19f. July 4th. From to – day I took the drops without water. At 7 a. m., 5 dr. Immediately afterwards violent aching shooting in right eye, soon afterwards in left eye; drawing in molar teeth and in left meatus auditorius after wards in left knee; slimy taste in mouth; eructation; thereafter drawing in teeth, first on left side then on left – 10th morning and evening, 20 dr., without effect. 11th. At 7 a. m., 15 dr. Itching in rectum; tearing in teeth here and there. – 22nd. At 7 a. m., 20 dr. Immediately after heat in head; eructation; sweat in axillae; transient toothache, first on right then on left side; itching in left palm; shooting in a corn or right foot.; paralysed feeling in left forearm dull aching form headache; itching in anus; tearing in left teeth. At 7 p. m., same dose. Shooting and tearing in teeth first on left then or right side – 23rd. Early in morning tearing in teeth on right side; dazzling before eyes, and vertigo, lasting more than 1/4 hours. At 7 a. m. 10, dr. Immediately eructation occasional drawing in teeth; dull frontal pain drawing in left molars and malar bone. Noon 15 dr.; no effect 3 p. m., 10 dr. tearing teeth 7 p. m., 10 dr.; same tearing in teeth – 24 th. At 7 a. m., 10 dr. Soon afterwards violent drawing pain in left upper jaw and cheek – bone, with heat in cheeks up to eye. – 25th. At 7 a. m., 15 dr. Immediately afterwards shooting in anus and left thigh. At 11, 20 dr. Immediately afterwards eructation. At 7 p. m., 20 dr. Drawing pains in teeth; fluent coryza. – 26th. At 7 a. m., 20 dr. Coryza continues itching in anus aching frontal headache; transient pain in right side of chest continued drawling in teeth all day. – 27th. On account of continual drawing in teeth took no medicine. – 28th. At 7 a. m. 20 dr. Soon flying shoots in right chest; drawing in both cheeks – bones and left meatus auditorius. At 9, 30 dr. Soon afterwards tearing in shoulder nd left arm. At 11, 30dr. Periodical toothache; in afternoon frequent tearings from right ear into right teeth. 29th. Toothache like yesterday. AT 7 a. mm., 200 dr. at once Toothache extends into cheek bones; tearing in left arm; violent shooting in a decayed right molar. – 30. Pains returning periodically all night as yesterday, and are still to – day troublesome. – 31st. At 7 a. m., 160 dr. at once. Throughout day violent toothache, especially after eating warm food; sweat every morning for five weeks past. – August 3rd. Periodical toothache on 1st and 2nd; last night little sleep on account of violent toothache on left side. 7th. Toothache not gone yet; frequent tearing in left ear and left upper arm; flying stitches in side and pains in chest. 22nd. For last fortnight toothache has never left me for whole day appetite became bad, so that I could eat but little; pains were worst last night; they extend into left temple and forehead, with heat in left side of forehead; pain is periodically tearing also in left ear; as the pains were in supportable they give me Arsen. 30, hereafter the pains became better. emaciation; pale sunken countenance; hypochondriacal humor – Sept. 9th. The toothache, which always extends into left temple and forehead where also plus continuous violent tearing is felt, has recurred almost every day; I have no
relish for food; I feel languid and disinclined for all work motions are, on the whole, looser, and occur several times daily from toothache periodically occurring, which however, after returning form a three days’ excursion into the Hartz hills on the 17th, did not recur full; my appetite also has return. ( Ibid. lxx 45.4.)
20. Frederick Angus. R. -, private secretary, aet 54, very thin, 5 ft. 8 in. high, strong bones mucus moderate. Skin white; complexion pale; hair blond, thin soft eyes blue, appetite very good, sometimes almost morbid, continuing after a meal. I have given up beer and cigars, as they are very injurious to my throat, causing dryness and a choking sensation. Character: Very easily excited to anger soon repented of; after a fit of vexation, loss of appetite; easily affected by the sufferings or sadness of others or by reading sad stories; of a yielding sympathetic disposition, cheerful; love of music (not noisy music) and song and cheerful society; make up mind rapidly; courageous. Other peculiarities; rheumatic sufferings before and during wet weather; damp, cold, and draughts of air cause suffering; dry wind in the open air agrees; dry color heat are not disagreeable; easily tired with standing, or with mental or bodily efforts, the latter readily producing perspiration; being in a newly scrubbed room, and the smell of newly washed linen, very disagreeable, headache and vertigo caused thereby.
