LUNGS- Transient hard ache in lower lobes of lungs; am afraid to draw a long breath on account of the pains (9th day).
HEART AND CHEST- Anxiety about the heart in evening after lying down1 (7th day). Anxiety about the heart with palpitation1 (8th day). Anxiety in the chest, as if she would die, worse on lying down, must lie with head drawn back, as she chokes so1 (9th day). Feeling as though the whole chest was distended and the heart Calcarea Arsenicum – Headache goes to the side not lain on. Staphisagria. – Headache with ball in forehead and hollowness in occiput.
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Very sore1 (9th day). Feeling as if the heart was distended, or swelled to fill the chest1 (many days). Anxiety in the region of the heart all night1 (9th day). Extreme realization of the heart1 (strongest 12th day, lasting many days). Pulse 120 in the evening1. Pulse 105 in the evening1. At 3 P. M. sensation of fluttering of heart followed by feeling that heart fell down into abdomen; then pulse became feeble, with heat lasting until after midnight1 (10th day). At 11 p. m. sudden, sharp stitching pain in the heart, followed by dull pain, which gradually subsided2 (1st day). Throbbing or fluttering under left scapula2 (2d). Sudden, sharp stitches in apex of heart, worse evening2 (2nd day). Pain through the attachments of the diaphragm, just below apex of heart. Pain in same region on right side of chest; hard aching, worse from deep inspiration2(3d day). Sharp stitches in the heart2 (4th day, lasting through the proving-four weeks). Dull pain in region of heart at 10 p.m. (7th day). Drawing pain in right side of chest, below mammary gland, on lying down at night (three nights); makes him put the hand on the pain; (>) by lying on that side and (<) lying on left side4. Sharp stitches in right side of chest2. (7th day). Dull pain in apex of heart, transient 2d, 4th, 9th and 17th days). Hard ache in heart at 10:30 p.m.5. (10th day). Sharp, darting pain under right breast5 (13th and 16th days).
OUTER CHEST-Hard dull aching across the chest, extending to axilla on both sides, (<) on pressure; moving the hand to opposite shoulder causes pain in muscles of chest2 (6th day). Transient sense of pressure over the lower sternum5 (12th day).
NECK AND BACK-During the day, constriction about the neck, clothing disturbed her, choking feeling1 (8th day). Sore aching feeling below the left scapula, rubbing (>)1 (lasting many days). Transient lame stitch in back of neck2 (4th day). Transient aching feeling in sacrum2 (5th day). Throbbing under the scapulae, dull aching in small of back2 (13th day). Transient dull aching in back of neck2 (18th day). Dull aching in small of back2 (21st day). Throbbing in buttocks2 (21st day). Soreness in coccyx and gluteal muscles when sitting2 (21st day). Awoke with throbbing in vulva and in anus, followed by a dull aching in sacral region, relieved by walking about (12th day). Throbbing carotids when lying down5(12th day). Awoke at night with pain in region of left kidney, worse lying on left side, better by turning on right side and drawing up limbs7 (3d day).
UPPER LIMBS Transient aching in middle of right forearm, on the radius2 (3d day). Heat in palms in evening2 (3d day). Hands get chapped easily.2 Hands vary, one minute hot and dry, then cold, then sweating in palms5 (3d day). Dull ache in metacarpal bone of thumb5 (4th day). Dull ache in cushion of right and left thumbs5(12th day). Dull ache in left palm5 (21st day). Itching of left palm5 (17th day). Cold air makes the hands look red and as though the little red points of blood would ooze out. In the house hands merely look rough5 (20th day).
LOWER LIMBS-Feet painful in morning3 (7th day) sharp itching in 3d toe3 (old symptom, 5th day). Awoke with dull aching in four lesser toes of right foot, acute pain when stepping or moving foot, gradually subsided after bathing in hot water2 (19th day). Want to put feet up; unconsciously cross the limbs5 (throughout proving). Profuse foot-sweat, can almost wring the stockings, not acrid nor offensive5 (12th day). Corn burns and twinges, cannot bear my usual shoe; (<) in wet weather (21st and several days following).
LIMBS IN GENERAL
Hands and feet get numb early during proving1. Small varicose veins5.
NERVES Extremely restless during night, compelled to move constantly1 (Rhus-11th day). Not able to rest in bed, must walk the floor to ease mind and yet has no mental troubles3 (6th day). Restless after stools7 (11th day). Hysterical fainting at 7:30 P.m.3 (an old symptom -11th day). Fainting from nervousness6 (30th day).
