15. R. SCH., medical student, aet. 21. – April 2nd. 10 gr. 1st trit. – 4th. Scraping in organs of deglutition, slight constriction in throat. After two similar doses, same symptoms. – 23rd. In addition to these symptoms, irritation to cough, eructation and nausea. – 25th to 28th. Cough continued, with relief in evening (Ibid., 588).
16. H -, medical student, took every morning for 8 days, at 6 o’clock, 10 gr. 1st trit. Disagreeable, bitter, nauseous taste; increased appetite; transient, very painful stitches in both sides of chest; dyspnoea; dryness of fauces. (Ibid. 589.)
17. ADOLPH S -, aet. 25. – January 20th. 10 gr. 1st trit. In 1 hour slight irritating scraping in larynx, causing hawking and coughing. – 21st. Same dose, same symptoms. – 22nd. Scraping in larynx and trachea all day.; slight hoarseness evening – 23rd. Hoarseness continues; 10 gr.; all day scraping in air passages and irritation to cough. – 24th, morning urine with brick-red sediment. Repeated dose. After 1 hour return of scraping in larynx, slight hoarseness. -25th. The urine passed in afternoon deposits in evening red sediment; this symptoms and the hoarseness and dry cough continue till end of mouth. ( Ibid. 589.)
18. W. REIL, aet. 29, in good health. – 18th, 11 a. m., 5 dr. tinct. in water. 4 p. m., 5 dr. 9:30 p. m., 5 dr. – 19th, 10:30 a. m., 10 dr. Sweetish taste. 12 noon, 10 dr. Sweetish bitter taste, slightly aromatic. 3 p. m., 10 dr. 10:30 p. m., 10 dr. Urine at 8 a. m., 3iv, straw coloured 12 noon, 3v, straw coloured. 3 p. m., 3v, lemon coloured. 4:45 p. m., 3ij, preceded by urging to urinate. 8:30 p. m., 3v. 11 p. m., 3iss, preceded by great urging. – 20th. Last night frequent urging, but could not urinate; frequent erections. 9:30 a. m., 20 dr. Taste bitter, causing nausea. 11:30 a. m., 20 dr. 1:30 p. m., 20 dr. A costive stool. 4:30 p. m., 20 dr. Only frequent urging to urinate. Urine, 3:30 a. m., 3iiiss, with great urging; urine clear, straw coloured. 7 p. m., urine turbid with much mucous sediment. 9 a. m., 3v, lemon coloured and clear. 11 a. m., turbid, cloudy with mucous sediment. 11:15 a. m., 3iv, clear, very acid. 1:30 p. m., 3iv, the urine remained clear for 3 hours. 4:15 p. m., 3vss, as above 5:30 p. m., do. 10 p. m., 3iiiss, do., next morning turbid. – 21st, 9 a. m., 30 dr., frequent urging to urinate sometimes without result. Urine, 7 a. m., 3vij. 11 a. m., 3 viss. 3 p. m., 3 viss. 5 p. m., 3x. 8 p. m., 3 xj. 10 p. m., 3ij, urine clear. – 22nd, 9 a. m., 50 dr. Ordinary stool. 11 a. m., 50 dr., no urging to urinate since 8 a. m. 1:30 p. m., 50 dr., a loose stool. 4 p. m., 50 dr. 8 p. m., great itching at orifice of urethra. 9:15 p. m., 50 dr. Urine, 2 a. m., 3iij. Urine clear, acid, after some hour turbid with mucous sediment. – 23rd, 8 a. m., 50 dr. 0 a. m., pains in left hypochondrium a from flatulence. 9:30 a. m., 50 dr., pains continue, extend to left side of back and lumbar vertebrae; no flatus; no stool. 1 p. m., 50 dr. 2:30 p. m., twisting pain deep in belly on left side of spine. 4:15 p. m., 50 dr. From 5 to 8 p. m., repeated attacks of great pressure on bladder and redness of face. 4:30 p. m., hard stool. E., great weariness and yawning 11:30 p. m., 50 dr. Urine 4 a. m., 3v. 12 noon, 3viss, clear brown colour, after 1/2 hour showing a cloud, after 2 hour red, sedimentous. 2:30 p. m., 3v, rather clearer than the last. 4:30 p. m., 3iiss. 7:30 p. m., 3viij. 11 p. m., 3iv. After a short time the clear brown urine was turbid and reddish, with sediment; slightly acid. – 24th. Last night restless from pains in urinary region and ineffectual straining to urinate. 8 a. m., 60 dr. 9:30 a. m., 60 dr., much painful drawing in region of left ureter. 11 a. m., 60 dr. 2 p. m., 60 dr. 3:30 p. m., a hard stool. 4 p. m., 60 dr. The violent pressure in bladder with constant urging to urinate remained after urinating at 7 p. m. 9 p. m., 60dr. 10 p. m., 60 dr. All afternoon great weariness. Urine, 8 a. m., 3viss with many mucous flakes; still acid after 3 hours. 12:30 p. m., 3vss. 3 p. m., 3v. 4 p. m., 3ij. 7 p. m., 3ix 9:45 p. m., 3ij. Urine same as yesterday. – 25th, 8 a. m., 80 dr. Soon several coughing fits as from tickling in larynx and throat. 9:30 p. m., 80 dr. 10:30 p. m., 80 dr. About noon very great urging to urinate, but has to wait long until urine comes, and its passage was attended with burning in urethra. 5:30 p. m., 80 dr. 7 p. m., 100 dr. 9:30 p. m., 100 dr. All day painful sensations in kidneys and bladder. Much flatus but no stool. Urging to urinate and has to wait long for first drop. Urine, 8 a. m., 3viss. 12 noon, 3iv. 5:15 p. m., 3viij. 9:30 p. m., 3v. Urine acid, reddish brown, soon gets turbid and jumentous. Mucous sediments and mucus suspended in urine. – 26th, 8 a. m., 100 dr. 9 a. m., very copious pappy stool. Soon, but not immediately after each dose, dryness in throat, making him cough. 11 a. m., 100 dr. 1:30 p. m., 100 dr. 5 p. m., 100 dr. 9 a. m., 150 dr. All symptoms as before but more severe. Urine, 8 a. m., 3vj. 12:15 noon, 3ivss. 2:15 p. m., 3iv. 4:30 p. m., 3v. 9 p. m., 3vij. urine to come. Small hard stool at 3 p. m. Urine, 6 a. m., 3 vss. 10 a. m., 3 iij. 12:30 p. m., 3ivss. 3 p. m., 3iij. 8 p. m., 3j. 11 p. m., 3iij. Urine as before. – 28th. Took nothing. Urging to urinate slight, as also pains in kidneys and bladder. Much flatus, no stool. Urine, 8 a. m., 3viss. 10:30 p. m., 3vij. The urine first discharged was still reddish and turbid; the subsequent discharges clearer. E., lemon – coloured, with threads of mucus and a little sediment. ( Hom. Vierteljahrsch., left, 209.).
19. Two knife-pointsful of cocc. cac. 2nd trit. caused: Urging to urinate, pricking and tickling in orifice of urethra,
pain in umbilical and deep in caecal region, rumbling – shooting in rectum, urging to stool, often in vain, tearing in frontal bone. Urine altered neither in quantity nor quality. (LEMBKE, A. h. Z., xlix, 185.
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.