20a. 20th, 1862. At 10 p. m., 10 dr. of Ist dil.; slept from 11 till 8 with dreaming. – 21st. At 11 a. m., 10 dr. of tinct. At 10 p. m., 15 dr. At 8 a. m., tensive feeling on right side of head from right temple to middle of forehead; at noon, yawning, stretching, drowsiness, as after a sleepless night; disinclination for work; laziness all day; ill humour; dizzy heaviness and tension on upper part of head, especially in vertex, which pains as if raw when touched, unaltered by rest, motion, warmth or cold, only aggravated thinking; on combing hair pains in roots of hair as if ulcerated; gurgling or quivering movement in front of neck above larynx, without pain, lasting some seconds and returning in a few m., all day long; bowels, as usual, regular. – 22nd. At 10 a. m., 20 dr. At 5 and 9 p. m., 25 dr. Undisturbed sleep ‘ dreams of funerals and corpses; on rising from bed vertigo, with inclination to fall forwards (for a minute); all symptoms of yesterday unchanged. At 10 p. m., the tensive heavy feeling in top of head extended into occipital protuberance, and head feels as if surrounded by a band; in throat and windpipe choking feeling, increased by breathing, as from taking beer in former days, or strong cigars; an eruption on dorsum of left hand, which was there 16 years ago, and only showed itself every year by a slight desquamation of cuticle,
comes back in increased patches appear which gnaw and itch without a exuding, and then scale off; constipation. – 23rd. At 10 a. m. and 7 p. m., 30 dr. At 5 p. m., 25 dr. Slept from 11 till 4 undisturbed; wide awake from 4 till 5, then sound sleep without dreams till 9 a. m.; no vertigo in rising, but symptoms of yesterday continue unchanged; fixed pain as if raw in left lung, which was inflamed 4 months ago, pain increased by deep breathing; motion hard, knotty, and passing with difficulty, with sore pain in anus. – 24th. At 11 a. m. and 3 p. m. 40 dr. Again sound sleep in night; dreams of cemeteries and funerals; drowsy laziness, yawning, stretching, cross, ill humored; still like band round head; pain of hairs; roots; tenderness of vertex; choking in throat and windpipe; quivering in neck near larynx; pain in left lung less; constipation. – 25th. At 8 a. m., 35 dr. At n. pretty sound sleep without dreams. The other symptoms continue. At 5:30 p. m., there occur, in addition, intoxicated vertigo with nausea till 9 p. m., and warm perspiration on the face, neck, and chest, with internal and external heat, regular pulse, and no thirst, for 1/2 hour; vertigo and nausea unaltered by walking, sitting lying, in open air or in room. At 6 p. m., stool, very hard, knotty, difficult, with cutting pain in anus and rectum; after stool rumbling in bowels, with sensation of deranged stomach, lasting 1 1/2 hours; pain in left lung again felt, increased by coughing and sneezing. At 9 p. m., a kind of tingling in feet as after a long walk; at same time internal and external chilliness, with great weight in occiput and drawing in nape from above downward; at 10:30 in bed, which had been warmed, increased chilliness and chattering of teeth for about 1/2 hour; then sound sleep with few, unremembered dreams; pulse regular. – 26th. at 9 a. m., giddy weight in upper part of head, like band round head; tenderness of vertex and of hair; rheumatic drawing pain in nape, worse when turning head to right or 1.; choking sensation in throat and larynx; quivering in neck; increased pain in left lung; anorexia; nausea with pasty taste; tingling in feet continues; chilliness or heat nor noticeable; at noon slight rheumatic pains in left hip and left knee for 5 hours, and in right elbow-joint until 10 p. m.; constipation; at n. very quite. – 27th. Giddy weight in head diminished, but feeling of band round head is still there; moreover, sensitiveness of throat and lung is less; rheumatism in nape scarcely observable. Gone are: rheumatism in hip, arm, and elbows, the nausea and bad taste; the quivering in neck only occurs every 3 or 4 hours; stool at first rather hard, then passed more easily and without pain; great thirst for cold water, which when slaked always returned. – 28th. symptoms of yesterday milder; vertex, when touched, feels as if a wound was healing below it; head still feels bound round, but with looser band; hardly any pain in lung; choking in throat less, bit still there; quivering in neck occurred only few times during day for an instant; eruption on left hand gone; bowels regular without effort, stool not hard; sleep quiet, dreamless. – 29th. In m. still some oppression of head, and in place of choking feeling, rough and scrappy feeling in throat; no other symptoms observed; great thirst for cold water; mind. freer, more cheerful, increased inclination for work.
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.