3. LEMBKE made a second proving of Ledum in 1865. -May 7th, 6:30 a. m., 10 dr. 3 p. m., when sitting, pressive pain in left knee repeatedly. -8th, 7 a. m., 10 dr. Pressive pain in upper part of left tibia extending downwards when sitting. 6 p. m., drawing in left toes, pressure in right temple. -9th, 9 a. m., 20 dr. When sitting drawing and pressive pains alternately in knees, shoulders, flesh of thighs, legs. 8 p. m., when sitting same pain in right toes and left shoulders. -10th, 9 a. m., 20 dr. No symptoms. -11th, 8:30 a. m., 30 dr. Pressive pain on left tibia and calf. 9 a. m., drawing in right toes. Heat of back, head, and cheeks, small black spots hover before eyes. Pressure in knees and ankles alternately, suddenly coming and going. Great heat in hands with distended veins, and in cool open air, pressure in right thumb-joint, later in right big toe. 3 p. m., some very sharp stitches through tongue. Pressure in right big toe joint. 6 p. m., drawing and pressive pain along posterior surface of left thigh, several times when sitting. Pressure in knees, right metacarpal bones, upper part of left side of chest, pressure in ankle-joints. All these symptoms in irregular succession lasting a few seconds and recurring several times. 7:30 p. m., painless feeling of stiffness in right fingers. Persistent pressing- asunder pain in right leg, when sitting. Boring pain above left eyebrow, drawing in teeth of right side. -12th. Pressure in left elbow. 4 p. m., drawing in right tibia. Drawing-asunder pain in right toes. Towards evening the pains increase in knees, tibiae, ankles, shoulders. 7 p. m., great pressure in knees when walking. -13th, 6 a. m., scraping and tickling in larynx, much dry short cough, after which the tickling continues. Soon afterwards pressure in right ankle-joint when sitting and in tips of right toes. 7:30 p. m., pressive pain in left knee, bruised and heavy feeling in left arm, especially elbow, worst when at rest. Same feeling in wrist and ankle-joints. Drawing pain in left side of forehead and left calf, pricking in left sole. 9 p. m., all pains gone. -14th, shooting in left tibia later boring pain in left side of forehead. -15th, 10 a. m., when walking in street feeling of vertigo as though the body swayed to one side; this lasted 10 m. Later shooting and burning in tip of tongue. Towards evening, when sitting pressive pain in knees and wrists. 8 p. m., pressure on dorsum of right foot. 9 p. m., drawing in left metacarpal bones, and feeling of stiffness when moving fingers. Severe pressure in left outer ankle, drawing pain in right toes. Pressure in right arm above elbow, also on ulnar aspect of left hand. Painful heaviness on moving right shoulder- joint. -16 th, 8:30 a. m., pressure in left clavicle. Drawing in left elbow and feeling of weight in left arm especially elbow. Pressure in left knee; all these symptoms frequently repeated. 7 p. m., pressing as-under pain in left hand, needle pricks in left toes, pressure in left ankle-joint, bruised and heavy feeling in knees, left thigh, left arm lasting some m. and changing places. All symptoms when sitting or when the limbs are at rest, thus in arms when walking, not in legs. Pressure in lowest cervical vertebrae increased by bending head forwards. Needle-pricks under nail of right thumb. Painful weight in right arm, sometimes more shoulder or elbow, relieved by moving joint; same in left knee and leg. These pains also felt in bed at 11 p. m.-17 th. Some of previous symptoms, also boring and drawing pain in left tibia when walking. For some day two pimples on forehead. Very painful compression in muscles of right forearm; after some hours same in muscles of right leg on it’s outer side and near ankle. Stitches in bend of left elbow. evening, pressive pain in various joints and in metacarpus. Tearing in left occiput. – 18 th 6:30 a. m., 30 dr. After 1\2 hours persistent drawing, pressing pains, particularly in lower extremities, feeling of weight in knees, shooting in calves when walking. Heavy feeling in arms, especially elbows. Dull pressure on left side of head, with weight in head. Bruised pain in shoulder-muscles. Pressure on anterior part of left shoulder-joint. In head wandering dull pressive pains. Repeatedly deep in cardiac region dull pressive pain, pressure in muscles of right forearm and upper arm. Drawing and shooting in outer border of left sole, in muscles above right patella when walking. 9 a. m., compression in left knee. 10 a. m., attack of vertigo. All day one or other of the above pains in limbs and head with feeling of heaviness and weariness. -19th, 4:30 a. m., wakened by a noise, felt pressive pain in calves. 7 a. m., on rising same symptoms more persistent, also in wrists and knees. Compression in muscles of left upper arm and in ankle- joints. The former pain in heart recurs frequently. -19th. Same symptoms, and at 3 p. m. pressive and drawing pains, especially in posterior and outer side of left thigh and in muscles of left forearm. Stitches in right pectoral muscles on drawing a deep breath. 10 p. m., boring in left temple and left side of frontal bone when reading. Severe pressure in left shoulder relieved by moving arm; immediately afterwards in right ankle and wrist, which changes into heaviness of whole arm, worst when at rest. Though no more Ledum was taken the same symptoms continued more or less to 9th June, when a dose of camphor put and end to them. (N. Z. f. h. Kl. x, 113.).
Poisonings
Dr. SALZER prescribed a lotion of L., 10-12 drops in 4 oz. of water, to a patient suffering from the worst kind of “prickly heat.” The patient applied it on going to bed and fell asleep, soothed, he thought, by the aqueous application. He awoke in 2 or 3 hours with the usual prickling sensation, but did not repeat the application on account of the following symptoms, which he attributed to repelling the eruption. He felt a quite extraordinary dryness of the mouth, a clogging sensation in the throat, and a more or less heavy breathing. These symptoms strikingly resembled those of the pathogenesis of L. (Calcarea Journ. of Medorrhinum, ii, 295.).
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.