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Urinary Organs

Frequent desire to make water. Retention of urine. Difficult discharge of urine (and then discharge of a few drops of bloody urine only). Continual dribbling of urine. When passing water, faeces escape. Frequent emission of urine, copious, pale, and watery, sometimes with profuse perspiration, thirst, increased appetite, diarrhoea, and obscuration of sight. Incontinence and involuntary emission of urine, even in the night and during sleep. Paralysis of the neck of the bladder. Strictures of the urethra. Urine turbid, of a yellow colour, or clear, the colour of gold or citron, or scanty and of a brownish-red colour, or the colour of blood, or a bright red colour. Red, or whitish and thick sediment in the urine. Sensation of motion in the bladder, as of a worm. Nocturna pressure in the bladder. Shooting, burning pains in the renal region.

Male Sexual Organs.

Sharp and drawing pain in the spermatic cords, chiefly while making water. Retraction of the prepuce. Soft and painless nodosity in the glans. Shootings in the testes, which are drawn up. Inflammation of the testicles, great hardness in the drawn-up

testicles. Pollutions, with flaccidity of the penis. Nocturnal sweat of the genital parts. Flow of prostatic fluid. Sexual desire diminished, with perfect indifference to all voluptuous excitement.

Female Sexual Organs.

Violent pressure towards the genital parts, as if all were going to protrude, principally when walking, or when in a crouching posture. Shooting in the internal genital parts. Great dryness of the vagina. Prolapsus and induration of the matrix. Catamenia too copious, and too early, or too tardy. Catamenia too pale. Before the catamenia, fatigue, colic, loss of appetite, and confused sight. During the catamenia, nocturnal sweat on the chest, with yawning and transient shiverings, colic, or anguish of heart, burning thirst, sharp and cramp-like pains in the back and in the arms. Flow of blood beyond the period of catamenia. Flow of blood between the periods. Menstrual discharge bright red, feeling very hot like the sealing-wax. Metrorrhagia of clear red blood, with a discharge of fetid clots, with violent pain in the small of the back and bearing down. Menstrual blood of bright colour, or of a bad smell. Leucorrhoea with colic. Diminished lochia. Spasmodic contraction of the uterus. Labor pains too distressing, spasmodic, too weak, or ceasing. After-pains. Congestion and inflammation of the uterus and labia. Stitches in the organs. Puerperal fever, nymphomania. Flow of milk from the breast. Mammae swelled, inflamed, or indurated.

Respiratory Organs

Catarrh with cough, coryza, hoarseness with tenacious mucus in the chest. Voice weak, hoarse, whistling, nasal-toned voice. Loss of the voice. Great soreness of the larynx, with danger of suffocation on pressing the gullet, as well as on coughing, on speaking, and on breathing. Spasmodic constriction of the larynx. Larynx very painful, with anxious starts when touching it. Constriction of the trachea. Short, dry cough, from tickling in the larynx, with headache, redness, and heat in the face. Cough with stitches in the chest, in the lumbar region, in the hip, in the uterus, pain in the sternum, with tightness of the chest, with rattling of mucus on the chest. Dry spasmodic cough, with vomiturition, especially after midnight. Whooping-cough, with crying, or pain in the stomach before the attack, with expectoration of blood (pale or coagulated), congestion of blood to the head, sparks before the eyes, spasms in the throat, bleeding from the nose, stitches in the spleen, involuntary stool and urine, oppressed breathing, stiffness of the limbs, shaking of the whole body, and dry general heat. Cough, as if one had swallowed dust, or as if there were some foreign body in the larynx, or in the pit of the stomach, which excites the cough, chiefly at night, or in the afternoon, in the evening in bed, and even during sleep, the cough is mostly dry, short and sometimes convulsive, fatiguing and shaking, or hollow and barking. Before the cough, tears, or pains in the stomach, when coughing, shootings in the abdomen, or retching, or pain as of a bruise in the nape of the neck, after the paroxysm, sneezing. The last movement, when in bed at night, renews the cough. Cough with rattling in the chest, or with catarrh, and shootings in the sternum, or with headache and redness of face. Expectoration of thick and puriform mucus with the cough. Cough with spitting of blood.

Chest

Breathing labored, unequal, quick, with moaning. Rattling noise, and crepitation in the bronchia. Vehement expirations. Feeling of suffocation when swallowing, or when touching and turning the neck. Oppression of the chest, difficult respiration, dyspnoea and shortness of breath, sometimes with anxiety, and chiefly in the evening in bed, and after having drunk (coffee). Oppression of the chest in the morning when rising, cannot breathe in the room, better in the open air. Congestion to the chest. Irregular respiration, at one time small and rapid, at another time slow and profound. Respiration short, anxious, and rapid. In the morning after rising, want of breath, relieved in the open air. When walking cramp-like oppression of the chest, with necessity to fetch a long breath. Pressure on the chest. Shootings in the chest, sometimes as if from a knives, and chiefly on coughing and yawning. Great inquietude and beatings in the chest. Painful blisters, filled with water, or small spots of a deep red colour on the chest.

