Lac Caninum – Medicine



Pain in forehead, afternoon, first on left side, then on right principally over left eye.

Throbbing pain just over right temple, then sharp pain in right socket of right eye and in right temple, disappearing quickly.

Pains and throbbing in temples.

Headaches mostly through temples, darting, stabbing; sometimes begin on right side and sometimes on left; always going from one side to the other.

[Sick headaches beginning in nape; the pain settling gradually in right or left forehead.], agg. on waking.

Pain in left occipital region running up when moving head.

Sharp pain like a stab in right temple, at 7 P.M.

Pains in head during day, first on one side, then on other seem perfectly unbearable; amel. on first going into air, but soon grow agg.

Headache from below eyes over whole head and top of shoulders.

Severe pressure on brain.

Arose in morning with heavy, dull, frontal headache, and at 9 A.M. severe pain on top of head, coming from nape of neck, then stretching across head forward, pain so severe that he presses top of head with hands; neck stiffened; bending head forward, or lying down, causes congestion, increasing pain; again pains subside for short time, and begin anew, either in front part of head, or in nape of neck, or all over head at once, when pain is frontal it causes lachrymation.

Darting pains from occiput to forehead; beating.

Darting pain across forehead and eyes.

Headaches seem unbearable, and are attended by pain in lumbar region; all pains cease as soon as throat gets agg.

Headache agg. by noise or talking, amel. by keeping quiet; confused feeling in head.

Intense headache, entirely amel. by cold-water application, but soon returned, not, however, as severe.

Sharp lancinating pain, in a zigzag line from right side of forehead to an indefinite point in occiput; instantaneous, and sometimes repeated, as soon as it is felt, she lays aside whatever she is doing and lies down, from an indefinite dread that it will return. If at night, she goes to bed at once, has great dread of the pain, though not very severe; recurred for several days.

Sharp, throbbing pain in right side of forehead; then in left side of forehead, slightly.

Headache over left eye on first waking, and great pain in pelvis, most marked at right ovary.

Neuralgic pain in left side of head, followed by a film over left eye, wants to rub it off, not amel. by rubbing.

Headache in upper part of forehead, with sensation of a broad band pressed firmly across forehead from one temple to the other.

Headache over both eyes, extending back over left ear.

Slight pressure on vertex and over eyes, the day before menses ceased.

Dull pain in right temple and right eye, with pressure on vertex during menses.

Stiffness in occiput on turning head, with soreness on pressure.

Occipital headache, with shooting pains extending to forehead.

Headache commencing in occiput [3rd day.] and extending to vertex and forehead.

Sensation as if brain were alternately contracted and relaxed, several times rapidly; generally only when lying down; at various times all through proving.

Head very sore and itches almost all the time.

Sore pimples on scalp which discharge and form a scab, extremely painful when touched or combing the hair agg. at night.

Excessive dandruff on head for past week.

Throbbing in forehead and temples, finally settling in eyes, eyes very sensitive to light during headache; eyeballs sore and painful, pains extending deep back into the brain with the headache.

Headache commencing all over head at once [second day.] In the morning, a dull heavy, confused feeling in head all day, becoming a severe ache towards evening, and settling in eyes and temples.

Headache worse from motion and stooping; better from cold applications.

Frequently wakes with sick headache, which seems to commence at nape.

Sick headaches, beginning in nape; pain settling gradually in right or left forehead.

Eyes

      Sharp pain in socket back of right eye, followed by tenderness in right temple; both transient.

Darting intense pain round left eye.

Heaviness of upper eyelid, with pain above left eye; burning in left eye; agglutination of left lids [rheumatism.].

Eyes slightly swollen; profuse lachrymation; with catarrh.

Looking at different objects causes eyes to ache.

Pricking sensation in eyeballs; eyes sensitive to cold air.

Upper eyelid very heavy, can scarcely keep eyes open very sleepy.

Pain in eyes when reading; followed by a film over them, apparently requiring to be wiped off before she can see.

Tendency in retina to retain the impression of objects, esp. of colors; or somewhat of the object last looked at is projected into the next.

Sees faces before her eyes, agg. in the dark; the face that haunts her most is one that she has really seen.

