Robinia

Limbs

Could not move in slightest degree fingers, hands, arms, or legs, later could move fingers of right hand a little, later could stir legs, but not draw them up, tickling feet caused much distress (from the beans).

Generalities

Features and limbs shrunken as if from excessive diarrhoea (but there was none). Faintness worse when raised from horizontal position. Child cried when its arms were laid hold of. Improvement which was going on ceases at night-time (***R.T.C.).

Skin

Covered from head to foot with the worst form of urticaria.

Sleep

Sleepiness and dulness in limbs and head (with stinging pain in temples), changing from right to left side. Restless sleep all night on account of frequent sneezing, from indigestion.

Fever

Hands and feet cold. Paroxysms of pain late in afternoon, lasting till 3 to 4 a.m., face hippocratic, much flatulence. Hectic fever with 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