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Male Sexual Organs

Profuse perspiration of genitals, and especially of scrotum.- Itching round the genital organs.- Itching eruption on the glans and prepuce.-(Crop of small, velvety gonorrhoeal warts round margin of prepuce).- Pseudo-gonorrhoea of an acid salt smell.- Ulcers on glans and prepuce.- Pains in the testes.-Cutting in testes.-Swelling of scrotum.-Weakness of genital organs.- Increased sexual desire, with frequent erections (continued erections at night).- Frequent pollutions.- Discharge of prostatic fluid, after urinating, and during a difficult evacuation.- Intellectual, moral, and physical fatigue after coition, and pollutions.- In either sex, complaints from coition.

Female Sexual Organs

Excoriation in vulva, and between thighs, sometimes before menses (soreness and redness of labia and perinaeum).-Great dryness of vulva and vagina, especially after menses, painful to touch.-Internal and external heat in genitals.- Contractive pain in vagina.- Swelling, redness, and moist itching eruption on labia minora.-Bearing down in uterus, which obstructs respiration.- Pressure as if everything would protrude through the vulva (with oppression of breathing).- Pains in both groins and bearing down, with constipation but no leucorrhoea, sleep heavy and non refreshing, coldness all over, tongue flabby (cured in stout woman, 35.- ***R. T. C.). Prolapsus of the vagina.- Violent stitches in the vagina upwards.- Prolapsus uteri, with congestion, with yellow leucorrhoea.- Prolapsus, with inclination of fundus to l., causing numbness in left lower half of body, with pain, better when lying, especially on right side, tenderness of os uteri.- Induration of cervix, burning, shooting, sticking pains.- Metrorrhagia, during climaxis or during pregnancy.-Menses too profuse.-Menses suppressed, or too feeble, or else too early (appearing only in morning).- When menses fail to appear in mothers who do not nurse, with inflation of abdomen.- Colic before menses.-During menses: irritability, melancholy, toothache, headache, nose-bleed, and painful weariness in limbs, or spasmodic colic and pressure towards the parts.- Must cross her limbs to prevent protrusion of the parts.- Dull, heavy pain in ovaries, especially l.- Sterility.- Leucorrhoea, or a yellow or greenish red water, or purulent and fetid, sometimes with inflation of abdomen, or shootings in vagina.-Leucorrhoea in place of menses.- Leucorrhoea like milk, with soreness of pudenda.- Itching, corrosive leucorrhoea.- Inclination to miscarriages. Abortion after the fifth month.- Tendency to abort fifth to seventh month.- Shootings in mammae.- Excoriation of nipples (which bleed and seem about to ulcerate).- Nipples cracked across the crown.- Induration of breasts, scirrhus, stitches, tender, burning pains.-Excoriation in children.- Sudden hot flushes of climaxis, with momentary sweat, weakness and great tendency to faint.- Retained placenta after miscarriage.- Soreness of abdomen, feels motions of child too sensitively.- During pregnancy yellow brown spots on face.- Terrible itching of vulva causing abortion.- Offensive excoriating lochia, very long lasting.

Respiratory Organs

Roughness and soreness of larynx and throat.-Sensation of dryness in larynx.- Hoarseness with coryza.- Sensation of dryness in trachea.- Cough, excited by a tickling in larynx or chest. Dry cough, which seems to arise from stomach, especially when in bed in evening (till midnight), and often with nausea and bitter vomiting.-Moist cough, after a chill.- Cough only during day, or which wakens one at night.- Expectoration profuse and whitish.- Cough, with copious expectoration of mucus, generally putrid, or of a salt taste, often only in morning or evening, and frequently accompanied by noise, weakness, and pains as from excoriation in chest (as if it were raw).- Cough with expectoration in morning, no expectoration in evening, or with expectoration at night, none in day, very severe cough in morning on rising, and expectoration of a great quantity of badly tasting substance.- Nocturnal cough, with cries, suffocation, and retching.-Cough, like whooping- cough.- Attacks of spasmodic cough, like whooping-cough, caused by tickling in chest or from tickling extending from larynx to abdomen, with expectoration only in morning, evening and at night of greenish-grey pus, or of milk-white, tough mucus, sometimes disagreeably sweet, which has to be swallowed again.- Cough, better when lying on left side, from acids.- Cough excited by a tickling sensation, and accompanied by constipation.-Difficult expectoration (or being obliged to swallow again what had been raised).- Yellow-greenish purulent expectoration during the cough.- Expectoration of blood Expectoration of blood while lying down.- Sanguineous expectoration, when coughing, morning and evening, with expectoration of mucus by day.- Lancinations in chest or back during cough.