Small floating disc before eyes occasionally, and showing primary colors at edge of disc.

When reading the page does not look clear, but seems covered with various pale spots of red, yellow, green and other colors.

Occasionally when looking at an object sees red spots on it.

While looking at an object appears to see just beyond or out of the axis of vision an object passing across the field of sight; but on adjusting the eye to it, it is gone; it always appears as a small object like a rat or bird, sometimes on the floor, at others in the air.

Swelling and inflammation of upper and lower lids of both eyes the left the worst.

Tired feeling in eyes, considerable lachrymation – both eyes – redness of conjunctiva, eye-ball sore, aching and painful; pains extending deep back into head, with headache; pains in eyes better from cold [wet.] applications; eyes sensitive to artificial light.

Eyes sensitive to light.

Must have light, yet is intolerant of sunlight.

Sees big eyes and creeping things.

Difficulty in distinguishing objects; in reading, letters run together.

When looking in a mirror by gaslight, after exerting eyes, sees a green spot or a green band before her left eye, the band slanting downward from left eye to right cheek.

Square or round green spots or brown spots before left eye, when sun is bright; sometimes bright spots before left eye.

Frequent sensation of a film before eyes, with vertigo, and while thus suffering would see a small dark object, like a mouse or bird, coming up to her left.

Film over eyes when reading or looking closely.

Eyes blurred.

Heavy pain in the eye-balls with outward pressure.

Burning in l eye.

Eyes watery and discharging Eyes dull and lusterless.

Dark brown areolae under eyes.

Non-edematous swelling of upper and lower lids; pink color of lower lids; most noticeable on right.

Heaviness of left upper lid, with pain above left eye.

Upper eyelids very heavy, could scarcely keep eyes open.

Agglutination of left eyelids.

A dull aching pain in right eyeballs, with sensation of dryness and tendency to lachrymation.

Ears

      Pain in right ear, sometimes intense.

Very sharp pain in right middle ear, while walking in wind; had to cover it with hand, which gave entire relief; sharp pain in right side also.

No pain during day, but is awakened several times during night by sore aching pains in middle and external ear of side on which she is lying; soon passes off when the pressure is removed.

Green, odorless discharge.

Reverberation of voice as if speaking in a large, empty room; with pain in frontal region, first over one eye and then over the other.

Sounds seem very far off.

Ringing in right ear.

At night a buzzing in right ear.

Noises in ears; sensation as though ears were full; pains in both ears.

More than any other remedy, relieved deafness from hereditary syphilis.

Earache the first time in her life on right side, aching deep in ear, worse from cold air, had to keep ear covered all the time; pain in ear better by pressure with the point of the finger in the meatus; external ear sore and painful; soreness and swelling on right side from ear down side of face in region of parotid gland and angle of lower jaw, right side; soreness extending from right ear down side of neck to right shoulder, painful when turning the head.

Nose

      Sore on right side of septum of nose; next day nose sore, constant inclination to pick at it and get the scab off; nose still sore on sixth day, and on seventh day was very painful to touch, but on eighth day scab came off nose, leaving it as well as ever.

Left nostril first dry, afterwards discharging a thin, ichorous fluid, excoriating nostrils.

Stuffed feeling in nose and throat.

Watery discharge, followed by dry sensation in nose.

Fluent catarrh from both nostrils, with sensation of fullness in upper part of nose.

Profuse nocturnal nasal discharge, like gonorrhea, staining pillow greenish yellow.

One side of nose stuffed up, the other free discharging thin mucus at times and thin blood, these conditions alternate, first one nostril stopped up and the other fluent, and vice versa.

Bad smell in nose.

Cannot bear smell of flowers, they seem to send a chill over her.

All drinks return by the nose, nothing being swallowed.

Fluids escape through nose while drinking.

H. C. Allen
Dr. Henry C. Allen, M. D. - Born in Middlesex county, Ont., Oct. 2, 1836. He was Professor of Materia Medica and the Institutes of Medicine and Dean of the faculty of Hahnemann Medical College. He served as editor and publisher of the Medical Advance. He also authored Keynotes of Leading Remedies, Materia Medica of the Nosodes, Therapeutics of Fevers and Therapeutics of Intermittent Fever.