7 d. Aug. 11th., 10 dr. brom. 3; fasting. Immediately heat in stomach, dazed head; pressure in chest; difficult breathing; violent pain in stomach increased by pressure, relieved by bending forwards; abdomen distended; flush of heat from back; abdomen distended by flatulence; pain from stomach to navel and under false ribs; vertigo; deep breathing; empty eructation; sneezing. After 7 h. under right ribs pain increased by pressure; stitches at top of chest; difficult breathing; feeling of prostration; sleep full of dreams; urine scanty, 2nd., much ropy white mucus, chiefly in r. nostril; sometimes lumps of coherent yellow mucus in both nostril; in e. pain in frontal and occipital bones; stitches deep in right ear with heat of whole ear, and great sensitiveness of head to cold air; urine scanty and dark. 3rd day, hard stool; a painless pile; the same pain under right ribs. 4th day, last n. pinching and itching in larynx; roaring in ears; to-day aching pain in forehead behind eyes, with sensitiveness of eyes to light, stitches at end of urethra. 5th d., under left ribs some transient pain; stitches in urethra; nose stopped up with mucus. 6th day, pain under r. ribs. 9th day, the pain under right ribs continued was sometimes so violent as to make breathing painful; abdomen distended with wind; pain, which seems in the region of gall-bladder, is relieved by sitting bent forward and by pressure; on breathing deeply it extends to navel, is worst 2 h. after eating. Occasional severe boring pain in left tibia.
7 e. Aug. 30th, 15 dr. brom. 3. pressive frontal pain coming and going; sneezing; heat mounts to head; appetite and urine diminished; n. pain. in right side under ribs. 31st m., dry cough; aching frontal pain.
7 f. Sept. 2nd 10dr. brom. 1, fasting. After 1/2 empty eructations; rumbling in bowels and slight stomach-ache; dry cough; pressive frontal pain; nausea; scraping in throat; much thin saliva; shooting constriction in larynx, and pricking there on swallowing saliva; difficulty of breathing. After 1 h. tearing in frontal bone; vertigo drawing in carious teeth both sides; shooting deep in r. ear; fauces and uvula reddened; distension of abdomen; discharge of much flatus; stomach-ache. After 1 1/2 h. vertigo as though he would fall, with flush of heat. After 3 1/2 h. painful boring in right lower jaw; occasional stomach-ache; cutting pain in umbilical region, increased by pressure, after dinner. After 34 h. frequent sneezing. After 5 h. soft stool after the regular morning stool; aching in forehead; chilliness in back. After 9 h. boring pain in right tibia. E., frontal headache and shooting in larynx. Sept. 3rd, hard stool; palpitation when walking.
7 g. Sept. 6th at 6:30 a.m., 20 dr. brom 1. Immediately burning taste and warmth in stomach. 7 a.m., frontal headache; frequent deep breathing when sitting; eructation of gas; heat of forehead and chest; heat and sweat of palms. 7:30 a.m., urging to urinate, stitches in urethra; tickling in nose; confusion and weight in head; stopped nose; grey spot before right eye; deep breathing; sensitiveness of a carious tooth to cold water; much thin saliva; warmth in stomach; shooting in r. ear; scraping and shooting in throat for 2h.; increased vascularity of conjunctiva of both eyes, and shooting lids; dull pain in hollow tooth; hard stool. Sept 7th. Sensitiveness of carious teeth to cold water; dull aching, weary pain in bones of r. leg; a pile the size of a nut; shooting in lid of left eye when reading; dazed head; a small swollen gland on each side of nape. All afternoon weary and sleepy; sensitive to cold air and chilly when moving, e. Next d. soft stool; pile gone; boring in right lower jaw; the toothache lasts some days longer. (Allg. h. Z., xxxvii, 115.)
