AURUM

(From vol. iv, 2^nd edit., 1825.)

Just as superstition, impure observations, and credulous assumptions have been the source of innumerable falsely ascribed remedial virtues of medicines in the Materia medica; in like manner physicians by their failure to resort to the test of the experimentand by their futile theorizing, have quite as unreasonably, denied the possesion of any medicinal power whatever to many substances that are very powerful, and consequently of great curative virtue, and by so doing they have deprived us of these remedies.

In this place I will speak only of gold, and not of this metal altered by the ordinary chemical processes, consequently not of it dissolved by the action of acids nor percipitated from its solution (fulminating gold), both of which have been declared to be, if not useless, then absolutely noxious, apparently because they cannot be taken without dangerous consequences when given in what is called a justa dosis, or, in other words, in excessive quantity.

No! I speak of pure gold not altered by chemical manipulations.

Modern physicians have pronounced this to be quite inactive; they have at length expunged it out of all their Materia Medicas, and thereby deprived us of all its mighty curative virtues.

“It is incapable of solution in our gastric juices, hence it must be quite powerless and useless.” This was their theorical conclusion, in the medical art, as is well known, such theoretical dicta have always availed more than convincing proof. Because they did not question experience, the only possible guide in the medical art which is found on experience alone; because it was easier to make mere assertions, therefore they usually preferred bold dicta, theoretical empty assumptions and arbitrary maximsn to solid truth.

It is no excuse for them that the older physicians have also deemed gold to be quite useless and powerless, that, for example, FABRICIUS (in Obs. Med.) says:- “What effect can the low temperatureof our stomach have no gold-leaf, seeing that it is unalteredby the most intense heat?” Or NICHOLAS MONDARDES (De Ferro, pp. 32, 33) :- “Patients may take my word for it, and spare themselves the expense of employing glod as a medicine – they can never obtain any medicinal virtue from it for their maladies.” Or ALSTON (Mat. Med. i, p. 69):- “Seeing that gold in its metallic state cannot be dissolved or altered by the vital power, it can consequently have no medicinal action, but what it exerts on the intestines by virtue of its weight, hardness, and mechanical form.” Or, lastly, J,, F. GMELIN (Appar. Med. Min., i. p. 445):- “As gold is not destructible, not resolvable into vapour, and is hence incapable of union with juices of the animal body, therefore it cannot possess curative virtues.” (It was very stupid to attempt to decide theoritically the question whether gold can possess remedial properties – the only proper thing to do was to convince oneself by trial and experience whether it had remedial powers or not. If it has curative virtues then all the theroretical denials are rediculous.)

Nor are they excused when they adduce a number of other older physicians as deniers of the medical properties of gold, and refer to such names as ANT. MUSA BRASSAVOLUS, FEL. PLATERUS, HIER. CARDANUS, JO. BRAVUS PETRAFIT, FRANC, PIC. MIRANDOLA, MERINUS, MERCENIUS, DURETUS, CAMERARIUS, CORDOSUS, CONRINGIUS, LEMERY, ANGELUS SALA, or JOH. SCHRODER, who on other matters is so extremely credulous.

They were all wrong, and so are all the modern physicians.

Gold was great, peculiar medicinal powers.

At first I allowed myself to be deterred by these deniers from hoping for medicinal properties in pure gold; but as I could not persuade myself ot consider any metal whatsoever as destitute if curative powers, I employed it at first in solution. Hence the few symptoms from the solution of gold recorded below. I then gave, in cases where the symptoms guided me to the homoeopathic employment, the quintillionth or sextillionth of a grain of gold in solution for a dose, and observed curative effects somewhat similar to those I afterwards experienced from pure gold.

But because, as a rule, I do not like, when I can avoid it, to give the metals dissolved in acids (when I can not avoid doing so, I prefer their solution in vegetable acids), and least of all in mineral acids, as that detracts from their noble simplicity, for they must assured undergo some alteration in their properties when acted on by these acids – as we must perceive on a comparison of the curative effects of corrosive sublimate with those of the black oxide of mercury – I was delighted to find a number of Arabian physicians unanimously testifyingto the medicinal powers of gold in a finely pulverized form, particularly in some serious morbid conditions, in some of which the solution of gold had already been of great use to me. This circumstance inspired me with great confidence in the assertions of the Arabians.

The first trace of this we meet with in the eighth century, when GEBER (De Alcimia traditio, Argent. ap. Zetzner, 1698, lib. ii, p. iii, cap. 32) vaunts gold as a “materia laetificans et en juventute corpus consevans.”

Towards the end of the tenth century SERAPION the younger (De Simplicibus Comment., Venet. fol. Ap. Junt., 1550, cap. 415, p. 192), recommends it in these words:- Powdered gold is useful in melancholy and weakness of the heart.”

Then at the commencement of the eleventh century AVICENNA (Canon., lib. ii, cap. 79) says:- “Powdered gold is one of the medicines against melancholy , removes foetor of the breath, is, even when given internally, a remedy for falling out of the hair, strengthens the eyes, is useful in pain of the heart and palpitation, and is uncommonly serviceable in dyspnoea.” (The Arabic word for this last two meanings; according to the accentuation of the word it means either “taking to himself,” or “dyspnoea.” Experience of the curative power of gold shows the last to be the true meaning.)

ABULKASEM (ABULCASIS), at the commencement of the twelvth century, is the first who describes (in Libro Servitoris de proep. Med., p. 242) the preparation of this gold powder in these words:- “The gold is rubbed on a rough linen cloth in a basin filled with water, and the fine powder that falls to the bottom of the water is to be employed for administration.” JOHANN VON ST. AMAND (in the thirteenth century) describes the same method of its preparation (in the Appendix to MESUE, Opera, Venet., 1561, p. 245, 4 E.).

