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Throat

Uvula feels swollen, swallowing difficult. Dryness early in morning.

Stomach

Retards hunger and thirst. Loss of appetite especially for solid food. Craves spirits and tobacco. Ailments from salt food. Flatus rises with such force, it seems as if esophagus would be rent by it. Empty feeling or full feeling in stomach. Confirmed dyspepsia, especially in hypochondriacs.

Abdomen

Pressure and tension in hypochondria after meals. Flatulence. Violent bellyache, with tympanitic distension.

Stool and Anus

Flatus from bowels, smells like burnt gunpowder. Dysentery. Constipation from inactivity of rectum, stools dry, like walnuts. Piles painful on walking or sitting. Sphincters relaxed.

Urinary Organs

Fine stitches in female urethra before urinating. Frequent desire, with increase, flow. Disturbed frequently at night. Nocturnal enuresis. Film on urine. Urine smells like sweat. Yellowish red flocculent deposits, oily scum on surface.

Male Sexual Organs.

Sensation as if penis were absent. Coldness, “gone” sensation, relaxation of external parts. Emissions. Nervous prostration from sexual excess. Spermatorrhea and partial impotence. Satyriasis.

Female Sexual Organs.

Menses flow in gushes awakening her from sound sleep. Nymphomania, during menses, and after parturition.

Respiratory Organs

Weak voice. Phthisis laryngea, when from irritability of pharynx stomach will retain no food. Rapid breathing. Painful shortness of breath, at night. Short breath in athletes, or in those taking alcohol or tobacco in excess. Hemoptysis. On coughing, pain in occiput. Cough from cold air or fast walking. Expectoration of small limps like boiled starch, immediately after rising in morning.

Chest

Sudden attack of cramp in chest, became cold and unable to continue the ascent. Intense oppression in chest. Rush of blood to chest with slight headache. Emphysema.

Heart

Palpitation with flushing. Violent and audible palpitation, angina pectoris, from climbing or over-exertion. Pulse greatly accelerated, intermittent. Pulse extremely slow and intermittent, loses one beat in four.

Limbs.

Feeling of internal cold with numbness of hands and feet. Weakness of extremities.

Skin

Scarlatina-like rash over body, esp., the neck.

Sleep

Inclination to sleep, but can find no rest. Great drowsiness.

Fever

Sense of flushing, especially up the back (with palpitation). Chilliness and headache in afternoon. At night heat and sleeplessness, with throbbing in arteries. Flushes of heat on the back and burning in abdomen. Extreme weariness accompanies the fever. Night sweats.

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