15. Mr R. R. TROTTER, aet. 28, health good. October 20th – November 13th took blank powders, with but few symptoms. November 20th – December 1st took 1st trit. of drug in frequent and increasing doses. Only new symptoms were: – On 23rd, slight constipation; on 24th and 25th fluent coryza; on 27th and 28th sleeplessness early in night; on 29th “canker sore” on inside of lip. December 4th. – Posterior cervical muscles painful to touch, pain along spine.
16. Mrs. J. H. MARSHALL, aet, 37, catarrhal and dyspeptic. Took blank powders for 6 days from October. 30th, and recorded a good many symptoms. November 11th – 24th took occasional 3-gr. doses of 1st trit. Only new symptoms were: – On 12th feeling of tight band round waist, relieved by passing (very offensive) flatus; darting pains in right great toe. On 15th, urgent desire to urinate, with passage of large quantity of pale urine; on 16th, same, with constipation, at night palpitation and horrid dreams. On 20th, dry, cracked swollen lips; fissures of tongue, with vesicles around edges that smart as though burned. On 24th, hot, constricted feeling in chest, causing dyspnoea and short dry cough, passing off in about 1 hour. Heart’s action disturbed all through proving. ( Ibid.)
17. Miss M. Mason. General health good; seldom has an ache or pain of any description, even at period. October 26th – november 1st took blank powders, and had a variety of morbid
sensations. April 23rd. – Feeling well, took 3 – 5 gr. of 1st trit. daily (often more than once) up to 28th and similar doses of 2nd to May 2nd. On 25th, continuous, rather sharp pain in right shoulder, worse on motion, later going through to chest. On 28th, creeping pains in knees, and burning heat in left foot. On 29th, menses appeared, preceded by several quite sharp pains through uterus; through evening wretched nervous feeling, originating in uterine region and culminating in inner thighs. 30th. – Feet feel as though dipped in cold water; doleful feeling; in evening crazy feeling in right head, and steady pain in right orbital region, tired – out sensation in front and top of brain; feeling of weight in uterus and right ovary; nervous fidgety feeling down right thigh. May 1st. – Heaviness in uterus; feet like ice, and feel damp; in evening stitching pain through right parietal region. ( Ibid.)[*It is well to mention that nearly 50 healthy persons, in addition to the above, took part in the re-proving of the drug; but neither from the 1st,2nd, or 3rd trituration could get any symptoms whatever.–EDS.
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.