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Urinary Organs

Writhing, with dry and crampy pains, with passing of renal calculus (right) Spasmodic stricture of urethra, with pain about navel better by pressure, pressure on rectum, paroxysmal colic.

Male Sexual Organs

Constant excitement of genital organs, with frequent erections. Genitals cold and relaxed. Strong-smelling perspiration on scrotum and pubes. Diminished sexual desire. Emission of semen during sleep.

Female Sexual Organs

Dysmenorrhoea, spasmodic uterine colic, pains suddenly fly to distant parts. After-pains. False pains. Cramps in fingers and toes alternating with uterine pains.

Respiratory Organs

Hacking cough from irritation and tickling low down in the throat. Sharp cutting pain from left axilla to nipple and down side deep in lung. Cough pain in region of umbilicus and temples, brown tongue, weak knees. Dull, aching, or sharp cutting pains in both lungs, from front to back, or *vice *versa.

Heart

Sharp pain in region of heart, arrests breathing, worse lying left side.

Neck and Back

Dull pain in back of neck, stiff. Back lame in morning. Back in region of liver so lame it is almost impossible to turn in bed, better by motion. Severe backache. Sharp deep pain in lower portion of left scapula, followed by sharp pain through center of right lung. Itching over right scapula. Drawing pains in sacrum: in sacroiliac joint. Spinal hyperesthesia. Spinal cord feels bruised all the way up and down. Sharp pains in the back.

Upper Limbs

Pain in left shoulder. Grinding in elbows. Hard aching pains in bones of forearm, and in wrist and hands. Numbness of left hand. Panaritium, early stage, pain, pricking, sharp, agonizing. Paronychia.

Lower Limbs

Hard, dull or tearing pains in the hip. Pain in right leg from point of exit of sciatic nerve, felt only when moving the limb, or when sitting up. Knees lame, weak, and painful, trembling. Hard, dull, or sharp pains in leg. Ankles weak and painful.

Generalities

Restless, trembling, faint feeling. Languid, tired feeling. Rheumatic pains worse night and early morning. Chorea, with seminal emissions. Itching of various parts of the body and limbs.

Skin

Panaritium, early when pains are sharp and agonizing, or when pricking is felt, nails brittle. Little pimples with black heads.

Sleep

Many symptoms are worse after sleep: bitter mouth, pains in bowels, hard beating of heart. Restless after 2 a.m., must move, yet it hurts, he is so sore. First sleep late, wakes early.

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