This mode of preparation was imitated by ZACUTUS, the Portuguese, and he records (Histor. Medic., lib. I, obs. 333) the history of the case of a nobleman who had long been troubled by melancholy ideas, whom he cured in a month by the sole use of a fine powder obtained by rubbing gold on a grind stone.

I may refer here to the laudations of gold powder and of gold by JO. PLATEARIUS (quoest. Therap.), RODERICUS A CASTRO (De Meteor. Microcosm., cap. 3), ABRAHAM A PORTA LEONIS (Dialog. De Auro), ZACCHARIAS A PUTEO, JOH. DAN. MYLIUS (Anatomia Auri), HORN (Ephem. Nat. Cur., Dec. ii, ann. 3, obs. 159), FR. BACO (Historia Vitoe et Mortis), FR. JOSEPH BURRHI (Epist. 4 ad. Thom. Barthol. De Oculis), JO. JACOB WALDSCHMIEDT (Diss. De Auro, Marb., 1685), CHPH, HELWIG (Diss. De Auro ejusque in Medic. Viribus, Gryphisv.,1703), LEMNIUS, PET. FORSETUS, OL. BORRICHIUS, ROLFLINCK, ANDR. LAGNER, ETTMULLER, TACKIUS, HELCHER (Diss. De Auro, Jen., 1730), POTERIUS, J. D. HORSTIUS, HOLLERIUS, HOEFER, and ZWELFER (Pharm. August). But leaving these authorities out of the question, I thought I might attach more value to the testimony of the Arabians as to the curative powers of finely powdered gold than to the theoretical unfounded doubts of the moderns, so I triturated the finest gold-leaf (its fineness is 23 carats, 6 grains) with 100 parts of milk-suger for a full hour, for internal medical use.

I will not attempt to determine if in this fine powder the gold is only triturated smaller, or if by this energetic trituration it has become to some degree oxydated. Enough, that in proving it on some healthy adults , 100 grainsof this powder (containing one grain of gold), and on others, 200 grains (containing two grains of gold), dissolved in water, sufficed to excite very great alterations in the health and morbid symptoms, which are recorded below.

From these it will be perceived that the assertions of the Arabians are not without foundations, as even small doses of this metal given in the form mentioned caused even in healthy adults morbid states very similar to those cured (in conscious homoeopathic manner) by those Orientals, who deserve credit for their discovery of remedies.

Since then I have cured quickly and permanently of melancholia resembling that produced by gold many persons who had serious thoughts of commiting suicide, by small doses, which for the whole treatment contained altogether from the 3/100^th of the 9/100^th of a grain of gold; and in like manner I have cured several other severe affections, resembling the symptoms caused by gold. I do not doubt that much higher attenuations of the powder and much smaller doses of gold would amply suffice for the same purpose.

Some time after writing above I had an opportunity of convincing myself that a hundred-fold higher attenueation of the above preparation ( made by triturating gold with a hundred parts of milk-sugar), consequently 1/10000^th part of a grain of gold for a dose, showed itself not less powerful in a curative point of view, especially in caries of the palatal and nasal bones, caused by the abuse of mercury preparedwith mineral acids. (This remedial power of the internal employment of gold in the evil effects of mercury was observed by ANT, CHALMETEUS (in Enechiridien Chirurg., p. 402.) In the subjoined schema the symptoms of gold homoeopathic to these affections will be readily observed.

By further triturations and dilution the power of gold is still more developed and spiritualized, so that I now employ for all curative purposes only a very small portion of a grain of the quadrillion-fold dilution for a dose.

Would our physicians, by their customary method of fabricating the virtues of medicines out of airy hypothesis, and constructing a materia medica of such fanciful materials, ever have discovered this remarkable power of a metal which their learned speculations had consigned to the category of utterly powerless subsyances? And which other of the favourite methods of our materia-medica-manufacturers would have taught us these remedial properties of gold? These have been clearly and certainly taught to the homoeopathic physician by the symptoms it produces, which resemble the morbid states it is capable of curing.

Poor, fabulous materia medica of the ordinary stamp, how far dost thou lag behind the revalation which medicines in hteir action on the healthy human body clearly make by the production of morbid symptoms, which the homoeopathic physician can employ with infallible certainty for the cure if natural disease!

The duration of the action of gold is not extremely small doses is at least twenty-one days.

[HAHNEMANN’s disciples who helped him with this proving are – FRANZ, GROSS, FR. HAHNEMANN, HEMPEL, HERRMANN, LANGHAMMER, MICHLER, WISLICENUS.

The only old-school authorities referred to for symptoms are-

Misc. Nat. Cur., Dec. ii, ann. 6.

Ephem. Nat. Car., Cent. 10.

HOFFMANN. FR., Med. Rat. Syst., ii.

LUDOVICI, Pharmac. Med. Sec. appl., Gotha, 1685.

Pharmac. Wirtemb., ii.

SCHULZE, J. H., Proelectiones in Phar.

The 1^st Edit, has 313 symptoms, this 2^nd Edit. 379. In the Chr. Kr. there are 461.]

SOLUTION OF GOLD

(This is called Aurum muiaticum in the Chr. Kr. It will be noticed that the usual order of the schema is departed from here, the nose coming before the ear. In the Chr. Kr. the usual arrangement is adopted and the signs of parenthesis omitted.)

Drawing pain in the forehead (aft. 2 h.)

A tickling itching on the forehead (aft. 1 h.).

Tearing pain in the left eye.

Redness and itching inflammation on the nose, which afterwards desquamates.

5. Red swelling of the left side of the nose; the cavity of the nose is ulcerated deep in, with a dry, yellowish scab, with sensation of internal stoppage of the nose, although the air passes readily through it.

