appear (1st day); flying, titillating sensation darts through abdomen; stitches at times on one side of abdomen, arresting breathing; painless shock in abdomen, as if something living were bounding about on both side of abdomen, with nausea and chilliness (9 hours); occasional sensation, as of something living bounding about, in scrob. cordis, abdomen, arms, and other parts of body; in night while wide awake she feels in left abdomen repeated shocks, such as in a pregnancy, now over for some months, she had felt from the movements of the child (after several day); similar sensation in hypogastrium; several dull shocks below right short ribs near scrob. cordis, and immediately after pain at that spot during inspiration (2 hours).
1 g. Movement through whole abdomen, with pinching sensation, and occasional slight inclination to stool; dull, long, sensitive stitch near anus (left side) from time to time, long lasting; creeping in anus as from ascarides; itching in anus, 1st, evening, compelling scratching; intolerable writhing in anus; sensitive, dull stitches on right side above anus; slow dull stitch from time to time from anus through sacral region into left groin, terminating in a simple pain, increasing during an inspiration, and afterwards going off gradually; stool earlier than usual, but somewhat difficult; some blood passed with stools.
1 h. Excitement of sexual desire; pressure in groin, as before catamenia; feeling of weight in inguinal region; intermittent sharp shooting from genital organs into right half of epigastrium, as if a knife were carried up in that direction with rapid pushes, penetrating gradually farther, and becoming more and more cutting; sensation as if menses would make their appearance, with colic and urging towards pudenda (in a few hour).
1 i. Dry coryza several hour after taking drug, left nostril quite stopped up; dry coryza with cold hands and feet, and heat of face, especially after a meal (for 3 days); violent sneezing shortly after taking drug; epistaxis of tenacious, thick, black blood, with cold sweat on forehead, in large drops; her breath, which is generally sweet, has an offensively sickly smell; much clearing of throat, owing to formation of a quantity of mucus, which makes voice thick and scrapy; much cough; very violent paroxysm of tearing dry cough, relieved by pressing wit hand on pit of stomach; paroxysms of dry cough, as if occasioned by a persistent and violent irritation in trachea; a sort of constriction, making it difficult to accomplish a full yawning, he succeeds in it only after several ineffectual attempts (10 morning); weight on chest, he must frequently breathe deeply; shooting in trachea, mostly at back (4 hours); warm sensation ascending towards heart, with anxiety, and some dyspnoea,
preventing deep breathing though there is a disposition to it, she feels more comfortable after yawning, which is frequent; tightness of chest; dyspnoea; sensation in throat, on inspiration, as if irritated by sulphurous vapour; stitch below heart, worse on inspiration (2 1/2 hours); stitching in both sides of chest, externally, later spreading more to front of chest, and changing to burning, – uninfluenced by breathing or movement (1 hour); in lower part of chest and pit of stomach suddenly an aching pain with slight nausea (3/4 hour); within left chest a peculiar jerking pain as if drawing by a thread towards back, in paroxysms; a kind of bounding, as of something living, below ribs of right side; soreness in whole chest; short stitches in right chest; paroxysmal shocks in left chest, as if breath were arrested; dull stitches in left chest; a few painful shocks on a small spot behind shoulder.
