6. REIDHAAR, medical student, rather dyspeptic, tongue always white, subject to headaches and pains in stomach, but is on the whole in good health. – April 22nd. At bedtime C. 6, 1 dr. – 23rd. On rising urging to stool, rumbling in bowels, eructation, almost inclination to vomit. At bedtime same dose. – 24th, 1 p. m., roaring in ears. At bedtime same dose. – 25th. Dry mouth, white – yellow tongue. E., C. 3, 1 dr. 26th, 27th, and 28th same dose. No symptoms. – 29th. C. 1 dr. – 30. The accustomed gastric symptoms morning also some headache; soon after midday meal painful cutting above navel; afternoon after sitting pain in lumbar region and some transient pain in middle of left sole, much flatus, burning head and red face; evening head ache. 11 p. m., pain in back, pain in soft palate, a kind of burning accompanied by some inclinations cough. At bedtime 1 dr. – May 1st. Nocturnal emission, tongue furred, lips dry, toothache in left upper maxilla after every meal. 8 a. m., inclination to vomit. 10:30 a. m., some shooting in back. 11:15 a. m., painful pressure under right clavicle, shooting in sacrum. 1 p. m., a slight transient pain in left temple followed by heat and pressure in forehead; constant eructation, tired and weak in knees. At night 1 dr. – 2nd. Tongue very furred, constant eructation. 9:30 a. m., trembling of legs and hands, vertigo, discomfort in stomach, transient stitches in outer side of right thigh close to antis, fatigue, burning in forehead, general headache, vertigo on rising from set, transient stitches in right parietal bone, and in back. At night dr. – 3rd. Last night cough with irritation deep in trachea. – 4th. White tongue, much flatus and constant eructation, vertigo, sour eructation and repeated pressure in stomach, burning heat in forehead, trembling of hands, weariness, drowsiness. – 5th and 6th. Some of previous symptoms. – 7th, 6 a. m., 5 dr. Some transient pain in stomach, eructation, discharge of flatus, and slight pain in abdomen, lastly transient pain above left ear. Toothache whilst eating breakfast. After breakfast griping in bowels, flatus, and sour eructation. In afternoon some sacral pain, weariness of legs, profuse sweat on feet (to which he is subject), pain under left clavicle – 8th. 10 dr., eructation and nausea. Afternoon, shooting in back. – 9th. 15 dr., similar symptoms. – 10th. 20 dr., eructation, shooting in right scapula, right side of head, left temple and abdomen, with urging to stool, discharge of flatus. Afternoon, transient pain in right shoulder joint, pain in left side of fauces when swallowing or pressing under left angle of jaw, very hot hands, dorsal veins of hand much swollen, sweating on different parts of body. – 11th. On bending right knee shooting in its anterior surface. At noon tickling in soft palate. 1 p. m., pain in right knee returned, also shooting in volar aspect of second phalanx of right thumb. E., jerking shooting about right scapula, shooting in both knees, pain in soft palate and fauces. Very tired. – 12th. ON rising weary heads; shooting in outer side of lower half of right thigh on bending leg. Noon, transient shooting in anterior and superior half of left chest. 2 p. m., pricking under ensiform cartilage and transient shooting in right scapula. – 13th. Noon, transient shooting in left elbow – joint, in both wrists, in right side of head and in forehead; shooting jerking in first joint of right thumb, and pricking in right side of chest near sternum. 6 p. m., burning hot face and ears, pressure with tongue on left upper and lower canine and first left molar causes pain. 14th. 20 dr., soon pain in abdomen, and later transient shooting through and across belly; after breakfast some pain in abdomen near both superior spinous process of ilium, also some of previous symptoms. – 15. Nocturnal emission; morning shooting through and across belly; after breakfast some pain in abdomen near both superior spinous processes of ilium, also some of previous symptoms – 15th. Nocturnal emission; morning, shooting in outer side of right knee, vertigo after stooping and cough. Afternoon, shooting in first joint of right thumb, in left thigh, in back, jerking shooting in left occiput, shooting in left ankle – joint and right knee, much flatus, gripes, and toothache. – 16. 30 dr, shooting in right knee, in lower half in right side of belly, pain in hips, and toothache while eating. – 17th. Besides some of above symptoms tensive pain in right thigh as after exertion. – 18th. 40 dr.; in addition to old symptoms, after dinner pain above pubes. – 19th. 20 dr. (the last dose) No new symptoms, except that the feet became sore from walking – 29th. Shooting near scrod. cordis left side, pain in left temple, shooting in ball of left hand and through middle of dorsal aspect of right forearm. – 21st. Twitching in left pectorals major, shooting at right nipple, under right axilla, in left temple, in first joint of right thumb, near right side of sternum, and all through left leg; pain on right of scrob. cordis. – 22nd. Pain in stomach. Noon, pain in right side of top of head. After noon, repeated shooting on outer side of left elbow between left index and thumb on the dorsal aspect, headache and vertigo after sitting long at mental work. Griping and shooting in belly all day. E., violent headache, pains in stomach, and general illness. – 23rd. The symptoms from this time were trivial mostly repetitions of previous symptoms, and undefined or shooting pains in different parts, as neck, nates, chest, back, arms wrists elbows, fingers, thighs, legs feet, knees ankles such pain in fact, as he was more or less subject to before proving the medicine (Ibid., 388.)