Red swelling on and under the right nostril; in the nostril itself there is a painless ulcer-scab; it feels to him stopped up, although the air passes through it. [Mch.]

Externally in the upper part of the nose a burning (and somewhat itching) pain.

A crawling in the interior of th nose, as if something were running about in it.

Discharge of a greenish-yellow matter from the nose, without bad smell, for 7 days (aft. 10 d.).

10. (Ringing in the ears) aft. 6 h.).

(After the ringing in the ears a kind of dulness of hearing, as if the ears internally were wide and hollow, owing to which nothing was heard distinctly.)

Twitching toothache sometimes on one side sometimes in the upper incisors.

Twitching toothache also in the anterior upper row of teeth. [Mch.]

Distension of the abdomen.

15. His breathing is very short, and as if the larynx were stopped up, for some days.

(A couple of stitches just above the heart.)

(Swelling in the wrist, without pain per se, only a tension on bending back the hand; on grasping, however, he has stitches in it.)

Tearing pain in the middle finger (after dinner).

AURUM

(GOLD – LEAF)

More acute thinking faculty, and more accurate memory. (Curative action)

Intellectual labours affected him much; he felt exhausted.

On stooping, vertigo, as if all turned round in a circle; on assuming an erect position it went off each time (aft. 40 h.). [Lr.]

On walking in the open air there occurred a vertigo as if he would always fall to the left side and was intoxicated, which obliged him to go to bed, and for some time whilst lying in bed it returned on the slightest movement (aft. 43 h.). [Lr.]

5. In the morning, on rising, confusion of the head; great weight in the occiput. [Ws.]

Confusion of the head. [Hrr.]

When standing he is suddenly seized with vertigo, which compels him to sit down (aft. 28 h.). [Hrr.]

Headache as from commencing catarrh.

Headache (increasing from morning onwards), as if the brain were bruised, which by merely thinking and reading, but especially by continued talking and writing, is increased to the extremest violence, so that the ideas become confused, and it is only by the greatest effort that anything connected can be spoken or written; but when he ceases to speak, reflect and write, the headache always departs; at 7 p.m. it spontaneously ceases entirely (aft. 6 h.).

10. Headache, which is felt partly like bruised pain, partly in one portion of the brain, sometimes like painful pressure, sometimes like a tearing, increases from morning onwards aand goes off about 3 p.m. (aft. 24 h.).

(One sided headache like digging, boring, pecking, in the morning immediately after waking, increased by coughing and bending the head backwards.)

One-sided sharp beating, hacking headache.

Tearing pressure in the head, here and there, especially in the forehead, with giddy feeling. [Hrr.]

A prickling sensation in the sinciput.

15. Headache, anteriorly in the forehead and temples, deep in the brain, a very severe tearing, which is allayed in the open air. [Gss.]

Aching stupefying headache, as if excited by a strong wind (aft. 11 h.). [Lr.]

Pressure in the left side of the forehead (aft. 1.1/4 h.). [Hrr.]

Aching tearing from the right side of the occiput to the right side of the forehead (aft. 3 h.). [Hrr.]

Tearing pressure in the left side of the crown, worse on movement. [Hrr.]

20. Tearing in the left temple. [Fz.]

Fine tearing in the right side of the crown (aft. 3 h.). [Hrr.]

Tearing pain in the left side of the crown (aft. ½ h.). [Hrr.]

Tearing pain in the left side of the forehead, worse on movement. [Hrr.]

Fine tearing in the forehead. [Hrr.]

Tearing cutting pain in the right side of the crown (aft. 17 d.). [Hrr.]

Fine tearing from the right side of the occiput through the brain to the forehead, worse on movement (aft. 1 h.). [Hrr.]

Tearing pressure in the right side of the occi. [Hrr.]

A roaring and rushing in the head, as if he were seated beside rushing water (aft. 15 d.).

Rush of blood to the head.

30. Rush of blood to the brain (aft. ¾ h.)

Violent rush of blood in the head, on stooping, which goes off again on rising up (aft. 8 d.). [Hrr.]

Shooting on the frontal bone, like a slow drawing (aft. 6 h.). [Fz.]

A sharp stitch on the centre of the forehead, where the hair begins.

Needle-pricks on the forehead externally (aft. 24 h.) [Hrr.]

35. A small osseous tumour on th right side of the vertex, with boring pains per se, but worse when touched.

A small osseous tumour on the left side of the forehead superiorly.

Pressure on and in the left side of the forehead externally and internally (aft. 10 h.). [Hrr.]

Painful pressure in the temples.

Pressure on the left temple (aft. 32 h.). [Hrr.]

40. Aching externally on the left temple, worse when touched 9aft. ¼ h.). [Hrr.]

On lying down the cranial bones are painful as if broken to pieces, so that it took away all his vital energy.

(His head is shaken sideways and up and down.)

Feeling of weakness and aching in the eyes.

Pressure from without inwards on the left eye. (aft. 8 d.). [Hrr.]

45. Pressive pain from above downwards on the right eyeball. [Hrr.]

Pressive pain from without inwards on the right eyeball, worse when touched(aft. 6 h.). [Hrr.]

Aching in the eyes as if a foreign body had got into it.

On looking, a sensation in the eyes as when one has been much heated, as if the blood pressed strongly on the optic nerves.

(A kind of burning in the eyes.)

50. An obtuse stitch outwards on the lower part of the left orbit.

Extreme pressure in the left orbit almost like a spasm, on its internal aspect posteriorly. [Gss.]

Fine tearing in the right orbit in the vicinity of the external canthus (aft 5 h.). [Hrr.]

Sensation of pressing out of the left eyeball in its inner and upper angle.[Fz.]

Tension in the eyes which interferes with vision (aft. 1 h.). [Hrr.]

