5. BETHMANN made his provings with tinct. sem. colch in pretty large doses. After 4 hours, great flow of watery saliva with nausea, fulness and distension of abdomen. After 5 hour the features are completely altered, like those of a person who has long been ill; very sick, with salivation and dryness of throat, he turns hither and thither in a disconsolate manner, with very distracted mind and prostration. After 6 hours, violent vomiting of food taken 3 hours previously. After 4 days, the smell of a newly beaten-up egg almost made him faint. After 8 days, very copious salivation. After 13-15 days, weakness of memory; he forgets the words he was just going to say, and can only with difficulty recover the former train of thought and go on talking. No time mentioned: very forgetful and distracted; pressive weight in occiput, especially when moving or stooping forward; a very fatiguing though not violent pressure deep in cerebellum from the slightest mental work. Sharp, very painful, drawing tearing in left half of head, generally commencing in left eyeball and extending to occiput several day; fine tearing in scalp; hair falls out very much; drawing digging deep in eyeball; melancholy expression; jerking-drawing pain in facial muscles, deep in bones; in facial bones very disagreeable feeling, as if they were driven asunder laterally, with single drawing jerks; squeezing pain in ears; on making a few steps in the room, ears felt stopped up and tinnitus; tearing in orifice of right ear; the smell is so morbidly exalted that something quite indifferent e.g. soup, makes him almost sick; epistaxis in evening; the masseter muscles felt as if drawn in their breadth, allowing the mouth to be opened only a little and with pain; the teeth so sensitive he cannot bite; at entrance of oesophagus sensation as if there were there a high, round swelling when drinking; inflammation of all the fauces; much spitting of watery saliva; watery salivation with dryness of mouth for several days; on swallowing salvia there occurs nausea and inclination to vomit; loss of appetite; appetite for various things, but on seeing or smelling them he has loathing and cannot relish anything; any strongly tasting things feel a if he were chewing linen; hiccup for hours; constant eructation of air; nausea when in erect position; when she stand up a creeping in stomach as if about to vomit; relief after vomiting; before vomiting abdomen painfully contracted; violent retching, after retching or a long time a large quantity of yellow bitter mucus is ejected, which leaves a bitter taste in fauces; after violent griping she vomits bile several times, after wards bitter taste in mouth and throat; he must lie quite doubled up without the slightest motion all day, otherwise the vomiting which continues becomes still more violent, every movement increases and renews it; he can only lie on right side, at every movement and change of position the vomiting returns with frightful violence; cannot bear the slightest touch in gastric region; crawling in stomach; stomach feels icy cold; in abdomen; especially in stomach, a slight chilly feeling with pain and weakness; pain and discomfort in whole abdomen; thin stool preceded by griping; rumbling in bowels as if diarrhoea would come on; watery diarrhoea; often thin watery stool passed without sensation; spasm in sphincter followed by chill in back and then urging to stool without being able to get rid of all the excrement; often obliged to go to stool without result, preceded by griping; increased secretion of urine; on passing urine burning in urethra as though it were raw; drawing and tearing pain in urethra; tearing in left spermatic cord; the menses, which had just come on, stop; single stitches in dorsal muscles; stitches in sacrum; drawing in sacrum, increased by movement; on the middle of sacrum there is a spot the size of the hand, with pain like an ulcer, extremely painful at the slightest touch; violent paralytic pain in arms, so that he cannot hold even light objects; third and fourth fingers of right hand drawn inwards; tearing in joints of right fingers; shooting tearing in ligaments of joints of right little finger; drawing tearing deep in left hip-joint, apparently in its ligaments, worst at night; drawing deep in muscles of thighs; drawing tearing in left sole; sudden tearing jerks through half of body, like electric shocks; sometimes shooting, sometimes jerking drawing at one time in muscles of shoulder, at another in right hip; slight drawing and twitching, also tearing in incisors, eyelids, facial and other muscles; the pains seem to be quite intolerable in evening, he feels disposed to be angry with himself; all kinds of pains are worst from commencement of night until dawn of day; his gait is uncertain and staggering, partly from weakness and partly on accounts of the drawing-shooting jerks darting suddenly through periosteum, which are always attended with a paralysed feeling and an actual though transient paralysis; sleepless almost all night on account of shooting jerking; the pains are much aggravated by mental exertion; she has often single tearing jerks, chiefly on left side; the smell of pork (which he formerly liked), a bright light, a touch, the naughtiness of a child, put him almost beside himself; such extreme depression of spirits, weakness, pain, and sensitiveness of the whole body that he can hardly move without moaning; rapid sinking of strength, so that in 10 hours he is hardly able to speak so as to be understood, or to walk in room; she feels such weakness in muscles of extremities that she thinks they will fall off; all muscles, especially of lower extremities, as if paralysed; quite powerless and as if paralysed in all the body, especially the arms; the painful muscular paralysis, especially in knees, causes them to knuckle under him often, especially when he lifts his legs to step over an elevated object, e.g. the doorstep; itching of skin in several places; pricking on skin, causing twitching through whole body; sleepiness by day; must yawn often; rigor through all the limbs; dry heat of skin; violent palpitation of heart; pulse large, full, hard, from 90 to 100; suppressed perspiration; cross, ill – tempered, nothing pleases him; his sufferings seem to him intolerable. (Ibid.)
