6 b. After several weeks took 2 dr. of 6th dil. in m. About 1 p. m. became exceedingly evil – disposed; quiet anger with everybody without cause; did not care to converse with anyone, rather finding fault when he did so; imagined he was in a fight with several students, and how he would act had two of them jumped upon him. This idea continued all afternoon, ending in marked nervousness, hands trembling exceedingly, muscles of arms and legs twitching now and then. At 3 p. m., pains in both left and right chest resembling those of pleurodynia, remaining about an h. They were short, lasting only a. m. or more; pressure upon chest when they were present gave sensation of soreness; they were dull, aching, as from pressure, with feeling as if he wanted to lift tight – fitting undershirt from chest, and undo vest, which seemed to relieve. 2nd day – Nervousness still continues, but not so markedly; mental symptoms have disappeared. Noticed during m. occasionally that objects he might be looking at steadily seemed as if trembling; this would only last for a second or two. Just before dinner had severe pain in right instep. During afternoon feeling of general soreness came on in left kidney; seems quite deep, and worse when sitting very erect, better when reclining. Memory seems impaired; had to work hard to retain or remember what he had read. 3rd day – Urinated at 1:45 a. m., and only once afterwards in day (at 3 p. m.); urine concentrated. General feeling of lightness about head all day, and feeling of exhilaration. No further symptoms notice. (Ibid
7. a. Everett B. Finney, 1st day, took 2 dr. of 6th dil. at 12 m. Soon felt sense of warmth all over body, with fulness of head, followed by slight sickly sensation. Throat soon became dry, and thirst developed, remaining great all day; appetite increased. 6 p. m., slight pain in stomach. 2nd day – White glairy discharge from nose; some cough; slight pain in towels; thirsty all day; unable to keep mind on studies as usual; temp. and pulse not affected. 3rd day – Soon after awaking at 7:30, spell of coughing, with free expectoration and glairy nasal discharge; pain in bowels after breakfast, relieved by stool. During n. frequent pain in bowels, getting worse until relieved by a soft, mushy, brown stool. Breathing not satisfactory, wants more air than he can take into lungs. Discharge from nose, and cough with expectoration; continues all d. Another small stool, p. m., preceded by colicky pains, which are relieved by sitting. Difficult to concentrate thoughts. Felt unusually tired on going to bed. 4th day – Dry cough after rising, with little expectoration. Severe stitching pains, as from needles, in right chest, followed by similar pains in praecordia, worse on inspiration. Asthmatic breathing; it seemed as if air inspired was insufficient. On ascending stairs, short breath and palpitation; pulse at times full and bounding; the shortness of breath and accelerated pulse continued while in motion, became better when at rest. Occasionally some pain in bowels; extremities felt weak; seemed unable to stand mental strain of study. 5th. – N. good, and next day felt quite well.
7 b. After 2 mo. took 1 gr. of 1x trit. at 5:45 a. m. At 4 p. m. felt nauseated, and had sinking sensation at stomach. 2nd day – Repeated dose at 6:45 a. m. Empty feeling soon ensued, and rumbling in bowels as from gas; head feels heavy and dull, appetite impaired; slight pains in right leg below knee; all symptoms relieved in open air; headache mostly right – sided, but shifting about; sharp pain in lower limbs; feeling in throat as if a piece of mucus required dislodging by hawking, but he could not accomplish it. 3rd day – No appetite; felt weak; sharp pain in left temple at times; dull pains over fore part of head; head feels too full, as if it would burst, better from walking in open air; pulse slower and weak; some dry cough; urine diminished and high – coloured. 4th. – Diarrhoea this m., hardly had time to dress; stool brown, liquid, and containing jelly – like lumps; pain in left iliac region, quite severe when walking. Could eat no breakfast, but took some dinner, and immediately thereafter had great urging for stool, which was watery and blackish; some pain in hypogastrium; impatient and irritable. 5th day – No symptoms, save slight fulness of head in evening; appetite improved. 6th day – Awoke feeling well, and took another gr. at 9 a. m. P. m. hiccup and belching, followed by urging to stool. 7th day – At noon felt nauseated and depressed; head felt bad; some sneezing. In evening better, so that on retiring he repeated dose. 8th day – Only symptoms were pain of drawing character in teeth of both upper and lower jaw, left side; and dry, hollow cough. No further effects. (Ibid.)
8. a. Joseph Rodes, in good health, uses coffee and tea, and smokes occasionally. Took 1 dr. of 6 dil. before breakfast. No symptoms during day, but awoke from sleep at 12:30 a. m. with pain at inferior angle of right scapula, worse from movements and deep breathing. Soon fell asleep, but when he woke again at 8, pain was still there. After breakfast pulse was quicker than usual, and temp. 99 o. During day felt soreness in right brachialis anticus when using or pressing it. On 3rd day felt well. 8 b. After four weeks took another dose of same, when a considerable pharyngo – laryngeal catarrh set in, and had not entirely subsided until 10th day (As this result is so different from that of the other trials, we do not think it well to give the detailed symptoms, but content ourselves with noting the general fact for possible verification. – Eds.) 8 c. After 10 day more again repeated dose, at noon. At 12:30 hiccup. Appetite not good for dinner; slight disgust for meat. 2nd day – Stool small, hard, light brown in colour, and difficult to expel. 3rd day – Stool same. 4th day – Bowels right again, and felt well in every respect. (Ibid.)
