Mephitis



Generalities

Rheumatic pains. Shifting pains, with want to urinate. Occasionally a sensation as if struck by electric sparks. Convulsions. Sensation of paralysis, especially during the pains. Great dejection and lassitude, during which the muscles are painful when touched or exercised. Indolence, with desire to stretch, and stretching. Internal agitation of whole body, with sensation of unspeakable uneasiness. Slight quivering of the nerves, as far as interior of bones, causing a good deal of anxiety. Many symptoms manifest themselves in morning.

Sleep

Great inclination to sleep, so great that patient will fall asleep even when in company. Diurnal sleepiness, with sound sleep at night. Frequent yawning, which causes tears to flow. Very vivid dreams, the recollection of which is retained. Dreams of fire, water, distressing losses, of spitting of blood, etc. Nightmare. Asthma during sleep. Waking at night, with rush of blood to, and heat in limbs (lower legs). Somnolent heaviness in morning, with burning in eyes and tearing in limbs, greatly better by a change of position. Frequent and early waking, often with a feeling of good health.

Fever

Coldness in evening, with want to make water, and colic, as if preceding diarrhoea. Heat in head, in genital organs and in legs, at night. Increased heat, especially in morning, with skin less sensitive to cold and cold water. Washing with cold water is found very agreeable.

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