3. Mrs. BUCHMANN. – December 8th, 10:30 a. m., 5 dr. tinct. After 5 m. astringent metallic taste in palate and fauces; feeling as if m. m. were quite smooth, as if covered with grease; tickling sensation felt in left then in right nostril continual yawning. After 10 morning drawing pain in border of ribs, with stitches when breathing there, mostly when expiring; pressure in forehead above eyes, heaviness in eyelids. After 15 m. call to urinate, burning in urethra and rectum, preventing her sitting;
dry feeling in palate and lips gradually going off. 4 p. m., 5 dr. After 10 m. same symptoms in buccal cavity, and also symptoms as above 6:30 p. m., 15 dr. After 5 m. cramp pain in left Calf till 10 p. m. cramp pain in muscles about radius and in fingers of 1.hand for 10 m. After 10 m. violent pain in right side of abdomen, increased by pressure, lasting till she went to sleep; from hand’s breadth round navel, in bowels sensation as if bowels moved when breathing; weakness and ill – feeling; burning in urethra with swollen feeling thereabout; sadness and inclination to weep; short dry cough from irritation in pit of throat; frequent yawning, anorexia. – 9th, 3 a. m, waking from pain in right lumbar region with pain in urethra; feeling of moving to bowels on expiration. 9 a. m., slight pain in right side of abdomen and burning in urethra.. 3:30 p. m., cramp pain in right calf; violent drawing pain in right deltoid and muscles of right radius; cramp pain in 2nd, 3rd, and 4th right fingers; burning about urethra compelling her to get up from seat; pain in lower part of right heel, aggravated by treading. – 22nd Until to – day daily periodic cramp – pain in right calf, in right sole, and in extensor tendons of 3 middle fingers of right hands. – 28th, 11:15 a. m., 5 dr. 1st dil. After 15 m. burning in right nostril with watery discharge from it; drawing pain in cardiac region with tightness there on taking a deep breath; contractive feeling above eyebrows; burning in urethra and itching in anus; contractive pain in vagina heaviness in head; constant flow of water into mouth; rough feeling on tongue; palate feels smooth and greasy; rough feeling in fauces. ( Ibid., 19.)
4. BUCHMANN’S son, aet. 24. – December 23rd, 10 a. m., 5 dr. tinct. 1 p. m. pressive pain in occiput. 3 p. m., the pains have come into sinciput. 4 p. m. pains in sinciput increased; great drowsiness and bruised feeling in arms and legs for 1/4 hour; tearing in left scapula and upper arm, tightness in left side of chest. 4:30 p. m., rigor with quickened pulse. 90. 5 p. m., increased tightness and pains in left side of chest, especially when inspiring deeply. 5.30p.m., pains in left parietal bone; cold feeling in toes. 6 p. m., dry feeling in larynx with irritation to cough in back of larynx. 6:30 p. m. drawing pain in left knee – joint with cold feeling in both knees; pain in right instep; burning in eyeballs; short stitches behind left short ribs. 8 p. m., cough from irritation in back of larynx. 9 p. m., pressive pain in right hypochondrium; cold feeling in knees. 12, midnight, wakes with cough from irritation at back of larynx; rigor. ( Ibid., 20).
5. IDA BUCHMANN, aet 25. – December 7th, evening on going to bed, 10 dr. tinct. Itching on skin after lying down in bed. – 8th 10 a. m., 20 dr. 11 a. m., flow of water into mouth. 8 p. m., loss of appetite, pressure in stomach until she fell asleep. – 9th, m. occasional pressure in stomach; anorexia. – 19th. Daily attacks of pressure in stomach, appetite diminished till to – day. ( Ibid., 20.)
6. MARTHA BUCHMANN, aet 19. – August 7th, 6:30 a. m., 3 dr. tinct. After 5 m. flow of saliva into month. 6:45 a. m., 10 dr. After 10 m. shooting in lower border of ribs anteriorly at every inspiration; then pressive pain in scrob. cordis externally of ribs anteriorly at every inspiration; then pressive pain in scrob cordis externally. 7 a. m., weariness and frequent yawning; burning in eyelids; pinching pain in bowels on left side. 9 a. m., 20 dr. After 5 m. flow of saliva into mouth; when speaking and swallowing pressive pain in region of os hyoides on left side with feeling of swelling there, increased by pressing on it; frequent yawning with weariness. 9:30 a. m., pressive pain in forehead and temples; when walking pain in houghs, left especially 10:30 a. m., shooting in right side of chest anteriorly in region of 7th rib when inspiring deeply. 1 p. m., shooting pains in region of 7th rib, right side, when stooping. 3 p. m. for 1.1/2 hours the pains have spread all over front part of chest, and are so violent as to make movement of arms, walking and stooping almost impossible; frequent eructation of air with burning in oesophagus like heartburn. 10 p. m., 5 dr. No stool to – day. – 8th, 7:30 a. m., 15 dr. 8:15 a. m., stitches when inspiring between linea mammalis and axillaris at right 6th rib. Great weariness. – 13th. on August 8th insufficient hard stool no more stool for 4 days. To – day a hard difficult stool. ( Ibid.)
