11. A young married woman took 2 dr. Violent, persistent throbbing pain in several hollow teeth. Periodical sensation of a plug in oesophagus with persistent dull pressure there. Nausea and eructation, which causes relief to oppression in scrob. cordis. No stool for 2 days,. usually every day. (Ibid.)
12. SCHRETER proved tobacco of Havana cigars; doses and number of provers not stated.
12a. After 2 m. shooting in left temple. After 3 m. severe pressive pain in crown. After 4 m. urging to stool with frequent tenesmus in rectum. Rigor with yawning and stretching arms. After 5 m. giddy and staggering. Pressive pain over eyes. Heat of eyeballs. After 7 m. contraction of eyelids with smarting pain in eyeballs. After 10 m. shooting and tearing in right hand. After 1/4 hour vertigo; the room seems to turn round in a circle, and he dared not rise from his seat, fearing to stagger. Pressive contraction in temples. Burning in stomach. Shivering all over body. After 1/2 hour severe vertigo. Pressive pain over eyes, with flickering before eyes, worse when walking. After 1 hour pressive pain over eyes, with heat of head. After 1 1/2 hours pain in both sides of head as if broken on wheel. Drowsiness. After 2 hours great nausea, almost to fainting, which goes off in open air. After 3 hours cold sweat of hands.
12 b. First day. After inclination to vomit, great apprehensiveness with oppression of chest and very sad humour, as if she anticipated some misfortune, relieved by weeping. Very morose, cross, and laconic. She is very cheerful and gay, dances about on one leg, and laughs without cause almost all day. Vertigo as from intoxication. Heaviness in head, can hardly hold it up. Great heaviness and pain in nape, so that he must take off his necktie. Pain in right parietal bone when pressed upon. Pressure on crown as if a band were pressed on it. Immediately after eating severe internal pressure in crown. In temples alternately pressure and shooting. Shooting above right eye over outer border of eyebrow to inner and into orbit. Shooting in left temple. Drawing shooting pain from left temple over forehead to crown. On walking quickly shooting pain from left parietal bone to occiput. Heat of head. Much congestion of blood and flying heat of head. Contraction in parietal muscles. The eyes smart as after long weeping. Stiff tension and drawing from left eye. Orbits heated, contraction of eyelids and lachrymation. Dimness of vision as from mucus. Flickering before eyes. More black spots seen than usual. Prickings in upper part of orbit. Shooting in ears. The ears are burning hot and red. Flushing of heat in face. R. cheek hot, left pale. Heat and redness of left cheek, evening. When reading cannot emphasize; he reads in a drawling way unlike his usual. Dry throat. Hawks up mucus. More appetite than usual. Very little thirst. Frequent empty eructation. Frequent eructation with taste of food. Frequent eructations, nausea, and inclination to vomit. Hiccup. Nausea and pinching in belly. Sick with pressure in stomach. Easy vomiting of sour liquid. Feeling as if stomach would turn over. Qualmishness in stomach. Frequent stitches in hepatic region below last ribs, evening. Pricking as with a needle in liver, increased by breathing. Pressure in hypochondria. Pinching in bowels. Rumbling and pinching in belly, as though diarrhoea would come on. Bowels not opened. Stool at unusual time and thinner than usual. Erections towards morning. Fluent coryza lasting 4 days, shooting under sternum with inability to breathe deeply. On breathing stitches in side and chest, and at same time weakness of head as if drunk, and flickering before eyes so that he cannot recognize people at a distance. on breathing deeply, as if the intercostal muscles were cut from before to back, worse when touched; tears flowed from eyes with the pain. Pulsation under right shoulder. Pain in arm on raising it. Tension in left arm especially in elbow. On turning forearm drawing pain in elbow – joint. Weakness in hands. On bending knee shooting; when at rest, pressure. Knees crack when walking. Paralysed feeling in right foot. Cramp from toes to knee. Great weariness and trembling in hands and feet. Great weariness as though the feet were paralysed, can hardly go upstairs, worse a. m. than p. m. Towards evening weakness, and when he moves a part immediately rigor and coldness between shoulders, at same time giddiness and shooting in temples, forehead, and crown. Dislike to all work. Trembling of hands. On both cheeks under eyes small elevations only perceptible to touch. Much yawning after dinner. Drowsy a. m., fell asleep for a short time. Yawning and sleepiness after dinner. Drowsy a. m., fell asleep for a short time. Yawning and sleepiness after dinner. Wakes up repeatedly at night. Starts up out of slumber. Dreams that she wants to talk but cannot, on account of tongue being too big, which hangs out of mouth and reaches to nose, she wanted to cry out but cannot, weeps about it, and is quite inconsolable until she wakes up in great anxiety (a kind of nightmare). Anxious dreams of fire. Cold feet. Chilliness and shivering in open air. Goose skin all days. Immediately after eating shivering that lasted almost all p. m., and often alternated with heat without thirst; during the chill always perspired under arms. Shivering all over body with transient heat. While the body is hot the legs are cold. Heat and dry feeling increasing every minute. Night sweat.
