17. (No information.) She is ill-humoured and peevish, a. m. (6th d.); vertigo all day while stooping at work (Ist d.); vertigo to falling, on rising from bed (4th – 6th d.); headache which seems to come from stomach, weight in forehead with painful tearing that seemed to draw head sideways (10th d.); frequent sudden tearing in head, evening in bed (3rd d.); dull stitches, sometimes like tearings, in whole head, most frequently in right frontal eminence, 11 a. m. (5th d.); some fine stitches in right forehead, while stooping, 9 a. m. (2nd d.); ebullition of blood in head and burning of red face, 4 p. m. (3rd d.); both eyes agglutinated with mucus in m. (2nd d.); hearing of both ears stopped for a short time, p. m. (2nd d.); fine tearing under and behind right ear, 1 p. m. (5th d.); two painful tearings in left cheek extending upwards, during menses, a. m. (10th d.); she is very pale, as after a long illness, for several days (3rd d.). Two painful jerks in right upper back teeth (Ist d.); on early waking, slimy in mouth and qualmish at stomach (7th d.); everything tastes bitter, even water, for several days (3rd. d); bitterness in mouth after rising in m. (3rd d.); she eats very little, everything disgusts her immediately; loss of appetite with clean tongue (4th-6th d.); violent thirst, without longing for drink, even during the chill (3rd and 4th d.); eructations after each meal with taste of ingesta, for several days; immediately after eating nausea even to vomiting, she scarcely dared to eat thin soup; she vomited food, 9 a. m. (4th d.); during supper, nausea at stomach and discomfort over whole body, so that she was obliged to lie down, after which she felt better (7th d.); nausea with painfulness in epigastric region and ineffectual inclination to eructate, a. m. (7th d.); pressure and nausea at stomach, with disgust for all food, evening (3rd d.); contractive feeling in region of stomach, not very painful, but frequent, and soon followed by soft stool, a. m. (5th d.); some sharp, very fine (burning) stitches in right hypochondrium, p. m. (5th d.); while sitting, a very violent dull stitch in right hypochondrium, going through abdominal cavity and out at opposite side, at same time violent pain in scrob. cordis, going off on bending forward, 2:30 p. m. (5th d.); pain like pinching about navel and then in whole abdomen, as during menses, with (after urination_ emission of much watery leucorrhoea (4th d.); cutting and griping about navel, 9:30 a. m. (Ist d.); after midnight and during forenoon, pain with cutting about navel and urging to stool, going and returning frequently; very restless n. from cutting pains in abdomen, which only remit for a short time (3rd d.); The abdominal pains were relieved by warms applications; after olfaction of hepar sulphuris, they went off in 1/2 h., followed later by the gastric troubles and the tearing in limbs; they remitted, there was audible rumbling of flatulence. violent but transient tearing in both groins, evening (5th d.); constant but ineffectual urging to stool, evening (Ist d.); constipation for 3 days (3rd d.); stool consisting of hard lumps, only evacuated with great effort, 6 p. m.; very sluggish, knotty stool, like flints, also requiring much straining (3rd d.); daily stool, very sluggish, with burning in anus, p. m. (5th d.); stool always sluggish, even after 10 day; soft stool preceded by movements in abdomen (1 1/2 h.); shootings in anus; constant urging to micturate for 3 days, urine passed guttatim only, with severe burning pain in urethra plus Relieved by canth., after camphor and hepar had failed to mitigate. (14th d.); frequent scanty emission of urine without pain (5th d.); scanty urine with burning in passing, p. m (5th d.); did not rise to urinate at n. as usual (Ist d.). The expected menses do not appear; menses delayed 5 days, without other symptoms; catamenia continues 5 days only instead of 10-14 as usual, very scanty but painless; leucorrhoea in evening (6th d.). Frequent sneezing, p. m. and a. m. following (5th d.); obstructed nostrils with thick voice (1 1/2 h.); roughness in throat, urging to cough, after dinner (Ist d.); dry cough, causing frequent waking at n., and returning several times in day (4th d.); dry cough with painfulness of upper sternum after waking in m. (6th d.). Sharp stitches behind and under left breast during dinner (Ist d.); painful stitch under left breast during expiration, 2 p. m (8th d.); she cannot lie on left side for continual shooting there, for 3 days (3rd d.); pinching pain in right neck for 1/2 hour, going off on laying hand upon