Lyssin – Medicine



Burning stinging in left side of chest when taking a deep breath.

Burning like heartburn in right side of back, in region where ribs end.

Blood mounts from chest to head.

Extending to chest, pain in uterus.

Great weakness in chest, particularly when walking and reading aloud, chest feels fatigued, some deep pain in left side.

Upon pleura is often seen a soap like deposit, as in case of cholera.

Gangrene of lungs, caused by pneumonia and sexual excitement. Satyriasis in stallion.

Outer Chest

      The clavicles feel as if they would slip from their sockets, has to place arms akimbo.

Quivering about sternum.

Spasmodic tearing under left ribs; at same time it runs to anus, where it causes a constriction; also at same time a tearing between skin and flesh down thigh to knee.

Pressure: on sternum between mammae; between last ribs on right side.

Stinging in left breast (between mamma and last ribs).

Chest as if beaten, in evening.

Soreness across chest, both breasts swollen; when waking in morning can hardly get up; three mornings in succession.

Neck and Back

      Constant pain in neck.

Going to neck: pain from head and from back.

Pressing in neck and up back of head.

From neck heat passes to ear and face.

Pressure and drawing pain in neck.

A stitch in nape of neck.

Muscles of neck and breast, frequently entire muscular system, contract spasmodically.

With inward heat, pains in neck, agg. if headache is amel., or heat in right side of face.

Burning pain in neck.

Throbbing pain extending into neck.

Neck feels stiff, right side of neck stiff; muscles felt stiff in morning.

Tearing, stinging and stiffness in neck.

Stiff neck with rending and shooting.

Pain in cicatrix and also some stiffness in muscles of neck and throat.

Pain in muscles of neck and along cervical portion of spinal column.

From nape of neck a heat draws over right ear into right eye and face, seems to pass from within outward.

Neck feels stiff, held himself more erect than usual.

All day difficulty in moving head.

Stiffness in joints of neck; if she allows her head to hang awhile, it is difficult to raise.

Neck feels more comfortable when, in sneezing, she throws head back.

Emphysematous swelling of subcutaneous cellular tissue of lower part of neck; may extend along upper portion of breast and into mediastinum.

Sternocleidomastoid muscle on each side stands out like a thick cord; a look of mingled anxiety and terror on countenance.

Head feels lopsided and as if something was drawing it toward shoulder.

At 2 P. M. laid down, found his head twisted to left side; under ordinary circumstances would very soon have changed position, but to his surprise found it quite comfortable and fell asleep; woke at 4 P. M., felt a numbness in left side of head, and flesh of lower part of body looked like goose-flesh.

As if head was being drawn to shoulders.

Cramp like pressure under right shoulder-blade and between scapulae.

In back, near right shoulder-blade, a pressing with heat, draws into nape of neck, thence into muscles of left upper arm.

At 2 P. M., severe pain across back between shoulders and waist.

A pain or ache in and between both shoulders, as if a heavy weight was there, lasting two hours.

Pressing, running from between shoulders to occiput and across right ear, in morning.

Below right shoulder-blade a pressure; not pressing from out inward or amel. by bending backward.

Pressure in back, five inches below point of right shoulder, one inch from spine; had same sensation during each of her pregnancies, always on right side, inward from lowest rib to breast bone.

Stinging: below right shoulder-blade; in cervical vertebra.

Severe backache all day, and numbness of hands.

Spine aches; right side of throat sore.

Backache and headache.

Pain in back across hips, lasting all day.

Pain in back and both groins.

Burning in back near last ribs; right side, like heartburn.

Pressing in region of kidney; dull pressure in region of left.

At 4 P. M. violent pain in right kidney, lasting an hour.

Pain from 4 A.M. till evening in both kidneys and across hips, severe and a little burning, amel. at 9 P.M.

Back extremely sore; as if beaten, in evening.

Pains with cutaneous hyperesthesia along vertebral column.

Could not bear least touch along whole vertebrae; slightest touch produced an irritability akin to convulsions.

Sheep turn and wriggle their backs because they cannot bear heat of the sun; increased sexual excitement; symptoms pointing to madness; scratching their backs appears to be agreeable to them, as they remain quiet and make a peculiar motion with their mouths, which does not express pain.

