1e. Itching pricks (like flea – bites) at n. in various parts, which wake him up, and he must scratch, which immediately takes them away. Trembling throughout the body. She cannot rest in any place, and therefore runs about with short breath and oppressed chest. He staggers to and fro. Falls asleep when reading after dinner. Little sleep. Restless sleep, wakeful almost all n. Lies awake for some hours, and wakes in m. some hours before usual time, but he feels rested. Wakes earlier than usual. On waking after sleeping some hours is as wide awake as though he had slept more than one n. On getting warm in bed, sleeps quietly for some hours, but then no more. She is not tired, and yet her eyes close. Is tired in m. as though she had not slept at all, and all her bones are painful; she especially complains of bruised feeling of thighs. Sleep filled with dreams and phantasies. Dreams he has boils on him. Dreams that he is working at a very dirty table, and the paper that was previously clean appears smeared with butter and grease. Chilliness and inclination to stretch himself. Towards evening feels chilly, so that she must go to bed. Dry heat all over body, prepuce red and glans sore. Dry burning heat all over body except arms; it is diminished but not quite removed by perspiration; he does not feel the dry heat in bed, it is greatest in the genital organs. In sleep she only perspires in the face. Unhappy, he takes pleasure in nothing. Cross and morose. Goes to work with pleasure. [ This pathogenesis like all from Wahle, is of dubious purity, but is inserted quantum valeat, for the sake of the undoubted curative applications which have been made of it,- EDS.] (Archiv, xiv, 3, 172.)
2. Dr. KRETZSCHMAR took a decoction of a handful of the dried flowers on three successive d. Soon there came nausea which lasted 3 hours; he did not vomit, but could not eat on account of loathing of all food. Later diarrhoea came on. The 1st day he had 8, the 2nd, 16, the 3rd 8 stools, all within a few hours (A.h. Z., i,24.).
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.