place, but soon returning, 9 a. m. (5th d.); some strong tearings in middle of neck, 10 a. m. (Ist d.); a very painful stitch in sacral region, making her cry out (Ist d.); a painful tearing in middle of right upper arm, as if in marrow of bone, 9 a. m. (Ist d.); tearing in skin of posterior aspect of right upper arm, and at same time in left calf (4th d.); fine stitch deep in middle joint of right ring finger on inner side, while on outer surface there is burning pain, 9 a. m. (Ist d.); tearing now here, now there, in whole left leg 11 a. m.; tearing in left thigh above knee, to and fro, as if in marrow, later in knee,-when it was very bad she found that standing relieved it (1 h.); violent tearing in left calf, towards ham, during chill, then came pain in left axilla also, e. in bed (3rd d.); tearing shootings in left foot and heel, causing shuddering, lasting 5 seconds, then also in right axilla, so that he must hang arm down, 10 a. m. (Ist d.); fine tearing in middle of right sole towards inner border, with tension externally, twice, a. m. (5th d.); tearing in ball of right great toe several times, 11 a. m. (Ist d.). Whole side on which she lies sore and painful, with constant chilliness on slightest uncovering, intolerable thirst and frequent flashes of heat in head (2nd d.); all limbs feel bruised, she cannot lie long in one position for pain, lasting 4 day (2nd d.); sensation as if whole body had been broken, she could not keep out of her bed for weakness for 3 day (3rd day, in another case, for 5 d.); she became extremely emaciated during her 5 days illness. Voluptuous itching about nose, compelling constant rubbing, evening (3rd d.); after lying down at n., itching and biting over whole body, unrelieved by scratching, for 1/4 hour (Ist d.); itching pimples on left side of nose (5th d.); a scarcely perceptible pimple at outside corner of mouth, with ulcerative pain (6th d.). Very sleepy at 7 p. m., she had to go to bed at 8, and slept soundly (Ist d.); she woke at 2 a. m., and could not get to sleep again (7th d.); complete sleeplessness for 8-10 days, even after she had lost all her pains (2nd d.). Very chilly in a heated room, without thirst, the whole forenoon (3rd d.). She dared not put hand out of bed on account of the chilliness that followed, whole n. and following day (3rd d.); rigor, she was obliged to go to bed and for a long time could not get warm there, 6 p. m. (3rd d.); painful shootings behind left breast, during chill, the whole n. from evening and the following day (3rd d.). (HARTLAUB u. TRINKS, Arzneimittellehre, iii, 218. These symptoms are probably Nenning’s.)
18. Loss of appetite; pale, suffering expression; perspiration every m., sometimes profuse; heaviness and weariness in legs, frequently obliging her to lie down; nausea; chilliness every evening before going to sleep; stitches now and then in sides of chest, in abdomen, in limbs, at times so violent that she started up in fright; pain under sternum during inspiration; itching on arms and legs, with small pimples there. He very readily takes cold. Small wounds in skin heal with difficulty and readily suppurate. Sudden crawling as from fleas, at several parts of body, that became fixed at certain points, and then became most intolerable itching; this lasted all day, but was especially bad in evening while undressing. Red, itching, raised tatter spot on chin. Raised scabby spots on coccyx. (HARTLAUB, in Ibid.)
19. Dr. BECKER proved an “aqua silicata,” in which the flint was rendered soluble by Berzelius’s method (from flour spar and quartz sand). It was found to contain 1/9300′ and so be about equal to the second homeopathic dil. He was 55; the few teeth he had left bad,-loose and readily painful; he had difficulty in getting to sleep, and could not do so on left side on peril of nightmare; bowels were costive. He took 10-20 dr. on most evenings for 10 d. It seemed to make the teeth firmer, sleep easier (on one n. he slept on l side with impunity), and bowels more free. All 9th and two following days he was chilly; from 11 to 13th day there was free flow of saliva; and on 14th and 15th day he was ravenously hungry. (Hygea, xxii, part 5.)
20. Mr. H. ROBINSON gave doses of 30th, 200th, and 1000th dil. to 4 men, 9 women, and a child; and all report symptoms from drug. Nothing, however, is said of their state of health, and they were probably patients under Mr. Robinson’s care. Under these circumstances we must content ourselves with a reference to his communication. (Brit. Journ. of Hom., xxv, 333.).
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.