8. OTTO B -, aet. 15, took, Nov. 5th, 6th, and 8th, every evening 3 dr. 1st dil. Transient burning on tongue. Pain in right side of head and pressure in right temple came on on waking, m., worse on moving, especially stooping, only in room, went off in open air. – 11th, evening, 3 dr. undiluted alc. pt. Soon burning on tip of tongue. – 12th, m., on rising hoarseness, crawling in throat that became scraping when speaking. P. m., scraping in throat causes frequent coughing till evening – 13th, m., occasional short cough. A.m., repeated sneezing. P. m., thirst. evening, repeated sneezing. – 14th. Voice rather affected. A.m., frequent sneezing, nose stopped up in right and left nostrils alternately. In room, evening, nose more stopped up and sneezing. – 15th, 8 a. m., dry heat of face, head, and feet, fluent coryza and frequent sneezing all a. m., better in open air. P. m., in room sneezing and increased coryza. – 16th. Coryza very slight. ( Ibid., 130.)
9. OTTO R -, aet. 17 1/2, Oct. 1st, 1 dr. 1st dil. – 2nd, 3 dr, – 3rd. m., 5 dr. 10:30 a. m., heaviness of head with vertigo and indifference, and heaviness of feet; standing was tiresome, and he had to sit down, better in open air. 1/4 hours after dinner he was better, and quite well in another 1/4 hour – 4th, 5 dr. 9 a. m., same state as yesterday, only worse. At same time felt in both renal regions pressure, and sometimes deep shooting pains. Strong pressure there was painful. 11 a. m., could not rest in house. Open air relieved head, but not kidneys, which got rather worse. Soon after dinner he felt quite well. – 5th. 5 dr., same symptoms as yesterday, well after dinner. – 6th. 4 dr., relaxation of body and vertigo, lascivious thoughts and dreams with strong erections. – 27th. 2 dr. 2nd dil., slight feeling of weight in feet, which went off at noon. – 28th. 4 dr., languor of body and heaviness of feet from 9 a. m., becoming gradually so severe that walking was disagreeable. A.m., pain in head and vertigo. At 11 a. m. sensation as if a fluid went from trunk into limbs, especially knees, elbows, and wrists. All went off after dinner. – 29th, 4 dr. – 30th. 5 dr., nocturna seminis ejaculation cum somnio sordido conjuncta. – Nov. 1st, 7 dr.; 2nd, 8 dr. Pollution sine somnio. – 3rd, 10 dr. – 4th. No med. Transient pain while urinating. – 5th No med. Persistent shooting pain in whole penis, especially urethra. At n. pollution sine somnio. – 6th. No med. Same as on 4th, writes, “Non possum quin credam cogitationes libidinosas, quibus vexor, a Ph. oriri.” – 27th. 5 dr. 1st dil., rheumatic feeling in sacrum and knees. The most external part of urethra and penis itself painful, the pain was worst during micturition, with also occasional dull headache and feeling as if he had not slept enough. – 28th. After midnight, pollution. At dawn took more than 5 dr. Great weakness of whole body, anorexia, dull frontal headache, better in the cold. Pain in urethra and glans penis. Towards evening nausea as if stomach was deranged. A glass of beer removed all these symptoms. About a fortnight after the last dose, after dinner a very disagreeable sensation of flatulent distension of stomach, as if it were full of air and dilated, with feeling of hunger but little appetite; this was repeated for 5 successive day – Dec. 26th. Still felt drawing and sometimes burning in penis and urethra during micturition and at other times. No emissions or lascivious dreams in Dec. – Jan. 4th. 3 dr. 2nd dil., weight in feet. During micturition several times violent burning but transient pain in fore part of urethra, frequent erections, lascivious dreams, and emissions. – 5th. 5 dr., sometimes when not urinating severe burning pain in urethra from scrotum forwards, lasting several m. Frequent erections, lascivious dream, 2 emissions. – 6th. No med. In m. for 1 hour feeling as if someone pressed strongly on head; weakness and weight in feet. Frequent erections. Pollution in somnio se cum puella coire, which had never happened before. – 7th. Exhaustion. 10 p. m., feeling as if stomach was strongly pressed, aggravated by actual pressure. Frequent erections. – 8th, 5 dr.; 9th, 5 dr. Emissions without dreams. – 10th. No med. A.m., slight pain in apice glandis for 1 h. Evening, slight pain in scrotum occasionally. – 11th and 12th. 5 dr., frequent pain in orifice of urethra lasting long, sometimes also in upper part of scrotum. Since commencing the proving eats less than formerly; has blue rings round eyes. – From 22nd to 28th, daily, 5 dr. On last day great formication on 2nd knuckle of 3rd left finger. – 29th. 5 dr., pollution – 30th. 5 dr., pollution – 31st, 5 dr. – From Feb. 1st to 10th, 5 dr. Weakness and exhaustion of whole body, heaviness of feet, so that walking is repugnant. In head heat, and m. dull headache, disinclination for thinking and mental work. Better in cold and open air than in