8. Same. March 3rd, 9 a.m., 5 drops; 5th, 7 a. m, 10 drops brom. 3. On 3rd and 4th sharp stitches; in right and left hypochondrium, tearing in tendons on dorsum of right foot. – 5th. Soon after taking it repeated pressure on upper part of chest causing tightness of breath; tearing in right side of skull; pain in right side between 7th and 9th ribs when inspiring and moving. 12, noon, peculiar painful sensation in stomach, as though diarrhoea were about to come on. 1 p.m., liquid stool, with some straining, though he had had a normal stool at 10 a.m.; pulsation i urethra behind testicles at 9 p.m. 7th, 7:30 a.m., 10 dr. 9 p. m, repeated boring in right tibia; transient stitch under left ribs. – 8th. Pressing in prostate gland when walking; the last 3 d. nose felt stopped up, has to blow it frequently, thick mucus – 10th, 9 a.m., 2 dr. brom.2. Here and there in thoracic walls shooting pains independent of respiration. 1 p.m., tension in tendons of dorsum of right foot on flexing ankle joint when walking. 5 p.m., sharp stitch in left hypochonder. – 11th, 7 a.m., 5 dr. 8 a.m., soon repeated dry cough, pressure on upper part of chest; pain in left hypochonder; scraping and roughness in larynx, compelling hawking; drawing in tendons of r. instep, also in e.; momentary pressure in nasal and superior maxillary bones and in various parts of frontal bone. 12:30 p.m., 10dr.; in 1/2h. boring in left tibia (also 8 p.m.) and long-continued pressure in frontal bone; in open air and in room audible rumbling of air in bowels lasting some time. 4:30 p.m., pulsation in. hypochonder. 5:30 p.m., severe burning shooting in front of left index. 7 p.m., much hawking on account of mucus in larynx.- 12th, 7 a.m. 20 dr. 7.45 a.m., nausea. 8 a.m., pressure in stomach and right hypochonder, with feeling of fullness; shooting in back of joint between 1st and 2nd phalanx of 1.4th finger lasting all forenoon, out tearing pain between metacarpus and 1st phalanx of right thumb. 9 a.m., and 6 p.m., boring in left tibia; fine shooting deep in throat with scraping; after normal stool at 10 a.m., at 2 p.m. great urging to stool, when more wind than faeces was passed. 2:30 p.m., some strong heart’s beats, moderated by deep inspiration when standing. 6 p.m., shooting in glands at sides of fraenulum linguae; before dinner and in e. compression in upper arm and both knee joints – 15th, 7 a.m., 5 dr. brom 1. Soon scraping in throat and rough deep voice lasting about 1 h.; dryness in mouth lasting 1/2 h. 8:15 a.m. wandering pains in l. thoracic wall, independent of respiration; later these pains go to r. thoracic wall, when they become pressive; they leave the left side and continue on right side of chest on the 16th, 17th, and 18th, they come on when awaking are not increased by breathing or movement, the pain is increased only by bending forwards both shoulders and upper part of chest or turning the thorax on its axis, consequently they are muscular. 7 p.m., scraping in larynx, dry cough, little appetite all d., active state of body and mind; this occurs on all subsequent days; in e.; an intense bitter taste on tip of tongue. – 16th, 6:45 a.m., 15 dr. In 5m. some shooting in larynx and lachrymation, scraping and frequent hawking on account of mucus in throat. 7:45 a.m., and e., frequent sneezing. 8 p.m., boring in l. frontal bone, in lower part r. tibia, dull pain deep in 1., then in right leg when sitting; throbbing in front of r,. knee lasting some m.; shooting in fraenulum lingua (as on 12th) with flow of thin saliva; later cold feeling on tip of tongue with flow of saliva. 1 p.m., smarting in conj. palpebr., sharp stitch in l. hypochonder. – 17th, 7 a.m., 30 dr. 8 a.m., boring in lower part of left tibia. 12, noon, much sneezing. 12:30 p.m., and later, much rumbling in abdomen. On 14th, 15th. and 16 th, pricking when the red of the right side of the upper lip lies on the lower lip; on the 17th this pains as if the upper lip had burst; this was not the case, but the part indicated almost as far as the commissure was covered with a number of yellow spots the size of a pins head, not elevated, as though a yellow fluid were infiltrated under epithelium. 3 p.m., sharp stitch in right axillae 6 p.m., pressure on back of joint between 1st and 2nd phalanx of right 4th finger. 