55. Extreme tension in the eyes with diminution of the visual power; he cannot distinguish distinctly, because he sees everythingdouble and one object seems to run into another; the tensive pain is worse when he fixes the eyes on something, and less severe when he closes them (aft. 9 d.). [Hrr.]

Several single stitches in the inner canthus of the left eye and in the eyelid itself (aft. 36 h.). [Hrr.]

Contraction of the pupils (aft. 2, 3.3/4 h.). [Lr.]

Dilatation of the pupils (aft. 3.1/2 h.). [Lr.]

It seems as if the upper half of the right eye were covered by a black body, so that he can only see with the lower half objects below him, but those above remain invisible. [Hrr.]

60. It seems as if a black veil were drawn over the eyes, whereby distinct vision is impaired (aft. 6 d.). [Hrr.]

Sparks of fire appear suddenly before the eyes. (Sparks of fire in the eyes are usual prodromata of partial paralysis of the optic nerve, or obscuration of the sight by black spots always hovering before the eyes. I cured one such case by means of gold.)

A smarting pain on the left upper eyelid.

A painless smoth pimple on the right lower tarsal edge.

Swelling of the lower eyelids. [Fr. H-n.]

65. (Bluish internal canthus.)

The face swollen and shining, as from perspiration; the eyes as if distented and protruding.

On the right side of the face itching needle-pricks.

Drawing tearing on the left side of the face (aft. 2 h.). [Ws.]

In the face, on the neck, and on the chest an eruption of small pimples with purulent apices, for some hours.

70. Excessive tearing in the frontal process of the malar bone. [Gss.]

A tearing in the right zygomatic arch. [Gss.]

Aching tearing in the left external meatus auditorius (aft. ¾ h.). [Hrr.]

Humming before the left ear.

Creptitation in the left ear.

75. In the morning in bed roaring in the ears.

A tickling formication internally in the alae nasi, as during coryza (aft. 2 h.). [Lr.]

A tickling formication internally in the alae nasi, compelling him to scratch (aft. 2.1/2 and 21 h.). [Lr.]

Sensation of stoppage of the nose as in stuffed coryza, and yet he could draw air through it very well (aft. 2.1/2 h.). [Lr.]

The nasal bone of the right side and the neighbouring part of the upper jaw are painful to the touch, expecially to the touch, especially where the facial nerve comes out.

80. After walking in the open air the nose swells in the room.

Twitching on the septum of the nose from above downwards. [Ws.]

He cannot get air through the nose; the nostrils are ulcerated and agglutinated and painful.

The nostril appears to him to be stopped up, and yet he can get air through it. [Fr. H-n.]

A transient smell of brandy in the nose, with oppression of the chest.

85. (On blowing the nose he percievies a foetid smell in the nose.)

Extremely sensitive smell; everything smells too strong. (aft. 48 h.).

Smarting pain in the lower part of the nose. [Fr. H-n.]

Smarting pain in the lower part of the nose, so that tears came into the eyes, as when strong sunlight excites an inclination to sneeze, or during exalted religious sadness, or the highest degree of compassion. [Fz.]

Sore feeling in the nose. [Fr. H-n.]

90. Sore pain in both nostrils, especially on taking hold of them. (This symptoms, though without name attached, is among the “Observations of others.”

Ulcerated scab in the right nostril, almost painless, yellowish, and almost dry. [Fr. H-n.]

Dark, brownish-red, slightly elevated spots on the nose, which are the seat of aching pain only when touched (aft. 24 h.). [Hrr.]

Swelling on and under the right nostril, with redness. [Fr. H-n.]

Both cheeks, lips, and nose are much swollen ( in the morning).

95. Swelling of one cheek with drawing and tearing in the upper and lower jaw, and a sensation as of grumbling and hacking in the teeth, which feel longer.

Tearing pressure in the right lower jaw, especially in its ascending ramus, which goes off by pressing on it (aft. ½ h.). [Hrr.]

On the outer border of the lower jaw intermittent obtuse shooting (aft. 24 h.). [Gss.]

In the right half of the chin a tearing. [Gss.]

(On the red of the under lip a burning vesicle.)

100. Dull aching pain per se and when swallowing in the gland beneath the angle of the lower jaw, as in a swelling of the cervical glands (aft. 3 h.)

Pain in one of the submaxillary glands as if it were swollen.

The gland beneath the ear lobe (parotid glands) is very painful when touched. Like a gland pressed and squeezed between the fingers.

Tearing pressure on the right side and lower part of the neck, near the clavicle (aft. 14 d.). [Hrr.]

(A jerking, tearing shooting on the external cervical muscles of the left side) (aft. 7 d.).

105. Ulcer on the gums and swollen cheeks (aft. 4 d.).

Swelling of the gums on the posterior right upper molars, with aching sore pain when touched and when eating, whereby the pain extends to the two backmost molar teeth, where it becomes an obtuse tearing (aft. 14 d.). [Hrr.]

On chewing the upper incisors are very sensitive.

(Single stitches in the teeth.)

Sudden attack of painful loose teeth, even the incisors.

110. The molars feel on edge (aft. ½ h).

Twitching pain in the upper row of teeth. [Fr. H-n]

An agreeable milky taste in the mouth.

Sweetness in the fore part of the tongue.

Insipid taste in the mouth.

115. Putrid taste in the mouth, when not eating, like high game.

Sometimes a sourish taste in the mouth (aft. 2.1/2 h.).

Bitter taste in the mouth with feeling of dryness (aft. 8 h.). [Lr.]

Pleasantly sweetish saliva collects in the mouth. [Fz.]

A kind of aching in the region of the palate, lasting several hours.

120. (Attacks of stretching asunder of the gullet, as if going to vomit, but without nausea.)

