15. The provings from the 15th to the 18th were instituted under the direction of the late Dr.Farrington. L. A. SNYDER took 30th trit. every 3 hours from 5 p. m., Oct. 31st, to 10 p. m., Nov. Ist. On latter day slight dull frontal headache, which lasted 2 following day, on which also there was unwonted inclination to wonder over future events. This mental state lasted into next day (4th), accompanied with dull, stupid, sleepy confused feeling in head; dullness of comprehension; inability to collect or express his thoughts. On 5th took medicine every 1/2 hour, continuing it till evening of 10th. Only effect produced was, on 6th, slight itching and soreness in left outer canthus, which on 7th had increased and spread; on 8th upper lid was much swollen, eye, half closed; lower lid also edematous, as if stung by a bee; lids sore to touch and on closing eye; slight itching. By 11th eye was better. Throughout proving there was distention of stomach after meals, especially supper. (Ibid., p. 177.)
16. a. C. FRANKLIN MANSON took 30th, manner not stated. Burning pains in different parts of body, especially in left hypochondrium; great itching of margins of eyelids; tongue white- coated; small white blisters inside cheeks; tip of tongue feels as if scalded; great dryness of lips; stitching in anus.
16 b.Same took 200th dil. Sores on septum narium; disgust for tobacco after smoking. Three or four day after leaving off medicine had radiating pains in back of neck and occiput; and, later, alternate cold hands and feet. (Ibid., p. 179.)
17. J. W. BECHTEL, jun., took a dose of 200th on Oct. 31st. He experienced nothing extraordinary till Nov. 4th and 5th, on which he had short-lasting rheumatic pains in insertion of right temporal muscle and l shoulder-joint. On 5th took dose of 30th. On 6th and 7th sudden stitching pains, leaving more gradually but very soon, in left palm, left lung, and. r. foot. Appetite impaired while taking medicine. (Ibid., p. 178.)
18. W. H. TOMLINSON took 200th at times between Oct. 31st and Nov. 3rd. in 1 1/2 hours after Ist dose sense of fullness in left axilla, after a few m. shifting to right side. An hour later, while walking, same sensation in right groin, soon passing off. Nov. Ist.-In evening, after walking in cold wind, had sore, rough, burning feeling in eyes, aggravated by gaslight and on attempting to read. 2nd. – Headache all day with great mental depression; cannot collect thoughts or recall things he knew very well. These symptoms passed off by noon next day; but sense of fullness returned 1-2 p. m., first in left axilla, then in right, then in groin, as before. On 5th resumed medicine, taking a dose at 3, 5 and 7 p. m. Mental dullness in afternoon; sore bruised feeling at right of tip of nose and chin, also in left elbow. 6th.- Continued medicine till noon. Sensation in nose and chin increased; spot on nose was quite red, but there was no point. 4- 5 p. m. severe headache, beginning at root of nose and going to temples; it passed off in evening, with nose and chin symptoms. On 11th, and slightly on 12th, sharp stitching pain in prepuce and frenum, with smarting raw feeling as if abraded; nothing found but some redness. Still occasional uneasiness in axilla. (Ibid., p. 180.)
19. Nos. 19 and 20 are furnished by Dr.A.K.Hills. Miss E. F.S – proved 200th dil., taking 2 doses Nov. 20th, 1 dose on 21st, 2 doses on 22nd, and 1 on Dec. 10th. A long array of symptoms set in, chiefly of the pelvic organs and the nervous system, and continued till Dec. 20th. Several times after this, especially when for other symptoms she had occasion to take a dose of nux vomica, the sepia symptoms recurred, lasting some days each time. (Ibid., p. 157.)
20. Miss M. E. K – proved same, taking a dose Nov. 10th, 11th, and 16th, and Dec. 4th, with a similar result. The record of symptoms extends to Jan. 24th. She, too, found symptoms recur (Feb. 28th) after a dose of nux. (Ibid., p. 164.)