7 p.m., some cutting in inner canthus of right eye, the same in inner canthus of left eye. – 16th, wandering pressive pains in dorsal muscles below scapulae, also on 18th; in second half of day more nasal mucus secreted, sometimes with streaks of blood; the urine passed before dinner contains large flakes of white mucus. At n. sprang out of bed in sleep owning to a disturbing dream and only recovered consciousness by the feet coming in contact with cold floor. Next m., 6 a.m., several drops of blood when blowing nose.- 18th 6:30, 50 dr. soon fauces became dark red, the tonsils secreted more mucus, then came on scraping, shooting, feeling of rawness, tonsil swelled; all this lasted 2 to 3 h., recurred at every fresh dose and even at various times during d. till e. 8 a.m., much sneezing frequently repeated, recurring after subsequent doses; nasal mucus in large quantities, especially at back of nasal cavity mucus sometimes watery and mixed with streaks of blood, in the intervals tiresome dryness in nose, also on d. when no brom. was taken. From 8 to, 11 a.m., shooting pain in scrob. cordis extends to umbilical region, increased by deep pressure and seems to be seated deeply than stomach. 4 p.m., bruised pain in left shoulder-joint, later in right elbow- joint; shooting in throat; constriction in larynx. 6 p.m., jerking tearing pain through left thumb, in frontal bone, very often, through right big toe, in lower part of right leg, in right knee, with bruised pain while sitting. 7 p.m., the pain in right thoracic wall increased much, lifting anything with r. hand increased it greatly also walking; sometimes the pain goes into dorsal muscles of the same side; and then it is increased by expiration; this remains till he goes to sleep, it wakes him up when he turns in bed continues as severe in m. of 19th, and is only diminished on the 23rd, is especially severe m. and e., worse when moving thorax after resting still for some time, slighter when walking than when sitting; especially severe on waking, when sitting up is almost impossible the pain lasts till 2nd April; every time he takes a dose it becomes more severe and extends to right dorsal muscles. On 3rd and 4th April it is almost gone. 10 a.m., and 6 p.m., shooting pain to left of navel on internal surface of abdominal wall, increased by pressure. 6:30 p.m., cutting deep in umbilical region increased by pressure, lasting 1/2 h., with shooting towards rectum, neck of bladder, and right spermatic cord. 2 p.m., soon after dinner, deep in brain a feeling as if before an attack of apoplexy, a feeling as though loss of consciousness and vertigo would come on, equally strong when walking and sitting lasting 1/2 h. 2:15 p.m., shooting in internal condyle of r. elbow. 3 p.m., coldness through back and limbs in warm room. – 20th, m., pressure as with a peg above left ear, later shooting in tip of tongue. – 21st and 22nd. Some compression at base of l. 4th and 5th fingers; cutting in flesh near nail of big toe; itching between fingers, soon going off; during the past days there sometimes exuded from urethra a clear drop of mucus. – 23rd. Boring in spines of some dorsal vertebrae occasionally. 12 noon, some cutting in skin of ball or right big toe; urine during whole proving scanty, dark, sometimes with red sediment in utensil. – 24th, 7 a.m., 5 dr. brom. 1(1 to 20.). Soon pressure in right tibia, in left pectoral muscles, in base of left fingers; flow of much thin saliva till 10 a.m., lasting some hours; the same after each dose. 8 a.m., pressure in frontal bone left then right, in metacarpal bone of. index, in right thoracic wall under nipple, in l. instep, in left knee, with weary pain deep in left leg, extending through left ankle to foot, in l. wrist, under left clavicle, 9 a.m., in r. inner ankle; pressure and tired feeling in l. shoulder joint, in sternum. 7:30 a.m., sweet taste in mouth. 8:30 a.m., remarkable salt taste on tip of tongue, lasts several m. 8 a.m., sharp stitches behind left ear; smarting in borders of eyelids. 8:30 a.m., burning like pepper under tongue, also later, occasionally. 9 a.m., tearing in left clavicle; much eructation of tasteless air, and much rumbling of air in belly. 4 p.m., boring in back part of crista ilii. 5:30 p.m., cutting in right inner canthus, then in outer canthus; shooting in throat with lachrymation and flow of thin saliva; in anus much itching creeping as if something alive moved there. -25th. On waking pain in right thoracic wall as above. – 26th, 6:45 a.m., 10 dr. Immediately tickling in nose, as though he would sneeze, and feeling as if the center of upper lip and neighboring part of nose swelled, momentary. 