(Sore throat, like shooting soreness, only when swallowing) (aft. 7 d.).

(Much mucus in the fauces, for several days.)

Putrid smell from the mouth.

Smell from the mouth like old cheese.

125. Bad smell from the mouth, in the evening and at night, which he is not conscious of himself.

His food tastes well, but does not quite satisfy his appetite, and he could again eat immediately. (This symptom also os among “of others,” without name attac.)

Whilst eating the anxiety goes off. [Fz.]

Great thirst for six days. [Fr. H-n.]

Nausea in the stomach and throat. [Hrr.]

130. Scrobiculus cordis as if swollen; the whole epigastrium also swollen, and when pressed on, or when she laces herself tight, there is shooting there.

Pain in the stomach as from hunger.

(At noon, aching in the region of the stomach.)

Aching in the abdomen.

Aching (continued) in the subcosal region, as from flatulence, especially after taking something (food or drink), often increased by movement and walking; it goes off at last almost without any discharge of flatus.

135. Weight in the abdomen, with icy cold feet and hands.

Aching in the abdomen and heaving as though she would vomit. [Fr. H-n.]

Tensive pressure in the hypogastrium just below the navel and on both sides in the lumbar regions, with feeling of fulness. Most severe under the navel (aft. 53 h.). [Hrr.]

Tensive pressure in the hypogastrium on both sides in the lumbar regions, but most severe just below the navel, with call to stool (aft. 6 d.). [Hrr.]

Single tearings in the right side of the abdomen up to beneath the ribs, as if all there were smashed, which compels him to bend double, when sitting (aft. 36 h.). [Fz.]

140. In the afternoon shooting in the left side of the abdomen, like stitchesin the spleen.

Pinching pain in the hypogastrium, someimts here, sometimes there (aft. 12 h.). [Hrr.]

Pain like contraction in the abdomen.

Flatulent colic about midnight; much flatulence is quickly developed, which cannot find an exit, and painfully rises up here and there, presses and resists and causes anxiety, equally felt when at rest and when moving.

Flatulent colic soon after the lightest, most moderate meal.

145. Rumbling in the abdomen.

Grumbling in the abdomen.

Grumbling and rumbling in the abdomen (aft. 1 h.). [Hrr.]

Grumbling in the abdomen. [Hrr.]

Discharge of much foetid flatus (aft. 8 h.). [Hrr.]

150. Colic. (From swallowing gold.) [Ephem. Nat. Cur., Dec. ii, ann. 6, app., p. 6.(A casual mention of “aurea colica” as having occasionally, but rarely, occurred. Preparation of metal not stated)]

Pain as if bruised in the right hypogastrium, when sitting, which goes off on rising up and when he draws up the thighs (aft. 24 h.). [Fz.]

Pain in the groin as from a swollen inguinal gland.

Protrusion of a hernia with great pain, like cramp; flatus seems to get into the hernia.

A weakness in the groin.

155. Drawing out of the groin down into the thigh.

In the bend of the groin and in the tendons of the lumbar muscles a want of mobility and stiff pain when walking and spreading out the legs, as after a long journey on foot (aft. 3.1/2 h.).

Cutting blows in both groins, during which he is obliged to draw in the abdomen and to draw up the legs. [Ws.]

Forcing in the right groin, in the inguinal ring, as if a hernia would protrude, when sitting; on stretching out the body; it goes off on standing up. [Fz.]

A twitching pinching in the left side of the pelvis, which makes him start and jump (aft. 4 h.). [Ws.]

160. Cramp-like pain on the inner border of the pelvis in the neighbourhood of the hip, which is increased by rubbing )aft. 36 h.). [Ws.]

Pinching pain on the inner side of the ischias.[Ws.]

Sharp stitches in the anus and rectum (aft. ¾ h.). [Hrr.]

Discomfort in the hypogastrium and feeling as if he wanted to go to stool, especially after a meal (aft. 36 h.). [Hrr.]

Every morning soft stool with some pinching.

165. Unusually copious stool, in the evening (Aft. 10 h.).

Diarrhoea. [Fr.H-n.]

Nocturnal diarrhoea with much burning in the rectum.

Very large formed stool and hence difficult discharge of the faeces. (Whitish-yellow stool.)

170. Frequent but ordinary stool (aft. 16 h.).[Hrr.]

Constipation for three days. [Gss.]

(The quantity of urine passed is greater than the amount of fluid he has drunk.)

Constant call to urine, whereby little, but natural urine is passed. [Gss.]

Obtuse shooting tearing in the urethra. [Hrr.]

175. In the morning, after rising, frequent erections and desire for coitus (aft. 16 and 40 h.).

Very much increased sexual desire, which had previously been long dormant in him.

Nocturnal erections for many successive nights.

Nocturnal erections without seminal emissions (the 1^st night). [Ws.]

Seminal emissions for three successive nights, without subsequent weakness.

180. Nocturnal seminal emissions (the following nights). [Ws.]

At night seminal emission with voluptuous dreams (aft. 7 d.). [Hrr.]

In in the night erections and pollutions. [Gss.]

Prostatic fluid escapes from a flaccid penis.

Shooting tearing on the glans penis, when he has a call to urinate (aft. 3 h.) . [Ws.]

185. Needle-pricks on the point of the glans penis; each is followed instantly by a stitch over the navel towards the scrobiculus cordis (aft. 3 h.). [Ws.]

(Very painful twitching in the penis backwards.)

Itching on the scrotum.

Aching tensive pain in the right testicle, as from a contusion (aft. 3.1/2 h.) [Lr.]

Swelling of the lower part of the right testicle, with aching pain only when touched and rubbed, which commenced every evening about 6 p.m. and went off again about 11 o’clock (aft. 5 d.). [Hrr.]

