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Pollutions without lewd dreams.

Respiratory Organs

Sensation of obstruction in the larynx and nose, with hoarseness when reading aloud, deep voice. Catarrh, with hoarseness and stuffed chest. Cough especially in evening, and at night, when sleeping, generally rough and dry, or hollow and dull. Dry, hoarse cough worse at night. Frequent attacks of deep, hollow, hoarse cough, with sound like a trumpet, caused by tickling in larynx and chest. The cough is lessened as soon as the patient succeeds in taking a breath.

Chest

Shooting in chest, sometimes with oppression and obstructed respiration. Tension in chest, with lancinations in region of heart, in evening, after lying down. Stitches in the chest. Red nodosity near xiphoid cartilage, painful when pressed upon.

Back

Lancinations in the back and shoulder-blades. Sharp intermittent stitches in left scapula. Fine persistent stitch in last dorsal vertebra. Between right loin and spine deep, knife-like stitches quite intense in intestines. Backache worse from pressure.

Limbs

Stitching in the limbs.

Upper Limbs

Tearing pain in the shoulder, back of hand, and elbow. Spasmodic pressure in forearm, hand, and thumb. Tearing shootings in hand and fingers. Tensive pain in wrist. Wrenching pain in joint of hand. Stitches like a sprain (or paralysis), where carpal bone of thumb articulates with radius. Paralytic pain in joints of fingers.

Lower Limbs

Excessive heaviness and lassitude in legs and feet. especially when going up stairs. Cramp-like pain in muscles of right thigh, while walking in open air. Spasmodic pressure in thighs, legs, and soles. Cramp-like pressure in sole or right foot, while standing, disappears when walking. Trembling of knees. Dull lancinations in patella, bones of feet, and toes. Violent, intermittent, dull sticking in metatarsal bones of great and adjacent toes of left foot during rest. Tearing along legs.

Generalities

General indolence, and disposition to sleep, after rising in the morning. Stretching and frequent yawning. Hemorrhoids, affections of the inner navel region, obstruction from induration of stool. Darting pains in inner parts, want of perspiration. < When sitting, from change of temperature. > On rising from a sitting posture. Stinging pains in the limbs. Benumbing sensation with almost all the pain. Tearings, sometimes lancinating, in different parts (going downwards). Tottering when walking.

Sleep

Strong disposition to sleep after a meal. Disturbed sleep, at night, with tossing. Short sleep at night, lasting only till 4 a.m., with anxious, frightful dreams of wars and dead bodies.

Fever

Internal coldness of whole body, of hands and feet, perceptible also externally. Shuddering, especially on one side of body, as if it were bathed in cold water.

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