21. Mrs.-, aet. 41, widow with 3 children, catamenia regular but scanty and dark, in excellent health, proved same, taking a dose every hours from 10 a. m. to 3 p. m. on Jan. 5th, 2 doses on 8th, 2 on 12th, 2 on 24th. Pelvic and nervous symptoms set in as before, but latter were on the side of depression instead of, as in No. 20 and (partially) No. 19, on that of excitement. Pelvic symptoms were still present on Feb. 13th, when the record ceases. The next menstrual flow was brighter and more copious. [This lady’s report is furnished by Dr. Emma Scott, who vouches for the healthy condition of her uterus at the beginning of the proving, and adds that “when the leucorrhoea began” she examined her and found “uterus congested and yellowish discharge pouring from it, beginning to prolapse, slightly displaced.” Nothing, however, is said in the daily reports of the occurrence of any leucorrhea.] ( Ibid., p. 171.)
22. Mr. H. ROBINSON gave a young woman, every 3rd m., a teaspoonful of a sol. of left gl. of 30th in 3viij of water. She had had a leucorrhoea for a very long time, and this left her completely during the proving. After 2 doses she had depression on waking in morning; extreme nervous restlessness; frontal headache; eyes heavy,, lids inclined to close; dry throat, with sense of thickness; taste very mawkish – sour after eating; no appetite; first relaxed bowels, then constipation; urine thick and turbid; anxious oppression in upper chest; strange tickling in lower chest; pain and weakness in small of back; weary pain in left shoulder-joint; fatigue and powerlessness of both arms on waking; bruised aching in sockets of shoulders extending to elbows-intermittent, and generally only in one arm at a time; feeling as of weight pressing on thighs-momentary; very restless sleep; she is quite hot, then cold, with great faintness; m. perspiration, sometimes hot, sometimes cold, particularly in hands and feet; constant disposition to sweat, both n. and d. Menses came a week too soon; were scanty, and lasted only 1 day (Brit.Journ. of Hom., XXV, 331.)
23. Another young woman took, of a similar sol., a dessertspoonful each m. after 7-8 day sad and discontented with everything; pressive headache at vertex; eyelids heavy, with much frontal pain; feeling as of a painful sore at tip of nose, followed by an eruption at spot, lasting 2 days; constant sneezing for several days; smarting, and disposed to crack; cutting pain in throat, with raw feel and much phlegm; tickling scraping, and again loose phlegmy, cough; pain in both sides of chest, passing round to between scapula; intolerable aching at coccyx just before action of bowels (several times); aching across loins, worse on movement; twisting pain in right knee, and drawing pain on inside of right thigh; dry burning sensation in soles; burning swollen feeling of feet; very heavy and drowsy; restless sleep, with confused dreams; flushes of heat, she feels in a kind of glow then chills; profuse perspiration after coughing; sick and feverish all day, with thirst; heavy sweat, as from a cold; hard and inflamed boil on right natis; feels weary, and trembles all over. (Menses, which were usually accompanied by cold aching pains in lower bowels, came on without the least distress.) (Ibid.)
24. Another took 1 gl. of 30th dry on the tongue each m. After 5-6 day severe pressure in forehead over right eye; right eye inflamed, with great burning and lachrymation; jumping aching pains in lower molars; dryness and soreness of throat – at n. it feels quite parched; middle of tongue blistered; stitches in left hypochondrium; urine unusually turbid; pains in tendons of right foot about ankle; swelling of feet, which burn and are very dry. (Ibid.)
25. Another took 1 pilule of 30th n. and m., and had foul and filthy tastes of different kinds; griping diarrhoea-like feel in abdomen, followed afterwards by exhausting diarrhoea. (Ibid.)
26. Another took same, and had cramp-like pain in calves and shooting pain in ankles. (Ibid.)
27. A young man took same, and had intense headache, frontal and temporal. (Ibid.)
28. (No information as to dose, prover or time). Pressure and cutting in throat on swallowing, with much mucus in throat; on attempting to hawk it up the pressure, pinching and cutting are aggravated, as though the throat were cut with scissors, and blood comes; at same time confusion of head, heat of whole body, fever, pulse 108; towards evening in an intermediate state between sleeping and waking. At n. frequent waking with much mucus in throat and tiresome dreams. On rising weakness, sweat on forehead, and nausea, so that he must lie down again immediately. Slimy diarrhea 3 times, with discharge of 2 round-worms and ascarides. Moist cough as after a tedious catarrh, especially n. Cough with expectoration, and at same time pain in right side of chest, especially violent on stooping and lying on right side. Itching of nipple, which sometimes bleeds and seems to be about to ulcerate. Yellowish – brown spots round neck, about a square inch in size, which desquamate when rubbed. (GROSS, Archiv, xix, 3, 187.)
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.