190. Labour-like pains in the abdomen, as if the menses would come on.

Coryza. [Fr.H-n.]

In the morning on awaking dry catarrh tightly seated in the chest; he can only cough up a little viscid mucus with great effort, and this only after first getting up from bed (aft. 16 h.).

Cough. [Fr.H-n.]

Great tightness of chest when walking in the open air.

195. Very great tightness of chest.

Tightness of the chest; when he laughs or walks quickly he feels the chest too tight on inspiring, and it seems to him that the chest is too flat (aft. 44 h.). [Gss.]

Tightness of thoracic cavity, and on inspiring obtuse stitches here and there in the chest. [Hrr.]

Extreme tightness of thoracic cavity with difficulty of breathing at night (aft. 58 h.). [Hrr.]

Tightness of chest, also when sitting and when not moving, not allayed by any position; he always takes a deep breath, and cannot get enough air. [Gss.]

200. Cough on account of want of breath at night.

Sometimes at the top of the trachea adherent mucus, which is with difficulty detached by short cough, also mucus lower down in the lung, which is expectorated in large quantity and easily; soonafter this his respiration was very free, and he is wide chested (he was formerly very narrow chested.)

She must sometimes take a very deep breath.

On breathing deeply and yawning, painful stitches under the ribs, whereby yawning and breathing are obstructed; this goes off on going to bed.

On inspiring sharp stitches, and (to his feelings) in the side of the bladder.

205. Frequently mucus deep in the trachea below the larynx, which, in spite of the great efforts, cannot be coughed up. [Gss.]

(On expiring a rumbling in the chest down into the abdomen and groin, and after the rumbling a very rapid palpitation of the heart, with exhaustion and anxiety- hereafter slumber.)

Mucus in the fauces that can be hawked up, but that prevents him taking a full inspiration (aft. 2 h.) [Fz.]

Some very violent stitches in the chest, above the heart (aft. 72 h.).

Aching on the right side of the chest in the region of the fourth rib, which causes him immense anxiety. [Fz.]

210. Feeling of anxiety often in connexion with tightness of the thoracic cavity (aft. 3 d.) [Hrr.]

Palpitation of the heart (aft. ¼ h.).

Sometimes a single very strong beat of the heart.

Violent palpitation of the heart (aft. 4 d.). [Hrr.]

When walking the heart appears to shake as though it was loose. [Fz.]

215. Obtuse cutting and shooting pain on the right side near the sternum under the last true ribs. [Hrr.]

Obtuse cutting pain on the left near the sternum more severe on inspiring (aft. 9 h.). [Hrr.]

Obtuse stitches on both sides of the chest, with feeling of heat and oppression in the chest, increased by inspiration (aft. 2 h.). [Ws.]

On the sternum aching, with busy anxious state of mind, as if some great happiness were about to befal him. [Fz.]

220. Over the of the first three ribs on the right side a red spot, and under these cartilages, especially the second, a squeezing obtuse shooting, which sometimes lasts like a peg stuck in there, sometimes slowly declines; but he feels little of it when walking quickly (aft. 16 h.). [Gss.]

Pressure on the left side near the scrobiculus cordis, under the cartilages of the upper false ribs, more severe when expiring (aft. 7 d.). [Hrr.]

Pressure as from something hard on the sternum, wirh drawing tearing towards the shoulders. [Fz.]

In the morning such severe pain in the spine that he could not move a limb.

Pain in the sacrum, as from fatigue (aft. 3 h.).

225. While sitting cutting above the sacrum as if it was pressed on by something sharp. [Fz.]

Fine shooting tearing on the right side near the lumbar vertebrae, always removed by pressing on it (aft. 2 h.). [Hrr.]

Pressure on the left side near the lumbar vertebrae just above the os innominatum, and on its upper border. [Hrr.]

On the right near spinal column, just below the right scapula, a painful pricking as with needles (aft. ½ h.). [Gss.]

Tearing pain on the inner side of the scapula and beneath it, when bending the body backwards and to the left (aft. 10 h.). [Hrr.]

230. Tension in the nape, as if a muscle there were too short, even when not moving, worse when stooping (aft. 10 h.). [Ws.]

Fine stitches in the axilla. [Ws.]

Sore pain of the shoulders, even when not touched or moved. [Fz.]

Tearing tension under the axilla. [Ws.]

Gone-to-sleep feeling, numbness and insensibility of the arms and thighs in the morning after waking, felt more when lying still than when moving (aft. 16 h.).

235. Tearing pressure in the middle of the anterior surface of both upper arms (aft. 15 d.) .[Hrr.]

Fine tearing in the left upper arms, most severe when it is uncovered (aft. 3 h.). [Ws.]

Pressure on the under surface and in the middle of the right upper arm. [Hrr.]

Pressure on the left upper arm, in the periosteum(aft. 43 h.). [Hrr.]

Down the left arm a drawing pain lying on the bone, which goes off on moving. [Fz.]

240. Heaviness of the forearm when at rest, but not when moving (aft. 12 h.). [Ws.]

Pressure on the anterior surface of the right forearm. [Hrr.]

Intermittent tearing pressure on the inner surface of the left forearm (Aft. 3 d.). [Hrr.]

Pressure on the outer side of the right forearm (aft. 12 d.). [Hrr.]

Cramp-like tearing deeply seated internally in the bones of the wrist, now of the right, now of the left hand, also in the right elbow-joint; it draws from the inferior to the superior row of the carpal bones, especially observable in the night, but also during the day. [Gss.]

245. Tearing in the right carpal bones (aft. 8 h.). [Hrr.]

Tearing in the metacarpal bones and the proximal phalanx of the left little finger. [Hrr.]