7. FR. JUNGKLAASS, surveyor, aet 24. – August 20th, 5:15 p. m., 8 dr. tinct. Immediately great weariness. 5:45 p. m., fine stitches to right and downwards from left nipple, lasting some seconds. 6.43 p. m., rigor, with feeling of a pulse in abdomen; pressive headache like commencing catarrh. 9 p. m., nausea, with flow of water into mouth; pressure in forehead. – 21st, 11 a. m. eructation of air. 3 p. m., great weariness after dinner; pressure in stomach with eructation of air; pain in occiput; pain in right eye. 8:40 p. m., 16 dr. – 22nd. After rising great prostration in arms and legs. 10:30 a. m., pressure in stomach with eructation of air 11 a. m., pressure in hepatic region with ravenous hunger. 12 noon, when walking feeling as if there was a band round calf a hand’s breadth below knee. 6 p. m., repeated eructation of air; slight headache above eyes and pain in occiput; pulse slow by 10 beats; ineffectual urging to stool with great pressure on bladder causing the urine to dribble away. – 23rd. Disinclination to get up. In forenoon confusion of he with disposition to be angry; occasional pain in liver and sacrum. – 24th, m. 32 dr. All day great confusion of head; shortly before dinner empty feeling of stomach and headache, which goes off after dinner. 25th. Wakes with pain in belly near right os ilii. 11 a. m., stitches in ileum, relieved by pressure; great forgetfulness. – 26th. Recurrence of abdominal pains while walking in open air. After drinking a glass of small beer, urgent call to stool as from diarrhoea, stool of ordinary character – September 4th, 8:30 a. m., 50 dr. Soon pressive sensation as from flatulence under left border of ribs, lasting 10 morning, followed by same sensation on right side, spreading thence to the right and backwards, when the pressure on the left side goes backwards; pressure over left eye. 11 a. m., burning sore pain in left scapula when inspiring, increased by pressure and leaning. 12, noon, pressure pain in hepatic and gastric regions, increased by pressure and leaning. 12, noon, pressive pain in hepatic and gastric regions, increased by pressure with hands; on left side of stomach shooting increased by inspiration. 7 p. m., 30 dr. When sitting drawing pain in bladder and testicles. – 5th. At night frequent shivering. 4:45 p. m., shooting pain in belly a hand’s breath from right hip; evening stitches in cardiac region. – 6th. Forenoon, burning pain in back. 12 noon, stitches in cardiac region. 2:15 p. m. 50 dr. Bitter taste, and feeling of scraping in oesophagus for 15 m, drawing pain in carious tooth;
pressive pain over left eye; a carious tooth aches when touched by tongue; stool lumpy and hard. 5:30 p. m., pain in occiput. 6 p. m., rheumatic pain in shoulders, spreading from neck; pressure on back below scapula. 6:30 p. m., pressive pain in right side of belly when the body is stretched out, with hot feeling. 7:15 p. m., constant shooting in inner border of left scapula. 8 p. m., pain above orbits. 7th. Waking in general perspiration, weakness, and erection; copious flow of urine with drawing in both sides of hypogastrium. 8:35 p. m., on bending backwards shooting pain a hand’s breadth above right nipple, also when raising right arm 1 p. m., frontal pain before dinner, going off after eating, with pain in eyes and occiput and sweat on forehead and back; pressure in wrists and shoulders. 1:25 p. m., all pains except those of eye gone. Instead has pressure in temples, nausea with eructation; flow of water into mouth. 2:25 p. m., only pains in right eye remain. 5:25 p. m., shooting in hepatic region with moist skin 5:35, when urinating drawing in right side of belly. – 8th, m. 20 dr. Burning pain in throat lasting 1 hour. (Ibid., 26). 8. LEMBKE made decoction of 2 oz. of seeds in 1 lb. of water and drank it, but it caused no symptoms whatever. ( N. Zeitschr. f. hom. Kl., x.).
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.