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Urinary Organs

Renal colic, violent pains along ureters, cold sweat, deathly nausea. Paralysis of sphincter, constant dribbling. Enuresis. Urine yellowish-red, with increased secretion. Inflammation of the orifice of the urethra.

Male Sexual Organs

Frequent erections. Flow of prostatic fluid. Nocturnal emissions, until waking. Genital organs flabby, no erections or sexual desire. Varicocele. (Masturbation and its consequences. ***R.T.C.).

Female Sexual Organs

Retarded and profuse catamenia. Leucorrhoea, like sanguineous water. Leucorrhoea of serous liquid after the menses. In climacteric period, also during menses, subjective coldness, epigastric sinking, palpitation, severe diarrhoea, muscular relaxation, excessive sense of wretchedness. Morning sickness of pregnancy, nausea and vomiting, patient dreads least movement. During pregnancy, insupportable pruritus over whole body, pyrosis, toothache, and other gastric symptoms.

Respiratory Organs

Dry cough, excited by a tickling in throat, in morning and towards evening. Cough causes in pit of stomach sensation as of a wound by some sharp instrument. Cough, with hiccough (at same time), almost suffocating, (or hiccough after every paroxysm of whooping-cough). Difficult respiration. Paroxysm of suffocation.

Chest

Oppression of the chest, with anguish. Constriction of the chest. Pressure on the chest and sternum. Shootings in chest and sides of chest, sometimes when drawing breath. Sticking under sternum with inability to take a deep breath. (A trembling, frightened feeling across pit of chest with sudden and irregular sinkings. Nervous indigestion, constant sinking in chest. ***R.T.C.) On taking a deep breath it seemed as if chest were too tight. Sensation as if a crowbar were pressed tightly from right breast to left till it came and twisted in a knot around heart, which stopped, then leaped violently, after the attack heart missed every fourth beat. Pain, as from excoriation, in chest, during a meal. Itching pimples on chest.

Heart and Pulse

Sudden attacks of extreme faintness, feeling of oppression around cardiac region. Angina pectoris (single doses of O relieved much, not to be repeated often. ***R.T.C.). Feeble, irregular pulse. Palpitation of heart, when lying on left side.

Back and neck

Stiffness of the neck. Head drawn back in convulsions. Neuralgic pains in neck and between shoulders. Burning under scapula. Neuralgia of back with tightness of throat. Contractive pains in the loins, especially after a stool. Violent pain in small of back and loins (renal calculi). Throbbing in sacral region, evening. Pain in small of back and loins, especially after sitting. Intolerable pain in small of back much worse while sitting. Pains in small of back, constriction, especially after a stool. Pressive pain in lumbar region on rising from a seat and beginning to walk, goes off on walking. Emaciation of the back. Red, itching eruption on the back.

Upper Limbs

Painful weakness of hands and arms, which are, as it were, paralysed. Constant need to stretch arms. Shootings and drawing in shoulders. Red spots on shoulder, which burn when they are touched. Tension in arm, especially in elbow. Pain and shootings in left arm, which disable it and prevent its extension. (Coldness and trembling of the limbs), trembling of hands. Cold perspiration on hands. Cramps in the arms and hands. Cramps in single fingers, especially while washing, early morning. Cramps and tingling in fingers. Swelling of fingers. Itching pimples on fingers.

Lower Limbs

Burning pain in knee and soles. Legs icy cold from knees down. Shooting in knee and ham. Flexion of knees, when walking. Cramp in toes, extending into knees. Jerking of legs in bed. Tingling, crawling, from knee to toes. Tension in leg when walking, from knee to foot. Trembling and paralytic weakness of feet.

Generalities

Pressive pains, with agitation throughout body, and anxious perspiration. Sudden breaking out of cold, clammy sweat, with much nausea, feeble, irregular pulse, collapse. Cramps and tingling in limbs. Restlessness, wants to change place continually. Gait slow and shuffling, difficulty in ascending stairs. Excessive emaciation. Anaemia of boys and girls, particularly with brain symptoms (cured with dilutions. ***R.T.C.). Paralytic and painful weakness of limbs. Trembling of limbs. Great general lassitude. Jerkings throughout body, with pulsation and palpitation of the heart. Convulsions, head firmly drawn back, with rigidity of muscles at back of neck, constantly recurring rigid uterine spasms, muscles of back being principally affected, till death a week after he chewed the tobacco. Epileptiform convulsions. Symptoms worse on left side, from great heat or great cold, and especially in stormy weather, from walking, riding in a carriage, and jar of a railway train. Better in the open air, from vomiting.

Skin

Itching in skin, as from flea-bites. Itching over the whole body. Eruption of itching pimples, or vesicles, with yellow serum and red areola.

Sleep

Urgent inclination to sleep, especially after a meal, and towards evening, with frequent yawnings. Retarded sleep in evening, and difficulty in waking in morning. Stupefying sleep at night. Disturbed sleep at night, with fright. Nightmare.

Fever

Pulse full, hard, and rapid, or small, imperceptible, intermittent, slow. Coldness and shivering, sometimes with chattering of teeth. Coldness of legs from knees to toes, warm body, cold hands. Chilliness after eating and drinking. Frequent attacks of shuddering, sometimes with flushes of heat. Permanent shuddering, from morning till evening. Perspiration at night. Viscid cold sweat, with intermitting pulse. Cold sweat, in hands, on forehead and face.

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