room. P. m., well. In bed m. and evening cogitations et phantasmata libidinosa. – 2nd. P. m., weakness in whole body, especially feet. Scalp of vertex painful as though he had got a blow there, worse when pressed, and lasting the next 2 d. If, when sitting, he keeps his feet still for some time, one thigh gets numb and insensible; this goes off on walking. In evening a feeling in pubes as if one testicle was drawn up. – 3rd, m., weakness. – 4th Heaviness of feet. – 5th. Great itching in anus while walking, going off in room. – 6th. Violent headache from m. till noon. When walking, itching in anus. On coming into room the whole upper part of body, especially chest, nape, and occiput, felt as if beetles were scratching with their feet; this soon ceased. All day stomach felt deranged, in evening as if it were compressed, worse on pressure. No inclination to work all day – 7th. All day dull headache. The same on 8th. – 9th, m., knees felt trembling. – 10th. Took last dose. – 11th. All day very languid and prostrated, without the least desire to do anything. – 13th, evening, as if one testicle was drawn up and pressed; same on 15th. – 16th. From m. occasional spasmodic pain in urethra and upper part of scrotum. The urine during proving was sometimes dark sometimes clear, often turbid, frequently with slimy sediment which disappeared when heated, sometimes acid, sometimes neutral. – 24th, 2 p. m., pressure in stomach as if he had got a blow there. – 25th, p. m., as yesterday. After 9 p. m. violent pressure in stomach, which was distended as if he would vomit, retching and eructation of air till midnight. – 26th,. p. m., as yesterday. 5 p. m., pressure with retching and eructation. After supper food rose several times. Urine very acid, sediment of reddish flakes, whitish slime on sides of vessel, urine turbid and dark yellow. – 27th. Same state a. m., not p. m. At beginning of March reported that he sometimes felt as if he had eaten something rancid, so that his throat felt rough. In the first days of March often sour eructations, especially a. m. After the last dose he had often, especially in evening, a feeling of tightness of chest with slight pain, sometimes a stitch in left side above heart. These sensations occurred after sitting for some time, and lasted till e. From March 16th took daily, m., 10 dr. 1st dil. On the days he took the Ph. he felt nothing, but after leaving it off, from 24th, he had after dinner, and sometimes a. m., a pressure in stomach with feeling of fulness and nausea, relieved by eructation; had often to loosen his clothes. – 26th and 27th. Pressive pain in last lumbar vertebrae and on the right side when sitting and standing. Phantasmata libidinosa et erections penis per longum tempus, ad huc day 29th, non habuit neque pollutiones. – 28th and 29th. P. m. and sometimes a. m., in right arm from elbow to wrist slight drawing pain; p. m., nausea with voracious hunger. – 30th to April 3rd. P. m., voracious hunger, relieved by eructation. Urine often very dark, with bright red sediment. – 2nd, evening, right thigh quite numb as if gone to sleep, for more than 1 hour; the following day same in left thigh. – From 3rd the hunger became gradually less, but nausea continued. Sometimes transient shooting pain in right side of chest. The pains in urethra which had long ceased, returned in beginning of April. They were shooting and burning, lasting 1 m., always causing urging to pass urine. At end of April had a slight attack of colitis, with slight fever, and stools consisting of pus and bloody mucus with cutting and pressing. The sigmoid flexure was painful to deep pressure, and felt swollen. – From 27th to May 1st he had often, especially in evening, pains in abdomen, chiefly in stomach, with distension of belly. A pain in renal region at this period seemed to be located in muscles. (Ibid., 131.
10. G. MULLER, aet. 50, Sept. 15th, 7 a. m. took 2 dr. 1st dil. No effect. – 17th, 7 a. m., 3 dr. After breakfast pinching pain round novel for 3/4 hour, then nausea, followed by rumbling in belly and urging to stool without result. Very weak in all limbs, cross without cause. 5 p. m., after eating a pear nausea with empty eructation. – 18th, 7 a. m., 4 dr. Soon languid and prostrated in whole body, morose and cross. 10:30 a. m., dull pain in whole head, pressure in eyes and drowsiness, feeling of distension of belly, and loss of appetite, ate little for dinner with relief to headache. 3 p. m, cutting in abdomen with urging to stool, which was not loose. – 20th. 1/2 hour before bedtime took about 4 dr. of alc. pt. This only caused eructation. – 22nd. 5 dr., no effect. – 23rd. 7 dr., soon transient slight nausea with frequent empty eructation lasting several h. After coffee discharge of inodorous flatus with urging to stool, which was normal. (Ibid.,137.)
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.