12 e. 4th days. She is as if stupid, cannot collect her thoughts properly. Great vertigo. Wakes with headache and a pressure in crown and temples almost all day. Pressure in temples for 10 days. Pressure in occiput. Repeated shooting in crown for 10 days.. Shooting in ears. Very weak sense of smell; only wine is smelt from a great distance, so that she is almost intoxicated by a glass from which wine had been drunk that is standing in the room. Formication in nostrils. Drawing in gums. Dry throat. Loathes water. Great thirst, evening. Heartburn from stomach up to throat. Shooting in scrob. cordis. Shooting under right short ribs, in hepatic region. Pinching in bowels followed by scrapy pain in stomach. Pinching and rumbling in belly for 12 days; no stool for 3 days after this. Immediately after dinner purging and discharge of flatus. Purging with pain in belly. Purged 3 times with sore pain at anus. During stool, tenesmus and great pain in sacrum, though the stool was soft. Repeated sneezing, after which her head became much freer. Fluent coryza with acute smell. Dry cough evening. ON breathing deeply shooting under sternum. Shooting in right side of chest, when speaking. Shooting in chest on breathing deeply. Great palpitation of heart. Shooting in right scapula. Contractive sacral pain, especially after stool. Drawing pain on a spot the size of half a crown on left arm, as though an ulcer would come there. Shooting in houghs. Twitchings in whole body with pulsation in head and palpitation of heart. Immediately after dinner she became sleepy and slept 1 hour, could not waken up thoroughly till she got severe palpitation of heart Coldness and shivering, evening. Internal coldness with hot face, hands sometimes cold, sometimes warm, sometimes sweaty, no thirst.
12 f. 5th days. Vertigo with sinking in stomach. Pressure in occiput. Stitches in left side of head. Much hair comes out on combing head. Heat of eyes with lachrymation. Shooting in ears from music. Dry throat. Bellyache, morning. Cutting around navel. Pressure under sternum. Drawing, lame, spasmodic pain in right hand up to elbow. In right iliac region feeling of powerlessness. Lame feeling under knee, as if gone asleep. Red itching eruption all over back. Small itching vesicles, with red areolae and secreting a yellow fluid, which are sore to touch. Chattering of teeth from coldness. Body hot, hands icy cold. – 6th days. On waking, morning, pressive pain in parietal bones, going off on rising. Much hair comes out on combing head. on touching external ear pains internally. Shooting in ears; shooting behind left ear, with a hard red swelling there. R. cheek glowing hot, left pale. Sour taste. Spasm in stomach. In toe – balls of left food acute pain so that he cannot tread properly. 7th days. Headache as if both temples were compressed, evening. Shooting in scrob. cordis through to back. Shooting in hypochondrium. Dry cough. Rigor almost all day.
12 g. 8th days. Burning in head, followed by formication there, anorexia, violent shoots in ear, lastly coldness and rigor. Pressure in right eye extending to occiput. Cracked painful lips. Violent drawing tearing pain in upper teeth going into forehead. Swollen gland under tongue, painful when touched. On hawking up mucus, morning, sickness with flat taste. Sour and slimy vomiting with considerable straining, morning. Contractive pain in stomach after eating. Violent scraping in stomach after eating. Pain in belly as if about to be purged, evening. Tearing in belly, night. Frequent urging to stool, morning. After urinating, burning itching, pain in urethra. Orifice of urethra somewhat inflamed and stuck together. Emission without waking, night. Discharge of prostatic fluid. Stuffed nose. Shooting in chest on breathing deeply. Stiff neck so that head could not be turned to left side. Hands as if paralysed and cold, then burning in them with swelling of finger – tips and difficulty of moving, at same time coldness and chilliness of body. Shooting in left thigh, between shoulders and under sternum. Cramp in knee. – 9th days. Shooting in ears. Much viscid mucus in throat. Drawing in thighs. Restless sleep, night with coldness and tossing about in bed.
12 h. 10th days. Restlessness and anxiety, as though a misfortune were impending, p. m. Headache as if both temples were compressed, evening. Burning below nose as from severe coryza. Upper lip rough and dry with burning feeling. Bitter taste Spasm of deglutition. Nausea. First bellyache then violent spasm in stomach, great nausea and flow of saliva. Pain on pressure in hepatic region, spreading through to scrob. cordis. When walking stitches in liver extending to scrob. cordis. Shooting in hepatic region relieved by stooping, cannot straighten himself on account of it. Shooting in hypochondrium. All p. m. while walking severe and incessant borborygmus in belly. Cough and hiccup together, as though she should be choked, for 1/2 hour. Great constrictions of chest. Gets thin, especially in back; her cheeks also are thinner. Red spots on right shoulder which burn when touched.
12i. 11th days. Staggering on rising, morning. During stool tenesmus and violent burning in anus. Horrible burning in knee, and on touching it feeling as if it were full of pains. Itching papules on sacrum, back, and fingers. Chilliness and rigor – 12th days. She sang all days. Indistinct vision for some morning. Adipsia, cannot get water down. Nausea. Shooting in scrob. cordis. All morning dry cough with shooting in scrob, palpitation of heart, – going off on lying on right side. Severe sore pain in right mamma, with feeling as though its nipple were bitten off. R. arm as if paralysed, with cramp in it. She became emaciated, all her dresses are too wide. L. hand cold, right hot. – 13th days. Dry cough. – 14th days Feeling in right eyes as if a hair were in it, evening. 16th days. Constant hunger, if she does not eat she gets sick, for 3 days. Fingers swollen for 3 days.