Chest

Dyspnoea, oppression of chest, and shortness of breath, when walking and ascending, as well as when lying down in bed, in evening, and at night.- Pain in sides of chest, when inspiring or coughing.- Stitch in left side of chest and scapula when breathing and coughing.- Oppression on chest produced by an accumulation of mucus, or by too profuse expectoration.-Pain in chest from movement.-Pressure in chest, especially when in bed in evening.- Heaviness, fullness, and tension in chest.- (Hepatization of middle and lower lobes of right lung.- Skinner).- Pain in chest, as from excoriation.- Cramps in chest.- Itching and tickling in chest. Sensation of emptiness in chest.- Shootings and prickings in chest, and sides of chest, sometimes during an inspiration, and when coughing, as well as from intellectual exertion.- Brown spots on chest.- The chest symptoms cease, or are better by pressure of hand on thorax.

Heart

Ebullition (congestion) of blood in chest, and violent palpitation of heart.-Intermittent palpitation of heart.- Palpitation: in evening in bed with beating in all arteries, during digestion, with stitches in left side of chest.-Heart gives an occasional hard thump.- Wakes up with violent beating of heart.- Nervous palpitation better by walking fast.

Neck and Back

Tetters on nape, and behind ears.- Claret-coloured spots on neck, and under chin.- Furunculus on neck.- Perspiration on back, and under axillae.- Swelling and suppuration of axillary glands.- Humming tetters under axillae.- Pressure and stitches in right shoulder-blade.-Stiffness in small of back and neck. Pains in loins and back, with burning tearing.-Throbbing in loins. Weakness in loins when walking.- Incisive pains, pressure, digging and spasmodic tearings in back.- Rigidity of back and nape.-Pain in the back, and small of back particularly with stiffness, better by walking.- Tearing in back during menses, with chills, heat, thirst and contraction of chest.- Aching and dull pain in lumbar and sacral regions, extending to thigh and legs.-Sprained pain over hips, in evening in bed, and in afternoon.- Shivering in back.-Brownish spots on back.- Reddish herpetic spots above hip, and both sides of neck.- Stitches posteriorly above right hip, she could not lie on right side, and when touched it felt sore.- Stitches in back when coughing.- Itching eruption on back.

Limbs

Drawing in all the limbs.- Drawing and tearing (paralytic pains) in limbs and joints (with weakness).- Heaviness of the limbs. Arthritic pains in joints.- Tension in limbs as if they were too short.-Easy going to sleep of limbs, especially after manual labour.-Stiffness and want of flexibility in joints.-Easy dislocation and spraining of limbs.- Commotions and jerks in limbs night and day.- Restlessness and throbbing in all the limbs, which admits of no rest in any place.- Frequent stretchings.-Want of stability in limbs.- Coldness of hands and feet, but moist.

Upper Limbs

Wrenching pain (as from dislocation) in shoulder joint, especially on lifting or holding anything.- Lassitude in arms. Sensation of stiffness or coldness in arms, as if paralysed.- Drawing, paralytic pain in arm and shoulder-joint, extending to fingers.-Swelling and suppuration of axillary glands.-Shootings in arms, wrist, and fingers on fatiguing or moving them.-Painful tension in arms, and joints of elbow and fingers, as if caused by contraction.-Inflammatory, deep red, hard, marbled swelling in middle of arms.- Pustules on arms, with violent itching.- Stiffness of joints of elbow and hands.- Brownish spots, herpetic skin, and itching scabs on elbow (scaling off).- Itching vesicles on back of hand, and tips of fingers.- Itch and scabs on hands (soldiers’ itch).- Herpes on backs of hands.- Swelling of hand, with eruption of vesicles, like pemphigus.- Shootings in wrist on moving the hand.-Burning heat in palms.- Cold sweat on hands.- Malignant scabies, and scabs on hands.- Arthritic drawing and shootings in joints of fingers.- Distortion of fingers.-Painless ulcers on joints, and on tips of fingers.- (Tingling in tips of fingers, which wakes her up on going to sleep, after which sleeps well all night.-***R.T.C.).- Warts on hands and fingers, on sides of fingers, horny.-Flaws on fingers.-Deformed nails.-Panaritium, with throbbing and shooting pains.

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