There was at no time any change in pulse, resp., or temp., and bowels always acted daily. (Ibid., p. 184.)
10. ALFRED WANSTALL, took same every 1/2 hour-3 hours from Jan. 17th to 22nd. Quantity and sp. gr. of urine were noted daily; first sank and latter rose till 21st inclusive, on 22nd and 23rd reverse obtaining. Nothing is said of deposit, &c. 17th. – Teeth sensitive to cold air. Dull, tired pains about back and neck, specially right side. N. restless. 18th. – Same pains about back and neck, also in right forearm and thigh, over right eye, and in forehead. 19th. – Slight frontal headache off and on during this day and next, specially on left side. Back and neck pains felt occasionally. Great sensitiveness to cold. (Ibid., p. 186.) 11. H. H. TINKER observed his normal state Nov. 4th to 15th, and found temp. 97 – 98; pulse 72 – 80; urine about 6 oz. 5 times daily sp. gr. rather high, 1028 – 1030 (p. m.), normal otherwise. Dec. 15th, took 30th trit. every 1/2 hours from 6 a. m., being then perfectly well. 16th. – In evening head felt heavy on right side. 17th. – Feeling, a. m., on right side of head, nose and throat as if he had taken cold; thick yellow discharge from right nostril, which on putting finger into nose becomes bloody; right eye looked red and felt sore; head stupid, cannot remember or do any real mental work; pulse 90. No stool since beginning drug. 2 p. m. very severe headache from right to left temple, extending into eyes and nose, all feeling as if raw. 4, weakness about pelvis, fore and back, and dragging pain round anus. In evening hoarseness, and slight swelling of right parotid. Urine all day high – coloured; passed 3 times only, and in smaller quantity; sp. gr. 1030. Pulse 80 in evening 18th.-Yellowish-red deposit adherent to sides of chamber in morning; sore feeling at anus, profuse yellow discharge from nose, with epistaxis after rising, and raw feeling constantly; felt irritable, and found it hard work to fix mind on studies. In evening, besides these symptoms, and the former headache through temples, eyes felt very sore as if bruised, and he had great weakness with some pain in right sacro-iliac region. Bowels still confined; urine deeply red, 4 oz. passed three times, sp. gr. 1030 all day 19th. – Throat still feels “skinned; ” great dragging on movement in right sacro-iliac region, with dull heavy ache constantly. Lips feel very dry, and crack. No desire for water even at meal-times. Mind as before. Urine very scanty, deep red, sp. gr. 1030. 20th. – Throat the same, hip and back easier. At last a stool, causing painful raw feeling in anus. Nausea all m., and distaste for food; tongue coated brown with red edges. Mind still stupid, and inclined to worry. Quantity of urine to-day not mentioned, but sp. gr. in evening was 1025. 21st. – Tongue yellow coated at middle and back; tip and edges red. Thick yellow discharge from nose; both ears feel as if plugged, and he is a little deaf. Back still aches, and causes, nausea and faintness on standing. Urine very scanty, giving red coating to glass; sp. gr. 1025. 22nd. – Same in morning; urine very scanty and high – coloured, but sp. gr. only 1022. In evening head and throat were improving, but back still uncomfortable. Symptoms now gradually disappeared, but urine remained very dark red up to Jan.4th. (Ibid., 0. 187.)
