Theridion



Face

Face pale. Froth before mouth with shaking chill. Jaw immovable in morning on waking and at other times of the day, then opening involuntarily.

Teeth

Teeth feel as if cool water were too cold. Burning and tensive pain in teeth, gums and palate. Every shrill sound penetrates the teeth. Raging pain in all teeth in afternoon and evening, causing weeping, but drawing particularly in roots of sound eye-teeth.

Mouth

Gums, mouth and nose dry, and feeling as if too much air passed into mouth. There is no proper taste, her mouth feels furred, benumbed. Salty taste, hawking of salty mucus.

Throat

Sore throat, chilly, bones sore, difficult swallowing, constipation, urine scanty and high-coloured. Pressure in lower part of oesophagus towards epigastrium, taking away the breath.

Appetite

Constant desire to eat and drink, he knows not what. Appetite for acidulous fruit. Craves oranges and bananas. Increased desire to smoke tobacco. Thirst: great after midday sleep, for wine and brandy.

Stomach

Nausea: in morning, on rising, from vertigo on least motion, on closing eyes, on opening eyes (Better *Mosch.), like seasickness, when looking steadily at an object, on motion, on talking, from fast riding in a carriage. Sensitiveness in region of stomach and epigastrium.

Abdomen

Violent burning pains in hepatic region worse from touch, retching, bilious vomit. Abscess of liver. Anthrax of sheep. Emission of more flatus than usual. Pains in groins: after coition: in region of groin on motion, when she draws up her leg it seems as if some one tapped her hard on the groin.

Stool

Stool: papescent, scanty, urgent, next day thin and scanty, omitted on third day. Stool difficult towards the end, though not hard. Bowels open twice with colic and flatulency, after which headache is aggravates. Anus protrudes and is painful, worse sitting. Spasmodic contraction of rectum and anus. Heaviness in perineal region, which he has had for a very long time, is now felt at every step, with feeling of a lump there.

Urinary Organs

Urine increased. Has to rise four or five times in night to micturate, does not pass much during day.

Male Sexual Organs

Red spots on glans. Erections: strong in morning, without desire, weak during coition, absent, desire vanished. Scrotum shrivelled. Violent and profuse emission during nap after dinner (had taken *Anise during the day).

Female Sexual Organs

Hysteria, during puberty, at climaxis. Menses omitted in a woman at climaxis, gave birth to a son the following year. Bruised, sore pain in both ovarian regions, worse motion and pressure, labour-like pain in lower abdomen, with sensation as if child bounding in body, tickling in both sides. Dysmenorrhoea, intense, in left ovary, with intense headache, extreme sensitiveness of the cervix, chilliness, &c.

Respiratory Organs

Cough at night. Convulsive cough, with the peculiar vertigo. Violent cough, with spasmodic jerking of head forward and knees upward. Increased inclination to take a deep respiration, to sigh.

Chest

Violent stitches high in chest beneath left shoulder, felt even in throat. Pinching in left pectoral muscle. Pressure as if something in oesophagus were slipping towards epigastrium, taking away breath for a few moments.

Heart

Anxiety about heart, sharp pains radiate to arm and left shoulder. Pulse slow with vertigo.

Back and neck

Itching on nape, at top of shoulder and on back. Pain between the shoulders. Spinal irritation, great sensitiveness between vertebrae. Sits sideways in a chair to avoid pressure against spine. Could not bear least noise, and jar of foot on floor was so aggravating it made her cry out. Loins affected after vomiting.

Limbs

Heaviness in all limbs after breakfast, necessity to lie down, internal chill so that he trembles.

Upper Limbs

Stinging from elbow to shoulder.

Lower Limbs

Peculiar drawing in right hip, passing down thigh in evening when sitting and afterwards, with internal coldness below knee, better external warmth. Knees trouble her in afternoon. Feet swollen. Pain in little toes as if pressed in walking.

Generalities

Tetanus with trismus. Every shrill sound and reverberation penetrates her whole body, worse teeth, and increases the vertigo, which then causes nausea. Pain in all bones, as if every part would fall asunder, feeling as if broken from head to foot, then coldness. Weakness: in morning, with sleepiness, with tremulousness and perspiration. The sudden, violent symptoms were better by *Aconite, later symptoms were better by *Graphites

Skin

Hard pimple beside ball of thumb. Itching: on back, calf, nape, at edge of shoulder in morning, on nates with knots, burning, on inner and upper part of left ring-finger, with redness.

Sleep

Sleepy in morning. Sleeps all day. Deep sleep at night. He often bites tip of his tongue in sleep, so that it is sore next day. Sleep long and dreamful at midday, dreams of journeys in distant regions and of riding on horses (in one who scarcely ever sat upon a horse). Dreams that he broke off a tooth.

Fever

Shaking chill: with foam at mouth, with headache and vomiting. Sweats easily after walking and driving. Icy sweat covering body, with fainting and vertigo, and vomiting at night.

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