Heart

Violent beatings of the heart, which sometimes are felt in the head. Palpitation of the heart when ascending. Trembling of the heart with anguish and pressive pain. Violent palpitation of the heart, reverberating in the head.

Neck and Back.

Painful swelling and stiffness in the neck and in the nape of the neck. Painful swelling in the glands of the neck and in the those of the nape of the neck. Sharp pains in the armpits. Red and purulent pimples on the back and nape of the neck. Veins in the neck swollen. Sour sweat, only on the neck. Pain, as of dislocation, rheumatic and drawing pains in the back and between the shoulder-blades. Furunculus on the shoulder. Dartings, as if from knives, in the bones of the spine. Gnawing in the dorsal spine, with cough. Painful stiffness and cramp-like pains in the sacral regions and in the back.

Upper Limbs

Arms benumbed and painful. Tractive pressure, with sensation of torpor, and sharp pains in the arms. Inclination to stretch the arms. Arms heavy, as if paralysed. Torpor and heaviness of the arms. Swelling and scarlet redness of the arms and of the hands. Drawing and aching pain in the shoulder, running rapidly from the top to the bottom of the arms, and exhibiting itself particularly at night, diminished by external pressure, excited by motion. Painful startings, cramp and convulsions in the arms and in the hands. Trembling of the hands. Pressure, with sharp pains in the carpal and metacarpal bones. Arthritic stiffness in the joints of the hand. Frequent dislocation of the joints of the fingers. Drawing back of the thumbs.

Lower Limbs

Shootings and burning pains, aggravated by fits in the coxofemoral joint, more unbearable at night, and increased by the least contact. Stiffness in the hip, after sitting for some time, with difficulty in getting up. Pain in the hip, which causes lameness. Involuntary limping. Tottering walk, when rising from bed in the morning, the legs refuse their service. Trembling of the knees. Drawing pains in the legs, especially in the knees. Heaviness and paralysis of the legs and of the feet. Bending of the knees and of the feet in walking. Tension of the tendons of the ham. Swelling of the feet. Crawling sensation in the feet. Phlegmasia alba dolens.

Generalities

Shooting, or tearing, aching pains in the limbs. Bruise-like pains in the joints and bones. Rheumatic pains (in the joints) flying from one place to another. The pains are aggravated, chiefly at night, and in the afternoon towards three or four o’clock. The least touch, and sometimes also the slightest movement, aggravates the sufferings. Some of the symptoms are aggravated, or make their appearance after sleep. Jerking in the limbs, muscular palpitations and shocks of the tendons. St. Vitus dance. Sensation in the muscles, as if a mouse were running over them. Cramp, spasms, and convulsive movements, with violent contortion of the limbs, convulsive fits, with cries, and loss of consciousness, epileptic convulsions, drawing back of the thumbs. Renewal of the spasms by the least contact, or from the glare of light. Hydrophobia. Burning in the inner parts. Attacks of immobility and of spasmodic stiffness of the body, or of some of the limbs, sometimes with insensibility, swelling of the veins, bloatedness and redness of the face, pulse full and quick, with copious sweat. Spasms in single limbs, or of the whole body, in children, during dentition. Full habit (plethora). Swelling in general of the parts affected. Inflammation of the glands, induration of the glands, glands painful, prickling, swelling hot swelling of the glands. Attacks of tetanus at times, with the head thrown back. Spasmodic attacks, with involuntary laughter. Before the convulsive fits, formication, with a sensation of swelling and torpor in the limbs, or colic and aching in the abdomen, extending to the head, after the attack, oppression at the chest, as if from a heavy weight. The attacks are renewed by the least touch, as well as by the slightest opposition. Great uneasiness in the head and limbs, chiefly in the hands. Trembling of the limbs, with fatigue and lassitude. Heaviness in the limbs, with weariness, great indolence and dread of all movement and of all labor. Failing of strength, paralytic weakness, and paralysis of the limbs. Paralysis and insensibility of one side of all motion, as in death. Ebullition of blood, with congestion to the head, and fatigue even to fainting. Congestion (head, lungs). Apoplexy. Over-excitement and too great sensibility of all the organs. Tendency to be chilled easily, with great sensibility to cold air. Formication in the limbs.

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica