Tarentula



Male Sexual Organs

Extreme sexual excitement, lasciviousness almost to insanity. Onanism followed by prostatic ailments and hypochondriasis. Painfulness of genitals, testes relaxed, painful to touch, pain in groins and stricture of urethra. Erections. Emissions. Indolent tumour developed in each testicle. Heaviness, pain and great swelling of (right) testicle and cord. Drawing pulling in left cord. During emission of semen a sensation of heat is felt in its passage, it is rose-coloured containing some blood. Difficult coitus, followed by fatigue and cough.

Female Sexual Organs

Extreme sexual excitement, menses too early and profuse, pains and spasm of uterus, pruritus vulvae, leucorrhoea. Violent nymphomania, worse from coitus. Nymphomania, reflex chorea, hyperaemia and hyperaesthesia of sexual organs. Sexual desire in a woman who had a shining callosity on left index finger. Fibrous tumour of uterus with bearing-down pains. Discharge of blood alternately with leucorrhoea. Uterine discharge with pain in groins. Spasmodic pains worse when trying to walk. Expulsion of gas from uterus. Anguish, malaise in sexual organs, impossible to walk, seems as if a living body moving or tingling in stomach with tendency to rise to throat. Sensation as if uterus had not room enough and were pushing away intestines. Pain in uterus with constrictive headache. Shooting: in vagina, in genitals followed by leucorrhoea. Cutting in uterus or pain as if a heavy blow struck on it. Pruritus vulvae, after menses. Profuse menstruation: with erotic spasms, crossness, ennui, and deep dissatisfaction, worse after sleep. Menses seven days too early. (Uterine neuralgia. Dysmenorrhoea.) Sensation of motion in uterus, like a foetus. Disorders of pregnancy. Swelling of breasts with itching of nipples.

Respiratory Organs

Roughness in larynx and trachea with some dry cough, and smarting in eyelids. Aphonia with increased difficulty of breathing. Hoarseness. Cough: painful, dry, gagging, fatiguing, causes distensive pains in head, chest, and uterus with sadness and anxiety, but when walking in open air a sensation of happiness. Cough when getting out of bed, with vomiting and involuntary emissions of urine. Chronic suffocating catarrh. Loose cough followed by tickling in larynx and bronchial tubes which renews cough. Attacks of suffocation, with crying, screaming, and restlessness.

Chest

Great oppression in chest, panting respiration. Sensation as of a blow at base of left lung. In chest, pains, stinging, pressive, cramp-like, shooting.

Heart and Pulse

Diseases of heart worse by wetting hands in cold water. Praecordial anxiety, tremulous beating of heart. Pain in heart as if squeezed, also in aorta. Nervous spells with pain in left ovary. Sensation as if heart turned or twisted round. Palpitation, stitches interfering with breathing. Painful throbbing of carotids, with fulness in head, especially region of medulla, better by epistaxis. Trembling and thumping of heart as from fright or bad news. Pulse: hard, infrequent, irregular.

Back and neck

Neck stiff, cannot move it without pain. Pain left side of neck when turning head to r. Mole on neck with sensation as of needles sticking into it when touched. Pain in neck and back followed by general paralysis. Swelling (or tumour, or rheumatoid prominence) on spinal column with laboured breathing. Tabes dorsalis. Scapula: pain in, shooting pain under left Shooting in left loin above hip. Acute convulsive pains in left lower part of vertebral column on appearance of menses, ceasing with them. Repeated lancinating, shooting pain in coccyx. (Coccygodynia after confinement, burning, smarting leucorrhoea, painful uneasiness in coccyx better standing, worse slightest movement, sitting, lying in bed, or least pressure).

Limbs

Rheumatism checked by putting extremities in cold water, panting respiration, anxiety, cramps in heart or twisting pains, arm feels tense, stretched, morning and night cold extremities. Weakness, numbness, and dulness. Necessity to move legs extends to hands with desire of taking something and throwing it away, to roll something between fingers, followed by general fatigue. Great pain in knuckles and toes, can scarcely bear the weight of lightest linen.

Upper Limbs

Heaviness in arms (soon). Squeezed pain in left arm and hand (forenoon). Pain and swelling in wrists. Restlessness of hands. Unbearable pains in thumbs, especially right, better pressure. Burning and sweating of palms.

Lower Limbs

Uneasiness of legs, must keep moving them. Weakness of legs, cannot plant them firmly, do not obey will. Numbness of legs followed by paralysis. Convulsive shaking and twitching in right leg. Pain in right internal malleolus. Shooting: in right tendo Achillis, right great toe, right little toe. Painful cramp in right sole. Itching in soles of feet.

Generalities

A state like apoplexy or asphyxia comes on, if music is brought the patient revives, sighs, commences to dance vigorously, and so the symptoms pass of with perspiration, but they are apt to be renewed the following year in the same season. Trembling of all limbs. Intense restlessness.

Skin

Ecchymosed spots. Hepatic spots. Furfuraceous spots. Miliary eruption. Indolent pimples. Vesicular eruption like crusta lactea. A small callosity, whitish, indolent, in right palm between middle and index fingers, increased, with heat and pain, extended, broke, leaving an ulcer with callous edges, healed leaving a small scar. Painful callosity at end of right thumb fell off. Callosity in left index fell out. Every year intense pain in toes from re-opened wound. Formication, pricking, itching over whole body.

Sleep

Yawning. Sleeplessness. Dreams: of business, of drowning, sad with weeping. Wakes up cross.

Fever

Constant chill and coldness during four days. Scorching heat on whole body alternating with icy coldness. Intermittent febrile attacks, during heat continued coldness of feet. Chills and fever with choreic convulsions, shakes almost continuously with involuntary movements in limbs, abdomen, chest, back and face, worse left side, could not speak (after a severe scolding or punishment). Toxaemic fevers of a typhoid or intermittent form, chilliness or burning heat, chilliness predominating. Scorching heat of skin, which is scarlet. Debilitating sweats. Night- sweats. Cold 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