1 j. Cracking in shoulder-joint during sudden motion with acute pain as if arm were dislocated; twitching of muscles on top of shoulder, sensible and visible, in morning in bed; occasional sensation in shoulder-joints as if arm would become dislocated, as if bone were too loosely fixed (in two provers); dull pain with paralytic feeling in left arm; when moving upper arm outwards, tensive feeling in shoulder-joint and cracking of same; pain in right forearm extending obliquely to thumb; a kind of intermittent drawing, every intermission marked by transient digging, on small spot on forearm, worse when it rests on anything, in which case a stupefying warmth spreads over hand; slight pain on small spot of left forearm, not far from elbow, which is tossed up spasmodically and involuntarily, causing in to start (9 morning); arms especially forearms, are very heavy and as if bruised; arms feel bruised immediately upon moving them slightly; dull pain in right hand; one hand, arm and foot go to sleep; both arms go to sleep; both arms and hands go to sleep at night while she is asleep, and the tingling pain awakes her (8 hours); after walking in somewhat rough air and now entering warm room, he suddenly feels an uneasy, burning, tingling feeling in tips of fingers, as if they had gone to sleep, with a strained sensation as if they were wrapped round tight, and the blood was unable to circulate freely (23 hours); violent stitches in left
index finger (immediately) formication in same; considerable feeling of coldness in left half of back, suddenly, as if cold water were poured over it, lasting a long time; tearing pains in sacrum, worse during inspiration (1 hour); sudden concussive sensation in buttocks while sitting, as from violent fall on them; violent crack, like a report, in right hip-joint when stretching thigh forward; feeling of weakness in thighs, extending down to knees especially when sitting (1/2 hour); pain in posterior surface of thighs, during long-continued sitting; great weariness in legs, with painful buzzing in legs from above downwards, – felt less during, but much more after, motion, somewhat abated by rest; tearing over knees down to malleoli, at night, thereafter continual pain and drawing here and there in parts, obliging here constantly to alter position of feet; knees bend double even in standing; painful tension in knees while sitting down, on rising again pain in joints as if they were dry from lack of synovia, and would crack and scrape on motion; intermittent painful drawing in the bent knee; audible noise in knee-joint immediately on stooping, with a not altogether painless feeling; weariness in knees as if they would give way; legs feel bruised; he finds it difficult to stand and walk, and on sitting there is weak feeling in legs; painful weariness in legs, also while sitting feeling of weight as after long pedestrian exertion; burning and tingling in feet, especially soles, as after walking in tight shoes; smarting in calf and soon after tearing in same; bruised feeling in calves, as if he would stumble over his own legs; legs feel extremely weak and weary; after some walking paralytic feeling in legs, especially knees and ankles, so that further walking and even standing are difficult; transient, more or less rapidly intermitting, dull but very sensitive pain at small spot above malleolus, apparently in periosteum (8 hours); pain of soles, as if he had walked for house, he must shift feet from place to place; soles ache from standing; smarting in left sole (while sitting); tensive drawing in left ankle; single small stitches in ball of left great toe.
1 k. He is walked in night by desire to urinate and a bruised pain and feeling of numbness in left humerus, on which he had been lying, body below waist covered with sweat, on rising he feels giddy and reeling, cool air seems blowing on perspiring parts and cool sweat trickling down legs; itching on several parts of body; extreme lassitude, with sensation as if general sweat would break out, he is scarcely able to stand, would like to sit or lie down all the time, though even then he feels prostrate (4 hours); lassitude even to collapse, with feeling as if sweat would break out over whole body, and quickened pulse; feels relaxed, lazy, sleepy; in morning excessive weariness, yawning, prostration, better in open air, worse indoors; feels weak all over, including hands and feet; sense of weakness and great laziness in whole body, even approaching to faintness; debility in single limbs, even slight movements cause bruised feeling, especially in hip-joints.
1 l. Drowsiness (immediately); immediately after dinner great desire to sleep, with thrills of chilliness; after a simple and moderate supper he feels extremely collapsed, prostrate and weak, as if he had undergone the most violent bodily exertion, with great drowsiness and heaviness of eyelids (sense also as if they were swollen), this lassitude is relieved by literary labour; with great drowsiness weak, glassy eyes; he sings in his sleep; unusual drowsiness, he would like to sleep continually, with great yawning in daytime; restless sleep, frequent waking, he tosses about but falls asleep immediately, and dreams vividly; he wakes uncommonly early and imagines it is very late; he wakes earlier and remains awake longer than usual; a number of confused, even terrifying, dreams about what he had said and done during day, about fires, etc; she wants in sleep to reach a distant place, but cannot get there in spite of all her efforts; in dreaming he is in a cheerful merry mood; violent yawning several times in succession.
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.