HEART
Increased action.
Severe cutting pain in region of, lasting but a moment and recurring at irregular intervals of five minutes to half an hour, making me catch my breath and turn pale, even to lips, worse during inspiration, and passing directly through thorax in region of heart; after each attack was thirsty, flushed and exhausted.
Startled out of sleep at 1 a.m. by severe pain in region of heart, and then violent action of heart set in; apex beat felt and seen over a large area, with suffocative feeling and almost inability to breathe; had to sit up in bed and turn one way and then another, with cough without expectoration; three attacks at night; once almost unconscious from agitated, tumultuous beating of heart; pulse rapid; temperature, 101° at 4 a.m., 97.6° at 9 a.m.; slept hardly at all.
PULSE
One hundred and more, feeble; 82 feeble and irregular; 80; 74 and soft; 72 and irregularly intermittent; 110; 70; I30; 120.
Carotids throb.
VEINS
Fullness of; sense of heat all through veins, with desire to be bled.
NECK
Pain and stiffness in nape of neck, somewhat relieved by hard pressure or throwing head back; in evening, I involuntarily put my hand there constantly to try and relieve it by pressure.
Back of neck numb.
Dull, drawing pain from nape to right scapula; dull in back of neck. Very painful, extending into right shoulder and down back; difficult to turn neck to left.
Rheumatic pain in nape, better pressing head backward. Tired feeling in nape.
BACK—Detail.
Slight pain in left side and under left shoulder blade; also in left hip. Ached whole length of spine.
Severe pain in cervical and upper sacral region.
Coccyx seemed elongated, extremely sensitive to pressure, and ache; could not sit except on foot or air cushion to raise it from chair. Dragging pain in lower portion of pelvis and back.
Pain in sacral region.
Muscles seemed tired; twitched.
Clinical.
Pain in back, as if broken.
EXTREMITIES
Limbs ached.
Joints seemed loosened.
Numbness through all limbs; left sided; back of neck, especially left foot.
Limbs heavy to lift.
UPPER LIMBS
Pain, numbness.
Detail.
Severe pain in right arm, beginning above bend of elbow; inside, just above elbow; in wrist, extending to thumb; slight above inner condyle of right arm.
Arms felt as if they had carried a heavy weight.
Arms felt better from being twisted.
Pain in right arm and right knee.
Numbness in left shoulder and arm; left numb and heavy.
Pain in elbows; in left, passing to palm, then to shoulder; in both elbows and back of head, with bewildered sensation; in left knee and left elbow, extending to hand, then in left side and top of left foot; in left elbow and left side of head.
Pain in wrist, extending to thumb; sudden cramp-like in wrists and knees, ending in a steady ache.
A flash of pain in right thumb, extending to hand; another in calf of right leg.
Pain and pricking feeling in right arm, extending to third finger. Pricking and throbbing sensation in left arm and fingers.
LOWER EXTREMITIES
Pain, aching.
Detail.
Pain in right knee; dull in right knee; in right leg in morning; in right ankle; in left heel; severe in left knee; slight in left hip.
Flash of pain in right calf.
Pain in both feet, shooting up to knees.
Pain in left leg, between hip and knee, and in various other parts. Aching, particularly of knee joints.
Taken suddenly at 4 p.m. with cramp-like pains in wrists and knees; wrists especially somewhat sensitive to touch; cramp and sharp pain soon settled down into a steady ache like rheumatism, with deep, dull, boring pain in right hypochondriac region, quite severe; relief from constant pressure and motion; lying down or sitting aggravated.
Weakness; legs and feet feel tired; with pain in knees; it is an exertion to walk; increased pain, with frequent chills.
Inability to walk straight; floor seemed soft like wool.
Twitching in left knee and trembling in right.
Clinical.
Severe neuralgic pains in course of genito-crural nerves; dysmenorrhea.
Sciatica, agg. hot weather; of anterior crural nerve after Gnaph.
SKIN
Blotches on face, with boils.
Measles, dullness, bewilderment, drowsiness; want of sufficient development of the eruption.
SLEEP
Gaping; drowsy all morning; all evening; sleepy feeling all day, with headache; sleep from 4 to 7 p.m. and then from I0 p.m. to 7 a.m. Slept hard all night and awoke languid, depressed, and without appetite; slept hard and heavy; dreamed of flying over tops of houses; heavy with constant dreams, till 4 a.m.; soundly without dreaming.
Frequent waking.
Restless night, although very sleepy; continually twisted and turned; when I did sleep, dreamed of being chased, and when overtaken, about to be scalped; could not make a sound to call help.
SLEEP
Restless all night, with frightful dreams of being killed or burned. Sleepy; headache kept me awake for an hour; on shutting eyes there appeared bright, star-shaped spots dancing up and down.
Born in Western Pennsylvania, he graduated from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and subsequently Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia. He moved to Parkersburg, W. Va., in 1888, practicing there, but also consulting worldwide. He gave lectures at the Pulte Medical College in Cincinnati and taught philosophy, materia medica, and repertory at the American Foundation for Homoeopathy Postgraduate School. Boger brought BÅ“nninghausen's Characteristics and Repertory into the English Language in 1905. His publications include :
Boenninghausen's Characteristics and Repertory
Boenninghausen's Antipsorics
Boger's Diphtheria, (The Homoeopathic Therapeutics of)
A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1915
General Analysis with Card Index, 1931
Samarskite-A Proving
The Times Which Characterize the Appearance and Aggravation of the Symptoms and their Remedies