12. S. B. BARCHET, aet. 31, nervous temperament, in good health but not robust. Observed sp. gr. of urine from Nov. 7th to Dec. 13th, and found m. average 1020, evening 1023. Temp. was subnormal, 97 to 98 m., 96 to 97 e. Dec. 14th to 24th, he took small doses of 30th trit. every hours 14th. – 1 hour after Ist dose shooting in a right upper molar. During 2nd hour heaviness in forehead and temples; dizzy, unsteady feeling when getting up to walk; smarting pain in urethra. 15th. – Going into cold air in m. caused great discharge of tears from. r. eye, going off in warm room. Dull pain in upper left lung. 17th. – Shooting in left molars and in finger – tips, a. m. Again dizzy on rising to walk; weakness and weariness in all joints, especially knees; headache all day, worse 5 to 6 p. m.; least movement of head causes dizziness, movement from side to side produces feeling as if brain mass were swaying to and fro. 5 p. m. a slight chill. 6, flashes of heat, skin getting slightly moist; shooting pains along inner side of whole right arm. Sp. gr. of evening urine 1 – 32. 18th. -Long-lasting pain under right shoulder; sharp again along canal of urethra; smarting pain on outer side of right hand. Slight nausea after lunch. 19th. – To-d. urine high- coloured, quickly becoming turbid and staining bottom of vessel. Sp. gr., evening, 1030. Nothing especially felt till 5 p. m., when he had occasional stitches along urethra, stitching-smarting pains in left knee and on inner side of thighs and arms. 20th – Nothing special during day, save lame feeling in joints and stitching pains in temples; these last very marked on lying down at n. Sp. gr. in evening again 1030. 21st. – Same pains as yesterday, more severe on left side. Sp. gr., m. 1028, evening 1030. 22nd. – Severe shooting in left temple from noon till 7 p. m., also higher up on side of head; repeated shootings in heel; sour eructations. Old symptoms reappeared towards e. Sp. gr., m. 1026, evening 1032. 23rd. – No new symptoms. 24th. – Sharp shooting through heart, like an electric shock, at noon. He now went away till Jan. 5th on vacation, but frontal headache and pain in temples came on daily; mind was slow and dull; urine continued high-coloured, became turbid quickly, and showed in m. a fine reddish sediment. He could not take sp. gr. while away. Jan. 8th. – Sharp pains in finger-tips, upper incisors, and eyes. 9th. – Unpleasant exhalation from body on getting warm in bed; flashes of heat all over body about 8:30 p. m. 12th. – Sp. gr., m. 1028, evening 1030. Pains in various parts came and went for next fortnight; and from the 14th he had a vesicular eruption on scalp, chest, back of shoulders, calves, and knees. Some of the vesicles became pustules, and when squeezed yielded a tough sticky matter; but pressure was painful and made them look angry. Those on scalp itched. Sleep, hitherto good, was now restless. Urine often scanty, and then there was some vesicle irritation. (Ibid., p. 191.)
13. a. Mrs. A. G. S -, aet. 32, mother of 3 children, with fine delicate sensitive skin which chafes easily. Dec. 9th, 1874, took 2 gr. of 30th trit. at 9 p. m. Slept well till 4 a. m., when she awoke with sense of fullness in transverse colon; felt warm all over, perspiring on chest and neck; veins feeling full and ready to burst; seemed as if she could not move. Took dose of aconite, and in a few m. went to sleep again. 10th. – At 10 a. m. repeated dose. 4:30 p. m., sensation as if upper abdomen were bloated, with feeling as if something were moving about there. Hard stool at 6, feces covered with slime; a slimy bilious stool at 8, and again at 11. Slept well all n. 11th.- A distinct chill at 9 a. m., followed by fever with chilliness across stomach and bowels and between shoulders. urine, thick, slimy, and very offensive, depositing yellowish pasty sediment on standing. Sweat following fever was also exceedingly offensive and pungent. The sense of fullness in abdomen continued 5 days, without other symptoms, save that she remained languid, and was troubled with offensive sour-smelling gaseous eructations.
13 b. On 19th, at 3 p. m., Mrs. S – took another dose. One hours after, coldness between shoulders, then general chilliness over body, followed by sudden loss of strength and weakness about chest, and she broke out into profuse perspiration over chest and neck; hands and feet became cold as ice, face pale; she thought she should vomit, but was relieved on getting up and moving about. She had pain and soreness through bowels all evening; slept 10-11, and then woke, feeling as if a load was resting across epigastrium. After a dose of aconite she slept till m. On 28th she had a fine rash over body, particularly about bends of elbows and knees, attended by pricking, tingling, and itching. While in a warm room it remained out, and she felt well; if she went into cold air eruption would disappear, and she would then have severe rheumatic pains about these joints (elbows and knees). The rash, with these characters, remained some time, extending to axilla and groins; when it reappeared after suppression by cold, profuse sweat accompanied it. [This lady proved under the superintendence of Dr. Owens.] (Ibid., p. 174.)
14. a. A. J. SHERMAN took, Dec. 10th – 17th, a grain of 30th trit every h. At end of week he had severe itching on right side of pubes, worse at n. on going to bed; becoming moist after scratching, and forming a thin scale easily pulled off. By the 28th this eruption had nearly disappeared.
14b. On Jan. 14th he took 5 one-grain doses at hourly intervals from 1 p. m. At 8 p. m. a sharp pain under ensiform cartilage, as if a nerve were made tense, in a spot that could be covered by end of finger, worse from inspiring and going upstairs. Heart’s impulse and rapidity were increased, especially during inspiration. (He had occasionally in the past noticed slight irregularity of pulse.) 17th. – Pain and disturbed action of heart have entirely gone off, but eruption on pubes, which had almost disappeared, has increased. (Ibid., p. 195.)
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.