Cramp-like pain in the metacarpal bones of the left hand, especially of the thumb, which, however, does not interfere with movement. [Gss.]

Itching between thumb and forefinger.

Very quick, continued, almost shooting pecking between thumb and forefinger.

250. Fine tearing in the ring and middle finger of the right hand (aft. ¾ h.).[Hrr.]

Fine tearing in the distal phalanx of the right thumb. [Hrr.]

Obtuse tearing in the finger-joints of both hands, which often extends to into the limbs of both sides (aft. 5 d.). [Hrr.]

Tearing in the proximal joints of the fingers of the right hand(aft. 4 d.). [Hrr.]

Drawing in the finger-joints. [Hl.]

255. A fine stitch darts in a tortuous manner through the gluteal muscles of the right side in a downward direction, recurring several times(aft. 16 h.). [Ws.]

A kind of paralysis of the thigh; he cannot raise it on account of stiff pain up above in the tendons of the psoas muscle.

Tearing in the thigh, like growing pain, only on moving, not when sitting (aft. 24 h.).

On walking in the open air an aching tensive pain in the muscles of the left thigh, which did not go off by touching, standing, or walking, but did so when sitting (aft. 3 h.). [Lr.]

Cramp-like drawing in the tendon of the psoas muscles which flexes the left thigh, down into the thigh, when sitting; it goes off on standing up. [Fz.]

260. On the outside of the left thigh, in its middle, a spot which pains as of excoriated (coming on at night when lying). [Gss.]

Sensation in the shaft of the right femur when he throws the right thigh over the left, as if the former were broken. [Fz.]

When sitting, if he throws the left leg over the right, the muscles on the posterior side of the right thigh towards the hough seem to be in a twitching movement, which is not observable in aother posture or when the legs are not crossed. [Gss.]

Painful stiffness and paralyzed feeling of the knees when at rest and when moving.

When walking a simple pain in the right knee.

265. Pain in the knees as if they were tightly bound, when sitting and walking.

The right knee is weakened by walking, so that when he treads, and also after walking, in every position, a drawing pain is felt in it for a long time (aft. 24 h.). [Gss.]

Unsteadiness of the knees.

Aching on the left tibia when he stretches out the leg. [Fz.]

Above the ankles, on both sides, dull, gnawing pain, and single sharp stitches in the tendo Achillis, when at rest, which at rest, which go off when moving (aft. 14 h.). [Ws.]

270. Tensive pressure near the right inner ankle (aft. 5 d.). [Hrr.]

The heels pain as if festering or as if they were filled with blood.

(Violent stitches behind the toes on the dorsum of the foot.)

(Digging pain in the place where a chilblain had been) (aft. 1 h.)

Pain as if bruised and dislocated in the proximal joint of the big toe when walking.

275.Paralytic drawing in the right metatarsal bone of the big toe, extending to its tip. [Hrr.]

Paralytic drawing in the toes of the right foot. [Hrr.]

Fine tearing in the toes of the right foot. [Hrr.]

Drawing in the toe-joints. [Hl.]

Pressure as from something hard in the hollow part of the sole.

280. Tearing pain on the posterior part of the right sole (aft. 30 h.) [Hrr.]

In the morning and all the forenoon, pain of all the joints as if beaten.

In the morning, at dawn, in bed, simple or bruised pain in all the joints, especially in the sacrum and knees, which increases the longer he lies still, whether on the back or the side, but soon goes off after getting up.

In the whole body an extremely great sensitiveness; too sensitive to every pain; on merely thinking of pain he imagined he felt it; a feeling of intolerance of everything . [Hl.]

In the afternoon prostration and painful drawing in the blood-vessels.

285. Comfortable feeling in the whole body.(Curative action.)

All his sensation are fine and acute. [Hl.]

Even in the worst weather he feels well and comfortable in the open air. [Fz.]

(Formication on the body here and there. [Hl.]

Itching burning radiations darting here and there, almost like stitches.

290. In the afternoon when sitting and reading he was overcome by great exhaustion, during which he fell asleep, but it was quite gone when he woke (aft. 9.1/2 h.). [Lr.]

Remarkable ebullition in the blood (aft. 24 h.)., as if it boiled in the blood-vessels.

A weakness of the head combined with sopor while sitting, in the daytime.

Irresistible sleep after dinner, and during this nap he thinks a great deal (aft. 4 h.). [Fz.]

Frequent waking out of sleep as from fright. [Lr.]

295. He moans aloud in his sleep. [Gss.]

Agreeable and very rational but little remembered dreams (aft. 8 h.).

Frightful dreams.

He has frightful dreams of thieves, and cries out aloud in sleep.

Dreams of dead people.

300. He awakes in vivid dreams.

Dreams as if he should fall from a great height.

Dreams full of quarreling.

Every night dreams and erection of the penis.

In the evening immediately after going to sleep, almost half awake, she dreamt much, as if someone were speaking to her.

305. All night long she dreamt that she was in the dark.

The child slept till 3 a.m., then it became wide awake, and spoke in bold tones deriliously, with rapid utterance and red face: “Mother, thou art my gold daughter!” “What dog is that?” “What head is that on the wall?” “What is that running about the room?” and her raving consisted always of questions.

Frightful dreams at night. [Gss.]

At night unremembered dreams. [Lr.]

At night vivid yet unremembered dreams. [Lr.]

310. All night long wide awake and sleepless, although without pains, and yet neither sleepy nor tired in the morning, as is usually the case after a sleepless night.

In the morning from 4 o’clock onwards he cannot sleep properly any longer; he tosses about restlessly from one side to the other, because he can not lie long in one position; the hand on which he lies becomes soon tired; he often wakes up. [Gss.]

In the morning on waking very weak.

