3. STAPF. – Pressive headache in temples, drawing towards occiput, while walking in cold air, decreasing while sitting in room, again violently renewed in open air, but finally disappearing there (3/4 hours); heat in face and redness of cheeks (1/2 hours); feeling of dryness and slight burning on tongue without thirst (1 hours); copious urination; oppression of chest, she must take short breaths, breathing visibly heaves chest (after subsidence of heat in face); short, momentary, hacking cough as from tickling in throat, often recurring (1 hours); trembling of legs (1.3/4 hours); sleeplessness from excessive erethism of mind and body; attacks of chilliness, increased by motion; chilliness through whole body (with warm skin), stronger and more perceptible while moving body, when rising from chair a cold chill escapes over her, and face is pale, for 10 morning (1/2 hours); after the chilliness slight heat in throat and thirst (1/4 hour); chilliness in back, mixed with feeling of heart, especially from middle of back over hypogastrium he experiences warmth as if sweat would break out. ( Ibid.)
4. THORER. – Vertiginous oppression of head (4 head); vertigo and blackness before eyes while stooping (1 day); inability to think acutely (6 hours); head is heavy and giddy, with general anxietas, she thinks she must fall (2 days); contractive frontal headache (2nd evening); slight rheumatic drawing in left occiput; heat in face with red cheeks, after a meal (6 hours); momentary drawing in a hollow left upper molar, as after a slight chill; drawing in left malar bone (1st day) alternating with tearing in tooth; in morning bitter taste in mouth (2nd days) and bitter taste of drinking water during day. ( Ibid.)
5. The following are fragmentary [*No information given as to provers here designated*] or anonymous: – She feels as if she momentarily lost thoughts (2nd day); pressive pain on vertex; rushing of blood towards head, anxious heat and redness in face; itching of hairy scalp; boring in right eye, with diminished power of vision; music sounds over-loud to him, so that he must touch his instrument lightly; painfulness of fore-teeth on touching and while chewing, as if they were loose; hiccup; nausea in morning; tension over stomach and hypochondria; disagreeable sensation below stomach, with subsequent distension and dull pain; after supper fulness in abdomen, as from incarcerated flatus (Hsch.); passage of much flatus; on 1st day, unusually, two stools, first hard, second fluid (BR.); on 2nd day three hard stools; itching at fore part of penis and glans for some hour (47 hours); frequent desire to pass urine, which comes only guttatim (1/2 hours); urine blood red, but not turbid; itching on right side of scrotum; strangulating cracking pain in one testicle for first 3 days want of sexual excitability, physical and psychical; for several evening fluent coryza with sneezing evening; in bed, and on going to sleep and waking, coughing; pressive pain in sacrum; feeling of tightness in limbs; sweat of hands while writing; drawing pain under right knee; slight stitches in balls of great toes, 4 p. m.; much yawning and drowsiness, 1st days; sweat of feet with sore feeling in toes; great mobility of muscles, every movement is performed with ease and rapidity, and with steady force (A.); lightness of head and in all bodily adjustments, a great and unwonted sense of well- being and liveliness (a); great wakefulness in evening; desire to lie down and close eyes, but without either ability or willingness to sleep)Br.); wakeful at first, soon after sleepy (Hsch.); after 1 1/2 hour great drowsiness with weariness (A.); sound sleep; till 3 a. m., after this he slumbered only in dim consciousness (Br.); waking, with starting; frequent waking towards morning in affright (Lgh.); during night his fancies turn uninterruptedly upon one thought, of which he cannot free himself, and which robs him of all sound sleep; great sensitiveness to cold; tremulous movement in back and between shoulders, with warmth (Hsch.); dry heat in face (Hsch.); anxiety and instability; very discontented, indisposed to speak, and answers curtly (immediately) (Br.); great cheerfulness, acuteness of though, vividness of ideas (A.); vexed, anxious, lachrymose mood. (Ibid.)
6. a. January 18th, infusion of 1 oz. coffee, p. m. – 19th, a. m., same dose; p. m., same quantity; urine acid, a. m., less so, p. m. – 20th, a. m., urine highly acid; p. m., same quantity of coffee. Felt well but excited, appetite diminished. – February 1st, a. m., infusion of 3/4 oz. coffee; p. m., same quantity; appetite moderate, felt well. – 2nd. Same quantity of coffee as on 19th; felt well but excited. – 10th, a. m., 1 oz. coffee; p. m.; same quantity. Felt pretty well, little appetite, none in evening. Very excited, could not sleep till 4 a. m., then very restlessly. Got up next morning not feeling sleepily. Urinated frequently at night.