SLEEP AND DREAMS–Unusually sound sleep during entire night1 (7th day). The night was full of horrible dreams of drunken people, dead people, naked people, robbers, indecent conduct of men and women1 (7th day). While sleeping in afternoon the breathing ceased and she awoke suffocating1 (8th day). Sleepless until 3 A. M.1(9th day). Wakeful with horrible anxiety and feeling that she must die1 (many nights). Wakeful until 3 A.M. with anxiety. Sleepless until 1 A. M. (10th day). Sleepless before midnight1 (11th day). Restless all night, could not lie in one place long enough to go to sleep1 (12th day). Dreams of wandering in the field with cattle, with fear of being hurt3 (3d day). Dreams of male animals following her in the field to injure her (6th day). Wakeful until midnight.3 Dreams of seeing animals copulating (two provers). Dreams of rape (confirmed). Late falling to sleep; voluptuous dreams3 (8th day). Wakeful night with dreams of animals; voluptuous dreams3 (9th day). Dreams of male and female terrapin. Wakeful, after these dreams of animals (13th day). Dreams of wandering; of naked people; of wild animals pursuing her (14th day). Vivid dreams first night2. Vivid, horrible dreams; of dissecting living and dead people; of going up and down ditches; being in peril of engines; woke feeling as though that part of abdomen, the umbilicus, was not sufficiently expanded (constriction) 1 (2d day). Dreams confused2 (3d day). Sleepy at dark2(4th day). Dreams, horrible; of the dead; seeing dead infants (5th day). Very sleepy at 9 A. m., can hardly hold eyes open while people are talking to me (6th and 7th days). Dreams vivid and pleasant2 (13th day). Dreams vivid and fantastic (6th day). Dreams vivid (6th, 7th, 8th days). Dreamed-had all the upper incisors pulled out (8th day). Dreamed all night of snakes, they were coiled ready to strike, was bitten on left hand by one and hand swelled and pulse went up to 160 per minute7 (9th day). Cold when in bed; not when had my clothes on 7 (10th day). Coldness of body, especially nates, early in bed, 8:30 7 (10th day). Sleepy at 11 A. M., took nap. Biting sensation in left temple on waking7 (3d day-30th potency). Sleep all night on left side without moving. Dreams of plotting to fire the town or any building7 (4th day-30th potency). Tongue dry; saliva running upon the pillow during sleep (unusual). Body always cold in bed since began the proving7 (5th day-30th potency).
TIME – Suffocating feeling after lying down in the evening1 (7th day). At 3 P.M., most symptoms; chill, fever, thirst, dry mouth, constriction of neck. Most symptoms better in the morning. Tired at 10 A. m., wants to lie down, During breakfast, cutting pain in left hypochondrium. At 11 A. m. sleepy, took a nap.
CHILL, FEVER AND PERSPIRATION-Chill at 3 P. m., icy cold hands and feet1 Flushes of heat to face and head (Ist day). Fever at 3 p. m., lasting until midnight1. Fever, afternoon and evening. At 3 p. m., dry mouth and lips, mouth feels parched, intense thirst, pulse 105, choking and sensation as if chest was filling up, causing constriction and difficult breathing1 (10th day). Considerable chilliness3 (10th day). Chilly all morning3 (12th day). Very chilly, shiverings pass over body every few minutes, absent 9 to 10 p. m.2 (5th day). The body feels flushed, but the contact of cold things is disagreeable, causing chills2 (7th day). Chilly at night2 (8th day). Feels flushed all over the body2 (9th day). Face and hands feverish in afternoon2 (12th day). At 10 p. m., cold chills in the back and chest, face and hands still burning2 (12th day). Felt very cold for about a half hour, could not get warm even when wrapped up warmly2. (12th day). Went to bed at 11 p. m., still feeling feverish2(12th day). Awoke at 5 a. m., still feeling flushed with fever2(13th day). At 10 p. m., hands hot and dry, nose cold2 (14th day). Inclined to be chilly all day and more so at night, must keep wrapped warmly, even when feeling feverish2 (14th day). Chilly at 11 A. M.2 (16th day). Chilly, shaking and trembling with cold at night in bed2 (16th day). Shivering in bed, during evening and night, though (10 P. m.) loaded with blankets2 (17th day). Sensitive to draft of air.2 Heat and chilly sensations alternate from 6 to 10 P. m.1 (8th and 9th days). Chilly, yet face is burning5. (10th day). Chilly, yet heat gives me a dull headache and makes me feel smothered (12th day). Fever, beginning left side of face and spreading over body about 4 P. M.6 (2d, 3d, 4th, 16th, 17th days). Chill from 9 to 11 A. m., worse from least motion, even moving fingers (2d, 3d, 4th, 16th, 17th days).
In 1881, Kent accepted a position as professor of anatomy at the Homeopathic College of Missouri, an institution with which he remained affiliated until 1888. In 1890, Kent moved to Pennsylvania to take a position as Dean of Professors at the Post-Graduate Homeopathic Medical School of Philadelphia. In 1897 Kent published his magnum opus, Repertory of the Homœopathic Materia Medica. Kent moved to Chicago in 1903, where he taught at Hahnemann Medical College.