9. G. H. Haas, normal health, uses no stimulants – coffee disagreeing. Took 1 dr. of 6th dil. without effect. After 12 day made a solution of 10 dr. of same in 12 teaspoonfuls of water, and took 2 teaspoonfuls every 2 hours from 9 a. m. to 7 p. m. At 10 p. m. experienced burning sensation in stomach, and passed much flatus per anum. 2nd day – Awakened at 5:30 a. m. with pain in abdomen below umbilicus, of gnawing character, urging him to stool at 5:45. Stool faecal, with mucus and blood, with considerable tenesmus before and during stool, lasting about 1/2 hours, with a little discharge every now and then. Nausea and empty retching during stool. Pain relieved by stool. Foul taste in mouth. 7, same abdominal pain, with urging to stool; more mucus and blood; tenesmus before and for some time after stool; no nausea on retching; pain relieved by stool. 11, same abdominal pain, stool &c. 3rd day – 7 a. m., slight pain in abdomen below umbilicus, relieved by a large stool, which was faecal, with little mucus, slightly tinged with blood. No impairment of appetite all the time, and no alteration in pulse – rate and temp. 4th day – Stools normal; no symptoms of any kind. (Ibid)
CHIONANTHUS (see vol. ii, p.152).
Introduction
Chionanthus virginica, L. Fringe tree. Nat. Ord., Oleaceae.
Provings
Dr. Scudder, in good health, save for some aphasia, took 30 dr. of a strong tinct. at 1 p. m. 2:30, sensations of contraction in stomach, as if some living thing was moving in it, with uneasy feelings in hepatic and splenic regions, and rheumatic pain in left ankle and tarsal bones. 3, unpleasant sensations in stomach and hypochondria have much increased; feeling like spasm or throbbing in stomach; uneasiness about sigmoid flexure as if from flatus; tongue yellow in centre; pulse morbidly smaller and weaker; rheumatic pain at carpo – metacarpal joint of left thumb. At bedtime evacuation of black, tarry – looking faeces. Slept well. On waking had pain for a short time in spine, from 7th to 10th dorsal vertebrae. (U. S. Medorrhinum Invest., iii, 562.)2. I gave medicine to Mr. G – with about the same result, and to Mrs. N., who found a single dose of 10 dr. produce all the sensations named in so unpleasant a form that she could not be induced to repeat it. In this case there was feeling as if bowels were about to move violently, from the action of a purgative, with the nausea usually associated with such an action; there was, however, no discharge from the bowels. (Ibid.)
3. I made my tincture from the bark of the fresh root, just after the tree had flowered, and let it stand for six weeks before decanting. July 10th, 1882, 9:30 a. m., I took 1 dr. of the tinct., after having taken the 12x and 6x potencies, one day each, without any effect. I continued taking the tinct. each hours during the day, increasing each dose 1 dr. till 5 dr. were reached, then increased each dose 5 dr. till 25 were reached, but without any effect whatever. 11th. – I began with 30 dr. at 9 a. m., and increased dose 5 dr. each hours till I reached Zj, and took 3 doses of Zj each. I retired at 10, feeling perfectly well. I woke up at 4:10 a. m. on 12th with very severe headache – chiefly in forehead and just over eyes, especially left eye. Eyeballs exceedingly painful, feel sore and bruised; cutting, twisting pains all through abdomen. I turned over and lay with my face downward, which seemed to relieve the abdominal pains somewhat, and after a while I went to sleep. I woke up again at 8:30, feeling very sick and badly all over; head very sore all over and through it; heavy dull feeling in forehead and drawing or pressing at root of nose. I felt so weak I had to sit down awhile before I could finish dressing; never before felt so sick at my stomach. Bitter eructations, great nausea and retching, with a desire for stool. I finished dressing and looked at my tongue, which was heavily coated and of a dirty, greenish – yellow colour. I started downstairs and had a very violent attack of nausea and a great deal of retching before I could vomit. It seemed as though there was a ” double suction ” in my abdomen, on trying to force something up and the other sucking it back, till finally, by quite an effort, I vomited a tea – cup full or more of very dark green bile, rather ropy, I think, and exceedingly bitter. The bile all came up with a single gush, and I was ” through.” Immediately a cold perspiration broke out and stood in beads on my forehead, and I felt very weak. Desire for stool gone after vomiting. I had a sore, weak, bruised feeling all over the small of my back; felt very weak when standing or moving about, better sitting or lying down. No appetite for breakfast; but my stomach felt so weak and empty that I drank a cup of coffee and ate half a biscuit, which relieved to some extent. 9 a. m., am so nervous I cannot keep still, and can hardly write down my symptoms. 9:30, back in lumbar and sacral regions so sore and weak I could hardly walk from the car to the office; every step seemed to jar my whole body and made my headache worse. 