7 a.m., pressure in frontal bone (with dazed feeling in sinciput), left forearm, head of right fibula, top of head, deep in left leg, in front of left ankle joint, and in bones of right instep, 9 a.m., in right instep in bones, 4 p.m. in sternum, in right ankle joint, especially in inner ankle, 8 p.m., in right shoulder joint. 6 p.m. and repeatedly during e., in some spots of right thoracic wall a feeling as if the wall were pressed from within outwards, not increased by breathing but by moving chest. 8 a.m., feeling of heat in front part of shoulder joint; shooting in skin over zygoma, in tip of glans penis, 8:30 a.m., in skin of larynx, deep in left ear, 10 a.m., in right inner canthus, than on anterior tip of left crista ilii, in left hypochonder; raw feeling in throat. 3:15 p.m., severe shooting and tickling in larynx with lachrymation and feeling as though larynx were constricted. 10 a.m., tearing in 1st phalanx of right 4th and 5th fingers. – 27th. 9:30 a.m. shooting in larynx and canthi, and later; burning and shooting in under surface of tongue; shooting in left hypochonder. 7 p.m., severe pain to left of navel, deeply seated, aggravated by pressure. 8 p.m., severe cutting in dorsum of left 4th toe; besides these many of the pressive pains mentioned on 26th. -30th, 6:30 a.m., 20 dr. taste sharp, sourish, left in throat shooting, scraping, raw feeling lasting almost all d.; the same as with 5th April. 7:30 a.m., shooting in glans penis and on sides of root of penis. 8 a.m., tickling in larynx with inclination to cough. 9 a.m., constrictive sensation deep in throat and dry cough, followed by coppery taste at back of palate, spasmodic sensation rising up from throat; in e. also dry cough and scraping in throat. 9:30 a.m., tensive pain in lumbar and dorsal muscles on right, increased by moving parts; sharp shooting deep in left hypochonder. 12, noon, burning shooting on point of right shoulder; tearing through left 4th finger (and right 3rd and 4th fingers e.), pressure in right spermatic cord, 8 p.m., severe boring in left frontal bone (also 31st); pressure as on 26 th, sharp stitches in tip of tongue. – 31st, 9 a.m., repeated scraping in larynx and dry cough; shooting in left spermatic cord; in both hypochondria and deep in the sides of the abdomen, especially the l., along with open bowels, violent cutting increased by pressure, lasts 1/2 h. and goes off gradually; the last d. there appeared on back of left hands, more towards thumb and index, many small red spots, which sometimes itched, went away and reappeared, some of them returned into quite small vesicles which dried up in from 12 to 24 h. and left a small red spot.- April 5th, 40 dr. Taste as on March 30th same symptoms occurred: cutting in inner canthus and increased moisture there; gnawing in tibia and frontal bone, pressure in some joints, in pectoral and dorsal muscles; the pain in right thoracic wall became more severe; shooting and scraping deep in throat; shooting in glans penis and spermatic cords; great pressure on dorsal vertebrae increased by motion, frequently by d., wakes him at night; these symptoms continued partly during following d.; pricking on back of right little finger, where some bright red little spots; appeared which lasted all d.; obtuse pain, deep in right ear (also on 6th) 4:30 p.m., in front of lower maxilla and extending to right a pain like gnawing of sawing, suddenly coming on and going of soon. 6 p.m., long stitches through penis to glans; pressure as from a blunt instrument in front of left maxillary joint, deeply seated, in back of left nasal cavity as if in Eustachian tube, the act of swallowing altered this sensation for a moment lasted 1/2 h.; some inguinal glands on right side are obviously larger, also on next d., without pain; some of following n. on awaking pain in right thoracic wall; during all the proving urine diminished, though some d. much fluid was drunk; sometimes there was a red sediment on utensil; stools earlier and often softer than usual; the teeth became yellow. (Ibid., xliv, 369)
Hughes was a great writer and a scholar. He actively cooperated with Dr. T.F. Allen to compile his 'Encyclopedia' and rendered immeasurable aid to Dr. Dudgeon in translating Hahnemann's 'Materia Medica Pura' into English. In 1889 he was appointed an Editor of the 'British Homoeopathic Journal' and continued in that capacity until his demise. In 1876, Dr. Hughes was appointed as the Permanent Secretary of the Organization of the International Congress of Homoeopathy Physicians in Philadelphia. He also presided over the International Congress in London.