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Female Sexual Organs

Sharp pains in ovarian region coming and going for two weeks, worse morning in bed (B1).- Shooting pains in left ovarian region, and on movement lumbar pain and stiffness (B2).- Shooting pains in left ovarian region, worse lying on left side, with dead ache after (B3).- Felt faint, and actually fainted before menses (B3).- (Numerous cases of retained placenta.)- Metrorrhagia, partly bright, partly clotted and dark, with dull headache, stitches in temples, numbness of extremities, blue rings round eyes, sunken eyes.- It causes uterine contractions and stops haemorrhages. (Chronic (granular) endometritis characterized by enlargement, either subinvolution, alveolar hyperplasia or hypertrophy.).

Respiratory Organs

Spasm of glottis, came with dry sensation in throat, followed by efforts to swallow, then a sort of complete block, causing efforts to swallow and eyes to fill with tears (B).- Breathing slow and stertorous.- Slight disposition to stertorous breathing (2nd d.).- (A case of whooping-cough was cured in two days.).

Chest

Pain across sternal region, below breasts, coming and going worse by deep breath or lying on left side (B3).- Stitching pain at upper part of left breast (B3).- Stabs under left false ribs and constriction upper part of left lung,- worse taking deep breath.- Stitch in chest below left breast, again above right knee (B).- Creepy, chilly feeling left side of lower outer chest (B).

Heart

Just when going off to sleep heart gave two severe thumps, then want off beating at a great rate (B1).- Heart gave a throb and then a pause (B).- Palpitation during coitus (B).- Pulse small, quick, and very irregular. Pulse slow, full, and bounding.

Neck and Back

Sudden, momentary pain right side of neck, two inches above clavicle (B).- Pain in left side of neck on turning head to left (B).- Aching between shoulders (B1).- Aching and burning in sacral region (B1).- Lumbar pain and stiffness worse on movement (B).- Creepy shivering lumbar region (B).

Limbs

Twitching in hands and legs like chorea (B3).

Upper Limbs

Severe pain in right shoulder-joint while sitting thinking, 9 p.m., worse on raising arm.- Felt in dorsum of left hand as if a large spider were crawling over it, soon afterwards felt same sensation in dorsum of the right hand (Proell, after 40 drops).

Lower Limbs

(Several cases of sciatica.) In same winter suddenly felt in right foot a violent aching pain from within outwards, that compelled him to take off his boot, as it felt too *tight, this sensation went off in an hour (Proell).- Sharp pain in right buttock (B).- Unable to sleep till 4 a.m. for pain in right leg, in popliteal space and edge of tibia, as during catamenia, better moving leg about (B3).- Burning in center of calf, changing position of limb better but does not remove the pain (B3).- Aching at upper and outer aspect of both calves, must keep moving them (B3).- Sharp shoot center right thigh at back (B).- Sharp twinge of pain in left tibia (B). Sharp twinge of pain in ball of left great toe (B).- Stitch above right knee (B).- Sudden twinges of pain in lower right thigh and left supraorbital region (B).

Generalities

About 10 a.m., when he was going to see a patient, he felt very queer, as if he must fall down, he felt a glow that rose up from the feet to the head, and it seemed to him as if he were on fire, at same time his face became very pale, this kind of aura epileptica recurred three times during the winter (Proell, after 40 drops).- Every muscle of body, except those of eyes, were paralysed, could not speak or swallow, and both died about eighth or ninth day, literally starved.- Frequent recurrence of the symptoms during two years.- (Chorea from fright.)- Trembling in limbs, teeth chattered, got generally shaky (B1).- Unable to keep any part of body quiet at night, jerking first in one part then in another (B1).- Jerking and twitching of muscles (B2). Fearfully tired as after hard work, evenings (B3).- Shooting pain in various parts of body (B).- Tremor through body as if all muscles in fibrillary contraction (B).

Skin

Skin warm and moist.- Skin felt dry and burning (B3).- Red spots on neck and chest (B3).- Left side of neck large papule or small blood-boil (B).

Sleep

Drowsiness (2nd d.).- Wakes thinking of horrible things, gets to sleep again soon by changing thoughts (B1).- Sleep dreamful, worrying dreams of affairs of day (B3).

Fever

Chilly even near a stove, cold, chilly feeling creeps over him frequently (B).- Skin warm and very moist (2nd d.). First cold and then hot feeling without being actually hot (B1).- On waking always very hot except on knees, legs, and feet, which are very cold.- Hot feeling at night during micturition (B).

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

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