10, have been quiet for 1/2 hours and feel somewhat better; have pressing or squeezing sensation in bridge of nose, sore constricting feeling in temples with throbbing temporal arteries. 10:30, just come from stool; the first passed was watery, but the last was more solid in appearance; stool terribly offensive, like ” carrion; ” heavy, all – gone sort of feeling low down in hypogastrium; colour of stool was dark brown, with pieces of undigested food in it. 11:30, just got home and feel very badly and weak. My head and back ache considerably, and I feel ” played out ” generally. 12, forehead and cheeks very hot and dry; radial pulse 114. Chilly sensations darting through body from front to back, causing a sort of shivering or involuntary jerking; forehead feels like a hot coal of fire to my hand; headache in forehead and over eyes relieved by pressing with hand, but I cannot bear it long, for my head seems to get hotter from it; am exceedingly nervous, cannot lie still; involuntary jerkings in different part of body. Roof of mouth and tongue feel very dry, although there seems to be the usual amount of saliva present. No thirst at all. I went to sleep about 12:20 p. m., and was awakened at 2 for dinner. Could not eat anything; I tried, but it nauseated me; could only drink a cup of coffee; headache worse after waking; pulse 88; head not quite so hot; body feels chilly, and I had a shawl thrown over me; went to sleep again about 3:30. I was told that, at 4:15, my head and face were covered with a profuse perspiration, and my carotid arteries pulsated very hard and rapidly; I got up at 5 and bathed my face in cold water, and felt somewhat better, though head and back ache considerably and feel quite sore; eyeballs feel bruised. 6:30, weak, empty feeling about stomach, which was relieved for a while by eating some crackers and drinking a cup of coffee; pulse still 88. At 8:15 had an action from my bowels; during stool, griping and cutting pains in abdomen, about and below umbilicus; stool thin, watery, blackish – brown colour, and very offensive. I retired at 9:30, and had to have extra covering thrown upon me, I was o chilly; while my room – mate lay without any covering at all. My head feels sore and bruised all over, and the small of my back is exceedingly weak, and feels, when I touch it with my hand, as though the skin was all off. 13th. – I was very nervous and restless last n. after going to bed; didn’t go to sleep till after 12, and woke up several times before daylight, with pains in head, abdomen, and back; got up at 8 this m., my head feeling sore and bruised; the bruised feeling seems to go some way into my brain now; every time I move, cough, or laugh, it seems as if my head would split open and fly in every direction, my back is not so painful this m.; I couldn’t eat much breakfast; stool this m. was quite copious, watery, dark brown, and not so offensive as yesterday. 9:30 a. m. headache better; several times this m. I have had attacks of cutting or griping pains in my intestines, in and about umbilical region; my tongue is very heavily coated in the centre with a thick, yellowish fur, tip is light red, and on each side of tip there are several little places that k as though blood was about to ooze from them; tongue feels drawn and shrivelled up in centre. 4:30 p. m., the only symptom this m. was a dull, sore aching feeling in umbilical and iliac regions, occasionally changing for just a m. or so to a severe griping, relieved somewhat by the emission of flatus. My face has a yellowish appearance; from the outer to the inner canthus there is a reddish – yellow streak about 1/4 in. wide in whites of both eyes; blood – vessels of sclerotic coat are very much enlarged and distinctly visible. 14th. – I suffered considerably after 5 p. m. yesterday and last n. with the pains in my abdomen, and they are more severe this m. than yesterday; it feels just like a string tied in a ” slip – knot ” around my intestines in the umbilical region, and every once in a while it was suddenly drawn tight for a minute or so, and then gradually loosened; stool this m. was very thin, watery, and rather flaky, flaky portion was dark yellow, fluid portion dark green, with a light green foam or froth on top, streaked with a white, mucous – looking substance; flatus and faeces passed together; some pain in bowels during stool, and a hot, scalded sensation in anus, which lasted 15 or so m. after stool; during stool cold perspiration broke out on forehead and back of hands; took quite a while to pass stool, and then only a small quantity passed; eyeballs feel bruised and the whites have a yellowish cast all over, though the ” bands ” are still very distinct; my skin is quite yellow to – day, and I feel very much fatigued generally. 15th. – Stool about natural this m.; same feeling in abdomen, though not so severe; no new symptoms. 16th. – The only thing unusual which I noticed to – day was the passage of considerable offensive flatus; a greater quantity after retiring than during the d. I noticed no more symptoms after that n. (J. Z. Lawshe, N. Am. Journ. of Hom., May, 1883.)
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.