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Abdomen

Pain (cutting) in abdomen, shortly after a meal. Sensation of great emptiness in abdomen. Distension and tension in abdomen, with cramp. Pinchings and cuttings in abdomen, sometimes with pressing want to evacuate. Colic, with diarrhoea, at night, towards morning. Colic better from bending double. Borborygmi in abdomen, with sensation as if abdomen were entirely empty. Inguinal hernia. Fetid flatus. Sensation of coldness in abdomen.

Stool and Anus

Difficult, hard, knotty, and insufficient evacuations. Frequent diurnal stools, sometimes with evacuation of serous, yellowish matter. Diarrhoea, often preceded by cuttings (colic only during the day). Mucous stools, often mixed with blood. Burning pain in rectum after evacuation. Itching tetters in perineum. Diarrhoea worse from riding in carriage. In anus burning itching, pressure. Weakness of rectum. Piles with great itching, worse at night from heat of bed, worse from rubbing or scratching. Fissure with great rawness.

Urinary Organs

Constant dribbling of urine after micturition. Discharge of mucus with the urine. Frequent emission of urine, with scanty stream of a red or brown and fetid urine. Urine bloody and turbid, it deposits a red, slimy sand, that adheres tightly to vessel, urine contains albumen, hyalin, and granulated casts, covered with a glistening film and with a red sediment. Involuntary discharge of urine. Emission of urine at night. Wetting the bed. Burning in urethra. Stricture of urethra. (Chronic urethritis.).

Male Sexual Organs

Burning pain, itching, redness, excoriation and oozing, or itching pimples and tetters, on scrotum and between scrotum and thigh. Diminished sexual desire. Frequent pollutions. Discharge of prostatic fluid. (Prostatitis.) Weakness and nervous irritability after coition. Reddish eruption on glans, with itching.

Female Sexual Organs

Itching, soreness, and moisture on external parts. Repugnance to coition. Catamenia too early, with a menstrual flux which excites itching. Leucorrhoea like white of egg. Leucorrhoea with lascivious dreams. During pregnancy diarrhoea and vomiting. Itching and furfur on the mammae, the nipples itch, and have mealy coating.

Respiratory Organs

Hoarseness, with or without coryza. Cough, with dryness in throat. Vexatious cough that takes away the breath, cannot cough it out. Suffocating cough at night. Dry cough at night, or in evening, after lying down. At night dry cough, coming deep from chest, caused by a scratching in throat. Cough from low down in chest. Hollow, hacking cough, coming on when laughing, waking him in middle of night (cured). Dry cough, with shootings under sternum.

Chest

Respiration obstructed in cold air. Rattling and snoring in trachea. Sensation of heaviness, anxiety, and uneasiness in chest. Oppression of chest at night. Shootings in sides of chest. Herpes on chest.

Heart

Palpitation of heart. Feeling of coldness about heart, as if there was a cold stone in heart. Fainting, with ebullition, heat, pressing on heart, palpitation.

Neck and Back

Herpes on nape of neck. Heaviness and pain in nape of neck. Painful drawing extending from nape to occiput. Swelling of glands and eruption on nape of neck. Sacral pains, which do not permit standing upright. Coccyx painful on sitting. Stiffness in coccyx. Pain in back, which obstructs every movement. Weakness and stiffness in back and loins. Suppuration of the axillary glands.

Limbs

Cracking of the joints. Inflexibility of the joints. Sprains, chronic sprains.

Upper limbs

Fetid sweat of axillae, Drawing pains in arms and fingers. Great weakness of arms. Stiffness of arms and fingers. Erysipelatous inflammation in arms. Brown or yellow spots on arms. Furunculi on forearm. Tearings in hands. Burning sensation in palms of hands. Sweating of hands. Pain in wrist-joint as if sprained. Brown spots on wrist. Bleeding fissures in hands and fingers, especially in winter. Salt-rheum, red, raw, burning, moist or covered with thick crusts. Chilblains and warts on fingers. Pricking and pain in warts on fingers, evening in bed. Arthritic stiffness in joints of fingers. Finger-nails painful when touched as if bruised. Fingertips rough, cracked, fissured, with sticking, cutting pain.