12 c. Second days. Disinclined for work. Cheerful and gay. Great vertigo. Vertigo as form intoxication. All p. m. pressive headache, especially over right eye. Stitches from forehead to occiput, went off when in open air, but if she stood still it came on again, went off on lying down. Some stitches in temples, severe headache when moving, something seemed to shake in head, better when at rest morning. Heat of head Formication over left temple. Pains in eyes and flashing before them on looking at an object. Cornea red, some photophobia, when she looks at the light must close the eyes. Eyes water when looking closely at an object. Objects seen less distinctly than usual. Shooting in ears, especially in open air. As if something lay before ears. Very powerful keen smell, morning. Bad insipid taste, as when stomach is disordered, morning. Pressure in throat as if something were sticking in there. Scraping in throat all p. m. Dry throat. Throat so dry and scrapy she can hardly swallow. Hawks up grey mucus, morning. Very little thirst. Loathes water. hiccup. Nausea on rising, morning. Nausea with shooting in left temple. Inclination to vomit. Spasm in stomach. Relaxed feeling in stomach with some nausea. Violent stitches above scrob. cordis, better when at rest. Frequent purging. Erections without voluptuous menses. Irritation to cough and scraping in throat. Dry cough. On breathing deeply chest feels too narrow. Pressure and stitches in chest. Burning and tension in skin of side of neck. Burning under scapula. Shooting and drawing in left shoulder. on account of shooting pain in elbow could not extend right arm quickly. Burning on side of sole as from red-hot iron, worst evening. Constant inclination to stretch arms. Frequent itching like fleas on face. Corners of mouth sore. Much yawning for several days. Drowsiness in room, going off in open air. Hard to wake in morning. Coldness with flushes of heat. All day shivering and shaking, towards evening cold sweat in palms.
12d. Third days. Anxiety with dismal melancholy thoughts when walking. Cheerful and gay. Compressive pain in whole head, especially occiput. Some deep stitches in head towards crown. Shooting in left temple. Towards evening she became nearly blind for a few m., it was as if there was a veil before eyes, worse after rubbing eyes. Shooting in ears. Tickling in ears. Humming in left ear. Very much impaired in maxillary joint. Drawing pain in upper teeth, which goes off on pressing on cheek. When she bites on a hollow tooth there is a shooting pain in it. Insipid slimy taste, morning. Sour taste, everything tastes sour, water tastes as if mixed with iron. Very loud eructation all days, especially after eating. Sour, hot eructation, morning. Vomiting of sour fluid and mucus, followed by great relief. Some stitches under left short ribs. Great urging to stool with forcing as if the faeces were held back, and yet the stool is soft. Frequent purging. Stopped nose. Dry cough. Chest oppressed, tight, cannot breathe deeply, with apprehension and anxiety, she cannot get rid of the idea that a misfortune is about to befall her. Pressure on sternum as if a weight lay there. Sore shooting in right side of chest, worst when at rest. Great palpitation of heart. Left arm powerless and painful. R. arm feels sprained, especially in elbow – joint in which he feels painful stitches on every exertion. Cramp and formication in 3 first fingers of left hand. Shooting in right hip, evening. Tension from knee to foot when walking. Formication in left leg from knee to toes. Weary in thighs and feet. Itching as from flea – bites on arms and neck. Itching papules on chest. Very sleepy, evening. Could not sleep at night, nor wake morning Legs from knees to toes icy cold, at same time burning of thighs and great heat. All day rigor and pressive pain between shoulders.
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.