Going to back from heart, sensation with sinking.

Want of strength in back, must lean against back of chair in sitting.

Weakness in region of kidneys, loins and sacrum.

Great weakness in back, as if it would split and fall apart.

A sore lameness in back, with some degree of soreness in lower abdomen.

Pain in lower part of spine severe.

Considerable pain in lower part of back, with a soreness felt through the pubic region; pressing finger on neck increased

it.

Pressing pain in sacrum, right side; later it moves to middle of back (repeated eight times).

Shooting through small of back.

Disease peculiar to sheep, termed the “gid; ” dropsy of spine.

Upper Limbs

      Pain on top of right shoulder joint.

Pain in left shoulder joint, as if beaten and paralyzed; lameness in left axilla.

All day a tearing, then a stinging in left shoulder joint, as if in middle of bone, down arm and into finger; and after getting up from bed, for one hour in right arm, then all day in left.

1 P. M., slight pain in right shoulder joint; also in head.

Has a lump in right axilla.

Rheumatic pain, first in right then in left shoulder.

Feeling of great weight on shoulders all day.

Stinging tearing pain in shoulders, passing down through bones of arm to fingers.

Sudden sharp, darting pain, in bitten hand, extending up arm to shoulder and base of brain.

Pain down wounded left arm; generally in afternoon and evening, agg. 10 o’clock.

Arm aches and is swollen.

Aching in right arm (the left is bitten); feelings as if weather was going to change.

Slight twitching in right arm.

A sting in sore arm once in a while, which makes her start all over (dog bite).

Felt two shocks down wounded arm as from a galvanic battery, clear to finger ends.

Cramp in arms.

The pain up arm was followed by cramps and drawing in back and limbs of bitten side.

Numbness in right arm at 4 P.M., lasting till bedtime. At 10: 30 P. M., soon after taking last dose, numbness in right arm.

Weakness in arms.

Right arm becomes so heavy and inactive that writing is too great an exertion, and he allows arm to drop.

After some pain in arm (finger had a small wound exposed during dissection of a mad dog, forty days ago), feeling of malaise and fatigue, followed by death.

In left upper arm, about axilla, pain as if beaten and lame; the same near elbow, several minutes after in wrist; in evening.

Her arm has felt very sore, although wound is almost healed.

A cold flush goes down arm as if ice water was being poured upon it.

Feels a chill strike her right arm when she goes into open air.

Burning pain down wounded arm.

Felt as if fleas were running over right arm.

Arm itches all over; itching on arms appearing suddenly.

Pain in right elbow as if paralyzed, at noon; same at 2 P. M. in l., Amel. in a horizontal position and when allowing forearm to hang; soon after in left knee.

To right of right elbow a black and blue spot.

Throbbing pain in right forearm on flexor side.

Muscles of forearm, as far as hand, painful when pressed or taking hold of anything.

Blueness in streaks down right forearm.

Wrists have felt some time as if strained; agg. in morning. Lame feeling in wrist.

At 10 P. M., straining pain in right hand.

Soreness in right hand.

Quivering in hands.

Hand trembles so much he can scarcely write.

Trembling of left hand when taking hold of anything or pressing it; muscles hurt most on upper side of forearm down to hand.

Trembling of left hand.

Right hand numb for a long time, clumsy, stiff.

Hands numb with headache.

Right hand swollen.

The ball of right hand hard, cramped and swollen.

After counting copper coin, violent pain in right hand, between third and fourth metacarpal phalanx, in some motions and on pressure.

Smarting in palm of right hand.

Intense pain in forefinger of left hand.

Pain in first joint of right ring finger, as if it was going to gather.

Stiffness of fingers and hand.

Woke at 5 P. M. with stinging in forepart of right index finger, nail turned quite blue.

Lower Limbs

      A pressive pain in right hip bone, goes from there to middle of sacral bone.

Left hip aches in bone.

Felt as if hip bones would slip out of their sockets; had to rest with hands on hips to amel. the feeling.

Something runs round and round several times in flesh, in region of hip, then down leg to knee.

Pain in thighs, particularly in anterior portion; as if fatigued, after going up stairs; agg. after sitting down.

Along left sciatic nerve a dull pain, returning periodically; agg. when rising from sitting.

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.