7. J. P. HUBER, surgeon, aet. 27, took various dilutions for 48 days and mother tinct. up to 10 dr. daily for 20 days without any effect. – January 26th. 10 dr. 1 p. m., lost his breath 3 times when going up a little hill quite slowly, chest felt very hot, and he had some frothy expectoration. Each attack lasted a few morning and in 1/2 hour felt all right. – 27th. 10 dr., 11 a. m., 2 similar attacks of breathlessness when walking on a flat road They lasted at most 3 or 4 minutes. Next night very restless, he could not sleep though he felt very sleepy, tossed about till midnight. He took no more medicine, but the restlessness continued for several successive nights. (Ibid., 290.)
8. W. HUBER, surgeon, aet. 26, took various dilutions down to first without any remarkable effect. March 2nd, 11 p. m., 20
dr. mother tinct. Sour taste on tip of tongue for 2 hours. – third, 8 a. m., 30 dr. Twitching of muscles of right upper arm lasting a few seconds and returning after 3 m. 11 p. m., 40 dr. restless and frequent sudden waking on account of fright dreams, with the sensation as if the bed and floor swayed. – 4th, 8 a. m., 50 dr.; 2 p. m., 70 dr..m., 80 dr.; forenoon, roughness in throat, deep voice, constant spitting of watery saliva; afternoon, for 2 hours rumbling in belly. – 5th, morning, 80 dr.; evening, 90 dr. no effect. – 6th morning, 100 dr.; noon 100 dr.; 11 p. m., 100 dr. M. roughness in throat as from catarrh. 4 p. m., while in warm bath burning shooting and sore feeling in frenum preputi and orifice of urethra lasting 3 hours. also violent burning when urinating. – 7th, morning, 150dr.; 4 p. m., jerking shooting pain in left upper row of teeth, tobacco not relished; evening some pricking in belly. – 8th, morning confused head as after a debauch, weakness, sleepiness, much yawning, bruised feeling of feet and legs as after great fatigue; some pinching in belly and rumbling for 1/2 hours. – 9th, morning 300 dr. Eructation of air, frequent spitting, tongue furred, general weakness and relaxation. (Ibid., 290).
9. A woman, aet. 28, well with the exception that she has spasms of uterus and stomach before the menses. May 7th, morning, 5 dr. of tinct. Repeated flushes of heat with red cheeks, and feeling as of a veil before eyes. – 8th. 10dr., burning in both eyes; pain in forehead which is hot, weight in occiput, weakness, prostration, increased temperature of the whole body, pulse 88, strong and full. – 9th. 15 dr., great burning and itching in eyes, pupils contracted, feeling of fulness and weight in sinciput, frontal headache, frequent rising up of heat, heat and fulness of whole body, pricking feeling under skin, which is quite dry, then towards noon moist; dryness of throat, appetite increased, thirst, troublesome weakness with knuckling of knees under her; pulse 96, full, tense. – 10th. 15 dr., same symptoms. – 11th. 20dr.; to the above symptoms there were added heaviness in chest with feeling of tightness and need to take frequent deep breaths; slight, deep, transient stitches in lungs, great sensitiveness of both mammae, hot forehead, cool cheeks, increased flow of urine, pulse 100, strong, full, tense. – 12th. 25 dr., continuance of above symptoms, burning in eyes less, sensitiveness of mammae increased, occasionally flying stitches through them, they felt ulcerated when touched ever so gently, and they felt fuller and heavier. Urine copious, turbid, pulse 112. – 13th. 25 dr. forehead felt full of lead, pulse 106 All other symptoms remained the same, also a cutting contractive pain in abdomen. – 14th. 30dr., in 1/2 hour constriction in stomach and soon afterwards in abdomen, which felt hot and tense; after great straining vomiting of a little watery fluid mingled with streaks of light blood. In forenoon three liquid stools, head very confused, heavy, hot, increased heat of body followed by general coldness of body with hot head. (JENICEK, Ibid., 365).