6 b. August 20th, 1:50 p. m., 3 cups of coffee made from 3/4 oz. beans. Two stools, unsteadiness of hand. – 21st, 7:30 a. m., 3 cups; 10:15, feeling of emptiness of stomach without hunger, unsteadiness of head gone; 2:25 p. m., 3 cups; 8 p. m., 3 cups, 2 stools. – 24th, 2:40 p. m., 3 cups. – 25th, 2 to 3:45 p. m. 5 cups; 3:30 p. m., great ebullition of blood, slight unsteadiness of hand. – 27th, 10:25 a. m., 3 cups; 2:20 p. m., 3 cups; 4:45 p. m., 2 cups; eructations tasting of coffee, rumbling in bowels, no appetite for supper. – 28th, 7:45 a. m., 4 cups; 10 a. m., 1 cup; rumbling in bowels. – 29th, 8:30 a. m., 3 cups; 2 p. m.,3 1/2 cups; disagreeable ebullitions of blood, trembling of limbs and faint feeling not appetite.
6 c. BOCKER found that taking coffee as above, while it increased the quantity of urine passed, diminished all the solid constituents of the urine to a remarkable degree. It diminishes the amount of faeces, and also the amount of carbonic acid exhaled from the lungs, and correspondingly makes the inspirations more superficial. This last property of coffee was well shown in an experiment. He drank a quantity of coffee made from 1 oz. of the beans and sat down to his desk to write. After 1/2 hour he had a true fit of asthma, oppression of the chest, trembling of limbs, great ebullition of blood and vertigo. He went into the open air and walked quickly without much relief, his knees tottered, he became deadly pale, and felt quite faint. He was too weak to sit up and had to lie down. He felt very uncomfortable, the dyspnoea increased and lasted some hour, when he noticed that he had to breathe more deeply. He had no appetite for supper, could not sleep, and had no stool for 2 days. His conclusion is that coffee hinders the waste of the blood. (BOCKER, Beitr. z. Heilk., i 188, et. seq.)
7. COLE gives the result of his observations on the immoderate use of tea and coffee, the effects of which he says are practically identical. There is first considerable excitement, the face becomes flushed, the eyes sparkle, the pulse is full, throbbing and quick. By-and-by the hands and feet become as cold as marble and covered with clammy sweat; there is also coldness and numbness of back of head. To this is sometimes added formication of scalp, intense headache, dimness of sight unsteadiness in walking, vertigo with feeble, fluttering pulse. After a few morning to 2 or 3 hour craving emptiness in stomach, not relieved by eating. Fluttering as of a bird in left side, fulness of chest about clavicle and root of neck, breathlessness and frequent deep sighing. Sometimes this on to threatening of suffocation, insensibility, and convulsions. The sufferings in stomach are often aggravated to violent spasm. Violent palpitation or enfeebled action of heart, bringing on syncope. Temper peevish and irritable. A man, aet.40, had been in the habit of taking 2 or 3 cups of coffee in morning and again in afternoon. He was troubled with constant headache, aggravated noon and evening. Numbness of back of head with aching and throbbing, unsteadiness of gait, sinking and emptiness of stomach, fluttering of heart, cold hands and feet. Got well in 10 days after leaving off coffee. (Lancet, 1832-3, ii, 274.)
8. In 1859 I proved on myself, while in full health; the action of coffee, taken cold, in bed, fasting. I did not push effects so far as Cole, but I went far enough to feel the praecordial symptoms, pale face, coldness of skin and extremities, weakening and gradual retardation of beats of heart. Before commencing experiments pulse was 69; after fifth cup it had fallen to 61. (LAMARE-PICQUOT, Etudes Experimentales, Paris, 1864.).
9. Dr. LINDESLEY took for a proving cups of strong coffee 3 morning in succession. Dreamt throughout following nights vivid and brilliant visions of magnificence; on 3rd night dreamt that dome of sky was spanned by rainbows from horizon to zenith. These delightful visions were followed by dreams of death of dear friends, which did not abate his cheerfulness and mental exhilaration, he looking on all with super-natural indifference. (Allen’s Encyclopedia, iii, 446.)
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.