6 c. Throat and chest. – Roughness of larynx and bronchi; hoarseness; difficult expectoration; grayish bloody sputum in persons of sanguine temp; cough in a warm room, with dyspnoea. Decreased secretion of milk in nursing women. Red spots on chest; stitching pain in right chest, increased by respiration; anxiety and asthmatic feeling after a substantial meal, and on running upstairs or other bodily exertion; oppression of chest after mental labor. All these symptoms aggravated indoors, and relieved by standing or walking opposite the wind.
6 d. Abdominal region. – Slow and weak digestion; fulness of stomach; want of appetite; putrid taste in morning; nausea; shooting pains in liver; relaxed bowels with watery stools when water is taken warm, tenesmus and costiveness if it is drunk cold; colicky pains; tightness across abdomen; feeling of distension after a meal, however frugal; diarrhoea, – bilious, with pain in stomach, in pregnant women, flocculent in old people, frothy in nursing children whose mothers take the waters; itching of anus, with enlargement of veins.
6 e. Genito – urinary organs. – Pain in glans; itching in urethra; painful urination, with flocculent sediment; excessive sexual desire; involuntary emissions; enlargement of testes; swelling of labia and clitoris; menstruation late, scanty, of short duration, painful, the flow pale watery, or viscid.
6 f. Circulatory system. – Accelerated heart; pulse irregular and wiry after a meal, and after active exercise; cerebral congestion; apoplexy. (Dr. Kennion states that this last is no uncommon effect of unmeasured drinking of the waters.)
6 g. Skin. – Red spots all over body, resembling flea bites; eruption of little pustules on head and arms, with violent itching; pointed vesicles on fingers; patches on chest and abdomen, some on face, some on nose, very red – all aggravated by heat and in close apartments, relieved in open air.
6 h. Muscles, &c. – Shooting pains in different regions of body, with rigidity of affected part, dispelled by friction and slow motion; wandering pains in extremities, lasting but a short time; erratic numbness in left thigh; torpor in arms with stupefaction of sensorium, particularly and thunder weather; pressive pains in sciatic nerve, from hip downwards; rigidity of right thigh; contraction of right knee and foot for short time; gastralgia; violent pain, of short duration, in nerves of face, at zygomatic process principally; contraction and drawing at nucha.
6 i. Lymphatic and glandular system. – Enlargement and induration of thyroid gland, with burning sensation, which disappeared from friction. Induration of breasts in a nursing woman; painful sensation in glands of neck, which are swollen and knotty; shooting pains in liver.
6 j. Fever. – Real fever was not observed in any of the provers. Some had erratic chills, following a sensation of heat in the evening, which passed off by keeping indoors and drinking something warm; whilst others had creeping shuddering without chill, no thirst, no sweat. A woman who had bathed in one of the cold water springs for several day had a very mild quotidian fever; she got well in 2 day under Cedron 3. (CASANOVA, Brit. Journ of Hom., XXI, 354.)
7. Some dark coloration and much irritation of the skin may occur from the internal use of S. I have seen a red papular eruption from it, and also occasionally boils and carbuncles. The waters of Harrogate, Bareges, Aix – la – Chapelle, &c., have been known to produce such effects. (PHILLIPS, op. cit.)
8. After using warm S. baths for several day there is produced an eruption of small, red, acuminated, pruriginous elevations, and of red spots, which appear first upon the limbs, but soon spread to nearly the whole surface of the body; a febrile movement, with thirst and loss of appetite, is developed; sleep is restless, urine cloudy and muddy. In 1 – 2 weeks these symptoms disappear in the order of their coming, the epidermis separates in branny scales, but the skin continues to itch for some time longer. (RAYER, in Stille, op. cit.)
9. a. By means of the 30th dil. of S., given in doses of 2 globules every m. for a week, I have developed the most intense stomatitis.
9 b. A young man, who had never experienced any chest symptoms, took m. and evening 2 dr. of the 30th a an antidote of merc. corr. On the 4th n. he was seized with an attack of convulsive dyspnoea, exactly similar to angina pectoris. This attack was reproduced on 3 successive n.
9 c. A violent sore – throat with swelling and redness of tonsils, pain in throat and dysphagia, and bronchitis, with frequent coughing and dyspnoea, agitation and sleeplessness, occurred in a young man to whom I had given the tinct. during several consecutive day (ANDRIEU, M. H.R.,, i, 300.)
10. A woman, aet 36, of nervous temp., took Sulphur 30 for neuralgic pains. She reported that she had received much relief from the medicine, but that it had acted somewhat too powerfully upon her, having brought on violent purging and tenesmus a few hours after she had taken the third teaspoonful, which continued throughout the greater part of the following d. On two subsequent occasions a similar result followed the medicine, though blank powers interspersed were without effect. (LAURIE, brit. Journ of Hom., iii, 92.”I have repeatedly observed the above effect,” adds Dr. L.,”In extremely susceptible patients after the administration of S. at various potencies”_.
Experiments an animals
I. Benk found that in dogs S. occasioned anorexia, thirst, and diarrhoea. Temp. at first was raised, but afterwards it fell below natural standard; at first, too, pulse was more frequent but subsequently became slower than usual; there was also embarrassed breathing, slight general trembling, convulsions, and sudden death. The effects of S upon cats were nearly the same, but with the addition of vomiting, general emaciation, debility, and coma. After death, stomach and intestines were found very much injected. According to Hertwig, large doses augment the secretion of intestinal mucus and procure abundant and semi – fluid dejections, but do not destroy the appetite (which smaller doses even stimulate). Very large doses are said to cause inflammation of the gastro – intestinal mucous membrane, which, however, is superficial, and unattended with any violent symptoms. (STILLE, op. cit.)
2. There dogs which I had placed, at the same time and in the same conditions, under the influence of the tinct., had all from 3rd to 4th day paroxysms of cough, which were reproduced at once by pressing on larynx or trachea; from 4th to 5th day dyspnoea in addition to the cough, which itself became more intense; on 6th traces of crepitus at bases of both lungs, violent fits of coughing, taciturnity, dulness, prostration. In course of 3 following day there was at first an increased intensity of the crepitus; which afterwards, however, quickly disappeared, and recovery from this artificial disease ensued, notwithstanding the continuance and even increase in dosage of the drug. (ANDRIEU, Ioc. cit.).
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.