10. Dr. VON KACZKOWSKY. – 26th May, 1 dr. of mother tinct. No effect. -27th, 10 p. m., 3 dr. On waking cheerful, prickings from needles on various parts of body, drawing and stretching in joints, tension in soft palate and sees a glass of liquor caused heat of whole body and confused head. Noon, great weakness and little appetite. – 28th, 12 midnight, 7 dr. Sweat during sleep, quite unusual. On waking weakness, crossness, anxious restlessness as if something bad was about to happen to him, no desire for coffee or cigar. 7:30 a. m., a loose stool with burning in rectum, which recurred frequently during day; pricking and itching in various parts of body; drawing and stretching in joints. Noon, no appetite, great shivering and weakness. evening, weakness, thirst, scanty urine, turbid and smelling peculiarly sleeplessness. -29th. At midnight 10 dr. Mouth, head confused, inclination to sigh, tightness of chest, sensitiveness of ankles and wrists. 7:30 a. m., loose stool with burning in rectum; head confused, tension of cervical muscles and glands Mouth tightness of chest as from mental emotion; pulse quick, head confused, sometimes vertigo. E. great heat of body, itching in rectum and genitals, urine scanty, turbid, with smell of Russia leather; no inclination to sleep. -31st p. m., 10 dr. M., weak, prostrated, heat in head and chest with deep sighing; pulse quick, appetite diminished, great drowsiness after eating; after 20 minutes rest great weakness, drawing and stretching in limbs, heat in rectum and genitals, urine scanty with smell of Russia leather.- June 3rd, forenoon, 1 dr. Heat of head and chest, little appetite, unusual thirst; towards evening weakness, drawing and stretching limbs, heat in rectum and genitals, urine scanty with smell of Russia leather. – June 3rd, forenoon, 1 dr. Heat of head and chest, little appetite unusual thirst; towards evening weakness, heat in rectum and genitals. Urine scanty, high coloured, no peculiar smell. -5th, forenoon, 5 dr. N. restless; single tearings dart through body like electric shocks, sometimes on right sometimes on left side. On rising heaviness of head and chest with deep breathing; no appetite for breakfast; easy stool with hot feeling, then burning in rectum. Pulse quick, qualmishness of stomach with yawning, little appetite for dinner, great thirst. Great drowsiness after dinner; after 15 minutes rest, cross, giddy; evening, tightness of chest. 6th, forenoon, 10 dr. Long of falling asleep, restless dreams, profuse sweat; on rising weakness, prostration of limbs, head heavy, tightness of chest, loss of appetite, ill humour, hot feeling in rectum and genitals, burning and itching in anus after an easy stool, qualmishness of stomach, great drowsiness after eating. After 20 minutes rest, head heavy, giddy. E., increased heat with anxiety in chest, no desire to sleep. – 9th, forenoon, 10 dr. N. disturbed by disagreeable dreams, sometimes with jerking like electric shocks, weakness, prostration of limbs, heaviness of head, tightness of chest, frequent deep breathing, stool easy, followed by burning and itching in anus, pulse quick, urine scanty, dark coloured, ill-smelling. These symptoms lasted quick, urine scanty, dark coloured, ill-smelling. These symptoms lasted till 12th; by 14th was well. – July 11th, 10 p. m., 1 dr., no effect. -121 p. m., 2 dr. On waking weakness, anorexia, flat taste, disinclination to work, on walking great weariness and slight oppression of chest; after eating, irresistible sleep for 20 minutes, thereafter increased laziness. In evening ebullition and sexual excitement. – 13th, forenoon, a screwed-up feeling in head as from iron cap, prostration of limbs, tightness of chest with deep sighing. Great drowsiness after eating. Midnight, 3 dr. Towards morning copious sweat of peculiar smell, urine high coloured. -14th. Very weak on rising, could hardly get up. On walking or going upstairs heaviness of limbs, tightness of chest, pressure on cranial arch and optic nerves. Noon, no appetite; evening in society attack of weakness followed by perspiration. 9:30 p. m., 4 dr., sleep profound, full of dreams. – 15th., morning, the same weakness, heavy head, tight chest deep-coloured urine, smelling of violets, hot; during a loose stool burning in anus. Feeling of prickling and itching in scrotum that had occasionally been felt increased to great degree; heat when urinating, burning irritating feeling in scrotum; evening, 16th. On waking tongue thickly furred, symptoms same as before. After dinner and siesta much heat of head and chest, frequent sneezing roughness in throat. E., pain in the cervical glands (that had formerly been swollen). p.m., 10 dr., sleep restless, full of dreams. – 17th. Weaker on rising than when he went to bed, roughness of throat as usual, frequent sneezing, cervical glands (not swollen) more painful, other symptoms as before. E., transient feeling of cold. 9:30 p. m., 13 dr. – 18th. To usual symptoms are added burning of eyelids, discharge of much flatus, burning in soles, 2 stools, with burning in anus and swelling of a pile, formication in genitals. 10:30 p. m., 15 dr. – 19th. After a restless night all the symptoms in aggravated degree. Somewhat relieved in open air. Some blood with stool. E., 18 dr. – 20th. Same symptoms. 11:30 p. m., 20 dr. fer a very restless night, with dreams and sweat, head felt as if screwed in a vice; after stool great faintness; other symptoms as usual. No more medicine taken. The confusion of head lasted 3 days, the stomach symptoms 2 days, the sensitiveness of eyelids a fortnight; the loose daily stool gave place to a hard stool every other day; the dark-colored violent-smelling urine became for a few days like whey, and smelt fetid; later the stools became again loose and every day the feeling of weight in sacrum and swelling of pile returned. Some small itching scabs appeared on hairy scalp, a burning hot feeling in soles; transient stitches in joints; single itching pricks in forearm, thighs, and about genitals; when scratched an urticarious efflorescence appeared, which soon went off. (Ibid. 367.)
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.