6. Dr. LINDEMANN, aet. 39, liable only to slight rheumatism, catarrh, and sluggishness of stool, took, January 16th, 17th and 20th, a dose of 15th dil. Noticed unusual appetite, and on 18th, unpleasant epigastric sensation, almost amounting to pain, on pressure, coughing, and deep breathing. ON 24th, took 3 dr. of same. In afternoon, uncalled-for shivering; appetite same; disturbing flow of thought after midnight; dullness about forehead, which is cold; on surface generally slightly sour – smelling perspiration. In morning, forehead warm and heavy, head dull;; fingers cold, palms hot; shivering again in evening. On 26th, took 4 dr. On 27th, towards and after mid-day, oppression in cardiac region, with fluttering pulsation. Took 6 drops at 4 p. m. Next day at noon slight cardiac uneasiness. On February 1st and 3rd, took globules of 3rd dil. without effect save a not unusual bruised pain in loins. On 4th, took 3 dr. of same, with no symptoms save such as a slight catarrh would occasion. Same result from 4 dr. on 7th. Appetite remained unusually keen. From 4 dr. on 14th and 16th, and 6 dr. on 18th, no further effects. Same to be said of doses of 2 – 8 dr. of tinct. taken March 9th – 16 have that frequent micturition was noted, and some itching at anus. On 28th, took 2 dr. at 4, and 3 dr. without water at 7 p. m. At 6, slight itching at anus, shivering knees feel tired in ascending. At 7, urgency to micturition; uvula somewhat painful and congested. After 2nd dose, warmth and fulness at epigastrium, with cardiac uneasiness and oppressive swimming in head, going off in 1/2 hours left arm feels cramped and weak. At 7:30, passed usual quantity of scalding urine. Great drowsiness after supper; frequent micturition and much dreaming at night 29th. – By 9 a. m., all symptoms gone. Took 3 dr. without water. Same immediate effects, with darting pains in hips. Repeated dose at 11:30; sensations at epigastrium alone perceived. P. m., while sitting, warmth and beating in loins; forehead feels distended; inability to fix attention. In evening and night vesicle and rectal tenesmus, urine scalding 30th. – 8:45 p. m.,6 dr. In addition to epigastric sensations, aching just above anus, where there is a sensation of creeping, with warmth, itching, and slight burning, as if from a mustard plaster. At 9:45, pulse 87, cardiac oppression and frequent micturition. At 10:15, repeated dose. After 10 morning, feeling of exhaustion in going upstairs; cardiac oppression, with slight momentary fluttering and darting pains, and feeling of anxiety, with sighing; decided twitching in back (which had been slightly felt before), and sense of heat in spine. These symptoms, with previous ones of anus and urethra, continued more or less all day. He ate with great appetite; sensations in back extended to left hip; cheeks at 4:30 red and hot. 31st. – Four dr. at 6:30 a. m. brought back symptoms of back and left hip, relieved by stool and walking. Another dose at 9:15 recalled them, with weariness of knees and the cardiac and rectal uneasiness. Another a II, resulted only in much flatulence and belching. Similar doses next day brought on similar symptoms. (HARTLAUB’S provings, Hom. Vierteljahrsch., viii, 208)
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.