Lower limbs

Cracking in joints of legs. Cramps in thighs, calves, and feet (all day, in soles at night). Furunculi in thighs and calves. Tension in the ham. Lancinations in knee. Weakness of knee. Herpes on knee. Tuberous, itching eruption on calves of legs. Herpes on ankle bones. Burning sensation in soles. Profuse perspiration on feet. Foetid perspiration of feet with tenderness. Coldness of feet. Swelling of feet. Hot swelling of soles. Swelling and redness of heel with burning pain and shootings. Worse by walking. Heels blistered. Sensation of splinter in heel. Chilblains on toes, especially when they itch and are moist, itch and burn, inflamed in cold weather. Ulcers on the toes, originating in blisters on the toes. Corns on feet. Burning and stitching in corns. Obstinate superficial ulcers on toes, with elevated margins and red based, with oozings. Eruption between toes.

Generalities

Affections in general of any kind, appearing on the right eye, internal or external occiput, behind ears, inner surface of thighs, ball or under part of toes, knee-joint. Drawing pains in limbs. Stiffness and tendency to numbness of limbs. Cracking of joints, with arthritic rigidity and drawing, tearing pains. Swelling and induration of glands, also after a contusion. Jerking of limbs by day and during sleep. Catalepsy, tonic spasms. Epileptic fits. Fainting fits, with ebullition of blood, heat, palpitation, and pressure at heart. Great weakness after least exertion, sometimes with confused sight, trembling of body, buzzing in ears, and nausea. Weakness, nausea and other sufferings, from motion of a carriage. Weakness in morning in bed. Many of the symptoms appear, or are worse during stormy weather. Transient heat, ebullition of blood, and perspiration after a walk, or after a fit of anger. Emaciation, also in children. Sensation of insupportable and general uneasiness, with trembling and dejection. Heaviness and lassitude in all limbs. Great lassitude morning and evening. Great tendency to take cold. Repugnance to open air, with shivering when exposed to it. Several symptoms manifest themselves in morning.

Skin

Swelling and induration of the glands, also after contusions. Great sensibility of the surface of skin. Miliary urticaria. Itching tetters. Itching, excoriated, and running spots on skin. Brown and yellow spots on skin. Eruption of itching and burning pustules. Pruritus of the aged. Dreadful irritation all over body, very intense in vagina, anus and perineum, preventing sleep (cured ***R.T.C.). Papular eruptions, especially on face and lips. Skin sore, crawling sensation. Rhagades. The skin is hard to heal. Skin unhealthy, every injury tends to ulceration. Furunculi. Ulcers with shooting pains, often deep ulcers, with raised edges. Proud flesh in ulcers. When a person complains of eruption or itching at night (affecting scrotum particularly), the eruption being either dry or moist. Chilblains particularly where they itch a good deal and are moist. Exanthema corroding and spreading, very difficult to heal. Sensibility of the skin in general. Sores produced by lying in bed. Warts. Corns on feet. Chilblains, sometimes painful.

Sleep

Disposition to sleep by day and in evening when sitting quietly (yawning). Broken and agitated sleep at night, with many vivid, anxious, and frightful dreams (as if somebody were lying alongside of him in bed), frequent awakening with a start, and heat with anxiety. Sensation in morning as of having slept too short a time.

Fever

Shivering with headache, and coldness in hands and face. Chilliness in open air. Frequent shivering over whole body, and, on becoming warm, excessive itching of skin. Shivering or coldness, generally in evening (with heat at the same time), and sometimes with blueness of nails. Sweat immediately after shivering. Intermittent fever: Violent chilliness and coldness of hands and face at 10 a.m., half an hour later heat in the face, especially in the eyes, with thirst. Shaking fits, 7p.m., followed by perspiration, first in face, later all over, except in legs, which are quite cold. Fever in evening, with hot face and cold feet, after shivering. Frequent flushes of heat. Heat after midnight and in morning in bed. Fever, with full pulse and burning sensation in skin. Pulse accelerated from every exertion, as soon as reposing, pulse becomes again slow. Nocturnal heat. Nocturnal sweat.

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