12 j. (No time stated) Apprehension and anxiety for several afternoons, relieved by weeping. Apprehension for several evening. Apprehension, anxiety and melancholy, as though she anticipated a death, at 4 p. m. for 2 successive days. After dinner, heaviness of head. Pressive pain on crown, Sometimes with shooting. Rumbling in belly. On breathing deeply borborygmus in abdomen, for 8 days. Some formication in glans penis. He can breathe better when he leans over to left side and against a support. The left side suffers more than the right Dreams that a tooth had fallen out. Every evening rigor of whole body. Transient heat after vomiting. (HARTLAUB and TRINKS, R. A.M., left, iii, 100.)
13. a. NENNING. Ng.’s provings, doubtless of the usual character, were made with the broadleaved Hungary-grown tobacco.- -EDS. – Soon: Sudden transient heat rises to head Rough and scrapy in throat. After 5 morning painful gnawing in right ear. Burning shooting externally in left hypochondrium. Pain gnawing in right ear. Burning shooting externally in heaviness of head on stooping. Violent itching in right inner canthus, after rubbing it burns. Shooting tearing in right lower teeth. Suddenly a number of prickings in whole abdomen. Tickling in throat provoking frequent cough. Acute shooting i right side of chest near axilla relieved by inspiration. – Ist day. Great gaiety and loquacity as if intoxicated. Great heaviness of head, it tends to sink forwards. Painful tearing in right ear. Sudden burning in left nostril. Wakes after midnight with tenderness in abdomen, so that she can hardly bear it to be touched, without internal pain; this was followed by soft stool, with cessation of the pain; the same happened at 4 a. m. The menses, which were 1 day later, are more profuse than usual. Burning stitch under left breast. Tearing down left calf. Jerking tearing in dorsum of left foot. Trembling of head and hands, with high spirits like intoxication, after a meal. Trembling or rather shaking of feet for a long time. Yawning and sleepy after dinner. Wakes before midnight but soon falls asleep again. Icy coldness of feet, could not get them warm in bed all night. From 5 to 7 p. m. chilliness, after 6 p. m. thirst. – 2nd days Jerking front of and behind right ear. Inclination to vomit. Acute shooting in right flank. In 2 hours 2 small soft stools, followed by internal sensitiveness of abdomen. Two small soft stools with straining for long afterwards, evening. Two soft stools, night Frequent urging to stool, and each time very little was passed, with some pain in belly before and after. Tearing in tendons of left forearm towards, and then in elbow. Often painful tearing in little finger. – 5th days. Violent tearing in facial bones and teeth, evening. Bitterness of mouth, on waking, morning – 7th days 5 diarrhoeic stools at night with burning and tenesmus in anus. Frequent rumbling of flatulence, with pain in belly, then diarrhoea with tenesmus, evening.
13 b. (No time state.) Apprehension, unhappy and pusillanimous, with nausea; she thinks she must die; this goes off after vomiting (after dinner). Low spirited, joyless disposition. She could not retain an idea, others always came into her mind, chasing out the first, with heaviness and oppression of head; this all goes off after vomiting (after dinner). On coming into room after walking in open air, vertigo with nausea and eructation, the nausea increased in warm room so that she must again go into open air, when she vomited her dinner. Vertigo round in a circle with pressive pain in forehead and temples. After dinner heaviness of head. Headache with vertigo. Dull pressive pain in forehead and root of nose During dinner pressure in right side of head. Headache with feeling of slight throbbing in both temples Headaches relieved in open air. Pressive feeling in eyes, especially on moving them. Sight is lost when looking at a white object. Pressive feeling deep in orbits with weakness of eyes and vertigo. Tearing and pricking in right ear lobe. Deathly paleness during nausea. Dryness of whole mouth with great thirst. Dryness of tongue and lips. Mouth full of white viscid mucus, which must often be spat out. Bad taste as after burnt milk. Sore feeling in right side of throat. Formication in throat which is painful on swallowing. Tickling and rough feeling in throat. Viscid mucus in throat which cannot be got up. No appetite, loathes dinner. Appetite returns immediately after vomiting. Increased thirst. When sitting quietly pretty well, but the slightest movement causes horrible nausea. vomiting of water only, during which it was green and yellow before eyes. As long as he sits still he can keep off vomiting, but when he moves vomiting comes on. Pressive feeling in stomach. After vomiting weakness of stomach for a long time. Cold feeling in stomach and along spine. Pressive sensation under right short ribs as if a heavy round body lay there; the part is painful to touch. Pains in abdomen, which is distended. pressive pain in umbilical region, with cramplike retraction of navel. Violent pressive pain in hypogastrium with nausea and inclination to vomit, and chilliness of whole body, relieved by discharge of flatus. A painful pressive pain in renal region. Crampy pains in umbilical region. Digging and pressive feeling pain in umbilical region. Painful retraction of navel, especially when stooping. Rumbling in belly with cold feeling all over body. A very quickly coming, almost irrepressible, pappy, greenish-yellow stool followed by tenesmus. Greenish slimy diarrhoeic stools with tenesmus. Liquid very fetid stools, followed by tenesmus. After stool burning pain in anus. Increased discharge of yellowish – red urine. Dryness of nose. Oppression of chest relieved by deep breathing. Fine stitches in middle of chest into sternum. Many transient stitches from before backwards, increased by deep breathing. Quivering in a finger. Obtuse pressive pain in hip and knee-joints. On rising from seat and commencing to walk pressive pain in lumbar region which went off on continuing to walk. Tearing externally in left tibia. Pressive pain on left ankle joint. Violent pressive pains with restlessness of whole body and sweat of anxiety. Better in open air. Weariness and weakness of limbs. Trembling of whole body during nausea. Itching in right hypochondrium. Great drowsiness. (Ibid.).
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.