In the morning in bed, immediately on waking, bruised headache and bruised pain in all the joints, worst when quite at rest; immediately after getting up these pains disappear.

In the morning very tired; her legs are painful so that she would like to lie down again.

315. Chilliness in the evening on bed; the legs up to the knees are icy cold; he cannot get warm all night; sleeps in all scarcely two hours, only for half an hour at a time, during which he has anxious but unremembered dreams (aft. 16 d.).

Alternate heat and chills. [Fr. H-n.]

Shivering through the whole body, with goose skin on the thighs, and with shock of the brain under the frontal bone (aft. 10 h.) [Fz.]

In the evening before lying down, headache, and after lying down shivering and chilliness.

Rigor in the back.

120. Sometimes chilliness betwixt the scapulae.

(When he got into bed in the evening his soles and patellae became cold. [Hl.]

In the evening in bed, before going to sleep, a febrile rigor over the whole body as if he had taken a chill in a draught of air (aft. 19 h.). [Lr.]

In the evening febrile rigor all over, during which the hands were cold, but the face and forehead warm, without thirst (Aft. 14 h.). [Lr.]

At night in bed, before going to sleep, a febrile rigor through the whole body; he could hardly get warm in bed (aft. 16 h.). [Lr.]

325. When he lies down in bed in the evening he is quiet, yet sleep is not to be thought of; he thinks it is owing to the position, and he changes it ever and anon, but cannot sleep before 3 a.m.; in the morning, waking up at 6 a.m., he is as refreshed as if he had slept sufficiently, for three successive nights. [Hl.]

In the evening febrile rigor over the whole body, with stuffed coryza, not followed by heat, and without thirst (aft. 14 h.). [Lr.]

Heat of face with cold hands and feet.

Slight transpiration at night like a vapour, and only between the thighs moisture like perspiration (aft. 10 h.)

Morning sweat all over.

330. All day long humour; he was talkative and contented with himself. (Alternating action?) [Lr.]

Cheerful humour; he was always disposed to converse with others and was quite contented with his position. (Alternating action?) (Though without name attached, this symptom occurs among “observations of others.” )

Tolerable gaiety and agreeable comfort. (Alternating action?) (aft.. 2 h.). [Gss.]

In the evening sometimes weeping, sometimes laughing, as if she was not quite conscious.

Trembling agitation of the nerves as if under the influence of some joyous hope (aft. 36 h.). [Fz.]

335. Quiet morosenese (aft. 1 h.); cheerfulness (aft. 3 h.); the two emotions afterwards alternated with one another. [Hrr.]

Moroseness; he is indisposed to talk (aft. 8 h.). [Hrr.]

Very much given to feel offended; the slightest thing which he thought offensive affected him deeply, and caused him to resent it. [Hl.]

Irascibility; he is very excitable, and the slightest contradiction excites the utmost anger (aft. 48 h.). [Gss.]

Choleric.

340. He sits apart, all by himself in a corner, wrapt up himself, as if in the deepest melancholy, when left undisturbed, but the slightest contradiction excites the greatest heat and anger, when he quite forgets himself, at first with quarrelling and much talking, afterwards with few disconnected words (chiefly aft. 5 d.). [Hrr.]

Constant, Sulky seriousness and reservedness. [Lr.]

Peevish dejection; he thinks nothing will succeed with him. [Ws.]

He thinks that everything happens awkwardly or that he does everything awkwardly. [Hl.]

Discontent with all his circumstances; he imagines that he finds everywhere some obstacle in the way; at one another that he himself is to blame for it; when the latter was the case he was particularly mortified and dejected. [Hl.]

345. An urging to activity, bodily as well as mental; when he did anything, he thought he did not do it quick enough, and that he had a great deal more to do; he could not live to his liking. [Hl.]

Remorse about his idleness, and yet he cannot work at anything; it drives him out of the house, he must be always moving. [Fz.]

Always very restless and undecided – thought he was neglecting something for which he must reproach – without perceptibleebullition of blood; he seemed to carry about this restlessness with him in his inmost parts; this condition deprived him of all perseverance, all energy. [Hl.]

A noise before the door made him anxious; he feared lest some one would come in; like anthropophobia. (Hence it was useful in cases of too great hesitancy of mind.)

Palpitation of the heart, extraordinary anxiety, weariness of all the limbs and drowsniness (for an hour.)

350. Great anxiety that has its origin in the praecordial region; it draws him to a place that was previously a favourite one, and drives him away again, and so from one place to another, so that he can remain long in no place. [Fz.]

Great weakness and anxiety, so that he is thought to be near death. [J. H. SCHULE, Praelectiones in Pharm., Aug., p. 46. (Not accessible.) ]

Amid howling and crying she imagines herself to be irrelievably lost.

He imagines he has forfeited the affections of others, and this grieves him to tears. [Fz.]

Sad, dejected.

355. He is discontented with himself and depressed in spirits.

Melancholy; he imagines he is unfitted for the world; he is filled with intense delight when he thinks of death, so that he longs to die. [Fz.]

Contrarierty of disposition.

Frequent attacks of praecordial anxiety and trembling anxiety. [Ephem. Nat. Cur., Cent. 10, obs. 35. (No observation about gold occurs here.) ]

FULMINATING GOLD

Bellyache, especially in children, with anguish. [Pharmac. Wirtemb., ii, p. 28. (Not accessible.) ]

Sinking of the strength, syncope, cold sweat on the limbs, violent vomiting, convulsions. [FR. HOFFMANN, Med. Rat. Syst., ii, p. 287. (Statement of poisonous effects of gold. The symptoms are stated as “leading on to death.” ]

Violent diarrhoea. [LUDOVICI, Pharmac. Med. Sec. appl. Gotha, 1685, pp. 182, 188. (Not accessible.)

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