7. I have proved the 1st dil. sufficiently to learn its action on the liver. On a healthy person its effect is to produce motions like those of a healthy baby; it increases the secretion of healthy bile. (SHARP, Monthly Hom. Rev., xx, 746.)
8. a. A man in good health took (April 28th) 5 dr. of tinct. at night. In 1/2 hour rumbling in stomach. Next morning less free evacuation than usual; and this continued the same for 4 days. Afterwards, the colour darker than usual.
8 b. Same, May 14th, took 10 dr. at night. In 1/2 hour rumbling at stomach. On 15th, morning stool as usual in quantity but rather darker on 16th, no evacuation. On 17th, evacuation very small in quantity; slight indigestion during day. 18th. – Everything as usual. (Ibid.).
Poisonings
1. A girl, aet. 19, drank some cupfuls of strong chamomile tea. At night terrible feeling of heat, with burning unquenchable thirst, dry tongue, stupefaction; in morning in bed eyes half open, downward directed, pupils somewhat dilated; drowsy and stupid, speaks unwillingly and curtly, in disjointed phrases, on the (lightly) covered parts burning heat, while those uncovered are almost cold; continual alternations of heat and cold in upper extremities, forehead cold while cheeks are hot; profuse sweat on covered parts; glittering before eyes, did not see where she was; blackness before eyes; giddiness when sitting upright, not when lying; weight and stupid feeling in head, short, noisy breathing; going to sleep of left arm without having lain on it; when sitting up or turning in bed, tearing pains in forehead, with sensation as if a lump fell forward; tension in knee, and up calves; immediately on throwing off bedclothes violent shuddering; general heat from 9 – 12 a. m., then profuse sweat. After 24 hours, she sits stiffly on a chair like a statue, and seems to take no notice of anything about her; cannot be got to speak. In night violent heat with sleeplessness from bruised feeling in ribs, of which she complains with much ill – humour; face hot and cheeks red; draws short deep breath with great elevation of chest; must draw up legs on account of pain in calves and knees, when outstretched they go to sleep; red tongue; she sways her head forwards and backwards and contracts her brows. (STAPF, in Hahnemann’s Reine Arzneimittellehre, 1st ed., vol. iii.)
2. A healthy, sensitive woman, of firm fibre, and half way though her pregnancy, took 5 dr. of volatile oil of C. for cramp in calf. The dose was much too strong for her. First there was loss of consciousness, the cramp increased, then occurred transient convulsions in limbs eyelids etc. A kind of hysterical movement about navel, not unlike after – pains, but more annoying, lasted for several days. (HAHNEMANN, Lesser Writing, p.314.)
3. A female infant who from the birth had been dosed with chamomile tea. Great swelling and bluish redness of eyelids, first of left then of right eye, cannot open eyes, etc. Conjunctiva of lids swollen and dark red. Inner surface of lids and eyeball covered with much yellow mucous and bloody fluid. Pressing on eyelids causes blood and pus to exude between them. Discharge of pure blood several times during days on crying or coughing. Dried matter in canthi and edges of lids. Conjunctiva sclerotica inflamed. Discharged of dark blood from genitals for 8 days. (KNORRE, A. h. Z. vi, 34)
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.