 th days). Dreamed had all the upper incisors pulled out (8 th 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 minute (9 th day). Cold when in bed; not when had my clothes on (10 th day). Coldness of body, especially nates, early in bed, 8:30 (10 th day). Sleepy at 11 A. m., took nap. Biting sensation in left temple on waking (3d day-30th potency). Sleep all night on left side without moving. Dreams of plotting to fire the town or any building (4 th day-30th potency). Tongue dry; saliva running upon the pillow during sleep (unusual). Body always cold in bed since began the proving (5 th day-30th potency).

Time

Suffocating feeling after lying down in the evening (7 th 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 11 A. m. sleepy, took a nap.

Chill, Fever and Perspiration

Chill at 3 P. M., icy cold hands and feet. Flushes of heat to face and head (1st day). Fever at 3 P. m., lasting until midnight. 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 breathing (10 th day). Considerable chilliness (10 th day). Chilly all morning (12 th day). Very chilly, shiverings pass over body every few minutes, absent 9 to 10 P. M. (5 th day). The body feels flushed, but the contact of cold things is disagreeable, causing chills (7 th day). Chilly at night (8 th day). Feels flushed all over the body (9 th day). Face and hands feverish in afternoon (12 th day). At 10 P. m., cold chills in the back and chest, face and hands still burning (12 th day). Felt very cold for about a half hour, could not get warm even when wrapped up warmly (12 th day). Went to bed at 11 P. M., still feeling feverish (12 th day). Awoke at 5 A. m., still feeling flushed with fever (13 th day). At 10 P. m., hands hot and dry, nose cold (14 th day). Inclined to be chilly all day and more so at night, must keep wrapped warmly, even when feeling feverish (14 th day). Chilly at 11 A. M. (16 th day). Chilly, shaking and trembling with cold at night in bed (16 th day). Shivering in bed, during evening and night, though (10 P. m.) loaded with blankets (17 th day). Sensitive to draft of air. Heat and chilly sensations alternate from 6 to 10 P. all (8 th and 9 th days). Chilly, yet face is burning (10 th day). Chilly, yet heat gives me a dull headache and makes me feel smothered (12 th day). Fever, beginning left side of face and spreading over body about 4 P. m. (2d, 3d, 4 th, 16 th, 17 th days). Chill from 9 to 11 A. M., worse from least motion, even moving fingers (2d, 3d, 4 th, 16 th, 17 th days).

Sensations

Sensation of warmth over region of liver (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 ankle (18 th day). Throbbing in left calf (19 th day). Throbbing under right breast (21st day). Heat over region of liver extends to heart region (19 th 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 off (3d day- 30th potency). Biting sensation, as of a fly (3d day-30th potency).

Tissues

Abscesses. Hard pain in left iliac bone(1st day).

Touch, 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. Some old scars from a burn, which became blue and deep red during the proving, have again become white. Itching all over the body; flying over the body (10 th, 13 th days).

Generalities

Feeling of general anxiety throughout the body. Feeling as if the entire body was enlarged to bursting. All symptoms come on when lying down at night. Tired at 10 A. m., wants to lie down. Weak, sick feeling all day (11 th day). Has 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. Weary. (4 th 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 unbearable (throughout the proving). Throbbing in entire body (21st day). So tired, the weight of my clothing is burdensome (4 th, 5 th, 6 th days). Bloated feeling, lasting all day (13 th day). Lost from 10 to 20 lbs. during proving.

Relationship

Chamomilla antidoted its uterine hemorrhage. Cenchris antidotes Pulsatilla., Amm. c. > general symptoms.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica, John Henry Clarke

Ancistrodon contortrix. Copperhead snake of North America. N. O. Ophidians. Solution of venom.

Clinical.─Amaurosis. Catarrh. Diarrhoea. Eyes, swelling over. Headache. Heart, affections of. Leucorrhoea. Menorrhagia. Nightmare. Ovary, pain in. Throat, affections of. Vulva, throbbing in; eruption on.

Characteristics.─Cenchris has the main features of all the serpent poisons: Coma; semi-consciousness; insensibility of cornea; swelling of upper lip; general swelling; paralysis; cold, clammy sweat. Distinctive symptoms are: a marked alternation of moods; and dreamy absent-mindedness. The dreams of Cenchris are very vivid and horrible, cannot be shaken off during waking hours; often lascivious. Swelling above eyes, below brow, like an over-hanging bag of waters. Diarrhoea has been cured having the following characters: "Pain before stool; stool papescent cold but not chilly." Yellow Leucorrhoea; pain in right ovary herpetic eruption on labia. Hard, dry tickling cough, < 3 p.m. Restlessness and sense of suffocation; palpitation; sensation of dying. Must lie with head drawn back, she chokes so. Tight clothing unbearable. Chill or fever beginning in afternoon. Feeling as if whole body were enlarged to bursting; < in region of heart. "Awoke with throbbing in vulva and anus, followed by a dull aching in the sacral region, > by walking about." Symptoms < lying down; < afternoon; < evening and all night; < on waking.

Relations.─Laches. is nearest, but affects left ovary more than right; Cench. has difficult empty swallowing with easy swallowing of solids and liquids; Lach. can swallow solids but not liquids; Crotal. (lost sense of position and direction); Crocus (alternating moods); Kali c. (swelling of upper lids). Antidoted by: Cham. (internal haemorrhage); Am. c. (general symptoms). Antidote to: Puls.

SYMPTOMS.

1. Mind.─Memory lost.─Lethargy.─Anxiety, feels she will die suddenly.─Alternating moods.─Dreamy, absent-minded.─Took the wrong car without realising where she was going.─When riding in the car rode past the place she intended to get off at.─Suspicious, thinks her husband is going to put her in an insane asylum; every day, 3 to 8 p.m., for ten days, yet she knew it was a delusion.

2. Head.─Hard aching pain, commencing l. frontal eminence, spreading down l. side to teeth, thence to r. frontal eminence, then to teeth r. side.

3. Eyes.─Swelling like bags over eyes and under brows.─Aching and itching in eyes; dim vision, redness of margins and twitching.─L. eye waters; from concussive cough.

5. Nose.─Catarrh; scabs; obstruction.

6. Face.─Expression bloated, besotted.─Face sallow.─Burning face.─Blue circles round eyes.

9. Throat.─Accumulation of mucus; glossy, thick, tough.─Difficult empty swallowing, but easy swallowing of solids and liquids.─Warm drinks grateful.

11. Stomach.─Nausea > by ice; < by water which = vomiting.

12. Abdomen.─Intolerance of tight clothing.

13. Stool.─Diarrhoea early in morning, on, waking.─Stool, gushing, frequent, watery, at first without pain; after several hours, great pain before the motions.

15. Male Sexual Organs.─Violent sexual desire.

16. Female Sexual Organs.─Increased desire.─Yellow leucorrhoea.─Pain in r. ovary.─Herpetic eruption on labia.─Menstrual flow very profuse; light with dark clots.

19. Heart.─Feels as if heart were distended, or swelled to fill the whole chest.─Strongly conscious of heart.─Hard aching and sudden sharp stitching in heart.─Throbbing or fluttering under l. scapula.─At 3 p.m. sensation of fluttering followed by feeling that heart fell down into abdomen; then pulse became feeble, with heat lasting until after midnight.

17. Respiratory Organs.─Hard, dry, tickling cough, < 3 p.m., even causing escape of urine.

27. Fever.─Chill or fever beginning in afternoon.