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Face

Pains in face with burning shootings in zygomatic process. Hot stitches in left malar bone, painful when touched. Violent itching, biting, and burning on edges of lower jaw, frequently with red, small, easily-bleeding (miliary) eruption. Purulent pimples under nose and on chin. Sanguineous pimples, like grains of millet, on lower jaw. Pimples on forehead, with pressive pain when touched. Lips cracked. Vesicles on the surface of the lower lip. Herpes round mouth.

Teeth

Drawing toothache, or with drawing pulsations, especially in teeth which are carious, worse by cold things. Incisive pains in gums every morning. Gums shrivelled, as if they had been burnt.

Mouth

Mouth dry and parched on awaking in morning. Collection of water in mouth. Accumulation of rough and astringent saliva. White and slimy froth in corners of mouth in morning. Tongue coated white. Swelling, pain as of excoriation, and desquamation of velum palati. Hard (almost painless) swelling of size of a pigeon’s egg in palate, which is also hard. Tongue rough and dry, with sensation as if it were too large. Clammy and insipid taste.

Throat

Pain in throat as from pressure of a ball. Shootings, scrapings, and burning pain in throat. Burning in throat when eating or drinking. Much mucus in fauces, causing hawking.

Stomach

Voracious appetite. Hunger very soon after a meal. Disgusting and pressive risings. Watery risings. Nausea with sour taste. Weakness and slowness of digestion. Continued hiccough after a meal. Pressure at stomach, as by a stone, better by risings. Burning pain extending from stomach into abdomen.

Abdomen

Rumbling and rolling in abdomen, cutting, griping pains. Tensive pain throughout abdomen. Hard pressure in abdomen. Incisive drawing and boring in one side of abdomen, at night, while lying upon it.

Stool

Frequent but scanty evacuations of the consistence of pap. Loose, fetid evacuations, which smell like putrid flesh.

Urinary Organs

Diminished secretion of urine. Frequent and urgent want to urinate, with burning pain during the emission. Urine with greasy cuticle on surface. Acrid, excoriating urine. Fiery urine, with clouds in center, a reddish sediment, and a variegated pellicle after standing for some time. Sticking in forepart of the urethra. Burning pain and shootings in urethra (when sitting).

Female Sexual Organs

Increased sexual desire. Premature catamenia. Intense after- pains but very imperfect contractions, suppressed lochia for forty-eight hours with ineffectual urging to stool, weak and feverish, agonising headache, with sensation as though face were drawn to root of nose then back to occiput, eyeballs sore, worse on slightest attempt at motion.

Respiratory Organs

Sensation of dryness in trachea in morning (on waking). Troublesome hoarseness and low voice, with continued hawking up of mucus (and burning in larynx). Periodical painless hoarseness. Cough with expectoration in the morning, without expectoration in the evening. Cough with expectoration of viscid mucus, difficult to raise in the morning and evening on lying down. Cough as if excited by vapour of sulphur in trachea, or as if caused by slimy mucus in pharynx. Nocturnal cough when lying on the left side. Cough with expectoration of slimy, greenish mucus, proceeding from larynx. Burning in the larynx (bronchitis).

Chest

Obstructed respiration, with necessity to take a full inspiration. Aching in the right side of chest. Shootings in chest and sides of chest.

Heart and Pulse

Palpitation of heart during repose and movement, in evening. Pulse full but slow.

Neck and Back

Tension and weakness in muscles of neck and nape. Sensation as if neck were stiff and swollen on turning it. Dull pain in nape, increasing at times in acuteness, with numbness, heat, and weight, better from rest and in open air, worse from exertion. Violent pains in both sides of neck, extending down to fingers, especially left side, worse from mental exertion. Pain left side of neck and shoulders, paralysing arm and depriving of power of mental or bodily exertion. Pains in the back and nape of the neck on stooping, as if a load were pressing upon them. Shootings and lancinations in back, also in and between the shoulder-blades, and pulsating stitch in the os coccygis when sitting.

Limbs

Stinging pains in limbs. All Joints painful on motion. Paralytic pain in limbs. Stitches in all Extremities. Heaviness in all limbs. Contractive pressure in joints.

Upper limbs

Heaviness and paralytic weakness in arms and joints of fingers. Tearings and drawings in fingers, from shoulder to fingers. Trembling of the hands. Shootings in the fingers. Fingers at one time hot, at another cold or dead. Numbness of fingers. Panaritium.

Lower limbs

Tearing and drawings in legs, and especially in coxofemoral joint. Paralytic pain in joint of foot. Tingling in tendo Achillis. Tearings, drawings, and shootings in toes. Coldness of feet in bed at night.

Generalities

Affections of any kind on the eyebrows, inner temples. Continual lancinations in all Extremities. Stinging pains in all parts of body, especially Extremities. Cramp-like contraction in joints, or sensation on moving and turning them as if broken, swollen, and dislocated. Sensation of heaviness in whole body. Sensation of extension in size, i.e., patient feels very large.

Skin

Papular eruptions, especially on face and lips. Violent itching in various parts. Subcutaneous tingling without itching Pain as of excoriation in skin, on touching the parts. Crawling sensations. Panaritium.

Sleep

Urgent inclination to sleep during the day and early in evening. Yawning and sleepiness. Incomplete, broken, and agitated sleep at night, with continued tossing and numerous dreams. Voluptuous dreams with erections and pollutions.

Fever

Pulse full and slow. During chill sensation as if skin and other parts of the body were contracted. Cold feet all night in bed. Coldness in right side, left side natural. Shiverings, especially in chest, abdomen, and legs, with cutis anserina and yawning. Constant coldness with trembling internally (mostly towards evening). Heat extending from neck down back. Heat with perspiration on upper part of body. Itching sweat in the morning, which compels scratching. Coldness on one side of the body only (right), with heat on the other side of the body (left).

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